This Enicar Vintage Watch Restoration Tested my Patience 😤
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ย. 2022
- I always wanted to do a restoration on a vintage Enicar watch. I found a very used vintage watch on eBay that was perfect for a restoration project. This restoration tested my patience on several levels. I was very intrigued by the complexity of this vintage watch calibre 167 from Enicar. I let you discover the full story and the end result in the video.
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I have a soft spot for those chunky square and television-shaped watches from the late sixties and early seventies. Good job on this restoration!
Yes they don’t make them like this anymore
Great job on fixing the Enicar (Racier). I picked up a couple from eBay to work on later. Got to pick up some more watch tools first.
They are great watches. You will need a lot of tools 😅
Excellent work
Thank you
Nice work, and good to see an Enicar as well. Yours look like an expensive model. I still have my automatic Enicar Star Jewels Bought June 1966 in Hong Kong
Case No: 144-39-06 (with their top caliber 1145) Serviced c1975 and worn little since.
Takes 46.5 hours to run down. 14X series, 1965-1975, 18000 vph, gold plated
Back reads: Enicar Ocean Pearl, Ultrasonic, Incabloc, Water Proof, Swiss, Stainless steel back, 144-39-06 (caliber 1145)
Been a very reliable watch, checked in June 2018, it gains 10 to 20 seconds a day.
They are good watches. I did not pay a lot for mine so not sure if it is an expensive one
nice watch love enicar I also have one from my dad with day date and bronze dial gorgeous 👍
They are nice watches indeed
Superb!!!! Wow!!! This has to be one of the many great work from the master himself! Love it!! Astonishing before and after!!
Thank you so much 😀
Awesome job on restoration definitely gave it new life for years to come
Thanks 👍
Great job as usual! I believe it is the first time I see you using the polishing machine. Good to see your workshop is growing as well with new tools!
Thank you. I might have polished a couple of crystals but nothing more. I don't really like to polish vintage watches as I prefer to leave them as original as possible.
That's a great find! Nice work :)
Thank you! Cheers!
Bonjour! Your patience worked and your restoration is fantastic. 😊
Thank you and I am glad I can share this project with you all.
Nice work and very interesting brand.
Thank you! Cheers!
What a beauty! I love Enicar❤
Lovely.
How about a short video on using that tool to remove excess play on the barrel assembly?
I have it in some vidéos. After I will do some tuto
Great to see you popped your Enicar cherry 💪🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I’ve worked on a couple before 😂
They are actually very interesting. Makes me want to work on other models from the brand
Good one, like a new watch.
Lub-ri- cation. No “if” in the middle.
Your English is so good and clear compared to my schoolboy French.
hahah this is my french coming out. It is lubrification in french so it is very close and my brain doesn't make the difference.
Great work 👍
Thank you so much 😀
It's so nice to remove the movement to reveal a pristine dial. Lovely watch and great job repairing it.
Many thanks Peter!
Great brand!!!
It really is!
GREAT VIDEO
Thank you Greg
J’adore les produits Enicar, cette restoration est vraiment bien réussi ! J’ai travailler aussi une montre Enicar Ultrasonic j’ai eu les même problèmes vis cassé pièce difficile a trouver, je m’en suis aussi retourné en Inde pour me procurer 4 mouvements différents ce qui m’a permis finalement de compléter mon projet… oui avec de la patience et de la persévérance ! Encore une fois super cette montre, excellente video ! ✨👌 mes salutations !!
Merci Alain. C'est fou d'avoir des difficulté sur certaines marques pour trouver les pièces. Pourtant je pense que les montres et mouvements ENICAR ont été produits en très grandes séries. Visiblement l'Inde est une bonne source d'approvisionnement pour les pièces Enicar 🤣
@@FrenchWatchCollector 😂😂 Oui absolument pour l’approvisionnement de pièces, mais j’ai peur que pour les montres les modèles Frankenstein sont plus facile a trouver !! 😂😂😂
Thank you again for the video. Another watch saved and brought back to life. Thank you for all the information during your video also.
Glad to help!
Excellent restoration. Good job
Glad you like it
Great video on a highly enjoyable watch - thank you so much.
Thank you very much
Perfect great work as always. Keep well from New Zealand. Regards Bruce
Thank you! Cheers!
I love seeing vintage "forgotten" brands reclaimed for a new generation. This Enicar has a unique shape and a ridiculously complex movement, all of which makes for great video!
Thanks Kerry. It is a very special design like they made in the 70's and 80's
That ruby post onto which the minute wheel and one of the automatic winding wheels sits indicates that this is an early movement according to Dr. Ranfft's excellent movement archive.
The old Robur presses are a bit nicer than the Bergeon one.
Thanks for the info. I has a robur and I prefer the bergeon hahaha
If you share your sizes, I will send you a polyester leisure suit & some platform shoes to wear with the 1970s watch. Excellent video.
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Looks like a watch Goldmember would wear.
😁
Much too bling-bling for me, but beautifully and masterfully restored. I like what you did with the bracelet. Another watch I did not know about. Thank you.
It is too much bling for me too 😉
Nice work!
I avoid gold and chrome plated watches, because of the wear.
I don't mine redoing the gold plating but the watch just need the extra effort. On my next project some gold plating will be part of it.
Good Video
Glad you enjoyed
@@FrenchWatchCollector Yes
i notice the few edits from where you want wrong. Putting the calendar on after the plate and also not putting the date corrector spring. This is where i'm stuck on mine. I can't get that quickset function to work and there are no drawing anywhere showing the keyless work without the plate on top of it. Are you able to help at all?
I am not sure what you mean exactly. Around 24min I put back the keyless work so you can have a look
Great job. I have worked on this movement as well and it is a great movement but yes you are right it’s very over engendered, the day quick set stumped me at first…..
The bit that scuppered me was replacing the glass in the case, the watch is a 320 which is a oval mineral glass, i broke it refitting it and it’s impossible to find. Also it fits into a red gasket that won’t any longer fit the case and glass as it’s become hard and brittle..
The watch sits in a ready to finish pile which is a shame as I love the watch
That is a shame but it is some time the sad end a watch as to take. It is very hard to find spare parts for Enicar. On top of it it is always difficult to find custom crystal and gaskets. I am always very careful with the watches with a custom crystal.
Thanks for a great video. Helps me a lot! I found my old Enicar I got from my grandparents 48 years ago and now I will try to fix it. What is the rubber (?) tool you are using at e.g. 22:00 to hold down the train of wheel bridge? Looks very useful and handy!
Good luck!
مرحبا اولا عمل رائع وجميل ومتقن ثانيا كم سعر هكذا ساعة بالدولار الامريكي وشكرا
Thank you for a very insightful video. The AR112x, AR114x and AR16x movement series were used in Enicar's top Sherpa models, as well as in much cheaper (but still cool and distinctive) Enicars. That's why it's smart to always have a few of the lesser gods in the drawer as donors when you start collecting the Sherpas. Anyway, I hope to see you handle more Enicars in the future :-)
Thanks for the tip
Me bhi watch makenik hu
Gosto de ver seus vídeos, muito bem feito e com narrativas detalhadas. Abç.
Thank you
Hi Frenchie, is that a horotec holding tools, if so could you let me know the part number? Thanks
You mean the tool to hold the movement? It is a Bergeon tool
Thanks for the video! I've been trying to fix my dad's old Enicar and I think I broke off the second hand pinion when removing/replacing the cannon pinion becaue there is no skinny little 'pin' for the second hand to stick to when replacing the hands. I have a (non-working) movement I bought off ebay for parts. Is the wheel at 21:10 the part I am looking for?
Yes the center wheel is the one that need to be attached to the second hand on the dial side
@@FrenchWatchCollector Thank you! I was actually able to replace the second wheel! However, after I put everything back together (basically putting that bridge back on over it), mainspring now won't release power to the rest of the movement after being wound. Did I misalign the bridge?
That watch screams 1970s
Yes it does