8 Vintage Watches - 1 Box - LETS GET INTO IT!
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- Опубліковано 12 чер 2024
- Movements I have identified so far:
Ingersol 16 Jewel FEF190
Benrus ETA ? no other numbers can be found.
Ardia 17 Jewel FEF350
Swiss Emperor AS1691 /93
Optima Albert Grossenbacher 1080
Ingersol London Triumph - pin pallet no makers mark
A-11 Bulova - unknown calibre at present.
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Hey buddy,
I just want to say I've been a fan of yours for years and its good to see all is well with you and your health. Keep up the good work. Alex
Hi Alex! I only recently found your channel actually after someone recommended me to you for a mainspring issue.
Flattered you enjoy my content as you are way more talented at this than I will ever be. Health seems to be good now and just trying to get on without thinking about it too much otherwise it will consume me.
Bullseye dial and the bulova military watch my favs. Cool little treasure trove!
Pin palette is definitely a lowbrow watch but would still love to see you give it a service. These watches gave style and basic function for so many working people. Like Timex, Ingersoll epitomized the American ethos of cheap, mass production so everyone could have a watch. Stylish on the outside, fast and rough on the inside.
Hi Mike, congratulations on your Bulova! I nearly cried when you pulled out that second Ingersoll (the Triumph) - my dad wore one when he was a navigator on V-Force, Bomber Command in the 1950s. He put it in a draw when he got his Seiko but after he died I wore it for years until one day ... I still have it and would love to see you bring yours back to life so I can learn from you. You're looking really well, I hope you and your family are happy.
That watch will make the channel. I can’t say when as the list of projects is very long but it will. Rest assured
@@MyRetroWatches Great, thanks. I always enjoy your repairs no matter what but that watch has a special place in my heart of course.
Pretty cool that as someone who know basically absolutely nothing about watches and has never paid more than $50 dollars for a watch I picked the one you were most interested in. 😂
I also really like that "bullseye" watch too but the all black military watch looked the coolest to me. Can't wait to see these get fixed up! 👍👍
Well done! Maybe you have a good eye for this !
Excellent content. I’ve got a Benrus ladies watch.
I haven’t commented in awhile. I hope 🤞 ya have a few spring wound watches, or some quality battery 🔋 powered ones as well. Seiko, Bulova,? The boxes 📦 hold the mystery. Your friend, Jeff
My Grandad had a issued Bulova, with the broad arrow. I would love to say I knew what happened to it, but I guess I will never know. I would watch all those watch’s be repaired, each and every one slightly different. Keep safe buddy
Thanks
Congrats! That’ll be a great watch. Can’t wait to see the full video.
This is quite creative. I’m looking forward to seeing you refresh these watches.
Looks like the Bulova a-11. The dial has the full railroad minute track.
1st time here… welcome… nice film… I have an Ingersoll, not that one, I liked the Timex, as have a collection, hadn’t heard of most of the others, had heard of the Swiss Emperor, always keen to learn from this video, what can and cannot be done… EDIT: 15:28 liked the Ingersoll.
Hello Mike, watched you again after a while. How's your health. Take very good care of yourself my friend. Love to see you working on these oldies. Love & regards.
Thank you sir. Health is good at the moment and hopefully it will stay that way!
Some neat watches. Looking forward to their follow-on videos. Thanks!
Fantastic pieces!
The Swiss Emperor is absolutly gorgeous to me. I would love to see it brought back to life.
Nice box!
...in the U.S., we refer to those as "expansion bracelets".
Great video
. Thankyou
Great stuff Mike! That A11 really is a corker. Who knows, it may have seen some action and had the case back replaced..😊
Id love to think that is the case but we will never know. Hope all is good mate.
Nice! I have 2 of those Benrus, Model 3061.
Same movement/case as the Benrus Bullitt.
Looking forward to more! Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
I like the Benrus
Jjust found you. i am starting the watch repair hobby. I am a new subscriber. I am looking forward to the M11 restoration.
Thank you .
Tuning in, just what I needed this evening! I shall enjoy this.
Just discovered your channel, and I really like your energy and delivery!
Thanks for the complement. Hope you enjoy my content further .
The dial and markers of the Benrus are very similar to my 1963 Belforte, a Benrus budget line of that era. Indeed, the hands on mine also have radium. However, as best I can tell, the movement is a 21J Seikosha.
Very enjoyable video. Thanks
Hey
A great find. Anything would be great to see on your desktop. Especially the bulova.
Thanks . The Bulova will be the first up out of these watches.
Very interesting.
Timex pin-and-plate movements were quite innovative, but I agree not a contender. How about a channel formal survey? Top 3 get done, rest get passed on. Bulova #1 of the lot.
Waterbury Clock company in Connecticut USA made Ingersoll clocks and pocket watches for the US market. In Europe Ingersoll was made by someone else. Waterbury later started making wristwatches and called them Timex. US Time Corp. They used a hard metal alloy called Armalloy for bearings instead of expensive jewels starting in the 1940's. Timex and Hamilton were US companies back then that made watches for the US military during WW2. Hamilton was bought and moved to Swiss in about 1969. During the 1960's, 1 in every 3 watches sold in the USA was a Timex. They built factories in UK, France, Germany, South America and Asia. Cheaper watches from Asia killed Timex during the 70's and 80's. I don't remember ever wanting to buy a Timex. LOL
Agreed on that Optima's lume. The hands are definitely relumed. Easy to fix, though!
I will be texting that with my UV torch to be sure .
Don't worry about radioactivity. That meter shows micro Sievert, which is extremely low. The yearly dose of radiation emitted by the building materials in your home can be up to 1000 times higher. Just take care not to ingest or breath the radioactive lume if you scrape it from the hands or the dial. You don't want the stuff trapped inside your body.
The Radia Swiss is the only one that I like.Ingersol and Timex are popular but primitive.The rest are for the parts bin imo. I have a 33mm Glycine ww2 Swiss German issue watch. Classy and accurate.
Wow that was a lot of watches.
A11 and Optima are my favourites there !
Now I'm sure I need an manual wind watch in my rotation collection.
Have two manual but both are 60-70 years old so I'm not wearing them often.
The A11 was the one I wanted, the Optima is a surprise and the dial is wonderful on it.
Use all the cases for practicing re-plating and teaching us!
Love that kind of video ! 🤪 You got a nice bunch of vintage watches ! The Bulova and Benrus are very nice, the Emperor too ! Forget the Timex that’s remember me my M25 experiences.. the hell !!! 😂😂😂. So another nice and interesting video…can wait to see your first one to work on !
Best regard Mr. Mike !!
Thanks Alain
Thanks!
And thank you too Dave
Always used to have stretchy bands like this in the 60s - 80s, as did my dad, he had a small dark watch like that last one. None of these watches survived sadly... no idea what was done to them :(
Like your t-shirt
Wow you scored well. I quite like those flex bands they are so easy to put on. Try buying them anywhere they do command a decent price compared to more conventional bands as well especially vintage.
Thanks David, Some I will keep if they are usable.
Get them all back and running, don't worry about the aesthetics
At least, you ve got a lot of flex bracelets for other watches. I m kidding, of course. The last one, presume military, is nice. The Benrus is very good watch and the Optima, maybe. Good video, as always. Thank you for sharing.
The timex would be a great short video. Open case, hands off, face off, DIP, dry, face on, hands on, clean and polish case, wind movement, runs (👍🎉) or not (😱🥺), load into case, snap back on, DONE. And not much editing to the video. So this is why I vote for the Timex. As for all the bands, I would not wear any of them. They all look like the hair puller I had early in life. Cursed them all out when any type of movement with my wrist.
LOL i was saying the same thing as soon as i saw the wristbands all i was thinking damn hair pullers back in the day .. as for the Timex just clean it up a little spit and polish and you're good that Timex is a really nice work or a daily user but the best part you can say whatever you want about a Timex out of all the watches the Timex was the only one that was still running LOL but the old military watch was really nice like to see that get restored
Good idea. I am not all that into the short form content but its a good idea
Mike fix em all !
It might take a little while!
Awesome Video !!!!!!!!
Thanks pal
That Grossenbacher has the same sort of unusual mirror finish on the plates as an FHF 150-1 that I have, FWIW.
i love your workshop layout ;o)
Thank you very much!
Yes
Gran trabajo que no todas las piezas se merecen pero en especial las elegidas sí. Salú2 caballero desde Puebla México.
Id like to see you hone your skills on the time error adjustment. "Good enough" is a disappointing ending.
There was a magical moment when you were oiling the train jewels where i could see your reflection in the divotls where the jewels are set. 0:26 The music made it even more magical.
Which video do you mean because the one you have commented on there was no watchmaking
@@MyRetroWatches sorry, it was the Mumbai watch. The video of the fixer users started before I finished. Love your work. It's like I'm sitting with you at your bench, every event from white knuckles when problems occur to relief and joy at success
A nice selection! My favourite was the second Ingersoll, what I have always known as a tuxedo dial. I think Omega made the first ones in the 1940, possibly? I recently bought a Thorn tuxedo dial off ali.
The A11 is nice, I was into the idea of getting one for a while, after seeing Marshall's video. My favourite was a Bulova one.
(1940s)
I like the watch with no name on the dial Bulova power plant.
That’s the reason I bought this lot. For that very watch
I'm pleased it was a Bulova, they're extremely important horologically in my view, both in terms of the American standardisation of parts, and their business and marketing practices. My wife bought me a '47 Bulova Franklin which was the watch that got me into the hobby.
Also (sorry!) I'd like to see you tackle the Ingersoll. Another company with a fascinating history.
The pin pallet ingersol will definitely get my treatment !
Don’t worry, you have indeed taken me down the rabbit hole of watch’s….. my wife is about ready to kill me. 😂
It’s better than drink. Tell her that!
@@MyRetroWatches she would promptly inform me that drink would be a whole lot cheaper 😅
@@gcarlson622 but once drank you can’t sell it. Watches usually hold value . That’s how I try to justify my collection
@@MyRetroWatches that is definitely the goal, I’ll let you know how it works out.
Thanks for this, Mike! Your enthusiasm is contagious. It seems a radium dial can be fairly obvious. Do you think the supply of used watches is so picked over now that some great looking vintage dials are still available because they’re radioactive?
Hope your doing good mike,i am the lady whos started collecting after 30 odd years again, i have managed to pick up 3 vintages. I know how to do some work but do you service or repair watches obviously i would pay a fee. Please let me know how i go about that.many thanks mike and i still think your great. Denise
Definitely, I'd like to see the Bulova watch. That first Optima watch looks nice, I'd like to see that one. Or HAVE that one, heh. I love the dial on the bullseye watch but disappointed at the movement, though it would be interesting to see what a watch like that is like. The small watch, the Arkadia (I can't read it), I like as well. I'm a new horologist and like to see all kinds, even Timex, because I plan to work on anything I can find, to learn and to see if i can make run.
The Bulova, Optima and the bullseye will make the channel for sure
I would love to see you have a go at the M11 military watch Mike. That is a great catch for 15 pounds. I'd love to find one here for 15 dollars Canadian! Cheers
Actually they all look rather nice...
I really want to see the Timex get fixed or restored.
I was surprised at how nice all the movements were. There must have been an army of micro machinists.
yes lot of people in factories
Love all those watches. On the bands... if they are Speidel they are worth something in the 'scissors' type. That was the first type they made and did so from maybe 1950 to 1960 I paid a lot for a mint white gold plate one made in the 50's to go with my 1949 Omega Jumbo... Jumbo means these were huge for the day at 37-38 mm and more dial than a 44 mm dive watch. Also I am a sucker for small seconds. I am 6' and anything smaller than say 33 mm looks pretty small on me. Also on these old ones that will never be worth much? I paint the hands and 12 oclock Europium rare earth lume.. not as good as luminova but willl still glow after maybe 6 hours in the dark? it is far better than some products I have bought in the past.
i'd certainly be interested in seeing the pin pallet Ingersol, a lot of the 70s watches i seem to go for have them in (BF 866 most commonly), and it's one i've not come across before, the Optima and of course the A11.
These 3 are the main contenders. I hate pin pallet but this one looks a bit more interesting. I do worry why it endlessly winds.
Hopefully just a mainspring
I'd like to see the pin pallet being serviced, I'd like to hear what everyone's got against them.
@@captainhaddock2137 i think the main 'fault' is they were a cheaper alternative so they're more likely to have bare metal pivots rather than jewels so more wear and more friction on the pallet pins than on pallet jewels so less potential for accuracy. My personal observation is they are also a lot louder
@Anthony Caryl yes, can't argue against any your points, I've got my dad's old Cardinal Submarine, the movement is about as basic as you can get, but it's over 50 years old and still going strong, surely can't be as bad as people make out
I would be interested to see an exploration of the pin pallet watch. Definitely something different. Most channels are servicing ETA, AS and Seiko movements all the time.
Pin pallet has to be done. It’s interesting and will make good content despite my hatred for them.
Perhaps that watch might sway me into liking them?
@@MyRetroWatches At least we can find out what makes them tic.
I figured it would be the Bulova (I missed the "contest".), but there was some possibility it was something else. These military watches always seem to have cases that are very pitted. It's too bad that they didn't use stainless. Still, it does make it obvious that they are likely proper vintage and type. Congrat's.
Think all the steel was used for the war effort. Its a shame this one had not seen action via Forces marks on the caseback but it will be a lovely project.
Glass and plastic and metal are a significant barrier to alpha and beta radiation. Old radium will go brown. Its the dust you have to watch, from inside the dail case. There is no gamma on these so no real danger unless you ingest it or breathe it.
And yes…soft spot for the Timex lol
same here i also have a soft spot for a Timex... but the sad part is maybe a few watch repair people would work on them ??? it is just too bad Timex mass produced them by the millions for a reasonable price and was really were designed to be a disposable watch and non-serviceable but out of all the watches the Timex was still ticking and running just by looking at that timex it has to be 50 plus years old
It’s a one dip wash and redial
@@MyRetroWatches pretty much it for a Timex just a simple service but the A-11 i am looking forward to the older the better
Personally, I would LOVE to see how you clean / service that Timex. Not enough of those videos on UA-cam.
I did this video on one about a year ago. ua-cam.com/video/VW3URD-g-Lo/v-deo.html
Hi Mike...love the channel....your bullseye was probably made at the Smiths factory in Ystradgynlais near Swansea along with its big brother the famous 'dollar' pocket watches. The town / factory was affectionately known as 'Tick-tock'. I cut my teeth on those pin pallet pocket watches and are great fun to learn on....no pesky balance staff pivots to break 😁😁😁🥺
I have never seen a pin pallet so decorated before interesting it could be a UK watch movement which makes it a bit more special. I cant see any noticeable makers marks on it though.
@@MyRetroWatches the design came from the US and copied over here. They were very popular in the 50s and 60s....the pocket watches have 'Made in Great Britain' on them. If it wasn't made in Wales it has come over from the US.
Very cool vintage watches. Recently got a 1965 Certina Waterking. Manual wound with date. Looks great and so far runs great too! Would you mind telling me where I can get that Geiger counter for the iPhone?
The Geiger was an Amazon item. I have put a link in the video description
Your postcode is on the label.
Shhhh#t
A real honeypot of watches there😋, but avoid remembrance watches - what a bodger - a real hassle to deal with
Not sure what you mean by remembrance watches
Aragia would be from the 50s
Am I the only person that loves expansion bracelets?
Possibly. These were discusting though. You have sweat and dirt trapped in those links.
@@MyRetroWatchesTrue, I just do a regular cleaning. My jubilee bracelets also get nasty.
Those are an illustration of how my repairs end up. BTW something I saw on the TV programme The repair shop was one of the more experienced fixers using a liquid solution to reapply silver to brass which had polished down on a military award.
Brendon I think his name is. A bit of a tin smith. He can do some amazing work on that show.
Think it’s called brush plating . I’ve looked into it before but I feel a home electroplate setup is more favourable. There is also many videos on YT to help me learn!
@@MyRetroWatches Nickel it is then.
Mike, well done with this lot! You can easily learn to plate, it’s the removing of the chrome and polishing that’s trick but I have a feeling you will be good at that with your background. WW2 watch please! Have you thought about a video showing what gear you use to make these videos? What camera do you use?
I plan to do a bench tour soon if I can figure out how to put it on film in an interesting way. This could include the camera setup. Not sure why people would be really that interested in that other than if they plan to film themselves.
I currently use 2 iphones and a Lumix G7 to film plus a F2.8 100mm canon lens for all the close stuff. That lens is not cheap !
@@MyRetroWatches thanks Mike!
On the Bulova A-11 I recommend you to decode the sign on the movement to obtain it's manufactured date then shop around and match it's manufactured date with the serial # back case (after AF there is two numbers that represents the year. example AF43. 1943.) This watch more than likely if manufactured 1945 or prior may have been in combat. You do as you please but if this was my watch, replating would erase it's possible battle damage history.
Thank you for this info. I didn’t know you could date these so I will hit Google and try to find somewhere to give me this info.
@@MyRetroWatches Your welcome.
@@MyRetroWatches Did you get a chance to figure out it's birth year?
@@el22chris not even looked yet
I can't really tell but by looking at the movement it seems it has a an "X" symbol. According to the symbol decode on the Bulova website its manufactured date is 1943. Then it also kinda looks like it's a "T" that is 1942.
I got on a watch kick a while back buying and selling etc. I would often buy 'lots' like you did cause I spotted at least one I wanted. it was always exciting to open the box. Ones I bid on were Wyler then Hamilton then Bulova and the Accutron line... then some of he more interesting Russian dive and work and alarm watches (all of the russians were pretty cheap) Sieko and citizen and orient only if they came in a lot.. never liked em much..still don't Got rid of most but still have 50 or so after giving a lot of em away to family and friends. Daily wear is Omega and Hamilton and to change things up a tuning fork Accutron once in a while. Also some wind up swiss watches that are not well known. It is a lot of fun and I recently got back into what I have because my son is here now... you know how it goes.... he will mention some watch and I will say "yeah... think I got a couple around here somewhere" in the process of organizing now.
Sounds like you had some fun and found some nice watches. I find here in the UK the joblots are not what they used to be plus when a good one does come along its spotted by everyone and that puts the price up. This lot I posted on my facebook group and many commented they were either watching it or had actually bid!
@@MyRetroWatches It may be that here in America there is a bigger market? and that there are sooo many things to bid on and many people want something specific and ignore the lots? I do know that often things I want are not listed properly in the not quite right category. Say for an Omega Jumbo.... I ran through the list but '265 movements' gave me more.
Just found you I’m a very failed watch repairer need someone to sort it be great content for your channel oh it’s a seiko kinetic 😊
Honestly my tale of woe will make you laugh and the followers will understand my mishaps
Can you tell me if it's best to store a watch for a couple of days fully wound? i.e. using the hacking function, or is it better to let it run down and re-adjust the date / time every few days? I have several Automatic watches, and like to wear them every few days for variety.
I personally do not see any issue with having them hacked but I guess the movement is at stress whilst being held.
Timex😧🍋
Hi There, great content and lovely watch you got there. Some weeks ago I picked up a vintage watch on a secondhand market for 15 euro. It looks from the sixties or seventies and Its an automatic 25 jewel day/ date, with no hand winding with a gold coulered dial. I did some search on internet for the brand but cound't find much about it. Its said GC on de dail in a small triangle. It has a bubbleback case and dial size is 30 mm. Its swiss made, because on the 6 o'clock its printed T swiss made T. Idont know exactly what that means. So i dont know anything about the movement because I didn't open it up. Do you know anything about this brand or movement, and does T swiss made T mean?
T is for tritium. It’s the lume. Less radioactive than radium.
Great little buy. Just subscribed to your channel. What watch are you wearing? Looks great
It’s my DIY watch club GMT.
I did a video on it not so long back
@@MyRetroWatches I will search for it. I’m not a fan of the GMT . Thank you for your reply
Just picked up a watch like that. Could I send you some pictures? I’m trying to start in this hobby and would love some feed back.
my email is in the video description.
A11 🔥🔥🔥 🖖🇨🇱
Good video. Do you find ebay a good source for watches? I'm after a certain type/brand of vintage watch but don't know where to look apart from ebay.
EBay is not what it was 6-7 years ago but still a good place.
Too much competition now
@@MyRetroWatches Finding it hard to judge prices, I would love a vintage example but new models seem to be cheaper and obviously less of a risk. The search goes on!
Call me crazy, but i think you should add the timex to some video time.. if only for 1 reason..
Out of the lot...
It was the only one trying to stay alive!
I just HATE when they dump them all together. Everything gets scratched all to hell.
that t shirt is cool !!!
You can pick them up at my friend Ivan who owns Vario watches
vario.sg/collections/horology-t-shirts
B.F.G. = Baumgartner Freres Granges
Takes a licking keeps on ticking
Hav you a brother that put videos on utube about eating
you probably know by now but that bullseye ingersoll has a smith RY movement, made in great britain! awful! such a shame because ingersoll did such lovely dials
many vintage watches are not stainless steal. they are nickel plated. do you think that nickel plated watches can cause cancer or some kind of harm?
I have no idea but remember it’s not the caseback that’s nickel only the case. I’ve had prostate cancer already at only 50 but it’s unrelated. Same with the radioactive lume. I don’t really have that much worry.
Excuse my utter noobness. You mentioned just dipping the Timex. Dip in what?
I will use a hairspring solvent. but you can use lighter fluid (Naphtha)
@@MyRetroWatches Thanks
Why do you waste time opening a box it’s sad
do you happen to have a link to where you got this usb geiger counter? and how much was it?
amzn.to/438h3Vg