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@Stanjara

8 ай бұрын

Just to say hi and also... I would like that, at the end of the video, you put a watch on some kind of strap and on your wrist so that we can appreciate the watch more. This ends up like a watchmaker class video... which is fine, but you know for a wider audience it would be great that the watch is... finished. Great content and fantastic vintage finds on your channel. Its supper fresh.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

@@Stanjara Thanks for the feedback, it's noted 👍🏼👍🏼

Waking up in Australia to a new video to watch with my tea and toast...it doesn't get much better than this 👍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Hmmmmm tea and warm toast... that sounds seriously good 😅

The new overhead camera is a great addition. Thanks as always for an interesting and entertaining service.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. A beautiful watch for sure 👌🏼

Absolutely amazing video. I’m a critical nurse and I give no idea how you manage to keep all this straight. Fantastic channel, I thoroughly enjoy watching

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Wow thank you so much. A steady hand helps 😅 You say this but I couldn’t imagine doing your job either, the things you must see 😳

I'm envious of your skills. Beautiful end result.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

I always enjoy your videos, HB. I learn something each time. I particularly enjoy the fake restoration video reviews. Love watching the steam coming out of your ears. ;)

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! Many thanks for watching and I’m glad to hear you find them useful 👍🏻👍🏻

Nice watch and new camera angle. Thanks

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻

Beautiful watch from Geneva Switzerland, my city. Thanks alot for your videos. Love them !

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

You lucky man living there with all that watch history... Thanks for watching 👍

A really great video. I like Wittnauer watches . The new camera is a cool addition . The service turned out really good. Thank you for the video mate.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Darryll, yeah it's a great looking watch for sure. I love that red bezel.

@WristwatchMedic1953

8 ай бұрын

Me too. Makes it pop.

Bought a Witt when I was a kid. Same thing. Fogged out after a month!! No more for me. Great video

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Oh no! Maybe a failed crystal or you live in a seriously hot place 😅 Thanks for watching 👍

Thanks for the video Matt, nice watch too. The channel is going from strength to strength 👍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks as always Tom. Old skool HB subscriber

Hi Mat Hope you’re well. That’s a mighty fine watch you’ve got there! Great video as always and a lovely result!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Many thanks for that 👍🏻 Thanks for watching

I'm not normally a huge fan off chronographs but thats a nice looking watch, grea work as always and itt's helping me learn this art. big thumbs up! very fresh !

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks very much. A stunner for sure

Thank you Matt. This is now into my 'favourites' for future. I have set myself a target to service my own Valjoux 7730 which is in my Breitling Top Time, which I purchased for £23.50p in 1966 for my 18th Birthday. Getting there.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

23,50 ... oh to go back in time 🕰️ Thanks for watching Ross

Enjoying watch. Drinking coffee from my HB cup. Bliss. Super fresh

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Ross the Legend rocking his HB mug 💪

Crazy how the mvmts still so beautiful after so many years

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Hidden away for only people like me to see when I remove the caseback

Thanks for this piece of history! The moon watch is what got me into watches and watchmaking. I really enjoyed the improvements to the filming. Keep up the great work, and 13k subscribers will seem like a drop in a bucket. Stay super fresh!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Jack, I appreciate that 💪 I do try to make each video a little better than the last (production wise).

Like the overhead shots

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks :)

I'm a watch geek and simply love everything to do with mechanical watches and maybe the odd quartz too. I can't afford expensive watches but I do enjoy watching experts like yourself rebuild these beautiful timepieces for us to enjoy..Oh! by the way I've just subbed to your channel and look forward to watching your past and future content.😃

@HorologyBiology

7 ай бұрын

Many thanks for supporting the channel, glad you like the content :)

Super nice watch HB and great camera work. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Bruce 💪💪💪

Another great build. I'm on WatchCrunch now as well.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Best watch forum out there, has a snobbery level of around -2 👍

Great video. I am very new at this art and I learned a lot. Thank you.

@HorologyBiology

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

A lovely watch and a delightfully detailed video document.. So pleased to find you pop up in my feed today. Thank you for the time and care you put in. Subscribed without hesitation.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thank you so much!

That’s a good looking dial, good job 👍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

A stunner for sure, thanks for watching

Great looking watch and once again great video commentary 👍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Many thanks Bertie 👍

Hi Matt, great video mate.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Andy 👍

Wow 13k finaly it is taken off .. congrats Matt very cool, your channel is on the top of my list and awesome watch on the bench very nice one !!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Elder, appreciated 💪

Nice watch & a great job , as for the new cameras and angles all looks pretty good to me 👌.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Ted, thanks for watching as well 👍

Nice looking watch.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

It's a gem for sure

This is what I love about vintage, there are so many ultra cool watches out there to discover. This is great example. I'll take my tar-free please.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

haha tar free all the way. I really like this Wittnauer, the bezel has such a nice colour.

Loving the camera work and congrats on your 13k subscribers I think I started watching you when you had only a few and wow now it's 13k very soon it will be 100k, think of that. Cheers Horology.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks so much!! hahah I don't know about 100k though, but you're welcome to remind me of this comment if it ever happened 😅

i am a rank armature just starting having retired, but after watching this video I am so envious how beautiful this watch is and how grateful I am to see another piece of history working again I hold you as a mentor someone to admire and try and follow, thank you for giving us this beautiful watch to admire I have seen many of your videos and must say I get great enjoyment again thank you.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Oh wow such a nice comment 😊 Thank you very much, glad to hear you find the videos useful 👍🏻👍🏻

Nice movement. I'm going to remain partial to my 1968 Omega pre-moon c.321 however.... 😊

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

hahah thanks Bruce, the c321 are also fresh

Awesome videos. Keep up the great work.😊

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Will do!

Just posted an another site regarding this watch. It was stolen from me in 1969 in Vietnam while serving with the 7th Marine Regiment on Hill 37. Bought it on layaway from a jewelry store in San Diego in '68 for $100! Loved it . Often wonder where it might be today if it still exists. Hope the SOB that stole it was KIA...

@HorologyBiology

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Damnnn what a story :( Sorry to hear that yours got stolen. Pfff

Great video. Love watching you build up a watch.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

I appreciate that! Thanks for watching

I've got a watch with the Valjoux 7750, and it was my first mechanical chronograph. I totally know what you mean about the pressure needed to use the chronograph, I was worried it was either broken or that I was going to break it the first time I tried using it!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Yes, a lot more of a firmer press is needed. The 7750 is a great modern workhorse of a movement

Great job again man 👍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks Anderson 🙌

Can you please make a tour of your bench ? All the instruments what you use to do the job ! Thanks.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Here you go kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6J41rmymdOXo6Q.htmlsi=Z-1LTNviXFW5pOUG

great work

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Seriously hot and humid!! Gulf coast

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

haha that explains it I assume

Great video Matt and a mighty fine watch as well. But, what's up with the subscribers? Was hovering around 5 and 6k for ages and tbh I stopped paying attention. Now here you are at 13k - congratulations, couldn't happen to a nicer bloke 😀

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching Alan, I hope you’re well. Yes I have been really pleasantly surprised by it. A couple of videos caught the algorithm I think which has really helped with traction on my other videos. You’ve been here a long time, I appreciate that 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Just realized I already posted...sorry for the double dip!

@HorologyBiology

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

So the story I read on the moon watch selection was nasa sent a guy to a local shop and he bought a few of each chronograph. That no one asked for test samples? And when they did testing the only one to pass the heat test without the dial warping was the omega.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

I didn't know that. Thanks for the input and thanks for watching 👍

@MrGrentch

8 ай бұрын

​@@HorologyBiology Yeah though it's entered watch nerd lore(and Omega's huge marketing) it was pretty much an afterthought and a bit of a rushed one. They didn't send it out for tender, kept it inhouse and only bought and tested a couple of commercially available watches(including a pocketwatch). If they had deemed it mission critical I strongly suspect they would have tendered it out and/or developed their own. EG the bulk of the actual timing for the spacecrafts used Bulova Accutron clocks developed by Bulova for that purpose. Their still cameras were Hasselblad engineered by same for their use in space. The only adaptation for the wristwatch was an EVA suit friendly velcro strap. Later on there was a bit of a hullabaloo coming from Bulova wanting in on the action citing the 'Buy American act', but their Accutron wasn't available in a chrono(the licenced ESA tuning fork chronos weren't out yet). But Bulova did manage to sneak one of their mechanical chronos(actually a rebranded Swiss Universal Geneve example made in tiny numbers) onto the later Apollo 15 mission... PS great vid Subbed. 🙂

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Many thanks for the input 💪

I love your work. Your accent throws me though, it sounds like Northern English, Lancashire or Yorkshire, mixed with some Californian. Its like a character from the BBC show, Mighty Boosh.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

lol. Thanks for watching. I get this a lot. Originally from the UK, lived in NL for nearly 20 years hence the mismatch

@apb3251

8 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology awesome. I also spent a lot of time in NL in Utrecht and surrounding area. Keep up the good work. Dank je wel!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

@@apb3251 Nice area. I will be that neck of the woods on Sunday

Takk!

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thank you once again Francis 🙌🏼🙌🏼

Your productions have gotten really good man!! Love the narration. I have a wittnaure 2000 that I love and it’s an amazing watch. Not sure the movement do you know what it uses?

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Glad you like them! I'm not sure what is inside the watch you speak of though.

вы отличный мастер

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Like the content.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Didn't Wittnauer have a relationship with Longines at some point? I remember hearing radio ads for Longines/Wittnauer watches when I was a kid in the late 1960s.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Yes you are 100% correct with that. Thanks for watching 👍

Nivada would had also gotten props for it if this would had made the NASA cut. This is basically a Wittnauer branded Nivada Chronomaster.

@HorologyBiology

5 ай бұрын

Very similar for sure but Nivada neger dropped that burgundy bezel 😛

What a sexy chronograph! 👌❤️👍😍

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

You're damn right! An awesome piece

Thank you very much. My name is Chris F.

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Oh wow 🙏 Thank you Chris that's mad fresh of you. Appreciated!

I'm still new to the channel. I liked the additional camera view. How long did it take you to learn all of this? Did this watch require that much of a teardown or could you have just cleaned the gunk out of it with soaking it in some solvent, perhaps in an ultrasound machine?

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Welcome aboard, Regardless of the condition inside a full service would always mean a complete tear down. Also a watch should never just be put into an ultrasonic. The majority of the parts are too delicate for that kind of machine. Thanks for watching

@galeng73

8 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology I think that was my 4th video I've seen since subscribing. So, I'm very new to the channel. Thanks for the info.

At the 6:36 time…is that a regular Presto tool? Or a modified/special Presto tool?

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

That is a special presto tool Bergeon number 3. It has special ends designed for removing driving wheels without bending the extended pivot underneath. The most expensive of the presto tools and the one you will use the least lol. Typical ;)

When I get home next weekend I'm going to send you a picture of my dad's wittnauer the inner bezel I don't know if it's attached to the crystal or if it's separate to the dial I have to send you a picture where it's cracked maybe you can help me Source a replacement or I might just have to leave it the way it is it's not as fancy as that one but it is an autograph

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

The bezels are held on with a bezel tension spring underneath. It has nothing or no connection to the crystal. Many thanks for watching 👍

what about bulova!?

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Also on the list?

Sure like that microscope

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

It was a a game changer for sure. Highly recommended

@pustiul1358

8 ай бұрын

What model it is ? Thanks

The gaskets are made with bitumen which melts over time. Absolute pig to remove. Petrol is good to remove melted gasket

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

That certainly explains it then, thanks for that 👍

Matt, please stop picking up the dial with tweezers, I tried breathing but it's not working mate. ; )

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

Pffff should I use a Jedi mind trick next time 😅 Absolutely nothing wrong with it with plastic love tweezers 👍

@nicknameless5581

8 ай бұрын

Lol

@nicknameless5581

8 ай бұрын

rise. RISE, I SAID RISSEEE!

A comment :)

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

😅 Thanks for watching 👍

:)

@HorologyBiology

8 ай бұрын

👍