1940's Lanco Watch Repair
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- This is a great little vintage watch. A Lanco from circa 1940s with their in -house 1022 movement. Watch as I disassemble, clean and rebuild to see if I can get this watch running, repaired and back into service. This is the oldest wristwatch I have worked on to date so it should be interesting.
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:05 Disassembly
09:04 Microscope Examination
0:11:54 Disassembly Continued
0:27:06 Mainplate on the Microscope
0:30:58 Cleaning Montage
0:33:15 Assembly
0:44:17 Oiling
0:46:48 Assembly Continued
1:02:36 The Finished Watch
1:03:38 Conclusion
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That dial holder is awesome, could you add that to your tools page?
your name is mike, my name is mike. lol
While being a newbie this is the first video I’ve seen where the process didn’t go perfectly. I still really enjoyed watching the process. Thanks
Thanks for watching . With my channel although I usually get them going you do see all my mistakes .
Love to see the old hand wind movements serviced! I just bought a Vulcain Cricket that I hope to service as a novice. Thanks for the videos...love them!
I'm a huge fan of these older vintage watches. Getting this one to run with only a 30 seconds error was pretty damn good. Well done. Looking forward to more older vintage watches to be hitting your desktop in the future.
Thank you. Happy you have enjoyed this video.
Such a pretty watch. I wish they would still make things like this.
@JPS JPS not necessarily the brand but that look. So classy.
Great, as always, congrats, it is running in its "grandmother way", and really nice that you focus on affordable time pieces, giving them the pride and time (fortunately not the money) they deserve, I am learning en enjoying all your videos so, thanks a lot for sharing your passionate skills!! Cheers..
Thank you. I do affordable watches as it’s all I can afford too. There is still so much fun at this end of the market. Sometimes brands are overrated. That being said I do have an Omega amongst a few others coming to the channel.
Yet another great video. I have inherited a 1956 gold Lanco wristwatch whose energy ends in a few hours.
Having a binge watch on your channel and viewed a couple of your jump hour clips and I looked on eBay later that day and bagged myself a lovely 70’s timemaster jump hour in cracking condition but not working which will give me an afternoon tinkering to service it, all for the grand sum of £6 thanks Mike I owe it to you for bagging that. 👏😉👍
Welcome to the channel and thanks for watching the videos. There are many hours of content to get through so I do hope you enjoy it. Well done on the jump hour. They are very interesting watches.
What a wonderful relaxing hour + for a friday evening, with the dog at my feet and a large glass of semi decent red brain medicine in my hand - bobbing about on the tide in the Liverpool docks on my barge. You are one of a very few channels I am signed to and I anticipate each video because of the sheer calmness of it all.
Its nice to see you make a change from your normal 70's Japanese fare - although they have great merit in and of themselves - this little watch was, I thought, a thing of simplistic exquisitness when the expolded pic of the full componants was shown. At nearly 80 years of age and still doing what it was designed to do is an example of its mechanical poetry - it measures the turning of the planet as it should.
The intriguing thing is its damn history - how many hands has it passed through - how many times has it been lost - yada yada yada ye know. Anyhoo, I think your being a bit rough and hard on yerself at times all things considered - show me anything either organic or mechanical thats 80 years of age that aint gonna give you a problem and protest in some way if you want to take it apart and oil it !! I thought the job was executed in an excellent manner for what its worth. Look forward to the next mechanical drama - keep up the good work sir. Kind regards.
Thanks for such a detailed and kind comment. Appreciate you watching and supporting the channel.
Agreed on the stories these items could tell. I’ve been wearing this one again today and it’s all I think about. How many owners. Christmases , birthdays weddings etc.
Then somewhere along the way it gets put aside and forgotten about until collectors like me come along and appreciate it once again.
Love the watch. Beautiful under-stated face. Great job. Really interesting. Thank you.
Mike, It has been a pleasure to watch the video from beginning to end. Glad the watch works and only losses 30 seconds. Really a triumph! Be safe and work on!
Thanks. Appreciate you watching and glad you enjoyed it.
I am the same way, in the age of electronics and such, I marvel at the gears and movement of a watch! Thanks for video!
I really do admire people who can do this. It's wonderful.
I sit 1 hour straight to watch this. It's such a wonderful journey you had.
a watch is a work of art that must not die, that object is born and is required during his life to work
thanks for the video I am entertained during this pandemic.
Nice watch ⌚
And your patience is profound, well done 👏
After watching dozens of your videos I just got my first to try on. A mid-1940s Landau with a grewaco movement. It's very small like your lanco. After hearing your trepidation I think I'll try something bigger first. Thanks for all the great content!
Have been working on these-types of watches fir 6 months and to get one running to that standard is excellent Mike. Even spare parts are dubious most of the time and I average about one in five operating and running to a standard. Great job 👍
My mother was left handed and did every kind of needle craft, painting and seamstressing with right hand tools. She really celebrated when she found left hand scissors.
Thank you for your videos ! They are very honest and shows difficulties hobbyists can face having not pros skills, tools , time money to fix issues like the one you had on the balance !
You are very welcome, lovely comment to read so thanks for that.
Beautiful little watch
Nice video Mike, that whatch was really bad and now it's alive again. Thanks for your explanation during the video.
As usual you nailed it. Great job Mike.
I’m a lefty too. I filed my case blade edge the other direction. Problem solved! Love your videos.
I’m working up the nerve to tackle a black dial Zewoga wind up. It’s a small watch as well.
32mm is the perfect size for me. Loved the video, thanks for sharing!!
Wonderful and exquisite work
Such a beautiful watch and so much work to be done to repair it ! You, Sir are magician ! Great work! Respect from an watch enthusiast guy from Tulcea town, Delta Danube area of eastside of Romania !
Thank you for watching. Glad you liked it.
Thanks, extremely informative and entertaining!
Superb job, Mike- an absolute triumph over a myriad niggles and irritations. And it's a lovely watch too! Thanks!
Thank you.
Beautifully done
Beautiful job, excellent video.
I'm learning lots from this. Of course there are mistakes but we are seeing the importance of doing it a specific way. Cause and effect. With other videos that follow by the book watch making we learn less, or at least I do. It also helps visually seeing broken, missing parts, misplaced and clearly wrong parts. This is a awesome video and an amazing watch for a video. Expecialy for learning.
What I enjoyed most was the commentary on the methods of problem solving. I learn best by my mistakes.
Thanks.
Know that feeling, when you put it all back together and your trace is ugly. Hard to know sometimes whether to press on or start again! All part of the fun though, building those skills. Love the channel, keep them coming!
my stubbornness to be beaten often makes me just keep trying until I have fixed it as it should be. This Lanco is one I keep toying with to try to improve the balance wheel.
I just repaired and serviced a 1947 Lanco, mine was a 1106 movement. Same thing with the dummy screw on the bridge, so it is definitely legit.
Thanks for your time sir
Very interesting! I have my father's Lanco which is almost exactly like yours. What a wonderful job and a great soundtrack.
I am enjoying your videos a lot. In fact, so much i might start doing something similar by myself with some cheap beat up watches. Thank you
Once again an excellent presentation. I dabble a little bit with old watches. Nothing like your skill and knowledge, and have the same problem putting back the click spring. I found that if I cover the spring and watch with a piece of clear polythene (like you use to take the hands off) I can manipulate the spring into place without the worry of it pinging off and getting lost somewhere. This might not be the correct procedure but it works for me.
Nice video...i learn things from your videos...thank you.
Great watch great job!,
Have a watch very similar to this myself a late 40's Zodiac 35mm jumbo👍
That is an absolute stunner, great video!
Good work, especially overcoming the challenges this one threw at you.
Glad you enjoyed it
48:40 Diagnostics on the timegrapher always fascinate me. The visibly wobbling balance wheel and your explanation of a possibly bent pivot are super interesting. It seems it wouldn’t be hopeless to restore a 70-year-old metal machinery to being a reliable time keeper. So much for today’s planned obsolescence and environmental pollution with plastics. Thank you for showing this!
A professional watchmaker would change the staff so the wobble would be fixed.
Wonderful video!!! I have a beloved Lanco of the 60´s and a watchmaker cut the second central hand in half because of "technical way of doing a service" he said. I wish you were in my huge land. No watchmaker at all in 2000 km. People just dump any watch, from Omega to Tressa, mechanical or quartz. Cheers from Patagonia, Argentina.
I can’t understand why you would cut the second hand in half unless you bent it by accident and could not replace.. shocking really.
It’s a shame there is no watchmakers near you.
I could never throw a watch away!
Thank you for watching.
@@MyRetroWatches surely was an accident. He refused to change it presuming that is normal to do so. He ruined my beloved watch. I thank you.
YES!!! I love seeing a new video from you popping up in my notifications. I haven't watched it yet, saving it for my lunch break.
Hope you enjoy!
Nice job. It is good to see rebuilds which do not sail smoothly. Good vid. Keep at it!
I really enjoyed the video. This was a nice restoration. I wish we could know more about the train wheel bridge mystery. I think that was interesting.
Well I’ve since solved it (I think)
If you look at this site you can see the 1022 on there has the same 3 screw bridge
www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&69&2uswk&Langendorf_1022
Great video, like the presentation, comments and enjoyed! Keep on!
Thank you.
I'm glad someone else has trouble with these tiny parts, they seem to have a mind of their own.
I just discovered your channel Mike ! Wonderful videos for a little collector of watches like myself ! Thanks a lot !
Glad you like them! thank you .
That is a very stylish looking watch. I have been having similar problems with quite a few builds recently (not so much the keyless but other issues beyond my experiencce to fix), hence I haven't posted in group for a bit. Luckily for me I have been able to source whole or part donor watches and now have two complete 6319A movements, a third one which is unregulatable plus a fourth mainplate and sundry parts lol. My collection of spare parts grows with every watch I work on. I enjoyed seeing this movement as I have several old swiss movements I have serviced and they are quite similar to this one, waiting for a donor AS 1051 as the ratchet screw was sheared on opening the movement, such is the joys of this hobby. Looking forward to the next vid, stay safe and thanks for taking the time to make these videos.⌚👍
Thanks Jeni. Indeed parts do build up in this game! Sheered ratchet screws are the worst, usually you need a barrel arbour when you have a sheered screw.
Good luck with it all. Your doing great
@@MyRetroWatches I used some screw loosening oil and a broken blade from a craft knife and managed to remove the portion left in the arbour so I can use the arbour if the donor screw fits, yay lol
I own the same type Lanco, fortunately in much better state and I love it ! Great vid sir !
Another great video
Sweet Watch Well done Sir Keep up the Brilliant Work Teach
Thanks
I’d wager Pobeda based their iconic vintage small second movements very closely upon this one! The dial is practically identical.
Love these old vintage watches. That size looks great on the wrist. You get use to the smaller size, anything over 40 mm to me looks way too big now and I don’t have a small wrist 7.5 size roughly. Great work Mike. These old Swiss watches are great value imo.
I agree. My large watches just seem too big nowadays
@@MyRetroWatches As a newb to your channel I'm going through a binge watch of your vids. Fantastic stuff Sir. 🙂👍🏻 I'm 52 now, but have been collecting(hoarding at times) "old watches" since I was in my teens, mainly because I found digitals hard to read and they were all the rage then and my dad was into watches which was unusual(Longines man). Crazy how cheap they were in the past. My limit was generally 200 quid and what I got for that, even up to quite recently on deep dives on ebay. Though where I am in Ireland the range was kinda limited pre interwebs. The first time I was in London in the late 80's on a weekend away my eyes were out on stalks. 😮 Dealers were handing me a bib to stop the drool. 🙂 I have to say those guys were really helpful with information. I suppose because then it seemed to be more a hobby of "oulfellas" so I was a novelty. 😄
I always loved the very early days of the wristwatch so have a few trench watches, so even older than your Lanco(which I love). Though if you get a good one... I've a 1916 Longines that with daily wear and face up on the nightstand I'd generally only have to adjust the time for summer/winter. I've found they can often be less worn out than later decades. Maybe because they went out of fashion so sat unused for longer? When prices started to go daft I then got into very early quartz analogues from GP, Omega, Longines(the madness that is a working Ultraquartz 🙂) until their prices went daft. Still as you illustrate there are a load of really cool and even important watches out there off the radar of speculators and hodinkee that can still be had for a bargain.
Sorry for rambling... but thanks again for the vids. They're both relaxing and informative and frankly enjoyable to watch. 🙂
Thanks, I enjoyed that 👍
First time viewer! Great job and glad I found this channel. I am interested in horology in general and plus your channel is relaxing which is much needed during these crazy times!
Oldest wrist watch I have is my grandpa's beautiful 1940 Hamilton Seckron that I need someone with way more skill than me to repair it's just way too small for my skills. When I do get it repaired though it'll be my most crowning jewel watch! I have a 1897 Elgin pocket watch that I've kept well regulated and still functions beautifully that I received as a gift!
Like you though I've been getting into Seiko...There's just something about classic Seiko that's very appealing!
like your informative video . wish you would have shown broken and new side by side . once again thank you and as a novice i get confused or overwhelmed thanks again and i am glad you are doing other watches
Great stuff. Thanks. Just what I needed to get started on servicing my own watches.
Cheers
Thomas DK
Glad it helped
@@MyRetroWatches It did.
I also got myself an electronic magnifier that operates from 3x to 220x magnification and has a build in lcd screen. Great stuff. No more specticals interfeering with monoculars. I can just look at a screen.
Enjoyed the video very much. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hello Mike. That adjustment was most likely a comment in another of your videos but I believe it was about increasing or even decreasing amplitude. In the 40s ingersoll rand aero and disney mickey watches under the dial the top jewel to hold the staff in place also incorporates either a scree down jewel with a scree or a nut 1/ 64 is the driver size. I think this adjustment is for the staffs end play but I find with worn staffs this adjustment can increase amplitude. I've seen this on some old Lanco watches too. I believe it's the Rosecoft movement ingersoll used from ww 1. I also have a question about the time graoher machine I just got one and getting used to it. I e timed a few watches successfully but my 49s ingersoll are and mickey's watches won't the. I get the ticking from the machine then a series of dots 1 4th thru the s teen on the machine then it repeats what I just wrote. I can't find specs on the web for these watches and have tried the lift angle function from 52 down to 20. Any ideas Mike ????. Thanks much.
Great video for your first old watch. The setting lever probably is after market. So many broke and with the right tooling and machines they can be made easily. I’ve had to replace them in almost every one I’ve worked on.
Good work on the click spring. I’m a master a losing them!!
Thank you sir. Glad you enjoyed this one. I wear this watch quite a bit despite it’s small size it’s a marvel for its age
That has got to be the black belt of movement rings!
setting screw and lever that you skipped is one of hardest problems please show us how thanks but another great teaching video i have learned much from you an avid fan keep up the work thanks
Looking great awesome
Great vid. Thanks.
Very nice.
Not sure if I have a Lancôme in my collection, but I do have many vintage dating as far back as almost 200 years. In my case I really appreciate a large crown. They are much easier to manipulate. Thanks for sharing.
200 is impressive! I am now contemplating a larger mushroom type crown which I think would be more of the right style.
Lanco
Thank you very much
Beautiful watch!! Maybe you should have investigated further with the microscope on both the keyless work and the escapement wheel, even if it not in your skill to replace an escapement wheel pivot, it should be great to address the problem (also maybe a broken jewel?). Beautiful movement, really strange the "bogus" screw on the train wheel plate :-) Thank you for sharing! Keep up the good work.
You handle the blunders very very well. Meaning that your only human. I know I run into blunders to. I think we all do. Still outstanding work.
Hello Mike,
Bery plesant video as usual.
Many thanks!
You are a good storyteller Mike :-), i'm jealous of that because I'm not very good at that. Your oldest watch you have worked on so far, good job!
Appreciate your comment from my fellow UA-camr !
Tear drop lugs. Yes 👍🏼 beautiful
Great video, enjoyed it a lot.
I've been subscribed to your channel for quite some time, definitely since you've had less than 10k subs.
Since then I started servicing mechanical watches myself and visited your channel on a regular basis to see how you'd go about certain things. Your channel is and has been a great resource of information for me.
So far I've restored and serviced a Seiko 6602-7040 and a Seiko 2706-3070. Currently I'm working on a Seiko 7009-3130 and have been enjoying the journey a lot.
I'd like to thank you for your efforts in creating quality content and helping others to service their own watches. I'd like to see your channel grow in the future so there will be plenty of footage to come.
Mike, thank you! 👍
Wow what a great comment. Firstly thank you for sticking with my channel. It’s been an interesting year , lots of growth and a slight change of direction by doing more different makes. I have enjoyed this and I think my viewers have too.
I am happy to hear that you are starting in this hobby and you have done some great Seikos there . Especially the 2706 as that must have been one small movement!
Keep at it and thank you for your support
@@MyRetroWatches
The 2706 is small indeed, also the 3070 case has a closed caseback which is so frustrating since you have to take out the stem pushing this miniscule lever to release the movement from the caseback.
I actually like your content branching out to other brands, good addition to the Seiko content.
Wish you the best with your channel, 100k next year?
@@remcodegroot6378 I’m yet to delight in the ladies watches. I do have a few that perhaps I will do but unlikely to film , in part because I’m not sure I could film them because they are so small!
100k is a far off target . Would be nice though.
Thanks Mike, god talk about a watch to fight you!!!. Well done, patience or a cup of tea is called for🤣. Ya I know these lanco's, straight forward enough, except your one! 😂. Still wants to work after all this time, always amazes me!. Would have liked some closer shots of the strip and build, micro great though and another great video. Sorry for late view, painting for the last 3 weeks! 😭😭. Adrian
Hi Michael, I recently acquired a lanco with the 1022 movement, it has the same false screw on the train wheel bridge, it must be the same on all I think really fascinating, great video by the way, thanks.
Thanks. Interesting to know.
Nice work Mike and I wouldn't worry about the wonky balance if the watch keeps to withing a minute per day or better.
Brilliant
41:30: "It's just being a little bit awkward."
Story of my life
haha!
That is very very similar to my '47 gold Avia. Am stuck tweezers deep in the innards of Soviet quartz stuff at mo lol Managed to grab a super grail on my list that being a TW Steels canteen crown chronograph and have started collecting Pulsar as a major branch to the collection as quite enjoying the quirky Pulsar pieces. Hope is all well with you and yours m8, got a beautiful Poljot editing up on the video editor at mo and finished my Accurist 0S60 chronograph turning a quite beaten up chrono into something very sweet.
Interesting.
Just took apart an old German AHO movement, then saw a video on a Tudor watch using a movement branded FHF and now this: while many of the movements' parts look completely different they all seem to have the main parts in exactly the same places and also share many other details. I suspect all of the main plates were pre-produced in large quantities (by Lanco?) and batches were customized to fit the customers' wishes.
I love the fact that you know all the names of pretty well everything... I have a handmade pocket watch movement from 1850. Beautiful.. it needs a clean and is a complete bridged movement... I'm sure people would like to see this. I can send it to you .. haven't got a dial or a case.. works quite well. Could send you pics ... by the way Mike what is Renato.. cleaning fluid..
Hi Mike. I have just stripped down a Lanco 1022 and the balance bridge in question only has two screws. I would be interested to discover which movement the three hole bridge came from. I don't know a great deal about the company but I do know that Lanco is an abbreviated form of Langendorf Watch Company, Langendorf being a village in Switzerland. Extract from wiki: 'Langendorf Watch Company was a Swiss watchmaker known for its fine craftsmanship and great attention to detail. Around 1890, it was probably the largest producer of watches in the world. The company produced watches in Langendorf, Switzerland for exactly a century, from 1873 to 1973. The most famous brand of the company was Lanco (an abbreviation of Langendorf Watch Company) that was launched as a brand name in the late 1950s. The brand was discontinued in the late 1960s, and revived again from 1971 to around 1980.'
I kind of thought that the train bridge might have been used in different applications. I am glad I am not the only lefty to stuggle with some tools.
I couldn't imagine trying to source a train bridge from another watch to see if all the wheels and screw holes line up correctly. Good job, tough luck about the wobbly balance. Mark Lovic has shown how to correct a bent balance and it looks fiddly. On to another one. Cheers Mike.
Thanks Jeff. The wobble I don’t think is the hairspring . Might be the way I’ve refitted it. Further examination is required.
I’ve now looked online I can see the original had 3 screws too..
www.ranfft.de/cgi-bin/bidfun-db.cgi?10&ranfft&69&2uswk&Langendorf_1022
@@MyRetroWatches hmmm that's just odd.
They have tons of those watches from India!
great vid Mike. really shows how much time commitment and PATIENCE it takes to do this stuff. and it always helps not to take ourselves too seriously. I must admit I held my breath during the click and setting spring segments, and chuckled at others. Also I thank you again-because of your past vids and links I picked up a microscope which I can't stress enough how it advanced my skillset just by being able to SEE the stuff so much better. so many things I would have missed...it made a huge difference.
You mentioned how you liked working on an older watch-given any thought to vintage pocket watches?
Great choice of music-Ragtime and Scott Joplin. Legend has it that he has an interesting connection to horology. To Rolex and Hans Wilsdorf to be exact. Kind of sad but fascinating. cheers..
BTW-try to find the movement on Ranfft?
Thanks Mike, I have springs down to a more comfortable fitting procedure however when the camera is running and in the place where my head should be it now makes it harder again hence me struggling so much with the yoke spring. Pocket watches, maybe. They dont interest me that much other than I would like a Coventry made one given its my city and we were big producers of them back in the day.
Jopin I love, any piano music really and it makes the montage more interesting!
@@MyRetroWatches it does, it really does. Struggle? Nah just the little buggers doing what they do best. I was waiting for the launch! Which is what happens to me.
Excelente Saludos desde Mèxico
Mike, I saw the jewel on the inspection under the microscope.
I think you need a canon pin removal tool.
The balance wheel pivot must have got damaged when you tried to remove it which was should i say a bit rough(..@17:18.)..but great video....cheers
I have an early '70's Lanco (Langendorf Watch Co.),My research brought up an interesting fact for this car boot find.The movement is stamped Tissot but it turns out that the interests of Tissot and Omega were for only two years perfectly aligned,so Omega were selling their movement to Tissot and Tissot were selling them to Lanco.It's an Omega 14** series auto with a push in crown for changing the date and is keeping very good time in it's cheapo chrome plated case....................................
I didnt know this. thanks
Beautiful watch! and as always, nice work! I would advise, though to start removing power and removing the balance wheel as very first step, and while you are at it, also the pallet fork. For such old movements you barely can find any replacement parts, and if you slip with the tweezers or the screw driver on the balance wheel damaging the hair spring, it will be a nightmare to find a replacement!
Thanks George. Certainly right about the balance. I don’t think it was wobbling before I took it out . Also had to deconstruct it all to get at the jewels so I’m now wondering if I’ve not got it in the stud right . On this occasion it seems the 1022 movement was made on mass.
@@MyRetroWatches actually at ua-cam.com/video/py9fta4pSAg/v-deo.html you can clearly see that the balance wheel was a bit wobbly...
Man, if you had a patreon id pledge in a heartbeat
Thanks. I dont know what I could offer in Patreon that would give people value for money.
@@MyRetroWatches honestly just like a super si.ple extra video with every upload would probably do it, maybe like a behind the scenes or just showing something that you don't think would warrant a full video. I dont do youtube so I might not know what I'm talking about though lol
Hi Mike, I wonder how many were yelling at the screen about the canon pinion. Ha ha. Great job. It may be just me, but I thought I saw some of the jewels slightly out of round when you had the watch on the scope. Enjoyable video as always. Best Regards
indeed. A real schoolboy error but I dont edit out my mistakes, you guys get to see how real my attempts to fix these things. A few of you have mentioned the jewels . I will take another look, it could have been the angle of the camera. I really need to use the scope adjusted to my one good eye but sadly to do this you guys would get a blurred pic...
Though I would hear an anthology of the most colorful words the English language has. But you soldiered on, and won. Would like to know if later on you tackled the problem with the axis of the balance. My admiration... ❤️
I can swear considerably in my day job but in watchmaking I seem to keep calm...
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂I’ll guess you need to keep cool, but at the same time I’ll guess it gives you peace. Thank you for your lessons, from many things rightly done and those few erroneous steps. A teacher in all senses... ❤️
Well, you just broke the code. I just sent my fathers Lanco watch in for service. Wish I knew it’s likely a 1022 movement like yours. I love the watch if for no other reason than sentimentality. Thanks!! Btw, balance wheel was moving in jewel. Perhaps this is part cause of wobble.
Thanks. I need to investigate the wobble. When I did the video on the Pobeda watch that had poor readings but a month later I went back, cleaned the balance again and it works perfectly now.
Due to the obscure way I build when filming it’s easy to get something not to sit perfectly.
I usually like my head where the camera is but as of yet have not found a better solution.
@@MyRetroWatches You do a great job. Again, I have a particular soft spot for Lanco watches. Can you share where you can find replacements parts? stay safe.
So far ,how many vintage watches you have restored Mr.Mike?You are a wonderful watchmaker.