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For most homeowners, the acquisition of a vacation home is the culmination of years of hard work. That’s why you owe it to yourself and your family to obtain for your vacation home the most stringent standards of safety within your means.

Vacation home security is now more important than ever. With rising unemployment, vandalism due to high scrap prices for copper, metals and aluminum, and longer times between visits due to high gas prices or airline fees.

While foreclosure rates remain high, even for vacation homes or second homes, criminals will be seeking crimes of opportunity.

Consider the personal items you’re leaving in your vacation home when it&#8217,replica rolex;s unoccupied. Anything expensive – including cars,puters, televisions, DVD players and stereo equipment &#8211,tag heuer; should be stored under lock and key while you’re away. Take photographs of all of your possessions in your second home, and store them in a safe at your primary residence for insurance purposes. Engrave your name on the back of your expensive electronic equipment.

Some of us turn to time-share properties as a more affordable alternative. Each of these two forms of vacation home ownership present unique home security issues.

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Introduce yourself to your neighbors – particularly those who reside in your neighborhood year-round. Tell them what your schedule is, and ask them to keep an eye on things while you’re away. That doesn’t mean handing them a key, although you may wish to do so if you know and trust your neighbors well enough. And watching over your home doesn’t have to be a job to which you burden your neighbors; simply ask them to remain alert to your home’s appearance. Leave with your neighbors all of your contact numbers at your primary residence, so that they may contact you immediately in the event they spot suspicious activity. Give them verbal approval to contact the local police department in your absence, particularly if they spot suspicious activity and can’t reach you by phone.

You may believe that merely applying the same safety practices you follow in your primary residence should be enough to protect your vacation home. But in fact, you need to go above and beyond the rituals of safety you’d observe in a home you live in on a more frequent basis. Homes that look unoccupied are easy targets. You’ve seen those homes with newspapers piled up outside or that appears pitch black at night when the rest of the neighborhood is lit. Consider the following guidelines for protecting your vacation home year-round:

If you own your own vacation home and live there either seasonally or on a weekend basis, you’re leaving your second home unoccupied for significant periods of time. You’re also establishing a pattern of occupancy that any savvy intruder can soon learn and use to his advantage. If you own a time-share property, you own a percentage of a vacation home. You’re sharing it withplete strangers who may or may not adhere to the same standards of security that you do. And, of course, you trust your time-sharepany to properly maintain and secure the property during those periods when nobody is staying there.

If you own a timeshare property, find out from the managementpany exactly what kinds of security measures they have in place. This includes the policies to which maintenance staff are required to adhere. Find out if the managementpany replaces the locks on doors in the event that tenants lose a key.

Louis Cartier’s esteemed “Tank” watch was seen as the quintessential battlefield wristwatch, with a hardier face and wrist strap. Rolex sent their watches off for battle durability testing to ensure quality and also revealed a line of self-winding watches in 1931.

Pocket watches enjoyed continued success throughout the 1800s with themon man, notably railroad workers. After an 1891 accident caused by a railroad operator’s watch stopping and subsequently killing 11 people in Ohio, designs by the Ball Watchpany became the reliable Cadillac of the watch industry. Their accurate ones were so popular the phase “get on the Ball” was coined, referring to using a Ball watch to keep time.

After the Great war, the stereotype had changed once many men of all classes returned from service with their souvenir “trench watches.” Throughout the mid-1900s, the wristwatch manufacturers continued making “tool watches” for the working man.

The “Submariner,” the &#8220,replica rolex;Explorer” and the “Speedmaster-Chronograph” space watch were all designed for specific tasks and a certain target market. Today, sport time pieces have be the new “tool watch,” as demonstrated by lines of golf, tennis, race car and track watches.

A wristwatch is a timepiece designed to be worn around the wrist, held on by a band. Modern wristwatches are often referred to simply as “watches”. The wristwatch has certainly stood the test of time. The earliest devices for dividing time into units, the obelisks, were possibly built as early as 3500 BC. Their moving shadows formed a kind of sundial, enabling people to partition the day into morning and afternoon, making life more calculable and more productive. The wristwatch reflects the ultimate degree of precision watchmaking ingenuity. Women’s wristwatches are most times appreciated as jewellery and they are men’s necessities to show man’s elegant taste.

In the late 70s and early 80s, the Quartz crisis threatened watchmakers world wide,tag heuer, dropping the Swiss watchmaker employees from 90,000 to 30,000. While cheap quartz is still used in 90% of watches in America, the pricier mechanical watch that has always been popular in Europe is starting to catch on here.

In 1914, World War I called for strategy and precision, thus bringing the wristwatch back to the battlefield. Watch makers began to experiment with accuracy and increased functionality, with the first waterproof watch (the “Oyster”) sold by Rolex in 1926.

In the 18th Century, the pocket models were as fashionable and distinct as cufflinks for men or necklaces for women. However, during the Boers War in South Africa (1899-1902), British soldiers found that bulky, destructible pocket ones were a hindrance. The wristwatch came to the rescue, freeing up one’s hands for battle and synchronizing troop movement.

Jewelry makers slowly collaborated with watchmakers to include jewelry on the pocket time pieces. This longstanding tradition of jewel inclusion would aid in the eventual popularity of the wristwatch for the upper class.

The small watch faces and delicate bands made many early wristwatches unattractive to the male population, who still considered the pocket models to be as high class and “timeless” as it gets. Would the wrist model be a passing fad?

Despite the new success of the wristwatch in wartime and among the lower class population, many of the first prototypes in the late 1800s were marketed by Patek-Philippe & Co. as jewelry time pieces for women.

In the height of Geneva’s 1541 Protestant Reformation, Calvin banned many forms of entertainment, dancing, theater and wearing lavish jewelry. However, because portable clocks (aka the pocket watch) were needed for practical use, they were the one item that endured.

The wristwatch was once the most spectacular breakthrough in timekeeping. The breakthrough invention helped themon man to bring order into his life by organizing time. Now it has be a part of everyday accessories, collectors items, and a symbol of class, individuality and fashion statement.