Every now and then you come across an absolute gem of a video - this is one.

@dubltrubl807

2 жыл бұрын

I could listen to this all day!!!

@samharper4289

11 ай бұрын

Agreed! Love antique timepieces!

The 3 people that disliked this video clearly lost their pocket watch in a field.

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

trying to down vote it out of suggested videos most like.

@leifvejby8023

6 жыл бұрын

Lord, that or their marbles. ;-)

@dadautube

6 жыл бұрын

36 as of the moment i made this comment!

@fidelcatsro6948

6 жыл бұрын

37 cats disliked this, i really thought this was a wonderful video travelling back into time!!..these people are ignorant cats!

@MirceaD28

6 жыл бұрын

Or use their phone to know the time

Amazing to think that probably more than 500 years from now when the pads and smartphones and gadgets that we make today have long broken down due to the ever decreasing quality in workmanship and materials that plagues some technology, these little pocket watches could still be ticking due to the incredible level of labour and love that went into them. Beautiful items.

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

The were the Ferrari of their age.

@Catherinearmant

6 жыл бұрын

Oh well said, Ireland Deity

@aleksandersuur9475

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure for every such pocketwatch still in existence there are hundred a pile of rust somewhere. In few hundred years they will say "look at that iPhone, it still works, these were the days" and conveniently forget about hundreds of millions of iPhones lying in garbage dumps.

@rousp

6 жыл бұрын

We dont remember all the crap that were made hundreds of years ago because it has fallen into disrepair and is long gone. Chances are that in a couple of hundred years somebody will make that exact statement due to some item that survived from present day.

@artmcteagle

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, but one does wonder how the conditions were for the orphans who made those tiny chains. Not good I surmise.

That was THE most interesting video I’ve watched ever since I started watching KZread! I don’t know why, but ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated by timepieces. I’m in my fifties now and I still feel the same way about mechanical watches.

@chrisberry9017

Жыл бұрын

My Dad used to do clock and watch repairs at home, so there was always random ticking. I still find it lonely not to hear a clock at home - they’re so companionable. I love the mechanics too!

They are very beautiful antique pocket watches, or due to their age I should say functional historic relics. It really gives an insight to the value of items people of the past owned, and the level of craftsmanship which is sadly lacking in today's world. They have withstood the test of time and are in incredible working order. Thank you for sharing these wonderful time pieces and some of their history with us.

This makes the 110 year old pocket watch I carry every day seem barely broken in!

@teddandieno937

5 жыл бұрын

You wear it every day? What watch is it? I'm always learning new things about these gems!

@tortron

3 жыл бұрын

i just picked up a ww1 trench watch and i thought that was old. Interestingly it is engraved with a name and date that narrows it down to about 15 men. One being my great great uncle

@Katherine_xs

2 жыл бұрын

This is precious

Amazing craftsmanship and they still function after hundreds of years I rather doubt any of our modern machines of even modest complexity would come close to surviving as long. Thank you for creating this excellent video.

The children making the small parts probably haunt these machines. Their living situations made modern sweat shops look like Disneyland.

@TheHitman-

3 жыл бұрын

NOPE!!, God declares the dead know nothing. And to be absent from your body is to be present with the LORD! AMEN TO GOD ON HIGH!

I'm a vintage wrist watch collector didn't really have an interest in pocket watches or clocks but last year I found a triple date moonphase pocket watch that caught my eye I payed £120 for it and as I started to look at pocket watches I gained a new interest and now I understand that if i want to own a very old time piece then it will have to be either a pocket watch or a clock,, almost anything old and well made is impressive to me my main love is 1950's - 1960's Swiss wrist watches the brands that I collect are omega, tudor and longines but I am amazed by your pocket watches they are so beautiful and such good condition for their age Thank you for sharing them

That was a wonderful history lesson on watches. It was so interesting to watch.

@cheesewedge2524

6 жыл бұрын

Linda Martin nice pun

Nice lesson on time pieces, i realy liked the eppisode, thank you very much and i too hope to find a gold pocket watch someday in the dirt, all ready found a ladies gold wristwatch and a omega 18k and ss, need a solid gold one to scratch off the list. Gl and hh.

Simply amazing and elegant machines. You're so fortunate to possess such divine time pieces that are still functional. You sir, are a gent for sharing some of the splendor of your collection. Thank you! Myself? A bit of a clock and watch nerd... fascinating. Simply fascinating.

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

I think I'll be doing another in the coming months.

@Succer

6 жыл бұрын

Don't tell me you're an 11 year old furry...

"A bare lady being approached by some gentlemen". This was such a genteel, thoroughly English phrase I laughed out loud.

@georgealderson4424

5 жыл бұрын

Maybe the gentleman was bringing her a jumper to keep her warm!

@tortron

3 жыл бұрын

clearly a wood nymph luring some hunters to some kind of downfall. The nudity is symbolic :P

It is fascinating that this was created all by hand, without any precision machinery. The amount of skill and passion that must have taken is amazing.

"very easy to break" *slams face closed* 😂

@CurtisLittlechild92

5 жыл бұрын

gofercpt would hardly call that a slam.

@cokeness8601

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339

4 жыл бұрын

SARedneckGoodTimes do you know the definition of “slam?”

@truckernige

3 жыл бұрын

@@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339 i believe it’s an accronym for “shut like a man”.

There is something truly beautiful about fine mechanical devices. Watches, guns, engines... I love the art of mechanical things. People don't appreciate the skill that goes into old-school machining or in modern manufacturing. What we can do with materials is crazy.

It's wound from the front through the central pillar because the French liked to be innovative at the expense of complexity. That's why we had the likes of Perrelet or Lepine and his apprentice Breguet. I would love to have an 18th or early 19th century quarter repeating watch one of these days.

Fascinating historical look at what elegant machines these pocket watches were. Wonderful for you to provide us this excellent video.

This is a beautiful watch. The inside is just as beautiful..I love all those little gears and the brilliance it took to construct something like this....wow

@fidelcatsro6948

6 жыл бұрын

even today it will be a challenge to construct these clockwork mechanisms as an individual experimenter

my wife's grandad had a verge watch from the latter 1600s amongst his antique items he'd collected. Unfortunately, 30 odd years after his death in 1971, this watch wasn't found anywhere in the house, so presumably, one of the several missing items he'd listed I presume that was sold.

Spectacularly inciteful. Magnificent. Thank you for sharing you historical insights and knowledge!

Thanks everyone for the terrific feedback.

@themaicky3209

7 жыл бұрын

How many watches do you have?

@calebwiggins3042

6 жыл бұрын

They're so beautiful!!! just watching I started to tear up! It's so sad that much any more the cases are melted down or sold of to be melted for the gold.

@itsmenoname2247

6 жыл бұрын

is that a masons hat?

@iulianispas8634

6 жыл бұрын

caleb wiggins they worth more as scrap

@iulianispas8634

6 жыл бұрын

ItsMe NoName that's whay so many tubs down, the heat is rediculous

My heart skipped a beat as soon as I saw that second watch. Simply beautiful both inside and on the outside.

Absolutely fascinating! I love old watches! I've never seen any this old, so this was a whole new adventure for me! Don't think I'll be finding any 17th century noble man's gold pocket watch here in Iowa though.... but you never know....

Hey there Chill Bill. Love your metal detecting videos, but this may be one of my favorites since I am very interested in horological history. Great video! And, what a gem of a watch… wow!

How did you find these, I can't imagine how difficult it was to aquire these. Oldest pocket watch I have is 150 years old, I can't imagine having one over 300 years old!

Fascinating, one of the better educations I have seen in a long time.

When you consider the craftsmanship that went into making a watch like this it boggles the mind. The extremely tight tolerance of the parts involved is truly amazing considering that every piece was made by hand. No computer controlled machine shop here. No laser cutting either. Just a very skilled man with basic hand tools. No wonder these cost a fortune. The amount of time involved in making one must have been huge. They are true works of art. Thanks much for the show and tell. Amazing. ATB Doug.

@mohammadwasilliterate8037

6 жыл бұрын

That's right they cost a fortune, so to compare todays "cost a fortune" watch you would have to go far more than an IPAD at $500, you would have to compare against todays high end $50,000 watch.

@philgiglio9656

6 жыл бұрын

Watches weren't the only things made entirely by hand...all microscopes were usually made by one craftsman; brass tubes, grinding the glass for lenses, cutting threads. Remarkable craft, sadly long forgotten.

@sarahstrong7174

5 жыл бұрын

Doug McArtin A very skilled man backed up by a team of hungry orphans. I hope they got to learn to make the watches or to read at least.

@johnnyb6067

5 жыл бұрын

the design and math involved is amazing too.

@johnnyb6067

5 жыл бұрын

I saw a video of a multi-million dollar watch being made. there was a good amount of handwork but there was a lot of CNC machine involvement. the complexity was off the charts though.

Stunningly beautiful antique time pieces. Astonishing to think that the men who assembled these marvels of fine engineering and art are dust in their graves. What would they have thought if they knew hundreds of years in the future people would still be admiring their work via the magic of moving images.

@worldofpocketwatches

5 жыл бұрын

I have variety of fantastic antique pocket watches ,some of them have 337 years old . All of them are in excellent working condition. My you tube channel is called world of pocket watches . The link for my playlist is kzread.info?search_query=worldof+pocket+watches and I will post more videos in the future . I hope you enjoy watching my videos . All my best wishes

A wonderful video, exactly what I was looking to find in relation to the history of personal time keepers. Curios, what was the internal numbered dial for? I’m thinking thought was put into the casing of the movement to achieve an acoustic resonance to enhance the ticking.

i can imagine the blood and tears from those children, beautiful!

Years later, scientists do not understand how it's humanly possible. It must've been aliens 💀

Loved the video, very informative. Love the craftsmanship and artistry that went into making one watch. Truly amazing.

Great video of an amazing piece.

Very nice. I would love a collection of watches like those. Thanks for the video Sandy

I love pocket watches! I gave my oldest grandson one for his birthday when he turned 12 years old. He just turned 26 years old 2 days ago. Time marches on, but beautifully with a pocket watch! Loved your video!!! Thanks for sharing!

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

I hope you buy him a waist coat for him at some point.

@metalyn

7 жыл бұрын

Had to look that up..."waist coat" but I was right when I thought you were writing about a vest. He would look very smart in one, so yes I must.

Which way do you wind a pocket watch? Clockwise or counter clockwise? Any rule on how to know? Thanks. PS it appeared to me you wound them counter clockwise. Would the key vs stem be the same?

Bill, thank you for this wonderful journey into the past.

I would not class myself as an antiques kind of guy but these are extraordinary. The fact they are working is truely jaw dropping. Great content from an obvious watch aficionado. Thanks for sharing things we will most likely never see ourselves. These must be eye-poppingly expensive.

Thanks for the knowledge Bill. I'm always ready to learn

I hope to find one one day but that aside it is lovely to see 200 year old craftsmanship.They must have really been craftsman back then,to make something as accurate in timekeeping and hand made.

Absolutely breathtaking. A joy to look at forever.

Thank you so much Chill Bill ! I collect wristwatches and pocket watches never seen the inside of that old of a watch before! A real treat ! 🙂

Very nice collection of pocket watches Bill. Thank you for the lesson, love to learn.

Wonderful!!! So informative, though there must be horror stories about the child labourers! Gives one a whole new perspective on early society. We take watches so much for granted. Also a whole new perspective on your abilities!!! Luv U.

A beautiful collection of stunning timepieces, thank you for sharing.

It's crazy that watchmaking/clockmaking has been a tradition in Europe for over 500 years.

I would love to have even just a replica of one of these because that sound is incredible

I have 4 antique pocket watches made in the 1730-1760 period they need a lot of help to make them work again. Wish I could find someone to help fix them up. I love to wind them up and just spend hours watching them work.

How were the working parts manufactured back in those days? Would love to see a video on the 17th Century tooling and manufacturing process.

Chill Bill, I've been watching your metal detecting videos for a while now and I just now stumbled across this video. Absolutely incredible that you would own these museum pieces. Your watches are nearly as old or perhaps older than the United States... incredible. I know that the value of these watches are not the focal point and perhaps it's even bad manners to inquire about the value of these watches given the context of the video but I have to know as I am not only dumb founded but amazed. These watches look pristine as if you plucked them directly out of the past, 300 years ago. WOW!

Wow ! All I can say is thank you for all that quality info. I have great respect for you and the time you put in explaining every part and extra info.

I'm pretty sure and 1680 people mistake that watch as an onion

Absolutely fantastic! KZread does throw up a gem now and then! I use my gg grandfathers watch daily. Solid gold case, a couple of pieces of the inner workings are gold as well and it’s over 19 jewels I believe. The really gem is the assay mark! It’s Birmingham, known for the silver usually but the assay office for the A.L.D watches burned down. So they moved into Birmingham for a short while, only a couple years I believe. Just like that one there is a beautiful ticking sound and it keeps time very well still. Excellent video :) great watch.

See craftsmanship still can work if you think hard enough, Imagine after like 340 years it still works.

Fascinating video!! What are the dials with 1-6 on them on the back? What function do they have? Thank you!! 🥰

@ChillBill1

6 ай бұрын

tick speed, for running adjustments

@squirrelvert

6 ай бұрын

Thanks!! 😃@@ChillBill1

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing three awesome pieces of mechanical art.

Very elucidating study of early picket watch fine mechanics! I just love that hat too!

Love the ticking sound. You could post a soundtrack only vid with just watch ticking much like relaxing rainforest soundtracks. To some of us the sound would be just as soothing.

How would you set it every day, from the sunrise time and consulting an almanac? Esp. if you did not live in a large city with many other watches or clocks around.

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

Tower clock, sun dial, noon day gun.....

Thanks for a very educational video. I love pocket watches and I have been collecting them for the past 8 years, mostly late 19th and early 20th Century pocket watches. I knew absolutely nothing about the 17th and 18th century pocket watches so thanks for an absolutely fascinating lesson on these beautiful time pieces.

Absolutely amazing. I'm honestly surprised that they still work. I'd be to afraid to even wind them up. Bravo that you still let them run.

Fascinating! Thanks for showing

Very informative. Thanks for sharing Bill. I always wondered how those watch winders worked.

Wonderful video showing pieces created when to own a watch was to be a person of wealth. I would love for you to do a video about "modern-day" pocket watches (say from 1900 to now).

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the suggestion, I'm planning another ancient pocket watch video

Bill, That was an awesome tutorial on watches. I love it so much, you deserve a special shout out for it. Kudos for finding the gold coin. The first of you videos I watched. This is #2

This is an absolute gem I love watches and coins and any old relics

absolutely amazing that in the 1600's, when the world population was only in millions, not billions, and mankind, knowledge, materials and resources were primitive, someone figured out a way to make such a intricate work of metals time piece from scratch, with scratch made tools, that has a quality on par with today's watchmaking, and still works and will even probably continue to outlast a modern watch in the long run.

Amazing craftsmanship and made to last .. beautiful

The watches are absolute treasures.

This 'old' video is a diamond, would love to see in higher res, 60fps please redo, there history in each of those time pieces

wow georgeous. how's the value estimating?

Where did you find all of these beautiful pocketwatches?

Wow...just...wow, to hear the sounds of the 16th century. Truly ancient machines.

@joellaz9836

5 жыл бұрын

TestTubeBabySpy 17th century you mean

@bootleghungarian2890

5 жыл бұрын

Close its the 17th century

@badcornflakes6374

4 жыл бұрын

And we still pull things out of our pocket to check the time, it's just much more advanced.

What is it called when the crown/stem is at the three on a pocket watch

I remember this vid from a few years ago; nice to see it again. 😀 Simply astounding workmanship, wonderful history, nice reminder of yet another facet of the legendary KZread personality that is *Chill Bill*... 😏

@TheBlackSheepDiaries

4 жыл бұрын

Just had to give up my old 72 Catalina 27. Got a lil history up at my spot on an old pocket watch fob that I found metal detecting. Quite a cool history on this object, best find yet. Stay safe.

i have an 1850 ish english pocket watch with a fusee, are they common? winding from the back and to change the time on top of the hands

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

Thats pretty late for a fusee. It might be older.

Fascinating video, thank you. Do these wonderful watches belong to you, and in which field did you find them? I´ll be out with my metal detector in a jiffy!

I was imagining in my head that the wear spot on the table was from so many pocket watches having been put down there ;)

Amazing, thank you so much for sharing your collection. I have several from the 1800's - Steam ship Captains are many in my family...

Excellent video!! So interesting and informative. Thank you so much!

These are beautiful pieces of machining. Stunning

Amazing pieces! Thank you for sharing.

Very interresting Chill Bill! Thank you!

I'm a total watch fanatic have been pretty much my whole life your video just about blew my head off the best I've ever seen God bless you thank you

Wonderful video. I suspect I'm like a lot of people, whereby my obsession with wrist watches is slowly taking me into vintage watches and pocket watches. I would like to own an old 18th century pocket watch one day and I learned a lot of from this. Well done and thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion.

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

They are morish!!!

@patrickmacleod2415

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are! Unfortunately for my bank account!

Consider it hearsay as I have no sources to back that up, but it was my understanding that clock making developped in the Alps (both sides of the border between France and Switzerland) because the people living there due to the harsh winters, poor roads and such jumped at the opportunity to earn some cash by making clock parts while they couldn't go farming outside. Everyone in a village (men and children) would specialize on one or a couple of parts, and when Spring freed the roads from ice, watchmakers from the valleys would come and buy the stocks produced during winter in those remote areas to assemble the watches out of those parts. So yes, child's work was involved, but that wasn't Dickens either.

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

Im sure that could be true, but the English were the first world power in watch making but the Swiss took over during WWI when the watchmakers were taken off to make other things.

@ordinosaurs

6 жыл бұрын

Well I finally found a source. It's from an elementary French school book for pupils circa 7 or 8 years old, dated 1893 (late XIXth century). The book is titled "Le tour de la France par deux enfants" and it follows the journey of two brothers in the various parts of France. A very interesting book, because it touches about every practical aspects of the life in that period, as well as history and geography. It points every regional specialty, there are advices for farming, taking care of cattle etc. It's an all-in-one ressource told from a child point of view. Anyhow, p. 81 in my edition, the two orphans (did I mentionned they were orphans ? Well that's the basis of the story - they have to leave their home to find a distant uncle with whom to live) spend the night in the Jura at a farm. "When the night was complete, the farmer's wife lit up two lamps. Close to one, both her eldest sons took a place. They had set in front of them all kind of tools, a small anvil, hammers, clippers, files, rubbing powder. They grabbed between their fingers light ribbons of steels they were rolling on themselves after hammering them on the anvil. André came closer very surprised ; their work, which reminded him of the fine locksmithing, interested him. - What are you doing, he asked ? - See, we're crafting watch mainsprings. Up in the mountains we craft the different pieces so that in Besançon they only have to assemble them to build the watches themselves. I build the mainsprings, others do the tiny wheels, the small chains, some others do the faces where the hours are painted, others the arms which will mark the hours ; others lastly, craft the bodies in silver or gold. [...] with one pound of steel, we can make up to 80 000 springs, and they are worth 10 Francs apiece if they are good. - 10 F each spring ! said André. If there are 80.000 that's 800.000 F, and all coming from a pound of steel that's so cheap ! My locksmith master was very right to teach me that the worth of things is mostly up to the labour and intelligence of the worker". Leaving aside the rhetoric of the times, it depicts quite a vivid image, I think.

Absolutely wonderful video, beautiful watches with a lovely level of information added! fantastic.

Does it come with box and papers?

The Algorithm: "its 3 am and speaking of time, here's a video on victorian watches"

Hey Bill...How close are you to the Battersea Station? Is it worth detecting in that area?

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

Its about 1 mile south from there. All areas are good areas.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on these. Very fascinating!

Amazing, thank you for the information the watches are beautiful. Thank you so much for sharing.👍👍👍👍👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

bill I've just got a Fischer f22 im just started detecting do you think there any good

@ChillBill1

6 жыл бұрын

Anything by Fisher should be good. You just need to get out and start swinging.

Any drawings? I'd love to make a CAD model of one.

Wonderful presentation! Thanks for sharing your time (pieces)!

@ChillBill1

7 жыл бұрын

Thsnks I might do another in the future.

@CatalinaThePirate

7 жыл бұрын

I'd love to see (and share) it. A fascinating subject, and most definitely worth the time. Awesome hat, BTW. 8o)

Thanks so much for sharing these exceptional pieces with us.

I'm so adding some antique watches to my collection. Love this

Mine winds between the numbers two and three and I was looking for an explanation so I would be very grateful if you could help out since you clearly an expert and fascinated by antique replica and pocket watches like me .

Thank you for your interesting video sir. Beautifully delivered and full of facts. I wish I had any such watch if only forvthe pleasure of owning one.