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If you’ve arrived here after Googling “how to clean a watch,” congratulations: That means you actually wear that beautiful timepiece of yours, rather than merely leaving it tucked away in the safe.

“Jewelry is the most transformative thing you can wear,” said the late, great fashion icon Iris Apfel. How to clean jewelry, then, should be an easily answerable and well-attended to question within ...