Music was such an important part of life in the Baroque era that it can be found in all kinds of places. This instrument, the Trompe Dauphine, is a kind of hunting horn and would have been carried on horseback during the hunt and used to play signals to let the rest of the hunt know what was happening.
As a general rule: 1  Quartz models should be given a routine service every other time the battery is changed. 2  Regular mechanical models should need routine service only every 5 years or so. 3  OMEGA states that their Coaxial models should need routine service only every 10 years.
How often does a watch need a service? How long is a piece of string? Most manufacturers have an answer to this question, and it tend to be around 5 years. So every 5 years, you may fork out a small fortune to have your beloved watch serviced. Not a cheap pleasure, but you want to keep the value of your watch, so you just have to bite the bullet.