Can this Vintage Tissot PR-516 Watch run better after a service?
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Horology Biology receives a Vintage Tissot PR-516 GL for a watch restoration service all the way from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Inside is the automatic cal 2481 also known as the 1481 in Omega watches.
This watch is not running great and definitely needs some HB love.
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00:00 Intro
00:54 The Strip Down
08:07 Pre-cleaning // Pegging the jewels
08:38 Automatic works breakdown
09:27 Mainspring removal
10:01 Sticky gasket removal
10:26 The Rebuild
12:27 New mainspring fitting
24:17 Pallet fork oiling
25:19 Automatic works rebuild
28:25 Dial refitting
28:49 Hands refitting
29:43 Casing up the watch
31:43 New gasket fitting
32:20 Bracelet refitting
32:48 Timergrapher results
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Oh yes. Came home form a 5 day away break, and Matt was back in the room! Supper fresh! An excellent display and commentary of a special service. Keep them coming.
it's true! I was there, all chilling on your couch 😅
Great camera angles and editing. Super fresh watch from our mate from down under😊.
Much appreciated! Thanks mate 👍👍
Great to see you working on a fellow kiwi’s watch. Super fresh Super nice. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thanks Bruce, it was a nice one to work on (apart from the magical vanishing wheel).
Always a great job Matt. So your channel has grown sufficiently to attract trolls - you've made it mate!
Lolllol cheers mate. If you build it they will come 😅
Love funky watches from the 70's. Great work, Mat! Always pleased to watch your work and learn. 😊
Thanks Brenna, glad you enjoyed it 👍
Great video! I like your style of commentary and willingness to teach as you do the service. Keep up the good content
I appreciate that! Thanks very much 🙏🏼
UA-cam just recommended you channel and I love you commentary. New subscriber!
Thank you for letting me know :) It's nice to hear that UA-cam recommended me 🙌
Thanks again Matt !👍nice running watch at the end mate
Thanks Tom, Yes it was a great result !!
Nice to see good growth on the channel too 😀
I know right 😳😳
Great watch, beautiful movement, little straightforward but it’s always interesting to see the little difference between different kinds of movement ! Final results is perfect and of course Timegrapher reading is on target !!
Thank for sharing it’s always interesting to see and to earring your excellent comments !!
Best regard from Canada ! ✨👌
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a nice one to service
I found your channel and I'm glad I did because your work is top notch. Can't wait to see what you bring us in the future! Keep up the great work.
Cheers!
Welcome aboard! Then you very much for your kind comment. Much appreciated 💪🏻🙏🏼🙏🏼
Great video excellent camerawork and very entertaining 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
Thank you so much for this video, which I greatly enjoyed since I still have my Tissot PR-615 that I got in 1976. It just looks fabulous, the dial and case in particular, though the bezel is not new anymore. I wore this watch all through my teens and twens. Recently I read and saw that my very model was worn by Roger Moore as James Bond in "Live And Let Die" (particularly in the boat chase part at the end) and wanted it serviced, which was kind of a nightmare. The first quote I got from a watchmaker here in Switzerland was well above CHF 1'400 the equivalent of €1'500 or $1'600. Tissot would not even consider servicing it as the watch was too old in their opinion. I then managed to have it serviced for CHF 500, but the balance staff broke during transport. Though I am now very happy with it, the amount of money you have to spend to keep even the simplest of vintage watches running has really frightened me. A new old stock bezel would be worth its weight in diamonds, so hanging on to old stuff is really made very hard.
Many thanks for the comment. They can be expensive yes. Saying that though even 500 CHF sounds expensive for a straight service on an automatic watch in my opinion.
New subscriber!! As a collector of the horological arts lol 😂. I'm loving your channel. It's definitely FRESH.
Welcome aboard! 🤣🤣
Great interesting video. Nice and clear filming. Keep them coming 👍.
Thanks, will do!
Super FRESH job!
💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻 thanks Mike
Good looking watch. Great job. The amplitude went up a lot. Ive lost parts and never find them. I don't know where they go. Thanks for the video
Cheers Darryll, yes it's the never ending problem of every now and again something vanishes!
The crown push quick date system was used on a lot of Seiko watches from the 60's and 70's.
Aw yes I forgot about them
Loved the video Matt as always, really excited for the channel over a 1000 more subs in days! Super fresh! where were you from in England? and has that guy not heard for catchphrases? also I'm making a attempt on that AS movement but the date thing and auto works is scaring me could you explain how things work on the channel and where to buy parts i don't want your secret places there must be websites with service cattalogs
Thanks Andy,
You should check the Cousins website and search there database. They have a massive amount of tech docs for various movements so you have an understanding of the part number etc. My best advice is take as many pics as possible and even video it yourself. If you are concerning about forgetting where parts live. At least you will have a full reference for yourself.
Heya Matt, I know where your intermediate wheel is - same place 2 yoke springs went here last month! Great job on this watch and great video!
Hi Alan, great to hear from you. haha well when you find it send it back to me 😂
rodico therapie 😁nice tissot movement !!! i never seen this one thnx ...and finaly some grow in your channel on live channels i follow i always drop your channel name if they talk about other channels to watch.... i like this channel no bullshit !!!
Rodico ambiance haahah
Don’t let the idiot Trolls get you down. They’re sad and of no consequence. What you see is what you get is good here.
Thanks for that 💪🏻💪🏻👍🏻
Great video. So far I watch it at least 10 times, even scripted the steps, as I'm trying to service the same movement (and this is the first movement in my live I'm trying to service anyway). Only one question: I don't see the third, long screw, of the auto-winding bridge, which holds also the crown wheel core. It is not at 30:47, not at 30:53 and still not at 31:36 when you test the rotor. I hope this is only on the video :)
Oh it was quite some time ago I worked on this one so I do not remember for memory. I would have to look back at it
I bet the lost wheel is possibly in your rodico it’s worth rolling it out on a super fresh flat surface with a little bit of steel rod until it’s paper thin I’ve found jewels and springs in mine before, the other thing is you accidentally picked it up just by the moisture on your hand or arm then carried it further than your work space and it fell off, it happens to the best of us dude! 😉👏👍🙏
I tried the rodico test and this thing wasn't there. I really got stumped by it but I'm guessing it must have stuck to an arm and fell off somewhere else. All ended well in the end. Thanks for watching 🙌🏻
👍🏻 Prettig !
Bedankt 🙏🏼🙏🏼
Takk!
🙏🏼 Thanks as always ☺️
New to the channel, enjoy the content and I simply don’t have the patience required to do what your doing plus I wear reading glasses even with jewelers glasses i struggle. If your looking for content I have a Bulova kinetic watch im planning to have serviced, the capacitor in it doesn’t hold a charge.
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoy the content. As I’m sure you know anyway it does take some patience 🤣 I’m not that familiar with the kinetic watches to be honest.
@@HorologyBiology no big deal, I’m sure shipping would be crazy anyway. I tried 2 kinetic watches for something different, they are cool but I prefer automatic watches.
A Super Fresh Video once Again! 😁
I'm just wondering if the melting gaskets issue being a brand mark of vintage Omega and it's sister brands? I've seen many videos where watchmakers are struggling with the tar on Omegas and now mine 1970 Omega Seamaster 200 is in service for the same reason when the dial gasket of all things has melted.
Most watch manufacturers use clear or white plastic gaskets on dial seals, but at least my Omega has exactly that same disgusting melting black rubber gasket as that Tissot on case back.
Many thanks 🙏
Sorry to hear about your Tissot but to be fair I have seen it and encountered it on many different vintage watches of all brands. I don't think it's just a Omega/Tissot thing. I believe it must be just down to location, humidity etc or where the watch lived. I maybe wrong but they literally all either go rock hard or that soft gooey tar stuff.
I prefer them hard and brittle, less work!
Totally loved this one. Is that a Blackpool accent Iam picking up? Iam a Geordie whos had lived in NL for a while now. Where did you learn this trade?
Thank you so much 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 haha I get so many comments about my mashed accent and so many guesses from so many places in the UK. I’m sad to say Blackpool is definitely not the one
I found your missing wheel. It was under my bench. I’ll stick it in the post.
🤣🤣🤣
When I first started watching your show, I thought you were a New Yorker I thought you was one of those motorcycle riders and I I said to myself what the heck is doing fixing watches 😂😂😂😂
I’m afraid not my man :( closest I have got to that is watching the Sons of Anarchy show 🤣
@@HorologyBiology are you sure you’re not a biker😂😂😂😂
I like your video. I have the same watch but have a problem with the jumper chrome thing which does not stay in place where it should and do its job. I also have two similar PR 516 with no problem. I did work on all three over the years. Replaced the spring in its place, it does not seem to help the jumper work properly. How can I move the date ring for testing like you do ! (23:20…or so) using the Winder ?
I’m not sure which part you are referring to as the time stamp you left starts at the pallet forks being refitted
@@HorologyBiology Hello again, thank you for your attention. I’m sorry for the error in time stamp. If you look at the following numbers I think you will be more able to see what I am referring to. It begins at 21:21 then 21:34 21:43 and 22:05. I am expecting my jumper lever to present just enough spring resistance when the date wheel changes date. At 23:13 You are able to test the mechanism but I can’t or don’t know how ! I had no problem in the past ! It seems I was pushing the spring somehow but can’t see how that would be done. Thank you for your help.
@@rolandthomasset1713 You might not have enough tension in the spring anymore, although I would be surprised. Make sure you add a little 1300 to the end of the spring for the connection to the date change lever and also to the end of the arm of the date change lever. The quickset on these is done by pushing the crown in (once the crown is closed in wind mode) and repeat. This is done with the lever I add to the top of the setting lever spring at 20:47
@@HorologyBiology Hi ! thank you again, maybe we are getting there. but to make sure we are both relating to the same spring, mine is clearly seen at 21:21. I refer to my “lever” as the jumper but I’m beginning to wonder if I’m not wrong. I helps keep the date in proper alignment at the end of the move and is being moved in place at 21:34-39 then it is covered up under the plate. Very easy to be off on the time stamp numbers ! I have the oil ok.
covered up.
@@rolandthomasset1713 I'm really not too sure. It's hard to analyse without having it in front of me. The springs job is only there to move the jumper back into place. The wheel that actually turns the date wheel is at 20:56 and is a mounted part. Maybe yours is worn or not lubricated correctly.
Well done ! I have the exact same watch. I have enormous problem setting the plate with the tiny spring onto its correct resting place, like you do successfully (21:20-21:42). Maybe I’m too afraid to lose the spring ! Any recommendations ! I did it in the past but I am getting older !! I love Tissot watches and your video. Thank you.
Thanks for watching. Try using some rodico over the spring so that it holds it more secure if you are worried about it flying.
Thank you very much, sounds good. I will try that. However I still can’t see or quite figure out how you manage to move the end of the spring so that it puts the pressure we need onto the edge of the chrome lever so it will do its job when the calendar ring advances.
Watching this sort of thing is so addictive, really, you’re British??? I thought you were a yank, sorry.
haha you're not the first to say that. Happy to have you here 👍
Well I’m a carrot cruncher from Suffolk so what do I know about accents 🤣
A cock can have more than one screw. It's attached on only one side, like a cantilever. For instance, I think the center wheel in that watch is held in place by a cock too. :)
Yes you are totally correct, thank you for picking up on this 5 second dialogue. I hope you enjoyed the video 👍🏼
@@HorologyBiology Of course I did. Looking forward to more.
HB that’s Super Beaut Mate!🦘
Would you like an Omega Cosmic from the land of OZ to revamp?
Thanks Jon, glad you enjoyed it 👍🏼
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