You restored that lovely old Longines pocket watch from 1924, and your commentary was uplifting, educating and most informative. Thank you so much for making such a refreshing video. Best wishes from Wendi UK 🌻
I can't grasp why this channel hasn't burgeoned into a viral event. It's so good, and so thoughtfully and professionally produced. Is this an indictment of the common man? I don't know. I just hope this channel garners wider acceptance and support. Just sayin
I really appreciate that! I cherish every view and subscriber. I hope someone finds this educational or at least is entertained. There are a lot of Watch restoration videos out there, and so I try to put a unique spin on the genre
As a beginner to the hobby, I love watching your videos and how you explain in detail each step you take, I especially like the way you tell the audience about each oil you use in the movement. Also, your skill set is amazing!
What stunning macrophoto technique! As regards the unexpected rivet repair to the mainspring, it made me wonder if maybe that was done during the Great Depression or WWII, when repair parts were often unobtainable or too expensive. Resourceful, certainly, and since it pretty obviously worked...congrats to whoever did it. Somebody needed that watch to keep running, and got it done.
26:54 i suppose we now know how that got bent (or got taken out of plane). Easy to miss, especially for an inexperienced person, if forced, it would likely bend. An inexperienced person would likely not use any tweezers and work with their hands.
Love the content, I admire your patience to tackle so many problems and save the watch, some people would give up or order a spare donor movement. Good stuff! Wanted to add at @ 8:35 some experience with badly scored pivots in clocks I've encountered. It's a good idea when discovering such scoring marks on a pivot to check the brass hole for embedded particles of hard material. Brass is soft and any hard particles that get in between the pivot and brass get pushed in the brass and fixed there. A dome punch to close the hole up and then ream to dimension can help the pivot run in a cleaner hole.
I was about to make a comment on how swiss watches aren’t usually decorated, but WOW thats the prettiest movement ive ever seen from that era!! Looks almost modern
That tiny rivet repair to the spring… I’m impressed by that. Thanks for sharing your skills with us Chris! Does your tiny lathe have a lead screw to cut tiny threads?
So glad I found your channel! I just inherited a large number of pocket watches and related tools, so now I'm learning how to properly maintain and service them. Thanks for the info!
Another terrific video! Really incredible work, loved getting to follow along every step of the way. Kudos for a job very well done, and thank you for sharing it with us! Cheers 🍻
Congratulations on this one! There is an uncanny resemblance between the curly digits on this Longines dial and the ones on my Lorus RS985AX9. The Lorus is my number one pretty digits watch. Thanks for the excellent repair video. I liked the nice finishing touch of adding some of the history of the manufacturer at the end. What watch did you wear 12:23 minutes into the video?
Me interesaría mas contar con tus servicios como relojero , tengo unos 70 relojes de bolsillo y 25 son logines como el que se ve en el video.. Me gustaria pode reparar tres que están rotos, alguno de 1850 y anteriores un par de ellos, de cuerda con llave y puesta en hora. en las agujas. Saludos y gracias por hacer cosas tan buenas con una de mis debilidades.
6:32 it would probably take me ... what, 10 days max to get my hands on a new spring for this. Back in the days, back when i was a kid, i know for a fact that grandpa's pocket watch had to wait half a year to get repaired, because the new mainspring needed to come from US, by boat. :D Also, if someone can rivet a spring... they've my respect. That's a lot of fiddling.
Great job, and very well photographed! One question / comment, when you installed the watch hands, the seconds hand wasn’t clocked to the minute hands rotational position. I could see about a 30 second offset. Was that a ‘normal’ expectation in those days…? I must admit I’m likely OCD…. Hence curious…. I’m dabbling with watch repair, and your channel is a great learning tool! Thanks, Steve
Given the fact that these watches run +/- some seconds per day there isn’t much reason to line them all up. As soon as the holder resets the time the second hand will be out of sync anyway
I believe I have a very similar model to this one. Mine has Roman Numerals and a more plain Longines version of the logo on the dial rather than the flowing script as seen on yours, but aside from that it seems identical to my extremely novice eyes? I completely forgot that I had it. Seems to hold time fairly well but it would be well overdue for a service I dare say!
Beautiful job on a beautiful piece. Hack or resourcefulness? My vote is for the latter. This piece has survived the Great Depression, the War and the post-war austerity. It was a daily dose of resourcefulness to keep things going in those days.
I'm thinking of learning a form of embroidery where I would be cutting single threads from the fabric. My question is what form of magnification do you use in your watch smithing? I saw someone using a loop with a wire wrapped around their head. I think having the loop press against your eye for long periods would be uncomfortable. Others use big, clunky magnifying glasses/goggles, but I've heard they can be heavy and slide down all the time. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourselves 😷.
95% of the time I’m using a 10x loupe I purchased off Amazon. Nothing fancy and I’ve gotten used having it held between my cheek and eyebrow. I do have a set of over-the-head magnifying goggles, but they kept getting in the way of my camera setup and I just can’t get close enough to the work for the closer magnification to matter. So, for me, it’s either he 10x loupe or the microscope. I’ve heard people who wear glasses love the attachment that hinges the loupe over the lens. Good luck!
Hi! Magnificent Longines hunter pocket watch Silver, caliber 18.50... Only one error in this watch. It has the wrong crown. The correct crown would be a double crown, to activate the spring of the first front cover. This lid closes on the glass spring and opens using a double crown. Thank you very much! I am from Brazil. att: Lauro Elias.
Lovely job Chris, and now lovely working and looking watch! Love it when you get all the reassuringly expensive tools out! I think the watch maker who riveted the mainspring was a dude!
Nice piece. Is she yours? And yes, this content was ''viewable and very satisfying, thank you. So I shared this on ''X'', Reddit, a few pages I made on Pinterest.
They are lever set. You’d need to remove the bezel and pull on the small lever. Then turning the crown sets the time. Push back in the lever, then turning the crown winds the watch.
Fantastic work as always. May I ask if you know if this watch comes from eastern Europe or perhaps Turkey and secondly what is that lovely chronograph on your wrist?
The watch was manufactured in Switzerland, but I’m not sure who originally bought it and it’s history. The chronograph on my wrist is a landeron 39. It was actually the very first video I made. The filming is pretty cringe worthy but I’m proud that it was the first one.
Awesome Chris. Can I ask, how long did you have to burnish a center wheel pivot? And are there ANY jacot runners with drums large enough to accommodate such a chonky pivot?
Thanks, Jimmy! It was a good 20-30 minutes. There was a lot of material compared to the usual tiny train wheel pivot. My Steiner only goes up to 0.30 something. I don’t know any jacot lathe that would support 1.0+mm since that’s getting into clock pivot territory
are you referring to the D5? I’m waiting for what I have to run out before switching to HP-1300. Everything else like what lubricates the train, is synthetic
It's nice to see something done to a level way beyond that of the hobbyist just now and again, while trying not to feel our fragile egos being ground into dust. 🤔
Trivial fact, Longines was the fist watch to be copied ie, a fake watch of that brand, and thats how the name came about, to stop the other manufacturers copying
@@Zardwark I believe back in the day the term “clock” was reserved for a timepiece that would at least strike the hours. I’m not sure how true that is though
That was a Bear! Great work getting it back for functional operation. A question, if you don't mind. The lamp that showed when you opened your work bench; could you provide manufacturer and name of model? It looks like it would be great for my electronics work in close quarters. Enjoyed!
You restored that lovely old Longines pocket watch from 1924, and your commentary was uplifting, educating and most informative. Thank you so much for making such a refreshing video. Best wishes from Wendi UK 🌻
First Longines pocket watch that I have seen. Fantastic job on the watch Spinner.
I can't grasp why this channel hasn't burgeoned into a viral event. It's so good, and so thoughtfully and professionally produced. Is this an indictment of the common man? I don't know. I just hope this channel garners wider acceptance and support. Just sayin
I really appreciate that! I cherish every view and subscriber. I hope someone finds this educational or at least is entertained. There are a lot of Watch restoration videos out there, and so I try to put a unique spin on the genre
As a beginner to the hobby, I love watching your videos and how you explain in detail each step you take, I especially like the way you tell the audience about each oil you use in the movement. Also, your skill set is amazing!
What stunning macrophoto technique! As regards the unexpected rivet repair to the mainspring, it made me wonder if maybe that was done during the Great Depression or WWII, when repair parts were often unobtainable or too expensive. Resourceful, certainly, and since it pretty obviously worked...congrats to whoever did it. Somebody needed that watch to keep running, and got it done.
26:54 i suppose we now know how that got bent (or got taken out of plane). Easy to miss, especially for an inexperienced person, if forced, it would likely bend. An inexperienced person would likely not use any tweezers and work with their hands.
Love the content, I admire your patience to tackle so many problems and save the watch, some people would give up or order a spare donor movement. Good stuff! Wanted to add at @ 8:35 some experience with badly scored pivots in clocks I've encountered. It's a good idea when discovering such scoring marks on a pivot to check the brass hole for embedded particles of hard material. Brass is soft and any hard particles that get in between the pivot and brass get pushed in the brass and fixed there. A dome punch to close the hole up and then ream to dimension can help the pivot run in a cleaner hole.
You are almost teaching, as opposed to just entertaining. Thanks!!!
I was about to make a comment on how swiss watches aren’t usually decorated, but WOW thats the prettiest movement ive ever seen from that era!! Looks almost modern
Thank you for this most enjoyable video on the tender loving care you invested into this beautiful watch: 👍👌👏!
Thank you so much for this video. I could fix a Longines Grands Prix 7 that is 95% identic to this one. It got repaired for it's 100 birthday!
What a beautiful piece ❤
That was very enjoyable and I love the way you capture the sounds of the parts clicking and screwing into place. Great work, cheers C S.
The focus and attention to detail are amazing. Great video truly enjoyed watching.
Nice pocket watch and interesting history.
Thank You Chris ... Second time watching and still trying to remember your movements. Your videos are excellent. ... TM
Fantastic work on the hairspring and balance! And that dial is in amazing condition.
The master brings another piece of history back to life. Love watching you work Chris. Great job!
That tiny rivet repair to the spring… I’m impressed by that.
Thanks for sharing your skills with us Chris! Does your tiny lathe have a lead screw to cut tiny threads?
I can’t cut threads on the lathe, but I have an old Swiss screw plate that meets my needs
Excellent camera work showing every detail. Thanks for all your videos.
So glad I found your channel! I just inherited a large number of pocket watches and related tools, so now I'm learning how to properly maintain and service them. Thanks for the info!
Beautiful watch and nice work. I like seeing unusual problems and solutions as in this video. Good stuff!
Yes, I did learn alot from today's watch revival. Thank you.
A beautiful watch. You did a great job on it. Thanks for the video
Thanks for sharing another great video. The dial and case on this watch are gorgeous.
I love your videos man, there is just so much to learn from them, some day I hope to be fixing up old pocket watches myself.
Interesting movement. Love your attention to detail.
Thanks for another educational video. Gorgeous pocket watch. Best.
just wanted to say I love your videos. inspired me to repair an old ship clock, now I'm going to try my hand at watches. thank you!
Lovely. I just bought a VC Pocket Watch in 750. Just a beautiful one as well
Great work and very impressed with how well made these pocket watches were made. Longines one of my favourite brands. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Love your videos Chris always look forward to uploads.
A very satisfying video.
Thank you
Another terrific video! Really incredible work, loved getting to follow along every step of the way. Kudos for a job very well done, and thank you for sharing it with us! Cheers 🍻
Dr. Tick Tock I love it !
Excellent work thank you for sharing.
Great work as always!!
"amplitude: 0". LOL, it's amazing it was running at all :D Lovely watch!
Great job with the balance wheel! 🕐⚙️🍸
Nice work on old classic 😀
Congratulations on this one! There is an uncanny resemblance between the curly digits on this Longines dial and the ones on my Lorus RS985AX9. The Lorus is my number one pretty digits watch.
Thanks for the excellent repair video. I liked the nice finishing touch of adding some of the history of the manufacturer at the end.
What watch did you wear 12:23 minutes into the video?
Thanks! The watch I’m wearing is a landeron 39 chronograph. It’s actually repaired in the very first video (cringeworthy!) I ever uploaded
Огромное спасибо мастеру за изящную работу.
Una pena no entender tu idioma, solo entiendo el movimiento de tus manos sobre el reloj, magnifico !!!
gracias. Ofrezco subtítulos en español si estás interesado.
Me interesaría mas contar con tus servicios como relojero , tengo unos 70 relojes de bolsillo y 25 son logines como el que se ve en el video.. Me gustaria pode reparar tres que están rotos, alguno de 1850 y anteriores un par de ellos, de cuerda con llave y puesta en hora. en las agujas. Saludos y gracias por hacer cosas tan buenas con una de mis debilidades.
6:32 it would probably take me ... what, 10 days max to get my hands on a new spring for this. Back in the days, back when i was a kid, i know for a fact that grandpa's pocket watch had to wait half a year to get repaired, because the new mainspring needed to come from US, by boat. :D
Also, if someone can rivet a spring... they've my respect. That's a lot of fiddling.
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Great job, and very well photographed! One question / comment, when you installed the watch hands, the seconds hand wasn’t clocked to the minute hands rotational position.
I could see about a 30 second offset. Was that a ‘normal’ expectation in those days…? I must admit I’m likely OCD…. Hence curious…. I’m dabbling with watch repair, and your channel is a great learning tool! Thanks, Steve
Given the fact that these watches run +/- some seconds per day there isn’t much reason to line them all up. As soon as the holder resets the time the second hand will be out of sync anyway
Great done it again. Could you point me towards literature on the caliber 21.53 from longines ? Thanks
Super 👍👍👍!!!
Muy buen laburo👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I believe I have a very similar model to this one. Mine has Roman Numerals and a more plain Longines version of the logo on the dial rather than the flowing script as seen on yours, but aside from that it seems identical to my extremely novice eyes? I completely forgot that I had it. Seems to hold time fairly well but it would be well overdue for a service I dare say!
Beautiful job on a beautiful piece. Hack or resourcefulness? My vote is for the latter. This piece has survived the Great Depression, the War and the post-war austerity. It was a daily dose of resourcefulness to keep things going in those days.
I'm thinking of learning a form of embroidery where I would be cutting single threads from the fabric. My question is what form of magnification do you use in your watch smithing? I saw someone using a loop with a wire wrapped around their head. I think having the loop press against your eye for long periods would be uncomfortable. Others use big, clunky magnifying glasses/goggles, but I've heard they can be heavy and slide down all the time. Sending lots of love 💖 from sunny🌞 Arizona 🌵. Take care of yourselves 😷.
95% of the time I’m using a 10x loupe I purchased off Amazon. Nothing fancy and I’ve gotten used having it held between my cheek and eyebrow. I do have a set of over-the-head magnifying goggles, but they kept getting in the way of my camera setup and I just can’t get close enough to the work for the closer magnification to matter. So, for me, it’s either he 10x loupe or the microscope. I’ve heard people who wear glasses love the attachment that hinges the loupe over the lens. Good luck!
@@csspinner , thanks 💖🌞🌵😷
Hi! Magnificent Longines hunter pocket watch Silver, caliber 18.50... Only one error in this watch. It has the wrong crown. The correct crown would be a double crown, to activate the spring of the first front cover. This lid closes on the glass spring and opens using a double crown. Thank you very much! I am from Brazil. att: Lauro Elias.
Lovely job Chris, and now lovely working and looking watch! Love it when you get all the reassuringly expensive tools out! I think the watch maker who riveted the mainspring was a dude!
Nice job,,,
Very nice.
Nice piece. Is she yours? And yes, this content was ''viewable and very satisfying, thank you. So I shared this on ''X'', Reddit, a few pages I made on Pinterest.
Thanks for sharing it! The watch was sent in by a viewer.
Great video! How do you set the time on these caliber?? Do you have to losen that screw first??
They are lever set. You’d need to remove the bezel and pull on the small lever. Then turning the crown sets the time. Push back in the lever, then turning the crown winds the watch.
Fantastic work as always. May I ask if you know if this watch comes from eastern Europe or perhaps Turkey and secondly what is that lovely chronograph on your wrist?
The watch was manufactured in Switzerland, but I’m not sure who originally bought it and it’s history. The chronograph on my wrist is a landeron 39. It was actually the very first video I made. The filming is pretty cringe worthy but I’m proud that it was the first one.
باسلام خدایی خیلی استادهستند اینهاحیفه که بمیرند
Awesome Chris. Can I ask, how long did you have to burnish a center wheel pivot? And are there ANY jacot runners with drums large enough to accommodate such a chonky pivot?
Thanks, Jimmy! It was a good 20-30 minutes. There was a lot of material compared to the usual tiny train wheel pivot. My Steiner only goes up to 0.30 something. I don’t know any jacot lathe that would support 1.0+mm since that’s getting into clock pivot territory
Does a lathe come with drums as small as a jacks jacot's?
@@jika3355 my lathe came with a drum sized for clock pivots. I don’t remember the smallest it supports
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How much do you charge to repair a pocket watch? My grandfather left me a pocket watch that (if memory serves correctly) he got fighting in WW2
Why don't you use synthetic lubricants since they don't deteriorate?
are you referring to the D5? I’m waiting for what I have to run out before switching to HP-1300. Everything else like what lubricates the train, is synthetic
What a great time this was. Now its swatch time..... 😢
Longines also sponsors horse shows
I have a very old Longin pocket watch from the last century. Would you buy it?
It's nice to see something done to a level way beyond that of the hobbyist just now and again,
while trying not to feel our fragile egos being ground into dust. 🤔
Evidently it was previously serviced by a John Deere mechanic.
To be spent on tea and crumpets only.
Thank you!! I really appreciate it :)
Hola soy de Chihuahua cuanto vale uno igual a ese
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Good work
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Trivial fact, Longines was the fist watch to be copied ie, a fake watch of that brand, and thats how the name came about, to stop the other manufacturers copying
Repairer too cheap to get a new mainspring ? I had a main spring folded over it self to catch the tang .
Possibly. Definitely a first I’ve seen something like that!
Why do they call them pocket watches and not pocket clocks?
@@Zardwark I believe back in the day the term “clock” was reserved for a timepiece that would at least strike the hours. I’m not sure how true that is though
wth is that watch you're wearing?
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That was a Bear! Great work getting it back for functional operation. A question, if you don't mind. The lamp that showed when you opened your work bench; could you provide manufacturer and name of model? It looks like it would be great for my electronics work in close quarters. Enjoyed!
Thank you! Here is a link to the lamp on Amazon: HomeFocus Bedside Reading Wall... www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCQDZF2?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share