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Yes, Taiwan!

Sure! With the flea markets and watch fairs some vendors size you up before giving you a number but when they make the price public so do I.

Thanks Andy. If you do at some point let me know during the planning stage so I can let you know what's happening and give you some tips based on season. First tip would be plan some time in La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle. Second tip would be spend at least two days in the mountains in the Interlaken / Grindelwald / Lauterbrunnen area!

Thanks!

Yes, the Ghost in the Shell VFX team was supervised by the amazing Guillaume Rocheron! He's the best! Life of Pi, Ad Astra, 1917...

I know! And the crystal on the first one is perfect. That's important with those odd-shaped crystals. Next time I'll ask how much that is if he still has it. What's your guess?

Thanks! That was my first long form video with my iPhone. I'm getting better as I make more videos "out in the world," but it does take some practice - and there's always room for improvement.

Thanks! Easy to make!

Hi Florian! Those fairs were both amazing! Especially Horlo'troc! Glad you made it! Thank you so much for bringing Les Fins to my attention! About cleaning machines, I rarely do see them, but Gurdeep (whom I spoke with in the MIH portion of the video) told me that he knows someone that's selling one. Feel free to email me for his contact info if you'd like.

It's best to be broke going in, because if you're not you will be going out! 😂😂😂

@@IMakeWatches fully agree.....😄

$20 at the Salvation Army thrift store (plus $60 spent on wood, paint, and plastic watch holders) 😂😂😂

Thanks! I actually picked this hobby because I live here, but don't tell anyone that! It was either watches or chocolate and I'm not big on sweets!😂😂😂

I could easily pick the chocolate as well (not instead of 😂)

Ha ha! Very kind of you! But do note that on my home page I link to channels that are much better then mine!

Oh, you're right! I didn't think of that! 😂😂😂

Sure! It was easy!

Thanks ElderPinto! Make sure to watch the second half if you didn't make it that far!

@@IMakeWatches i watch everthing but first your studio tour !

I didn't know Ben or Toby but reading up on them I do know the circles they were in. In 1984 when I was 21 I worked as the stock boy at a clothing store in Soho for a few months while saving up money to take a trip to Europe. During that time I was the house photographer at Kamakazi Club on West 18th St on Sunday nights. Jean-Michel's 24th birthday party took place at one of my nights at Kamakazi. My friend John Jesurun had a weekly soap opera at Pyramid Club on Ave A in 1982 and 1983 and I know that at that time you could buy h there and avoid the cover charge at the door by announcing that was why you wanted in. We didn't use but that others were doing so was no secret. I would go on to manage John's international tours in the late 1980s alongside the Wooster Group, La Fura dels Baus, and others on that circuit. John used cameras in his theater work, and having designed and managed various iterations of those systems for him helped me when I would go on to develop my own camera systems. I romanticize about the chaos of those times: the art and theater, the absence of cellphones and the internet... I sometimes feel like my life has been perfectly synchronized to the drift from the chaos of those years to the terrors of techno-fascism today in parallel with the military industrial complex that I have always sought to avoid approaching a systematized (in the Chomsky sense) lock on the genetic and / or nuclear annihilation of humanity. I remember overhearing a conversation by two "revolutionaries" in a cafe on 8th st and Ave A in the late 1980s around the time of the bulldozing of Tompkins Square Park and thinking to myself that what they were dreaming of would never, ever come because the state was simply too powerful. I think it may finally be here now, but I could be wrong. The revolutionaries came in an unexpected package in the sense that the oligarchy has turned on itself, which by the way is the only way that it would will ever have fallen (Nader). The new guard are up against some very powerful (and very dumb) old psychopaths (Cheney & Co) that have very little to lose by starting WWIII. So here we artists sit again, watching and waiting, while the dung beetles attempt bulldoze our final encampment: the world.

@@IMakeWatches haha that answer took a turn!! I started going to nyc in 85 but didn’t move till 94…the New York I live in now …I don’t really relate to that much anymore.. I never thought I would leave but now….

@@alltruetv I remember looking up your videos when you first left a comment. You did some funny stuff. As I recall some of it was shot before TH-cam even existed - the body guard bits were hilarious. NYC is a mess now, but then again it's always been a mess...

@@IMakeWatches Very interesting reading and I find it surprising at the rate of technological progress and growth during our life time, that the human race is ever closer to wiping ourselves out yet again. Anyway I am enjoying seeing Austria, Vienna and will be in the Swiss mountains soon where I usually feel the 'simplicity' there for a few pressures moments. I loved my time in NY however it came to an abrupt end due to my addiction. Great memories all the same. I ended up in LA (Venice beach) which was a whole other story. All the best

@@hopeenquiries3638 I was in / at Venice Beach in March. There's a watch fair at the Kongressshaus Zurich December 15 that you might want to check out. I went last year and it was great but I didn't shoot any video. It's sponsored by SwisstimeArts (Serkan Gez) in Zurich, which is also a physical shop in the center of Zurich. If you can't be in Zurich on the 15th you can always check out the shop. And if you need more info about the fair you can also contact the shop.

That's a tough one. Open it and let it dry for a month if you haven't already and then try it again. If it doesn't come back it's probably toast. You could try sending it to Tissot if you're attached to it. They should replace everything including the seals if they accept the repair.

Thanks AllTrue!

That's great! I think the two most important things are to have low expectations and enjoy it and I try to convey both!

I don't like the newer ones because they do away with the 12 hour register and add tenths of a second, which is useless.

Thanks! I'll integrate more of the studio into future videos now that I've revealed it.

Thanks!

Thanks Stan! What's going on over there in casemaking land? Have you made any real videos yet? 😂😂😂

@IMakeWatches haha, no real videos yet. Spending lots of time trying to mill hands. It is really testing what I can achieve with the tooling I have but very fun.

Yes, I know French and I don't mind using French day discs, but I would rather obsess about changing the discs than use German or Italian, and part of my reason for that is they both overlap with French, so it's just annoying to be surprised by the days that are different. That said, I was looking at Chinese recently and they seem to be hieroglyphically very similar to Roman numerals... have you noticed that? Monday is one horizontal dash, Tuesday is two dashes, Wednesday is three dashes... Thursday is four vertical dashes with a horizontal top and a bottom, Friday has five elements arranged like an upside down four with two horizontal dashes, Saturday looks like a campground sign and Sunday looks like a sandwich. Super easy to memorize! 😂😂😂

Thanks! My wife says hi!

Thanks!

@@IMakeWatches you are welcome.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun for sure! Yesterday I restored the Mirexal 2789 that appears in this video. That was a non-runner that I bought for 20 Chf (~US $23). In the end all it needed was demagnetizing. Today I bought anther 2789-1 at the Plainpalais, Geneva flea market. The flea market purchase and other watches will be in my next video. Interestingly, the 2789-1 that I bought today has very fast day and date changeover, so the one in this video should also change over instantly (instead of taking six hours) after I lubricate it.

I agree about Spaceview, especially the conversions. There's a guy on Ebay that does the conversions very well but it's still a conversion. Good examples of a Spaceview and a Universal Geneva Polerouter are two watches that I've always wanted. I wish I had bought them years ago when fewer people were collecting.

@IMakeWatches I wouldn't mind a conversion as long as it's listed as such. The problem is most list them as genuine. I also can't find watches to restore in the US for anything reasonable anymore.

It's a Universal Geneve hand-skeletonized Cal 1.67 microrotor movement in a White Shadow case. I don't know who skeletonized the movement. I bought the movement used in Switzerland where I live for 340 Chf (~ $380 US) in a Guilt Shadow case that was designed by Gerald Genta and is gold plated but is not waterproof, and I separately bought the White Shadow case on Chrono24 (complete with a Cal 1-67 movement and dial) for 500 Euros and recased it because the White Shadow case is stainless steel and waterproof. My plan is to eventually attempt to hand skeletonize the additional Cal 1-67 movement that came with the White Shadow case myself, but that's a very long term goal (3 - 5 years). I made a 14 minute close-up compilation film about this watch which you can see here if you're interested: th-cam.com/video/VDsx7b9Gj6c/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared

Glad you enjoyed the video! I like that too but I can't figure out what it is. Do you know what the mark or movement is?

If the new battery measured 2.73 it's not a new battery. It should measure over 3v. I think it may need a reset as well if the new battery is over 3v. Either leave the battery out for an hour or check the instruction guide for reset procedure.

Interesting! The Italian day abbreviations are so similar to French even though the full names are different. Thanks for that!

Ha ha! Thanks! th-cam.com/video/VMsXevi5sOU/w-d-xo.html

It's very short sighted in my opinion. The problem seems to be that matching a vintage watch with a buyer is much more difficult than handing it to a scrap metal dealer and having them hand you cash. I say if you can afford it keep the watches and only sell them for scrap if you're going broke, because both gold and vintage watches only go up in value, and for the right buyer the watch will always be worth more than the gold value.

Thank you!

Hey, thanks very much for this! I remember someone saying this some time ago and I forgot. I've got to not only remember this for myself next time, but also understand it mechanically, and show it, and explain it to others! Really appreciate it!

Nice! Which watch or timestamp if you don't mind my asking? (I'm sure others would be interested as well)

@iMakeWatches it was one of the first sellers. The guy who runs the Lyon watch fair. Picked up a Longines diver from the 60s.

Yes, I forgot to mention in this video that dials and hands are really the most fragile (and arguably valuable) parts of a watch. I think we tend to think of disassembling movements as being the delicate part, which it is, but dials and hands are not bare metal, they're finished, and their finishes are so fragile. I need to talk about that more, and also remind myself of it. I think I get too obsessed with movements sometimes.

@@IMakeWatches Well Im guilty of having very little interest in the dial and hands myself. But I do love a nice set of blued hands against a white dial.

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C'mon! What about the Valgine in the thumbnail? Ecodrive is a nice tool watch but....

@@dalecostich8794 I’ll post a community post with exact prices and exactly what I got for each of my lathes. Because I built them up those base prices can be a bit deceiving.

Compared to most of what I buy unserviced with cracked crystals. But most of hers are less than the cost of servicing and she has a good eye for shapes, dials and straps. Plus she’s a very nice person! 😊

@@IMakeWatches It's nice that she's a nice person. But 420.- for this Mido Ocean Star 8:46. That's crazy.

@@bibermen Did you see my Patek cannon pinion video that starts out with the M-Watch with an ETA 2824-2 that I bought on Ricardo for 2 Chf? The Mido is only 418 Chf more. That's obviously a lot better that buying a new Patek Philippe Cubitus for 60,000 Chf, which is a 59,998 Chf difference! 😂😂😂

@@IMakeWatches wait a minute... then this Mido must have a Patek Movement so that the World it is balanced again. So a bargain after all;-)

Fancypants! 😂😂😂

Very nice! Thanks a lot!