As a professional watchmaker I commend you for excellent practise- you followed almost all the standard rules. The quality of the video production is superb too, and that’s a point that shouldn’t be overlooked. It must be 20 years+ since I first worked on a fusee as a young watchmaker and it is indeed a stressful job first time around! My boss simply handed the watch to me (made in 1829, I’d add) and said “Right- repair that”. Handed me a book covering the main points and that’s all! Congratulations- you have all the requisite skill and equipment to make this a full-time profession. Literally the only point I can recommend is to use some thin plastic on the bridges when replacing the brass pins…not always necessary if using nylon-tipped tweezers. There are virtually no full videos of fusee watch repair on TH-cam, and this is BY FAR the best. Honestly, you did a stellar job. Very impressed.
I had the same thought about the tweezers scratching up the bridge when inserting and pressure fitting the pins, but then I noticed the previous scratch marks from previous watchmakers, and in the end, he added his own and seems to fit the expanding history of this watch. Also, utter noob in regards to watchmaking, but as an engineer, I thoroughly enjoy these videos of true antique watches.
That chain just blows my mind! I can’t even begin to think of anyone making that over 100 years ago. You rarely get to see such a vintage timepiece being serviced and repaired. The dial was one of the prettiest I’ve ever seen! Amazing pocket watch. You have earned my subscription to your channel.
You got to rivet or hammer each link together all by hand. I saw a clip of ancient jobs or something with tony robinson I think the guys name was and it is crazy small making those fusee chains
I watch a lot of watch repair vids, and am really just starting my watch repair journey. I know master watchmakers, but they don't tell me how they do it. This was the only fusee video, and it was mind blowing! I'm 70, and you never stop leaning! Thanks.........
thanks for the 49 minutes of stress-free time, I am watching this video from Palestine during this difficult time I need extraordinarily interesting content like this to keep me away from news
One of the craziest things about the watches is that children are the ones who made the chains because their hands were so small, and it was easier for them.
37:36 You just showed my favourite watch of all time: The Tourbograph Perpetual Homage to F. A. Lange Honeygold. 😍Sadly, I have no house to sell to get hold of it. 😅
Very nice work. The timepiece is beautiful. I'm going to email you a request for a possible additional pocket watch clean and repair. It is a Waltham that was given to a fellow in Scotland, UK upon his retirement in 1904. I bought it from Red at his Red Rose Antique Shop in Montrose, Scotland, UK in 1972. I was stationed nearby at Edzell from 1972 to 1976. I'll be 76 soon and would like to see the watch running again if possible before handing it off to one of my sons. I now live in NW Florida, US. If you are not far away distance wise I would like to see you have a go at it.
One day after first learning of the fusee type movement & only 4 weeks into my new hobby, my friend gave me his unworking watch to tinker with. Almost identical to the one you're working on. With the enthusiasm of a newbie, I jumped straight in. Very scary at first but successfully dismantled, cleaned & reassembled the watch. Beginners luck I suppose because it runs quite well, only loosing about 5 minutes a day.
That's just amazing! I would be intimidated just to wind a fusee watch, much less work on one. Your attention to detail is incredible. BTW, your voice over really enhances the video.
Many years ago, I collected fusee watches. But my interest turned to American RR watches, and now just Hamilton 992, 992B. But now, it's a thrill for me to explore my boxes of Fusee watches. ~ retired. Thanks for this Great Video !!!
As a kennel owner with low vision and timekeeping aficionado, I am jealous of your ability and want to learn all I can about mechanical movements, although I will never be able to actually try my hand. I want to thank you for an entertaining and informative repair.
I made it to the end! Had to watch in stages, but that's how it goes some days. Absolutely fantastic work you've done here. I don't believe I've seen a Fusee and Chain being serviced before. Thank you for taking on this challenge, and for taking us along for the ride. It was very cool to see how this goes together. Cheers!
Considering you claim NOT to be a professional I see a clear passion, not to mention skill set that is above the basics. I can change a battery all by myself but I can't see me challenging your abilities anytime soon. Brilliant stuff
Good job! Very professional! The first watch I ever rebuilt was an English Lever fusee like you just did, I over paid for it and swore if it was the last thing I would do, I would get it running again. It took a year of research and self-education but I did it. That was 7 years ago. Now I'm the only one in the area that will look at a fusee. The next part of my education is learning how to use the lathe and the Jacot Wheel; (I have a number of them that need new balance staffs), - you make it look easy. Thanks for teaching me a few new tricks; chaining up is by far the worst, especially on older Verge-Fusees.
Wow, the craftmanship of this 150 year old watch is incredible. Your restoration is impressive. I imagine the guy who made this would be proud if he could see his work still running today.
Chris you are a true artisan. Such an amazing job. I always find myself watching your videos multiple times just to enjoy the precision and pride you take with each project. Thanks for creating such enjoyable content and for keeping such a lost art alive
I have a veey similar non running movement (by a short lived watchmaker from my home town, also in Yorkshire). I tinker with clocks but never done a watch... you may have just inspired me to take a look at it...
Very enjoyable to see you work on the first FUSEE I have seen worked on, I think these FUSEE movements are well underestimated. Great job and clear commentary. Cheers C S
That was a very instructive and entertaining video, beautifully videographed and narrated, thank you. I would love, as an amateur, to get to the bottom of fusee watches, and this video helped a lot.
That was amazing. The tools you have as your arsenal are on another level and your craftsmanship is superb, the sturdiness of your hands. And what a beautiful pocket watch. Thank you
Wow, this is another great video! Super cool to learn about fusee movements and I love the detailed repivoting section! Thanks for taking the time to make this and sharing it Chris!
What a beautiful job and expert video. A real education in only 49:18! I had not heard of the fusee-&-chain system. Thank you for such an informative & entertaining video.
What I always see such as this as is caretaking, preservation and a salute to old masters. Bringing something back to life that into its second century and it doing the job it was designed to do. Of course it takes skill, knowledge and patience to do that and when the balance wheel sets off without prompting like a heart beat it displays all three and warms the soul.
Chris, I have a fuslee watch also, made in England. She's about the same age as this one. Also silver case, how I got it you would fall over, she was in the trash at the bottom of the can with other vintage watches, about 13 of them. I saved all of them from a disastrous faith. Had them now for over 32 years in my collection. Some have soild gold crowns that are stem wind/stem set, others are kw/ks, kw/ls, sw/ls. But only one fuslee. I am a antique dealer in CT. Up here you find the damest things. Keep on posting!😂
It is great that you rescued those old watches. By the way, I am sure it was a spellcheck error but I am sure you meant to say you save those watches " from a disastrous fate ".
Doncaster is in Yorkshire, BTW - and thank you for pronouncing Yorkshire more or less correctly; so many Americans say 'shire' exactly as written when it's much closer to 'sheer' or 'sher' in every county name that has that ending.
As a horology lover who has owned several high-end watches. I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video and seeing all the steps needed to restore an old mechanical watch. Nicely done, from someone who enjoys the concept of mechanical means of calibrating earthly time. Having said that, like Ram Dass said in one of his earlier writings, "If you were out in space circling the earth from somewhere in space, and you looked down at the earth moving underneath you and asked yourself, "What time is it"? You'd have to say, "I guess the time would be, NOW"!
Well, self criticism aside, I think you display wonderful, craftsmanship and patience. That truly must’ve been a challenging project and I think it turned out very, very well. What a beautiful piece. I just can’t get over the chain. The level of craftsmanship involved in making that by handis beyond compare. Wow!
I absolutely love watching your videos, you're passionate and patient and clearly very skilled even to my absolutely untrained eye! I love learning how watches work through your videos, it gets a little clearer with every one. I have to say though, my favorite part of this video was that you have all these fancy, expensive tools...but you did the initial scrub-cleaning of the parts in a jam jar lid! Made me laugh 😂
AMAZING to say the least. You know when your watching a movie and you et all tensed up? Watching you make those parts, fitting them and then putting the chain back on I'm like at the edge of my damn chair. I've always loved watch's, Seiko being my favorites. But seeing you, and others on yt has really opened my eyes to a whole other world, and I find it absolutely fascinating. If I have to get up for any reason, I make sure I pause it so I don't miss anything. Thank you for showing us a whole new world.
For your Timegrapher Problem: I watched lots of Fusee restorations because i just love them more than any watch. In most of those they explained that Fusees run at such a slow pace with different readings that the grapher cant pick them up. I think there are special ones out there. Hope i could help.
What a fantastic save. I especially like how it was all presented. Informative, calm. And the chain in a watch I saw never before. This was better than an action movie. I love it.
I admire your skill and ability to work with the tiniest parts and peices, beyond me that's for sure. I love love love watches and clocks and if I can see any movement I am enamoured. In most cases I would much prefer old rather than new...washer and dryers from 60's to 80's, I even love the old wringer washers, they did a much better job even with not so fresh water...and saved a bunchbof water as well. Cars, no computers to blow up costing a mint, houses (albeit with new plumbing and electric). Old stuff was built to last and be repaired. Even sewing machines seem to be computerized crap with platic everything that can't be recyclednor broken down.
I loved working on and rebuilding Fusee pocket watch. Repivoting the staffs and repairing chains was my major thing. How many I've seen broken due to attempting to wind them. Many of these beautiful watches were trashed because of people selling the gold cases. Your videos are super great!!!
Another great video. 👏👏 and Yes, I watched all the way to the end. Excellent video quality. I'm an amateur watch maker myself and I'm learning a lot from all your videos.
I have this very watch, given tome by my grandfather when I was about 8years old. I have never tinkered with it apart from fixing one of the case hinges. I am 72 years old now but tackling a full clean is way beyond me. Most enjoyable to watch this video.
I bought a job lot of 6 silver pocket watches to restore, 3 of these are fusess pocket watches. Thank you for this imfromative video. I'll have to watch this a few times before I try to restore the 3 of these are fusess pocket watches...
If you would have asked for help...I would have turned on the camera for you. LOL. Incredible job. I've never seen anything like it. Thanks for sharing.
A fascinating look into the past. This tiny chain seems just so unbelievable if you think what kind of manufacturing processes where available back then. The Internet brings your tremendous, skill, knowledge & patience to me in the middle of the night. Life is amazing, again and again. Thank you.
I enjoyed watching this repair, it brought back memories of a fusee watch my dad gave me. The watch had a broken chain which was devastating to see but a friend who like myself had never worked on a watch before set about striping the watch and repairing the chain in the process. Yup a couple of novices did repair a chain with basic electronic repair tools. Nearly 40 years on the watch still runs when I intermittently wind it up. Thank you for the commentaries as you go about each stage of the servicing, I find that really interesting.
A quite late (recent) English watch. By 1878 the Americans were dominant but for several centuries, until about the time of the Civil War the Brits were the masters of time. Watch/read Longitude all of those watches were fusee and some were much more!
Hoy desperte viendo este video y jamas paso por mi mente que estaba observando unos de los mejores videos sobre relojes de bolsillo!!! Muchas gracias por este regalo...!!!
The craftsmanship on those chains is insane. How on earth did they create those back then?! I don't think I'll be touching one of those any time soon...if ever! Great work.
I watched your entire video straight through! I just couldn't stop! Your work is fascinating to me, this is the second one of your videos I have watched and definitely not the last! I have a couple of pocket watches that need repair, they have great sentimental value to me as they belonged to deceased family members I loved dearly. I have always wanted to see them in working order again but have had a trust issue. Thank you so much for your videos! I will be watching all of them! I am curious. Where are you located?
And importantly a watch that runs & keeps reasonable time is not junk !! besides I don't know anyone who can regulate their day by minutes anymore, let alone seconds, not in today's world. Great Job ! Thanks for posting.
Enjoyable is an understatement!!! I own an old Fusee Pocket watch that was given to me a couple of years ago. I try not to use it as I was told that if the chain was to break the watch would be useless. Thank you for showing the workings of this watch as it had my attention the whole time.
I absolutely love watching this high level of restoration. I always learn something impressive. Thanks ,🫡🤝 and yes I did , "stick it out till the end"🤣
You say your not an expert. But when the only expert, the guy who made it, has passed on, your now the expert. That and not everyone who repairs watches, get alot of work because I'm sure there are not many still left around these days. I repair 50's threw the late 80's metric motorcycles. And all the people who built them and worked on them when new are mostly dead. So who is an expert anymore. Well, the person who have taken up the mantle to repair them. That's who. And then it's all based on experience. Great work I have to say. You did no harm, and it's better for your work.
You have always done wonderful work, and it shows with people trusting you to repair their watches. It’s been really enjoyable to watch the channel grow in popularity as well.
As ninety yr old clock maker I found much to admire in your video. Thank you for your time and work in providing enjoyment for your viewers.
So you are literally an "old timer" 😁
As a professional watchmaker I commend you for excellent practise- you followed almost all the standard rules. The quality of the video production is superb too, and that’s a point that shouldn’t be overlooked. It must be 20 years+ since I first worked on a fusee as a young watchmaker and it is indeed a stressful job first time around! My boss simply handed the watch to me (made in 1829, I’d add) and said “Right- repair that”. Handed me a book covering the main points and that’s all! Congratulations- you have all the requisite skill and equipment to make this a full-time profession. Literally the only point I can recommend is to use some thin plastic on the bridges when replacing the brass pins…not always necessary if using nylon-tipped tweezers. There are virtually no full videos of fusee watch repair on TH-cam, and this is BY FAR the best. Honestly, you did a stellar job. Very impressed.
I had the same thought about the tweezers scratching up the bridge when inserting and pressure fitting the pins, but then I noticed the previous scratch marks from previous watchmakers, and in the end, he added his own and seems to fit the expanding history of this watch.
Also, utter noob in regards to watchmaking, but as an engineer, I thoroughly enjoy these videos of true antique watches.
That chain just blows my mind! I can’t even begin to think of anyone making that over 100 years ago. You rarely get to see such a vintage timepiece being serviced and repaired. The dial was one of the prettiest I’ve ever seen! Amazing pocket watch. You have earned my subscription to your channel.
You got to rivet or hammer each link together all by hand. I saw a clip of ancient jobs or something with tony robinson I think the guys name was and it is crazy small making those fusee chains
Child labour
@@adally5855 😂😂😂😂😂
I watch a lot of watch repair vids, and am really just starting my watch repair journey. I know master watchmakers, but they don't tell me how they do it. This was the only fusee video, and it was mind blowing! I'm 70, and you never stop leaning! Thanks.........
thanks for the 49 minutes of stress-free time, I am watching this video from Palestine during this difficult time I need extraordinarily interesting content like this to keep me away from news
I stayed with you, I’m in total amazement as I watch your gentle but sure hand movements. You are a true craftsman.
One of the craziest things about the watches is that children are the ones who made the chains because their hands were so small, and it was easier for them.
And their eyesight was good.
@@ericl452 & cheap
That whole thing has always seemed more of a justification than an actual reason.
This video is an absolute work of art. Simply amazing.
Awesome job of bringing back to life a piece of history.
37:36 You just showed my favourite watch of all time: The Tourbograph Perpetual Homage to F. A. Lange Honeygold. 😍Sadly, I have no house to sell to get hold of it. 😅
One if not the best Videos I've seen. I am a Gunsmith and very much appreciate seeing your your work and tools.
What a incredible movement. Hard to believe that chain was made by hand one link at a time. Great video! Thanks!
RIGHT = so watching you work on this = i went and bought a 1878 FUSEE watch on ebay = hope you can fix it if it breaks down = THANK YOU !
The level of details and a very complex mechanism back in ~1860 is absolutely gorgeous. How do they cut such a small chain is beyond my imagination.
They used to use orphans, for their eyesight and tiny hands
Very nice work. The timepiece is beautiful. I'm going to email you a request for a possible additional pocket watch clean and repair. It is a Waltham that was given to a fellow in Scotland, UK upon his retirement in 1904. I bought it from Red at his Red Rose Antique Shop in Montrose, Scotland, UK in 1972. I was stationed nearby at Edzell from 1972 to 1976. I'll be 76 soon and would like to see the watch running again if possible before handing it off to one of my sons. I now live in NW Florida, US. If you are not far away distance wise I would like to see you have a go at it.
I stuck with you to the end. You have the concentration of Jobe & your skill is amazing.
One day after first learning of the fusee type movement & only 4 weeks into my new hobby, my friend gave me his unworking watch to tinker with. Almost identical to the one you're working on. With the enthusiasm of a newbie, I jumped straight in. Very scary at first but successfully dismantled, cleaned & reassembled the watch. Beginners luck I suppose because it runs quite well, only loosing about 5 minutes a day.
That's just amazing! I would be intimidated just to wind a fusee watch, much less work on one. Your attention to detail is incredible.
BTW, your voice over really enhances the video.
Perfecta descripción, perfecta restauración, y perfecto video. MUCHAS FELICITACIONES!!!
I am enjoying your videos! You have a very soothing voice and such patience! You do great work!
Many years ago, I collected fusee watches. But my interest turned to American RR watches, and now just Hamilton 992, 992B. But now, it's a thrill for me to explore my boxes of Fusee watches. ~ retired. Thanks for this Great Video !!!
This was beautiful to behold.
As a kennel owner with low vision and timekeeping aficionado, I am jealous of your ability and want to learn all I can about mechanical movements, although I will never be able to actually try my hand. I want to thank you for an entertaining and informative repair.
I made it to the end! Had to watch in stages, but that's how it goes some days. Absolutely fantastic work you've done here. I don't believe I've seen a Fusee and Chain being serviced before. Thank you for taking on this challenge, and for taking us along for the ride. It was very cool to see how this goes together. Cheers!
Considering you claim NOT to be a professional I see a clear passion, not to mention skill set that is above the basics.
I can change a battery all by myself but I can't see me challenging your abilities anytime soon. Brilliant stuff
Simply brilliant, thank you for sharing your craft with us warts and all. It speaks of your integrity and professionalism.
Time is a dead god Cronus 🌹🌚👍 rest in the good news 🌹 okay bye
Watched every minute, sir. It's probably one of the best video's I've seen on watch repair. Absolutely beautiful time piece...
First time watching a video like this and it was very educational. So fun/gratifying to watch. You nailed it honestly man
excellent production and skills/commentary - learning loads from your videos, thank you.
Good job! Very professional! The first watch I ever rebuilt was an English Lever fusee like you just did, I over paid for it and swore if it was the last thing I would do, I would get it running again. It took a year of research and self-education but I did it. That was 7 years ago. Now I'm the only one in the area that will look at a fusee. The next part of my education is learning how to use the lathe and the Jacot Wheel; (I have a number of them that need new balance staffs), - you make it look easy. Thanks for teaching me a few new tricks; chaining up is by far the worst, especially on older Verge-Fusees.
Wow, the craftmanship of this 150 year old watch is incredible. Your restoration is impressive. I imagine the guy who made this would be proud if he could see his work still running today.
Chris you are a true artisan. Such an amazing job. I always find myself watching your videos multiple times just to enjoy the precision and pride you take with each project. Thanks for creating such enjoyable content and for keeping such a lost art alive
I have a veey similar non running movement (by a short lived watchmaker from my home town, also in Yorkshire).
I tinker with clocks but never done a watch... you may have just inspired me to take a look at it...
Very enjoyable to see you work on the first FUSEE I have seen worked on, I think these FUSEE movements are well underestimated. Great job and clear commentary. Cheers C S
That was a very instructive and entertaining video, beautifully videographed and narrated, thank you. I would love, as an amateur, to get to the bottom of fusee watches, and this video helped a lot.
That was amazing. The tools you have as your arsenal are on another level and your craftsmanship is superb, the sturdiness of your hands. And what a beautiful pocket watch. Thank you
It was a joy watching you use both the Turns, as well as the Boley lathe.
I loved the video , my Grandfather was a horologist and 50 years ago used to spend hours watching him work on movements hence my interest now!
I cant imagine how hard it is to manufacture and design this clockwork given that fixing like this video seems very close to impossible🤯
What a beautiful and detailed job! Congrats!
Amazing job and awesome machine, congrats.
Wow, this is another great video! Super cool to learn about fusee movements and I love the detailed repivoting section! Thanks for taking the time to make this and sharing it Chris!
What a beautiful job and expert video. A real education in only 49:18! I had not heard of the fusee-&-chain system. Thank you for such an informative & entertaining video.
What I always see such as this as is caretaking, preservation and a salute to old masters. Bringing something back to life that into its second century and it doing the job it was designed to do. Of course it takes skill, knowledge and patience to do that and when the balance wheel sets off without prompting like a heart beat it displays all three and warms the soul.
I've never seen a watch like this. Thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Chris, I have a fuslee watch also, made in England. She's about the same age as this one. Also silver case, how I got it you would fall over, she was in the trash at the bottom of the can with other vintage watches, about 13 of them. I saved all of them from a disastrous faith. Had them now for over 32 years in my collection. Some have soild gold crowns that are stem wind/stem set, others are kw/ks, kw/ls, sw/ls. But only one fuslee. I am a antique dealer in CT. Up here you find the damest things. Keep on posting!😂
It is great that you rescued those old watches. By the way, I am sure it was a spellcheck error but I am sure you meant to say you save those watches " from a disastrous fate ".
@Bill23799 yes, it was a error, fate was the intention
Not faith.
I like all his tools equipment the lathe table reminds me of my stepdad had worktables built into these boxes with casters.
Doncaster is in Yorkshire, BTW - and thank you for pronouncing Yorkshire more or less correctly; so many Americans say 'shire' exactly as written when it's much closer to 'sheer' or 'sher' in every county name that has that ending.
It was so much fun this time. Thank you.
Enjoyed every minute of the rebuild of the watch. Thanks for sharing with us.
Awesome job sir, love your video's and channel
that chain! quite amazing to think someone made that. fabulous video thank you
As a horology lover who has owned several high-end watches. I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video and seeing all the steps needed to restore an old mechanical watch. Nicely done, from someone who enjoys the concept of mechanical means of calibrating earthly time. Having said that, like Ram Dass said in one of his earlier writings, "If you were out in space circling the earth from somewhere in space, and you looked down at the earth moving underneath you and asked yourself, "What time is it"? You'd have to say, "I guess the time would be, NOW"!
Fascinating movement, beautiful watch.
Well, self criticism aside, I think you display wonderful, craftsmanship and patience. That truly must’ve been a challenging project and I think it turned out very, very well. What a beautiful piece. I just can’t get over the chain. The level of craftsmanship involved in making that by handis beyond compare. Wow!
Watched the entire clip, truly amazing, thanks for posting it. You are are a true craftsman.
I absolutely love watching your videos, you're passionate and patient and clearly very skilled even to my absolutely untrained eye! I love learning how watches work through your videos, it gets a little clearer with every one.
I have to say though, my favorite part of this video was that you have all these fancy, expensive tools...but you did the initial scrub-cleaning of the parts in a jam jar lid! Made me laugh 😂
AMAZING to say the least. You know when your watching a movie and you et all tensed up? Watching you make those parts, fitting them and then putting the chain back on I'm like at the edge of my damn chair. I've always loved watch's, Seiko being my favorites. But seeing you, and others on yt has really opened my eyes to a whole other world, and I find it absolutely fascinating. If I have to get up for any reason, I make sure I pause it so I don't miss anything. Thank you for showing us a whole new world.
Watching videos like this.....the mechanics of all the different designs.....wow.......absolutely amazing.
For your Timegrapher Problem: I watched lots of Fusee restorations because i just love them more than any watch. In most of those they explained that Fusees run at such a slow pace with different readings that the grapher cant pick them up. I think there are special ones out there. Hope i could help.
Thank you, sir. Puts my mind at easy a bit :)
What a fantastic save. I especially like how it was all presented. Informative, calm. And the chain in a watch I saw never before. This was better than an action movie. I love it.
I am speechless. That's pure magic and wizardry. Such fantastic skills and knowledge. Subscribed.
I admire your skill and ability to work with the tiniest parts and peices, beyond me that's for sure. I love love love watches and clocks and if I can see any movement I am enamoured. In most cases I would much prefer old rather than new...washer and dryers from 60's to 80's, I even love the old wringer washers, they did a much better job even with not so fresh water...and saved a bunchbof water as well. Cars, no computers to blow up costing a mint, houses (albeit with new plumbing and electric). Old stuff was built to last and be repaired. Even sewing machines seem to be computerized crap with platic everything that can't be recyclednor broken down.
Wow. I'd have a dozen ulcers if I tried this. I don't know how you do it. This deserves a like and subscribe.
Wow, you are a craftsman. What a great video showing unbelievable micro work.
I loved working on and rebuilding Fusee pocket watch. Repivoting the staffs and repairing chains was my major thing. How many I've seen broken due to attempting to wind them. Many of these beautiful watches were trashed because of people selling the gold cases. Your videos are super great!!!
Great video for an old time piece. Well done.
Wow! Insane mechanism! You are an artist!
It's truly amazing. There is one watchmaker in Korea whose skills are second to none. Thank you for the good video.
Great video, amazing work. Shocking how relatively well that watch tells time after all these years.
I enjoy watching you fabricate watch parts.
That was really interesting and incredible. Thanks
Another great video. 👏👏 and Yes, I watched all the way to the end. Excellent video quality. I'm an amateur watch maker myself and I'm learning a lot from all your videos.
Beautiful watch and amazing restoration. Great !!!!!
I have this very watch, given tome by my grandfather when I was about 8years old. I have never tinkered with it apart from fixing one of the case hinges. I am 72 years old now but tackling a full clean is way beyond me. Most enjoyable to watch this video.
I bought a job lot of 6 silver pocket watches to restore, 3 of these are fusess pocket watches. Thank you for this imfromative video. I'll have to watch this a few times before I try to restore the 3 of these are fusess pocket watches...
If you would have asked for help...I would have turned on the camera for you. LOL. Incredible job. I've never seen anything like it. Thanks for sharing.
A fascinating look into the past. This tiny chain seems just so unbelievable if you think what kind of manufacturing processes where available back then. The Internet brings your tremendous, skill, knowledge & patience to me in the middle of the night. Life is amazing, again and again. Thank you.
I enjoyed watching this repair, it brought back memories of a fusee watch my dad gave me. The watch had a broken chain which was devastating to see but a friend who like myself had never worked on a watch before set about striping the watch and repairing the chain in the process. Yup a couple of novices did repair a chain with basic electronic repair tools. Nearly 40 years on the watch still runs when I intermittently wind it up. Thank you for the commentaries as you go about each stage of the servicing, I find that really interesting.
To the end, and first time knowing of that movement, keep up the good work
I never would've guessed that a watch was chain driven. Such a great video!
A quite late (recent) English watch. By 1878 the Americans were dominant but for several centuries, until about the time of the Civil War the Brits were the masters of time. Watch/read Longitude all of those watches were fusee and some were much more!
merci pour votre partage une des plus belle restauration de montre que j'ai vue 😍
I loved the entirety of the restoration. My hands shake to much to do anything that small, but I can still dream of doing what you accomplished.
Hoy desperte viendo este video y jamas paso por mi mente que estaba observando unos de los mejores videos sobre relojes de bolsillo!!! Muchas gracias por este regalo...!!!
The craftsmanship on those chains is insane. How on earth did they create those back then?! I don't think I'll be touching one of those any time soon...if ever! Great work.
Actually in an unpleasant way - child labor... Small hands and young eyes...
@@arts.4014True. Often from orphanages. The child labor generated income for the orphanage.
I watched your entire video straight through! I just couldn't stop! Your work is fascinating to me, this is the second one of your videos I have watched and definitely not the last! I have a couple of pocket watches that need repair, they have great sentimental value to me as they belonged to deceased family members I loved dearly. I have always wanted to see them in working order again but have had a trust issue. Thank you so much for your videos! I will be watching all of them! I am curious. Where are you located?
Thank you! I’m located in South Carolina
And importantly a watch that runs & keeps reasonable time is not junk !! besides I don't know anyone who can regulate their day by minutes anymore, let alone seconds, not in today's world. Great Job ! Thanks for posting.
great clock - great job !!!
Before watching this I’d have been “nope” if asked to service one of these. Now I’d go for it. Cheers!
You are brilliant man!
Enjoyable is an understatement!!! I own an old Fusee Pocket watch that was given to me a couple of years ago. I try not to use it as I was told that if the chain was to break the watch would be useless. Thank you for showing the workings of this watch as it had my attention the whole time.
What a beautiful watch.
I absolutely love watching this high level of restoration. I always learn something impressive. Thanks ,🫡🤝 and yes I did , "stick it out till the end"🤣
I really appreciate your efforts to save such a great and precious piece of time..
Un buen trabajo, espectacular y además "funciona", felicidades maestro.
These are without a doubt my favorite watches to service and you did a beautiful job.
Job came out wonderful . Saw one that was really roached and it did come back to life .
You say your not an expert. But when the only expert, the guy who made it, has passed on, your now the expert. That and not everyone who repairs watches, get alot of work because I'm sure there are not many still left around these days.
I repair 50's threw the late 80's metric motorcycles. And all the people who built them and worked on them when new are mostly dead. So who is an expert anymore. Well, the person who have taken up the mantle to repair them. That's who. And then it's all based on experience.
Great work I have to say. You did no harm, and it's better for your work.
Wow U R The Best.... Amazing Work. Love it...
You have always done wonderful work, and it shows with people trusting you to repair their watches. It’s been really enjoyable to watch the channel grow in popularity as well.
a master watchmaker at work