Everytime I watch your videos I think about how you literally can’t find this information anywhere on the internet. This is like a free college course & I am so grateful. Thank you as always sir. 🇺🇸
It is Saturday and I am about to go back to my watch bits that I have from taking it apart just over two years ago. I watched your "REBUILD, assembly made easy" and decided that I will revisit this project that I started after my partner died. Thanks, perhaps I will try to video it. I will never claim to be a "watch maker" but a "watch fiddler". wish me fun as I fiddle.
As one Dutchman to another dank-ye-well. This is a good reminder to pay attention to detail. I sometimes have more than one watch on my table and keeping everything organized is important because mixing screws is a sure way to watch damnation.
This was highly educational and entertaining too. For a fumbling amateur like me, your valuable tips and enthusiasm for the craft are really motivating . Thanks so much!
Geez important !! Of course I made some mistakes with screws !! The better is to find the mistakes 😂😂😂 . Thanks Kalle it’s another interesting video, watchmaking is always about details ! So always stay focus about each parts and screw you put on, that surely make you a better watchmaker ! Best regard dear Kalle ! ✨👌
This screwy little video is a real eye opener for a beginning watchmaker. I makes you want to pay attention to the details of every little part you encounter in working on a watch. Thank you very much!
Thanks Kalle, I always thought there was a logic to the screws and you explained it very well! I just don`t know how you are able to put extra screws on my bench when you live so far away!!
What a gem this guy is for people like me who are learning watchmaking at home after a fatal medical condition and cant afford to go to watch school. Excellent sir keep these coming
LOL! That's me working on my mods in the spare bedroom with not too infrequently a cat in my lap or trying to knock a project off the bench! Too funny my friend!
This is excellent for all the reasons that have been mentioned, but also: when you lose a screw, this can help you have a better idea by looking at the movement what kind of screw you need! Also, I just wanted to say that these videos are extremely helpful when watchmakers are too busy to provide education and watchmaking schools are a few and far between where I live.
I saw a mainspring barrel with a dink in it recently, clearly the result of a screw too long having been fitted in the covering plate. Grate advice as always! 🍻
Thanks Kalle, another brilliant video - this has been the missing piece of the assembly jigsaw puzzle for me - I realise I have been flying somewhat blind up until now - As always I'm so grateful for your kindness in sharing with us your wonderful experience and knowledge 🙏
Kalle. Thank you. I knew about screws. Honest! Now I know why I knew about screws. Taking your time to help us lesser mortals in the learning of this hobby is an excellent thing to do. Take care. Wish you well
bedankt Kalle erg goede info .... i had net een uur gezocht naar een verloren schroef en gevonden dus dacht ter onspanning even Kalle kijken en wat is het topic lol hahaha ik weet wel waar ik vanacht over droom schroeven!!
The same screw collective is used in my old profession (now retired) of optical restoration. I have screws and bolts from 6mm down to 0.2mm in diameter, in metric and Imperial, (especially BA down to BA14), each with its own specific dimensions. I enjoyed this presentation!
Just letting you know that everything you tell us is Highly Intelligent and nothing is taken for granted. I appreciate every piece of advice and always learn more from your videos no matter how trivial it may seem. You are an excellent teacher and do an excellent job of breaking down the science and theory. Thank you for what you do!
That was very interesting and an real eye opener. I can now see how essential the different screws are and it will make me revisit some movements that I have worked on as a hobbyist.
I have not disassembled my first movement because I am afraid of mixing up the screws, forgetting where they go, etc. This video is incredibly helpful for me as a complete beginner. Thank you!
I am just getting started in my late 50's. I appreciate this video as it knowledge that is not readily available to me. I am looking at low level restoration of pocket watches and cleaning up and polishing newer beat-up watches. I am an amateur silversmith and want to use that knowledge to make watches look like and hopefully run almost like new.
As an amateur with only a few years 'experience' under my belt, I always find your videos not only super-informative as an important source of 'real' knowledge - but extremely easy and enjoyable to watch. Never boring, far from it. This one really helped in many ways. Many thanks Kalle.
This is my favourite channel right now 👍🏻 I agree with you. The most common one that springs to mind, Omega 1120 with a perfectly cut circle on the barrel cap and a domed not polished screw on the barrel bridge. Note all screws came from the 1120 😀
Thanks, Kalle. Using the wrong screw is my biggest worry. That's why I keep them in small tins with the parts that they go to and clean them by hand each separately as a unit. I'm sure that I won't have to do that as much as I gain more experience.
Thanks Kalle! Being fairly mechanically inclined, a former auto mechanic among other jobs, I am familiar with different types of screws and their uses. But being a self taught amateur I had to learn to apply my prior knowledge to watch repair. I have still been guilty of using the wrong screw but usually not the wrong type but the wrong length. Fortunately I did not cause any damage and I have learned to pay more attention to the screws, especially screws of the same type but different lengths.
Ive watched several of your excellent videos and I was always overwhelmed by the screws. Thank you. A video suggestion would be taking apart a movement and showing the screws on disassembly and then re assembly. That would be extremely helpful.
Great Vid Calle... The screws with what you called a tapered shoulder, are called "COUNTERSUNK" screws... Just to let you know ... As for my watch case... £$^$&&* piece of wasted time ... I completely &^%£$! it up... I was so £"$^%&* pissed off... Then I thought ^$%£ this watch making hobby... Once I calmed down over a brandy coffee. I thought oh well... Start over again... lol Frank...
My whole life I’ve always loved mechanical watches and thought they were above my simple understanding. Then I found this channel. How interesting and a great way of explaining things that makes sense of it all. I’ve just retired and looking for an inside hobby for the winter. My eyes are not what they were though. Great job my friend. 👍
Dear Kale ! I will begin to wish you a Merry Christmas, sorry I’m one day after ! Hope you got a great one with family and friends !! I write my Christmas wishes on this video because, I clean watch part and this time each screw will going at the right place for sure, after seeing your video, I recognize each screw and his fonction. So just thank you to show us those so important details !! Best regards!! 🎄
Thank you Kalle for your insights and knowledge. I am always learning and this is a prime example of something I do and not pay close attention to. Well I will now be studying screws a bit more closely. Cheers
A really good video Kalle! Basics are the important things to make any task easier. Merely playing at watch bashing, but I learnt early on the importance of keeping the screws in some type of order. Your explanation was priceless, thank you.
Salut collègue, je suis horloger, j’habite à la Chaux de Fonds en suisse et tu as tellement raison sur ce point, une bonne boîte d’assortiment de vis sauve la partie 😂😂
I've only just discovered your channel and find them informative and easy for a layperson like me to understand, while also being relaxing! Best wishes from Oxford.
I've watched many of your videos recently, and this one was probably the most important. Now, I'm ready to dive in and do this. Thank you, Kalle! p.s. I watched this with 3 cats and a big cup of coffee.
I'm so ignorant about so much that I'd have watched regardless of the topic. I think I've only used the wrong screw a couple of times ( I could be wrong though. ). I've never even considered screw theory just been very careful that I put the part back where I found it, even if the last guy put it in wrong. This information will hopefully help me spot that error and keep me from making the same mistake. This was way more interesting then I expected but your videos are always worth watching.
excellent, thanks, very interesting to me; all makes sense, not just diameter, length, but shape of end, shoulder, etc. Somewhat the same in macro-mechanics with its different types of bolts and nuts.
The hobby is new to me but you guys on the internet have taught me a lot, one practice I like to do as a newbie and probably continue to do is when I strip down a mechanism or caliber or movement or whatever we like to call it I put all of the sections and all of the screws from that section in a separate micro basket before I clean it so that when I open the baskets the escapement parts and screws are in one basket the barrel section another basket and the keyless and dial side in another basket calendar parts etc in another basket so when I lay it out I know what came from where and then I can decipher the screws where they go. That's the way I do it but I'm always susceptible to learning more that's why I watch your videos and others that I trust, thank you very much for what you guys do out there.
Wow...what a well-timed episode, K meister. You are never wasting my time. This is one of the things everyone needs to know but no one ever talks about. I was just working on a 1964 Hamilton and some watch companies put in the tiny jewel plate screws in from the opposite side. What I mean is the teeny plate that covers, say, the train bridge pivots. They screw in from underneath, so the screw head doesn't show on top of the train bridge, and the tip of the screw has a rounded shiny end for aesthetic reasons. I hope I explained that well enough. I was just thinking of this very thing, "uh oh, I wonder if I swapped some screws?"...and here you are. The K man to the rescue 😎😎👍👍
Everytime I watch your videos I think about how you literally can’t find this information anywhere on the internet. This is like a free college course & I am so grateful. Thank you as always sir. 🇺🇸
How did you know I'm watching this in my pajamas with a cat in my lap?
My cats help by clearing my bench of all pegwood! 😂
Eventually they become the parts stash. 🫣
😂
It is Saturday and I am about to go back to my watch bits that I have from taking it apart just over two years ago. I watched your "REBUILD, assembly made easy" and decided that I will revisit this project that I started after my partner died. Thanks, perhaps I will try to video it. I will never claim to be a "watch maker" but a "watch fiddler". wish me fun as I fiddle.
As one Dutchman to another dank-ye-well. This is a good reminder to pay attention to detail. I sometimes have more than one watch on my table and keeping everything organized is important because mixing screws is a sure way to watch damnation.
I don't know why you thought we wouldn't find that subject interesting! I thought it was great! Thanks Kalle!
This was highly educational and entertaining too. For a fumbling amateur like me, your valuable tips and enthusiasm for the craft are really motivating . Thanks so much!
Thank you, I am the guy in his spare bedroom with a cat on my lap. I don't have a school close to me so this video helps a lot.
Wow! I have never heard anyone explain much about screws, either in courses or textbooks. Thank you Kalle.
It’s the little things Kalle, but soooooo useful. Thanks for all you do dude👍😁
Fabulous information. I remember a similar lecture many, many decades ago in aircraft maintenance school.
I have enjoyed watching your informative videos.
I’ve developed a relationship with my watchmakers over more than a decade. This video makes me appreciate them even more. Thanks.
I have never heard anyone ever explain about watch screws. A great video. Thanks for the video.
Geez important !! Of course I made some mistakes with screws !! The better is to find the mistakes 😂😂😂 . Thanks Kalle it’s another interesting video, watchmaking is always about details ! So always stay focus about each parts and screw you put on, that surely make you a better watchmaker !
Best regard dear Kalle ! ✨👌
This screwy little video is a real eye opener for a beginning watchmaker. I makes you want to pay attention to the details of every little part you encounter in working on a watch. Thank you very much!
Thanks Kalle, I always thought there was a logic to the screws and you explained it very well! I just don`t know how you are able to put extra screws on my bench when you live so far away!!
What a gem this guy is for people like me who are learning watchmaking at home after a fatal medical condition and cant afford to go to watch school. Excellent sir keep these coming
LOL! That's me working on my mods in the spare bedroom with not too infrequently a cat in my lap or trying to knock a project off the bench! Too funny my friend!
This is excellent for all the reasons that have been mentioned, but also: when you lose a screw, this can help you have a better idea by looking at the movement what kind of screw you need! Also, I just wanted to say that these videos are extremely helpful when watchmakers are too busy to provide education and watchmaking schools are a few and far between where I live.
Im the guy in pijama with a cat in the knees working on a watch 😂 You are a perverse mind with those extra screws XD
I saw a mainspring barrel with a dink in it recently, clearly the result of a screw too long having been fitted in the covering plate.
Grate advice as always!
🍻
Thanks. Have lost a screw. Now I know what to look for in a replacement
Thank you Kalle, so helpful and straight forward. Gives us confidence! regards, Geoff from Merimbula Australia
Thank you ,you just gave me light years of watchmaking
Thanks Kalle, another brilliant video - this has been the missing piece of the assembly jigsaw puzzle for me - I realise I have been flying somewhat blind up until now - As always I'm so grateful for your kindness in sharing with us your wonderful experience and knowledge 🙏
One of my favorite videos!
So nice to hear Arvin, hope it was helpful!
A beautiful presentation. The "random selection" was a great way to point at the depth of the technology and the problems it needs to solve.
This was an awesome post. I’m new to hobby and working on Seiko 7002 movement. Screws are important! No room for multi tasking in watch repair.
I started out in my bedroom, then qualified professionally 15 years ago. Your words are so true.
Nice review and mention of a screws use. They are themselves for a reason!
Kalle, I've used my cat(always in my lap) fur to shim a cannon or hour hand on a few occasions. It works great!
Thank you!!!!
Appreciate the time explaining this.
Kalle. Thank you. I knew about screws. Honest! Now I know why I knew about screws. Taking your time to help us lesser mortals in the learning of this hobby is an excellent thing to do. Take care. Wish you well
This vid was EXCELLENT ! Nowhere else have I seen watch screws explained like this !
bedankt Kalle erg goede info .... i had net een uur gezocht naar een verloren schroef en gevonden dus dacht ter onspanning even Kalle kijken en wat is het topic lol hahaha ik weet wel waar ik vanacht over droom schroeven!!
The same screw collective is used in my old profession (now retired) of optical restoration. I have screws and bolts from 6mm down to 0.2mm in diameter, in metric and Imperial, (especially BA down to BA14), each with its own specific dimensions. I enjoyed this presentation!
I'm a big fan and I've watched this video three times! Makes so much sense! Thank you!!
Pam from Hollywood, CA.
That’s funny. I keep the screws with the respective part…did exactly what you showed!!
Thank you Kalle! I love when you put 3-4 screews on The bench for the überstudent.😅
Excellent information sir. Everything has been designed for a purpose. Well done.
Just letting you know that everything you tell us is Highly Intelligent and nothing is taken for granted. I appreciate every piece of advice and always learn more from your videos no matter how trivial it may seem. You are an excellent teacher and do an excellent job of breaking down the science and theory. Thank you for what you do!
That was very interesting and an real eye opener. I can now see how essential the different screws are and it will make me revisit some movements that I have worked on as a hobbyist.
I have not disassembled my first movement because I am afraid of mixing up the screws, forgetting where they go, etc. This video is incredibly helpful for me as a complete beginner. Thank you!
That was really helpful, thank you. And, nice screw collection you got there.
Another excellent video, Thank you.
That was good introduction of screws. And also some general idea of watchmaking. Thanks Kalle.
I am just getting started in my late 50's. I appreciate this video as it knowledge that is not readily available to me. I am looking at low level restoration of pocket watches and cleaning up and polishing newer beat-up watches. I am an amateur silversmith and want to use that knowledge to make watches look like and hopefully run almost like new.
Thank you for passing on such wisdom! I would hate to screw over a movement for getting it wrong. 😊
As an amateur with only a few years 'experience' under my belt, I always find your videos not only super-informative as an important source of 'real' knowledge - but extremely easy and enjoyable to watch. Never boring, far from it. This one really helped in many ways. Many thanks Kalle.
If it is you, it is the part. If it is the part, it is when perfect 😂
Thanks, Kalle. More useful info. I think I must pull that sneaky extra screw trick on myself sometimes. ;-) Cheers.
honestly good idea to do screw theory, gives a bit more perspective,
Your knowledge is awesome! IBravoooo
This is my favourite channel right now 👍🏻
I agree with you. The most common one that springs to mind, Omega 1120 with a perfectly cut circle on the barrel cap and a domed not polished screw on the barrel bridge. Note all screws came from the 1120 😀
As usual Kalle - detailed, serious and informative, never screwing around! Thank you.
it is always easy as long as someone explains it to me🤓
Thank you Kalle !
Excellent information as always. Thank you.
Thanks, Kalle. Using the wrong screw is my biggest worry. That's why I keep them in small tins with the parts that they go to and clean them by hand each separately as a unit. I'm sure that I won't have to do that as much as I gain more experience.
Thank you for the guidance and information. Very educational and appreciated.
Great video 🎉🎉
Thank you for the detail. Im hoping to get into hobby level watch making and this is exactly the kind of information that Im looking for!!
Believe it or not, that was absolutely fascinating and highly entertaining!
Thanks Kalle! Being fairly mechanically inclined, a former auto mechanic among other jobs, I am familiar with different types of screws and their uses. But being a self taught amateur I had to learn to apply my prior knowledge to watch repair. I have still been guilty of using the wrong screw but usually not the wrong type but the wrong length. Fortunately I did not cause any damage and I have learned to pay more attention to the screws, especially screws of the same type but different lengths.
Ive watched several of your excellent videos and I was always overwhelmed by the screws. Thank you. A video suggestion would be taking apart a movement and showing the screws on disassembly and then re assembly. That would be extremely helpful.
Great Vid Calle...
The screws with what you called a tapered shoulder, are called "COUNTERSUNK" screws...
Just to let you know ...
As for my watch case...
£$^$&&* piece of wasted time ... I completely &^%£$! it up...
I was so £"$^%&* pissed off...
Then I thought ^$%£ this watch making hobby...
Once I calmed down over a brandy coffee. I thought oh well...
Start over again... lol
Frank...
You are the best.. you explain everything’s so good .. many thanks for your pills
Always so educational!
As a former mechanic we always have a screw or a bolt left over, lol. Dank je wel
Thanks Kalle!
Love it!
Very educational and provides much better understanding of the screws holding things together, thanks very much!
This was so helpful!
My whole life I’ve always loved mechanical watches and thought they were above my simple understanding. Then I found this channel. How interesting and a great way of explaining things that makes sense of it all.
I’ve just retired and looking for an inside hobby for the winter. My eyes are not what they were though.
Great job my friend. 👍
Good vid. I learned a lot! Thanks. Keep at it!
Dear Kale ! I will begin to wish you a Merry Christmas, sorry I’m one day after ! Hope you got a great one with family and friends !!
I write my Christmas wishes on this video because, I clean watch part and this time each screw will going at the right place for sure, after seeing your video, I recognize each screw and his fonction. So just thank you to show us those so important details !!
Best regards!! 🎄
Thank you Kalle for your insights and knowledge. I am always learning and this is a prime example of something I do and not pay close attention to. Well I will now be studying screws a bit more closely. Cheers
Wow,Sir a Master class I appreciate your time and knowledge.
Kalle, this was very helpful.
Thank you
great show thank you!
A really good video Kalle! Basics are the important things to make any task easier. Merely playing at watch bashing, but I learnt early on the importance of keeping the screws in some type of order. Your explanation was priceless, thank you.
Once again genius-this stuff of yours is simply beautiful-I just love your presentations
Salut collègue, je suis horloger, j’habite à la Chaux de Fonds en suisse et tu as tellement raison sur ce point, une bonne boîte d’assortiment de vis sauve la partie 😂😂
Thank You. Very interesting.
Thank you for all these videos. They are all invaluable lessons!
I've only just discovered your channel and find them informative and easy for a layperson like me to understand, while also being relaxing! Best wishes from Oxford.
I've watched many of your videos recently, and this one was probably the most important. Now, I'm ready to dive in and do this.
Thank you, Kalle!
p.s. I watched this with 3 cats and a big cup of coffee.
I'm so ignorant about so much that I'd have watched regardless of the topic. I think I've only used the wrong screw a couple of times ( I could be wrong though. ). I've never even considered screw theory just been very careful that I put the part back where I found it, even if the last guy put it in wrong. This information will hopefully help me spot that error and keep me from making the same mistake. This was way more interesting then I expected but your videos are always worth watching.
Very helpful, thank you 👍
Great tips. Thank you!
Thank you
nice video i always learn
super informative😊
Thanks Kalle very educational and worthwhile video for the extreme beginners like me.
Your knowledge is awesome! I really enjoyed watching and listening. ❤
This information is priceless as usual!
excellent, thanks, very interesting to me; all makes sense, not just diameter, length, but shape of end, shoulder, etc. Somewhat the same in macro-mechanics with its different types of bolts and nuts.
The hobby is new to me but you guys on the internet have taught me a lot, one practice I like to do as a newbie and probably continue to do is when I strip down a mechanism or caliber or movement or whatever we like to call it I put all of the sections and all of the screws from that section in a separate micro basket before I clean it so that when I open the baskets the escapement parts and screws are in one basket the barrel section another basket and the keyless and dial side in another basket calendar parts etc in another basket so when I lay it out I know what came from where and then I can decipher the screws where they go. That's the way I do it but I'm always susceptible to learning more that's why I watch your videos and others that I trust, thank you very much for what you guys do out there.
Wow...what a well-timed episode, K meister. You are never wasting my time. This is one of the things everyone needs to know but no one ever talks about.
I was just working on a 1964 Hamilton and some watch companies put in the tiny jewel plate screws in from the opposite side.
What I mean is the teeny plate that covers, say, the train bridge pivots. They screw in from underneath, so the screw head doesn't show on top of the train bridge, and the tip of the screw has a rounded shiny end for aesthetic reasons. I hope I explained that well enough.
I was just thinking of this very thing, "uh oh, I wonder if I swapped some screws?"...and here you are. The K man to the rescue 😎😎👍👍
Great information
Nice, it's everypart
very interesting and entertaining, you did a great job explaining... for a DIY watchmaker as myself... a huge help!