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Exploration and enquiry around repair processes. Encouragement for all to get involved.
READ Repairs #007 Junghans mystery clock repair 2023_12_30
This is the story of a Junghans mystery clock with multiple issues to the case and some to the mechanism. For more clock repair content see our How to repair pendulum clock channel @howtorepairpendulumclocks
#repair #clock #horology #mainspring #shop #workshop #tools #craft #making #restoration #heritage #skills #watchmaker #clockmaker #conservation
Junghans
www.junghans.de/en/
Junghans Digital Archive where records/catalogues of these mystery clocks can be found.
junghansarchiv.de/en/catalogues
Vulpex soap is a registered trademark of Picreator enterprises Ltd. www.picreator.co.uk
Roberson clear shellac varnish
www.cornelissen.com/roberson-clear-shellac-varnish.html
www.clockmaker-conservator.co.uk
More UA-cam clock repair content here...
@howtorepairpendulumclocks-live
@openclockclubarchive325
Find out more about our book, How to repair pendulum clocks, Volume 1, getting started. www.howtorepairpendulumclocks.co.uk/book
Buy or step-by-step guide to Depthing and Bushing here...
www.amazon.co.uk/Depthing-Bushing-step-step-pre-publication-ebook/dp/B098126469
#repair #clock #horology #mainspring #shop #workshop #tools #craft #making #restoration #heritage #skills #watchmaker #clockmaker #conservation
Junghans
www.junghans.de/en/
Junghans Digital Archive where records/catalogues of these mystery clocks can be found.
junghansarchiv.de/en/catalogues
Vulpex soap is a registered trademark of Picreator enterprises Ltd. www.picreator.co.uk
Roberson clear shellac varnish
www.cornelissen.com/roberson-clear-shellac-varnish.html
www.clockmaker-conservator.co.uk
More UA-cam clock repair content here...
@howtorepairpendulumclocks-live
@openclockclubarchive325
Find out more about our book, How to repair pendulum clocks, Volume 1, getting started. www.howtorepairpendulumclocks.co.uk/book
Buy or step-by-step guide to Depthing and Bushing here...
www.amazon.co.uk/Depthing-Bushing-step-step-pre-publication-ebook/dp/B098126469
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READ Repairs #006 Fusee driven mantel clock with a skeletonized movement frame 2023_12_26
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This is the story of a clock that had an accident involving a falling mirror!!! All ended well with the clock returned to working condition following quite a few intervention repairs. For more clock repair content see our How to repair pendulum clock channel @howtorepairpendulumclocks #repair #clock #horology #mainspring #shop #workshop #tools #craft #making #restoration #heritage #skills #watc...
READ Repairs #003 Part IX Final part of our three-train, 18th century, fusee clock repair project!
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We carry out various clockmaking repairs including soft and hard soldering techniques, re-colleting a wheel and re-facing pallets, cleaning, re-assembly and lubrication. Out three-train, eighteenth century spring clock is finished!~ Thank you for following along. Below are some links I mention in the video. #clock #repair #making #soldering #lathe #shop #workshop #craft #fusée #fusee #antique #...
READ Repairs #003 Part VIII - Torquinator 2.0 Research in torque requirements for fusee clocks.
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Discussions on replacement mainsprings for our 18th Century three-train fusee clock project. We make a device to measure torque requirement and torque output from mainsprings. #clock #workshop #shop #repair #making #lathe #materials #conservation #horology #spring #mainspring #measurement www.clockmaker-conservator.co.uk @howtorepairpendulumclocks @openclockclubarchive325 @howtorepairpendulumcl...
READ Repairs #004 Cleaning an Omega pocket watch
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We bought this Omega pocket watch at a local auction. It was listed as 'spares/repairs' so a bit of a gamble. We knew the dial was damaged and hoped the movement 'just' needed cleaning. Join us on this #watch #repair #adventure #omega #tools #craft #making #hautehorlogerie #hautehorology #jewel #lathe #cleaning #dial #balance #repair #watchmaking #workshop #shop #technique #Swatchgroup @howtore...
READ Repairs #003 Part VII Making a new quarter rack latch spring and other repairs - 3 train clock
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Part 7 in this series in repairing an eighteenth century spring clock. We make a new quarter rack latch spring, re-bush the latch pipe and quarter rack pipe and re-shape the flirt spring! #repair #clock #making #craft #spring #lathe #machine #workshop #tools #antique Find our other How to repair pendulum clocks channel here... ua-cam.com/channels/q25FhgQkNLeNJOBcw9BOlA.html
READ Repairs #003 Part VI Eighteenth century three-train spring clock minute wheel uprighting.
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We determine faults with the minute wheel assembly. Uprighting that required a revised centre-distance to resolve and steady-pins to the minute wheel cock. #horology #clock #repair #craft #making #lathe #brass #materials #workshop #tools #gears
#003 Part V A new pendulum suspension spring for our three-train spring clock.
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We make a new pendulum suspension spring, a common repair in clockmaking. Off-the-peg springs can work fine but it can be useful to have the option to make something bespoke. #clock #repair #righttorepair #making #craft #lathe #shop #workshop #horology #bespoke #spring www.eternaltools.com/vallorbe-precision-barrette-file-150mm-cut-4 We have much more digital content plus a Facebook group to su...
READ Repairs #003 Part IV Three train fusee clock - repairs to the pinned barrel
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We diagnose and repair the quarter striking pinned barrel by replacing two pins with new hard-drawn brass wire. #clock #repair #righttorepair #making #craft #lathe #shop #workshop #horology www.eternaltools.com/vallorbe-precision-barrette-file-150mm-cut-4 We have much more digital content plus a Facebook group to support beginners in clock repair. Our digital content is free-to-attend and open-...
Rebuilding the fly - Three train spring clock project - READ Repairs #003 - Part III
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We talk issues raised in the first part of this project, the quarter striking fly has pieces added and a short bearing. In this video we extend the arbor with a new pivot and re-build the fly vane. Materials used were: Blued pivot steel for the arbor extension. CZ108 brass sheet for the fly spring. Carbide pyramid 30 degree engraving bit Borax flux www.cooksongold.com/Jewellery-Tools/Technique-...
Read repairs #003 Part II. Three-train fusee spring clock. Hammer bearing and spring stop.
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Following the disassembly and analysis of out three-train fusee spring clock movement, we begin a series of shorter videos dealing with identified repairs. Here we bush (new bearing) to the hammer arbor to reduce end-shake, improve the action and add a brass pad to the stop to rotate the 'parked' position of the hammer. #clock #repair #righttorepair #making #craft #lathe #shop #workshop #horolo...
READ repairs #003 Three-train fusee spring clock. Part I. Disassembly, analysis and discussion.
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We begin a new project with the first in a series of videos looking at an eighteenth century, three-train fusee driven spring clock. #clock #repair #righttorepair #making #craft #lathe #shop #workshop #horology I use Bow Brand D class natural gut line on domestic longcase and spring driven clocks. www.bowbrand.co.uk We have much more digital content plus a Facebook group to support beginners in...
READ repairs #002 1953 souvenir clock commemorating the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
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The second of our #righttorepair videos focusses on a clock from 1953 made to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We take a close look at the mechanism, its disassembly, cleaning and repair. We also consider the issue of values and what is considered valuable. #clock #repair #coronation #1953 #horology #queenelizabeth If you want to find out more about the repair techniques Depthi...
READ Repairs #005 We change a battery in a Rolex Oyster quartz wristwatch - Oysterquartz
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A look inside a Rolex watch with quartz movement. These watches, once mostly overlooked are now becoming sought-after and collectible in their own right with their beautifully made, high-quality movements. #horology #rolex #watch #quartz #repair #battery You can find Rodico (registered trade name) here... www.cousinsuk.com/product/rodico You can find the mouldable plastic material Polymorph her...
Bowes Swan Automaton 2021 Study week - Silver Swan at The Bowes Museum
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in 2021, the Bowes Swan Automaton was subject to a week-long programme of study in order to establish a wider understanding of arguably the world's best operational eighteenth century object of its kind. This documentary was commissioned by The Bowes Museum and made by Howell Film Read our peer-reviewed article here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19455224.2023.2202411 www.clockmaker-cons...
READ repairs #001 A verge pocket watch 2021_07_19
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READ repairs #001 A verge pocket watch 2021_07_19
However much your customer paid you... it's not enough. I'm just getting into old clocks and hope to gain a fraction of your knowledge. Bravo.
This video just saved my biscuit! Thank you for sharing this and explaining a complicated process in a way that a simple person could make it tick! 😉
Glad it was of use. M
The best
Thank you :=)
You are just marvelous! Good tools and excellent skill!
Thank you!!! Appreciated. M
Thanks Matthew. An awesome video which has made me now subscribing and will be watching in detail. I’ve not seen a better video for explaining what you’re seeing as you strip down a clock. I learnt a lot!
Thanks!
Hey Mostyn!!! Thank you for the Super Thanks!!! Appreciated. If you want to write-up the mainspring things, I'd be up for that and thanks again. Matthew
Hi Matthew That clickspring looked retrofitted to me, shouldnt it have looked a bit like the setting lever spring ? Have a nice day
You are probably right! The watch had a bit of a life, good call. M
Really nice work! Brass is such a lovely metal to work with. I retired from my own business of telescope and binocular restoration and repair three years ago and can fully appreciate what you are achieving. The question for me now is: do I go ahead and service my own clocks, one Junghans the other a skeleton clock. I think I ponder that for a while.
Yes sounds like you will be fine. Take care letting the power off any mainsprings - there is a video on that over on my other channel (How to repair pendulum clocks) Good luck! M
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A very helpful video. Thank you. You were nice a slow describing the parts and what you were doing. A lot of the other videos leave me guessing.
Thank you for your kind feedback. I am glad it was of use. Matthew
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Excellent work 🙏
Thank you. Appreciated.
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Thank you so much for posting this series! It was absolutely fantastic. I learnt more from watching you fix this than from most books. Please continue to post these 'deep dive style' repair videos as listening to you explain and reason each repair is so helpful.
Thank you for your kind feedback. I'm glad it was of interest. Matthew
Technology from a time when artistry and craftsmanship mattered even in places where few would ever see. Thanks for bringing this watch back to life.
Thanks Martin, appreciated. Matthew
44:06 Led Zeppelin - Black Country Woman reference love it and the whole video. Liked and subbed
Finally!!! Someone got my reference! That has made my day. Thank you
Thank you for this amazing video. The level of detail and the intricacy of the work involved is superb. 😊
Thanks for your kind feedback. Glad you enjoyed it. Matthew
Many thks your reply.being 87 and shake to much,i retired.understand your thinking .her in s africa,customers wanr bright and shiny. Many hours in polishing. Here is a tip ii have not seen used before, inguaging condition of teethon wheel place wheel flat on white paper. Spray from vertical position. You can visual any variation in tooth shape. Helps imeasurably in straightening bent teeth. With our currency being terrible 1 pound equals about 25 of our rand i had to make lots of parts. Along with competeing with other" gentlemen who consider spraying with WD 40. Life was not ease. Many thanks your contribution blessings
Thanks Lawrence for your message. That is interesting re profiling the teeth on white paper. Will try it? Yours, Matthew
Two things worries me 1 trest 2 why dont you polish up clock
Hi Lawrence. My practice is based on conservation principles - I am a clocks conservator - so try wherever possible to preserve surface finish as part of the integrity of the object. Hope this helps. Matthew. (1 Trest?)
This content is beyond measure. Your videos are what got me into horology and now I'm hooked. I had a legitimate fear of clocks ticking and your calming voice has been very therapeutic Thanks Matt
Thanks Roger for your kind feedback. Really appreciated. I hope your interest in horology goes from strength to strength. Matthew
If you use denture cleaner on the enamel dial, not only will it clean the dial but also remove visual cracks.
Thank you for that tip! Appreciated. M
What a masterful repair work! That was a very instructive and enjoyable video, beautifully videographed and narrated, thank you very much. I have a working fusee movement but the motion works and dial are missing. What are the chances of cannibalising these from other scrap watches?
Thanks for your kind feedback. The chances of finding spare motion work wheels is really slim. Even if you were able to find wheels with the correct train count, because the watches were all hand-made, interchangeability really wasn't a thing I'm afraid. M
was that graphite you sprayed on the spring?
Hi Moses. It was a liquid spray grease containing molybdenum disulphide. I have used this brand Chemodex for 20 years or so now and find it really good! chemodex.co.uk/products/lqg-moly-liquid-grease. Hope this helps. M
Matthew, I really enjoy watching you work and your creative solutions. One piece of advice, leave your captions on a little longer. General rule of thumb, read them twice at your normal pace. Then it will be on longer for the viewer
Thanks for your feedback. That is a good point re the captions. I'll try that! M
Top job, seen one of these recently without the statue. I couldn't work out what it was. Now I know.
Thank you, glad it was of use!
If you want to turn it off, make an exact working copy of it so that people can still see an active version while you do what you need to do to the original. It's a machine. Machines NEED to work or they seize up and shut down permanently (see what happens to your car if you don't run it regularly!). With care, it can run for hundreds more years quite happily. It should not be frozen in aspic like a statue (as it was for many years).
What was final amperage and beat error
Hi Richard. Good question. I dont know as I dont have a timing machine. M
What oil did you spray the mainspring with? Was the rest of the movement oiled with D-5, or was another Moebius oil or grease used? I wanted to know that for self-education purposes. Thank you.
Hiya. I spray the mainspring with Chemodex Liquid Spray Grease. Yes D3 and D5 on the movement. Today I would use 9415 on the pallets. Hope this helps. M
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Absolutely beautiful work, careful precise but not so OCD that you ruin the parts that still exists, I need to learn about being able to say good enough on some of the old watches I've worked on. 😁
Thank you for your kind feedback. Yes I agree, it is good to decide an approach and work towards that line, re-considering/evaluating as you go, considering the implications of more interventions. The outcome is rarely the same as the intent, so again, it is useful to reflect on what happened and how you might modify your approach in future. Good to remember there is no must, should or have to. If you hear those words, warning! M
Matthew you are so confident and you are a very proficient on. Clocks and watches. I saw you do a verge Fuse. Nice thanks.
Thanks John. Appreciated. Matthew
Someone may have already mentioned it, but your work here (both as restorer and videographer) has rescued a moment in history: a working watch from the intersection of the technology, craftsmanship and art of its time that lives again physically and virtually. Thank you!
Thanks James for your kind feedback. Appreciated. Matthew
Hi, very beautiful job. I am french amateur clock repair. I passionned with this. I repair lot of watch and 3 clock, my vedette winchester run 3 year ago my repair and uniquely quarter song not fonctionnal per moment. But it is very precise clock. I subscrib immediately after watch the first video. Sorry for my bad english.
Merci pour votre aimable retour ; apprécié. J'ai récemment essayé d'acheter une horloge murale à trois trains Vedette lors d'une vente aux enchères locale. Je vais continuer à chercher ! Bien à toi, Matthieu
Mr Read you have to be the best clockmaker I've seen. I've been at it over 30 years. I've watched a few on my smart tv and wasn't able to like. Love to see something on all of the important issues with the chimes on a Westminster clock. Going too slow etc. Cheers. Love your work. I'm from Nympsfield in the Cotswolds. Now in Australia 🦘🦘🦘🦘
Thanks for your kind feedback. Appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the content.
Thx Matthew
Matthew you have way to many channels. Which you tube channel is your channel that you post to all the time? I advertise for you in my videos but I have been advertising "How to repair pendulum clocks"
Hi Mark. Thanks for your message. Yes I have 2 active channels at the moment. How to repair pendulum clocks which is workshop tips and techniques and tends to be quite technical. Then there is READ Repairs which is full projects which is meant to be a bit less technical and a bit more 'aesthetic'!!! There is of course cross-over. :=). In the background there is Open Clock Club archive which is only the livestream series of 50 events we did in lockdown. I am not adding to that series. Hope this helps. Thanks again for sending people my way; appreciated. If your members want any particular technique demonstrating, I will do that if I can. All the best. Matthew
Excellent video, thanks for posting. IMHO it is a great shame rolex are not producing quartz watches today for those of us living in the 21st century. Maybe it is harder to buy out a pre-existing quartz watch manufacturer than it would appear...
Thanks for your kind comment. Yes totally agree. I think Grand Seiko have done much to legitimise quartz, maybe Rolex will return to that. M
Thanks
Thank you for that! Really appreciated. M
Hello my friend, very nice, amazing 👍👌👏
Thank you, appreciated. Matthew
Brilliant work on the screw!
Thank you! Appreciated.
I just stumbled across this channel. Not sure how youtube never recommended your videos since I watch tons of other watch repair channels. This work is brilliant. Thank you.
Thank you! Appreciated. Glad you found it interesting. Matthew
Nice, You earned my subscription. Matching the thread was brilliant.
Thanks Jim, appreciated. Matthew
Great fun skeleton clocks. Nice when they have the 5 spoke wheels too. I've had some blinders but like a fool never kept one for myself. One day!
Super travail !!! Bravo et respect !
A merci!
I've had a few of those "swingers" come through my shop (including the reproductions from China). Your video, with all the closeup shots, were truly well done. I got a lot out of your video. Thanks!
Thanks Cliff. Appreciated! Glad it was of use. M
thanks for your passing on your extensive knowledge, its very much appreciated,. you didnt go into choosing the strength of the suspension spring, other that the obvious far to weak or strong.. how critical is the strength of a suspension spring ?..
Hi Shaun, thanks for your message. The suspension spring strength is important. Like all leaf springs, it is the thickness that is the main value as this relates to the cube of the strength. In most clocks, the suspension spring adds to the effective value of gravity. The stronger the spring, the higher the restoring force and the more the clock will gain and vice-versa. When fitting a new spring, chose one that allows the crutch pin to be reasonably in the middle of the slot and allows the rating nut to be reasonably in the middle of its travel. If you find the rating nut very near to the lower point of adjustment, the spring is too thick and vice-versa. Hope this helps. I'll do a video in it when I get time./. M
@@readrepairs that makes perfect sense, thanks for the explanation,
Mesmerising filmwork. As a novice in horology an explanation of just what some of the parts are there for would be illuminating. Thanks
The epilogue is really great! Love your work.
Thanks Peter. Appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the vid. M
Hi Matthew, how can I contact you about a 1750's pocket watch by one of the watchmaking greats. Can you get in touch with me about it? 😊
email me via me web-site clockmaker-conservator.co.uk
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