Fancy Words

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dormant
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The lubricants inside your mechanical watch that reduce friction between its many moving parts will, if left dormant, become dried up or coagulate.
degradation
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The watch should be kept moving to avoid this degradation of your watch’s lubricating oils.
dry up
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According to him, factors like age and temperature can cause a watch’s lubricants to dry up, but a lack of use shouldn’t be a cause for concern.
gunking up
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While modern synthetic oils will eventually dissipate with time, there’s no need to worry about them gunking up and damaging the watch.
claimant
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DataBase determined that only 15 of the 175 claimants truly summited.

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