This watch was saved from a fire! Can I give a second chance at life?
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- Опубліковано 9 чер 2024
- This has been a long ongoing project - I bought this particular pocket watch more than 20 years ago at a flea market.
The seller bought a whole lot of watches from a watchmaker shop that had burned down.
The dial reads Wien, which is Vienna, my hometown.
Last summer, with a sense of nostalgia, I decided to restore it and add it to my collection to be passed down in my family.
During the whole process, I was lucky to find a specialist in Germany who helped refurbish the dial, the old steel Breguet hands are from eBay.
Bearing in mind the watch’s “survival” from the flames, I wanted to also restore and blue the screws with flames.
Polishing & bluing screws:
• How To: Polishing And ...
Hope you enjoy the restoration 😊
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:11 Disassembling the movement
05:18 Cleaning
05:45 Flame bluing the screws
06:37 Silver case deoxidation
07:52 Polishing
08:24 Plating with rhodium
10:13 Reassembling the movement
15:04 Testing
15:27 Dial
16:27 Final steps
17:54 Show off final result
The tools used are listed below. Kindly note that the links are affiliate links, that means that I will earn a small commission if you purchase an item through the link. This helps me make more videos like this one!
Tools:
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I can only imagine how expensive the equipment is. This was a joy to watch.
Thank you so much ☺️
Which inside components are not cleaned?
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Easily one of the most efficient and pragmatic restorations I have seen in a long time. Thanks for sparing us heroic efforts & banal chatter. This is very much the way I see approaching watchmaking as I continue to build my skillset. No muss/No fuss. Just straight and to the point. Nicely done.
Thank you for watching ☺️
Do focus on any particular period, architecture or brands?
Not really! Why?
@Magic Watchmaking For myself, the focus is on 19th Century mechanical (lever) watches. There are, of course, fusee and cylinder escapements as well but these often require a different skillset and I don't often see those
movements examined. I think I was hoping to see you refurbish one of these latter movements just as a way of causing your work to standout more from the large numbers of providers. BTW: I had not seen the screw plate you used to blue the screws you polished. I have a steel plate but its plain that a brass plate made bluing so much easier. Is that an after-market piece or one of your own manufacture?
@@BruceWSims Bluing screw video is linked in the description. The brass plate is simple 2mm brass plate from hardware store. I make some hole in it and mount an wooden handle.
About cylinder escapement pocket watches they need as you said special skillset. I'm not a big fan because thay are not accurate. It's just my private opinion.
A wonderful job.
Thank you ☺️
I'm speachless!!!
I’m also very happy with the result.
Thank you for watching ☺️
Thank you for this most beautiful video of your excellent craftsmanship.
Thank you too!
this is truly magic. Beautiful work. Amazing result. The story is just out of this world. I'm very happy that you had the dial restored. Otherwise the end result would not have been as spectacular as it is. Thank you for a very enjoying video.
Thank you very much ☺️
You approach and work are excellent. I do wish you would provide a commentary. That is so much better than captions.
Working on it!
Thank you for watching ☺️
What a beautiful watch man
Thank you ☺️
Delightful work!
Thank you ☺️
Super nice, well done.😊
Thank you 🤗
Excellent job !
Thank you! Cheers!
That was awesome.
Thank you
Amazing job. I enjoyed every second. The dial restoration is simply perfect. Thank you very much
Thank you for watching ☺️
Beautiful restoration of the watch ⌚⌚
Thank you ☺️
Beautiful
Thank you ☺️
Stunning!
Thank you! Cheers!
A beautiful watch, a fantastic restoration - thank you!
Many thanks!
Lindo lindo lindo, fantástico meu amigo, manutenção top, show de bola, parabéns e um fraternal abraço desde Morrinhos GO, Central Brazil.
Thank you so much ☺️ I appreciate your kind words
Great work on a beautiful watch.
Glad you like it! Thank you ☺️
Beautiful :)
Thank you! 😊
What a stunner, both in beauty and great accuracy (for what it is) - Probably running better than new
The result is truly unbelievable.
Thank you for watching ☺️
Was waiting for the click spring to go from space travel.
Very nice work. I wouldn't have blued the screws but that's just me....
The chrome coating is burned and not anymore there. If I let the iron as it is, it will collect rust very soon. To blue the screw is just and old rust protection method.
Thank you so much for watching and kind words ☺️
Really nice restoration! Only few points: probably that staining on two wheels could be removed at least little bit, stem is horrible, glass bezel little off center and please use proper screwdriver size. Dial restoration is outstanding!
- Wheels: they’re damaged by fire. Maximal cleaning I’ve done 🫣
- Stem: It is discolored by fire. One day I will find a replacement!
- Bezel off: Good eyes you have. I correct it ☺️
- Screwdriver: The slot of the screws is very tiny. Bigger/proper screwdriver want fit 🫣
Thank you so much for watching ☺️
Thank you that was like watching magic happen right in front of me.
Thank you so much for kind words
What a phenomenal restoration! I can tell this was a special piece for you. That dial restoration was also incredible. Can you tell what was involved in it? They look like two different dials!
It is truly nice piece of restored history. About the dial I can't tell any details. I send it to specialized dial restoration company. The general procedure is:
- Take the indexes down
- Clean, polishing and new plating
- Printing
- Vanishing
- Put indexes back
If this make sense.
@Magic Watchmaking Hmmmmm.... that sounds "dangerously close" to having a new dial made. I have seen some dials that have been trashed by
scavengers dismounting the movement from gold and silver cases merely
get scrap value for the case. And I think an arguement can be made for reconstructing such dials. For the dial on the watch you refurbished, might it have been enough to hand clean and/or "dip" (see: denture cleaner) the dial rather than have it reconstructed? Thoughts?
This company restore watch dials in 3ed generation. I work with them for more than 2 decades now and never had any issue.
@@MagicWatchmaking Excellent!! Resources like that are worth their weight in gold. Maybe you would like to "share the wealth"? :-)
Great job! Lovely restoration. Can you tell me where you found the tool used for the barrel Arbor? And it's name? Looks like a pin vice but with a claw end, really useful! Always find this job tricky with tweezers and thought your way looked much more ping proof :)! Many thanks 🙏
Thank you for watching Neil.
This is a barrel arbor holder Bergeon 30610. It is available in different sizes. Fantastic tool for working.
The old dial was waaaaaay more beautiful and era-accurate, even in its poor state. And a plastic glass... The two steel gears should have been re-polished too.
Excellent restoration but I'm afraid you fit the bezel ring off centre.
Good eyes you have. I correct it later on ☺️
Thank you for watching
I would have replated the gold parts too, and remanufacture the crown wheel and ratchet wheel, nickel plate them, remanufacture the escapement shafts. And my rhodium would be 7 microns thick not 0.1 micron that comes off in 10 days
Thanks for sharing
Lovely job! Why rhodium plate it? What’s the benefit? Also, where did you get the hands? I can never find what I’m looking for when you need a length and the internal diameter.
Silver oxidize, rhodium not. I preserve silver from oxidation with rhodium. The color stay as is is.
Thank you for watching ☺️
An absolute pleasure to watch - I think you should use a text to speech generator if you don't like talking on camera though as it is distracting having to stop watching the good stuff to read the text. I think your channel will grow a lot faster if you did something like that. And with the amount of free software around at the moment, it would be easy - and take less time than having to put all those words on the screen. Please don't take this the wrong way - it's just my opinion.
Thank you for watching and advice ☺️
Wonderful job, only a small detail, i think that the clock frame (cross) is not aligned with the dial numbers. 1mm right may be ok ??
True. I see the mistake and correct it. If you see the final sequence it’s aligned ☺️
Thank you for watching
How do you remember where all the gears and screws and other small things set
I don't know... I think time and experience ☺️ Thank you for watching
Great work ,but you could have cleaned the rust from the stem.
Yes, you are right. Thank you for watching ☺️
That is a thin pocket watch!
Yes it is indeed... thank you for watching ☺️
Your speech doesn't work , all silence, so no good :(
My channel is ASMR. There is no voice over.
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You couldn't make that font any smaller could you?🥸
Sorry 🙈 I try to use bigger font next video
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Beautiful
Thank you ☺️