Hello and thank you for viewing my channel. This channel is all about watch repair tutorials and reviews. I am completely self taught and have had no professional training. The aim of my channel is to help and inspire more of you watch enthusiasts wherever you are in the world to picking up some tools and having a go. Watchmaking / repairing is a wonderful hobby and very therapeutic and rewarding. To take a watch that is broken and make it run again by your own hands is a great feeling.
I want to demystify some of the general perception around watchmaking and that anyone who has the desire and patience can try this hobby successfully. There is so much help available to you via my Facebook group and in my videos so come on and give it a go, I promise you will like it.
My videos will be on these subjects:
Disassembly
Assembly
Cleaning
Tools & equipment
Watch polishing & applying brushed finishes
Watch Reviews
Digital watch repairs & restorations.
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Seiko UK repair in Maidenhead are not interested in providing maintenance support to watches no longer in production. I've attempted a number of times to get them to work on Seiko watches that needed repair from the 80's and early 90's and they said they no longer hold any parts for those models.
This is no surprise. I know people who have sent Pogues to Seiko to have something else come back. For old Seiko you’re better off finding a decent hobbyist that knows the brand . There are a few of us out there who occasionally take on the work.
never seen this one before crazy all the ways they went wauw
Hello Mike, can you tell my what brand your microscoop and where you bout it from. Ik like your videos a lot and I”m trying to make watches to as a hobby. I just started doing it. It is real fun and can by stressful with springs haha. Greeting’s Michael from Holland.
My scopes are all in my tool page on my site. Link in the description. It was an AMscope stereoscope but I can’t remember the model
An epic battle with a watch … but you won, and the watch did too! Great job, great video!
That's a weird movement a battery and a balance wheel, it's like they couldn't make up their minds on this one.
It’s was just as quartz was being developed . Swiss brands did the same along with Seiko. I have a Seiko Elnix video on the channel and that is another mad movement
I was rooting for you with that second hand placement!😂😂😂❤ great job!
DIY Watchclub is way to expensive!
That crystal would drive me insane. The rest of the watch is gorgeous
Great Collection!
Really enjoyed this one Mike and appreciate you showing the whole process with mistakes - which we all make of course. I actually found the workings to be quite intuitive, and the chunky plates and pivots could make it a good movement to work on for some of us more clumsy guys!
Pues ya he aprendido algo más de mi X8 aunque no es exactamente el mismo movimiento.
But what makes it go? I see the balance is powered by the coil, but there’s no escape wheel or pallet fork. How is the motion of the balance transferred to the train of wheels without an escape wheel?
The whole thing like the Seiko Elnix runs backwards. The battery pluses the coil which in turn reacts to the magnet on the balance wheel. This swings and has an impulse jewel on it like a normal balance that moves the star shaped wheel that I at first fitted upside down. That wheel moves (also a magnet on the main plate I believe. This then moves the first brass wheel which in turn powers the main train on the top layer.
The star wheel is essentially the fork and escape
Another watch saved
See now something as simple as improvising a C clip shows Mike is a far better watchmaker than he proffesses to be. A part failed and he made a replacement out of something else. In the old days, garages had mechanics and panel beaters that made things work from whatever was available. These days, we just have fitters...! Good stuff buddy. Much love from Wales.
I wanna get into watch restoration. Would any of you know a decent place to start, some kind of kit, an easy watch?
Does anyone measured the width of intermediate link?
should go over the Help option on the phone app. Once dialed in IIt can be impressive.
Don’t worry, you have indeed taken me down the rabbit hole of watch’s….. my wife is about ready to kill me. 😂
It’s better than drink. Tell her that!
@@MyRetroWatches she would promptly inform me that drink would be a whole lot cheaper 😅
@@gcarlson622 but once drank you can’t sell it. Watches usually hold value . That’s how I try to justify my collection
Great job on an interesting and, I think, good looking watch.
Thank you kindly
What an interesting little hybrid. So cool to see the mid point of the evolution between mechanical and full quartz.
Thanks pal
Hi Mike, I have missed something when looking your videos so a question : why don’t you oil the pallet fork jewels ? Also how do you put the stem back in place ? I’m currently trying my best on a Cupillard 233 which is indeed very similar and I’m puzzled with the how to put the stem back in place after casing ? Thank you for your time and constant generosity…
I usually fixadrop the stones and oil off camera. I’ve filmed them enough times and it’s almost impossible to film and to correctly. To be honest it makes no difference to the running and if you over do it or get oil on the top of a stone you will see a very poor trace on the TG. Oiling pallets will only extend a service life rather than give you better amplitude. They are so easy to make a mess of as you are supposed to oil in situ through the viewing holes in the main plate provided. As for a stem I can’t remember on this one but if they don’t push all the way in then you need to push in and hold the stem release to then push home . Your basically lifting up the setting lever so the stem can locate properly
As soon as you showed the day date setting, I went and found one. It's already in the mail. 😁 And now I have an amazing video with all the gotchas! 👍
Perfect! You will enjoy it I’m sure
Excellent video. Besides plain mechanical and early quartz, I also like very much these kind of movements. You can do more on the channel if you want. Why not a soviet Luch with a 3055 movement ? ;)
In the future maybe, I have so many projects to get through first! I a overrun with them.
Thanks for this. I’ve always wondered how these work. I have an Elnix. It’s fun but uses batteries fast.
Thanks, Did you see my Elnix video a few episodes back?
@@MyRetroWatches I don’t think so. I will take a look. Thank you.
. . . for me an eternal beginner on this hobby seeing you do the things what you do is always interesting educative an fun at once. You are realistically honest too!. Could you please give me some insights into this 'special' balance wheel jule lubrication??? Im currently dealing with Miyota 82s7 movement w/ same mechanism. BR, -MM
By the same what do you mean exactly, they have the same type of cap jewel but I didn’t think the Miyota have that jewel on the steel washer thingy
. . thanks for your attention. Yes correct --this Miyota has the exact same cap jewel w/ the spring/washer/thingy thing. Following your video I have removed them using an oiler and Rodico --question now is what to lubricate, how to lubricate. BR, -MM
@@Dx7m the pivot does not appear to Protrude from the jewel and as such I just put a very tiny drop on the jewel the pivot is sitting on and nothing on the cap jewel.
It looks like the lower pivot on the pallet jewel might have been bent, when it was under the microscope, it seemed a little off-center
Great video Michael i''m learning so much of you, keep up the good work.
Thanks
Great video, thank you! Then there was a whole era of transition from mechanics to the quartz that we use now. And it was these beautiful electromechanical movements. Not only Citizen and Seiko made these, Swiss also created their own. It would be interesting to see a review of the Swiss ESA 9154 Dynotron movement, which was used in many electromechanical watches of that era.
I have filmed the Seiko Elnix a few episodes ago. I also have the earlier EL330 movement which are equally as bonkers. Swiss ones for sure in time when I find a project worthy.
I wonder if it is the crystal that caused the damage on the dial? Kind of like a magnifying glass.
Its unlikely its acting like prism.
@@MyRetroWatches ok
I agree, the metal band looks a little nicer with the watch.
Hybrid watches fun. Have several. Can keep great time.
Sadly this one is not but I have been told I have regulated it incorrectly and need two lines rather than the one.
Good to have you back in action doing video's again. Hopefully life is slowly starting to return to normal for you. Love the watch, and the fact that the band matches the face so closely is amazing. As for what I personally would like to see next....whatever you have on the bench or inline is perfect. I enjoy watching all of the video's you put out. Keep up the great work! Also...I would love to see a video on your faceted crystal watches on the other channel. Great idea!
Thank you. Life goes on which has been a motto I’ve had since my cancer. Still true today despite my rotten start to 2024. Back at the bench and enjoying every minute. I have more projects than sense and so many video ideas. Stay tuned
First of your vidéos I've seen. Many thanks, exactly what a newby like me needs.
Glad to help, plenty more videos in the back catalog on the channel
Just broke a stem in a Pan style crown. Will definitely try this. Thanx.
I don't suppose you have the spare circuit board from your donor watch? I have had my cosmotron for 6 months now and all I need is a new circuit which are very hard to find. I Love the design and would like to get it on the wrist 😊
Sadly not the donor parts I didn’t use go back to my friend who commented that it was the board was faulty. It didn’t matter to me. Japan yahoo auctions are awash with Cosmotron
My deepest condolences! 😢❤ Thank You very much, for Your great channel. I really look forward, to every video from Your hand..! ❤
Excelente restauración de la máquina maravilloso. El reloj quedó como nuevo.
Thank you.
One observation, despite the high beat of 36000 per hour, the second hand only ticks 6 times per second. I have counted it. I guess the high beat doesn't always translate into how smooth the sweeping action is. If someone has more info on this, I would love to hear.
That’s correct on this one. The Seiko elnix look smoother. I was a little disappointed with the high beat movement and less than smooth tick
@@MyRetroWatches Thanks for confirming my observation. Great video you made! ❤
Interesting. Many people consider 42 or even 40 mm diameter to be big. I have an average wrist, and 45mm is my minimum. Anything less looks feminine on me. My perfect size is 47mm. Although, I do know it's all subjective.
I am looking forward to viewing this! The sound is great to me and the video is superior.
EXCELENTE SERVIÇO 👍👍 🇧🇷
6:15 it makes sense that that is part of the quickset. If it were oiled, it wouldn’t drop freely when turned upside down.
Put your light not under a pot!