How much Gold/Silver Is Inside a 7,000$ watch?
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- I recover the precious metals from a broken watch.
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WI: "Hey lets send it to cody to see if he can fix it!"
Cody: "I bet they want me to melt down the watch."
I’m a kid ok? Jeez
Doug Anderson well that’s what I thought but no one is perfect :) 😉
DEY WANTED HIM 2 FIX IT? OMG THIS IS SO SAD! ALEXA PLAY ROBLOX DEATH SOUND
lmao
I really wanna know what Will said but he deleted his comment out of embarrassment
Cody is the perfect person to send stolen jewelry to and get it back untraceable.
Unless he uploaded it to TH-cam :)
DaToNyOyO It's all profit anyway.
10 cents on the dollar, thats ok for a fence
A lot of diamond are serialized at a microscopic level
u will have to pay him in the precious metals he extracts due to the cost of labor and chemicals he uses...0-o
and end up owing HIM $$ if he makes a vid about it just from the time spent editing XDDD
best just open an illegal mine in Africa, that's profitable...although somewhat immoral
I love how much "I'm just a guy at home" vibe Cody has.
You should do a video where you extract mercury from tuna.
lol i like this idea, but you would need a lot of tuna
He should come to India then
@@stabgan i don't think anyone wants to do that.
no he should extract mercury from freddy
@@oORoxas13Oo bobs or vagana
Still not as golden as this gem of a channel
@@Skedge its a complinent
He has the combined intellect of Sans, Peter Griffin and Kirby. I'm fairly certain you are wrong.
@@meleefanboy3370 lol
amen brother, cody should pin this
@@Skedge thank u kanye. Very edgy
Up next: how much gold is in cody's hair
*Mercury
Thankyouverymuch
3000 dollars worth
wait for no that's how much his brain is worth the gold is 1500 dollars
how many different elements are in cody's body
cody's table is pretty filled with gold dust
When the test reactor was still operational at UVA my physics class took a field trip there and I supplied a hair sample from my beard for neutron bombardment analysis and there was in fact gold in my beard! : )
3:51 a swiss watch maker is having a heart attack when he sees this
Aatu Vaan I’m not a watch maker but I want to fucking die, that date just is very rare, the mother of all pearl dial with the diamond hour markers and diamond bezel is a rare piece to come by :(
@@jorgealdrettgomez2053 well on the plus side the ones that are left are even more rare now.
Luke A facts lol
Hahahahaha hahahahaha 😂
*sees the nilered glassware* i'm loving this youtube chemistry extended universe.
Cody’s Lab in 20 years: Can my genetically modified CRISPR bees survive in a vacuum?
Space bees can finally be more hardcore than earth bees.
The Faceless Stranger earth bees those weaklings with my purple sun bees they can turn you into a balloon in seconds
The real question is how they fly ;)
@@perjohansson8099 Honey-farts
Do space bees feed on space flowers, or do they go from planet to planet without burning when entering atmospheres?
send this to rolex under warranty and tell them you accidentally dropped it in some chemicals
Haha
The warranty only lasts 5 years. not even lifetime warranty on a 7000$ watch.
@@jort93z that's crazy
Crazy. My 10 dollar wrench has a lifetime warranty.
That's funny!!
"unceremoiously rip them off from the watch" with that tone, you 've got to love Cody for just that!
"Let me just wash that down with a bit more acid" - something I haven't heard since my rave days.
What happened to the mine series? It was one of my favourites.
James Anderson well you see his ranch is buried in snow? Lol
TH-cam happened.
IIRC the assay came back with much more lead in the ore than he was happy breathing and not enough other metals to be interesting isolating.
TH-cam doesn't like explosions, even when it's educational and sciency. It's a shame when you see some of the tripe they encourage.
Cody died in one of the explosions so it was cancelled.
There's a watchmaker crying in a corner somewhere.
It was probably mostly made by machines anyway. Craftsmanship and mass production don't really go together.
Not on those high-end watches.
William Lesco, that's me
@@TonboIV 🤔🤔🤔
@@TonboIV actually there is many hundreds of hours of hand labor in each Rolex.
10:15 hey that's a nilered measuring flask
7:14 he said it there before. he has a nice choise for products ;)
Ur late
GrabTheVaseline no
Leaving watchmaking aside, your chemistry knowledge had just earned my subscription. Coming as a watch enthusiast, I do understand that the value of a watch is not based on the value of the raw material. More so for precious metal watches. To what extend is the question. This video will not generalize all brands/models but it does give us an insight. Thank you for uploading.
It'd be hilarious if they wanted you to repair it 😂
Or just run the x-ray gun on it
Your comment brought me so much joy you have no idea 😂
LOL
He did repair it lol
Cody reads the letter and it is talking about finding how much precious metals it may have can he find out and is there any way to recover those metals so he does this whole experiment getting the metals
Then later notices writing on the back of the letter he did not read before
Yes we would like to know how much the precious metals are worth as we are going to have it repaired for $300 and wondered it it will be worth that and if not it is a treasured family hairloom so we will keep it anyway if it is too expensive to fix LOL
Hears a scream from cody's house ... DOHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! I didn't read that part LOL
You are a WIZARD! Thanks for all your skills Cody!
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY your so coooooool
I wish you could go to Alamo in Texas San Antonio
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY Lincoln’s voice is so deep
WHAT'S INSIDE? FAMILY wussup
Aaaaaand im Here Hello.
I can watch these for days! So much fun to watch even though I’ve seen it done before. Keep them coming Cody!
your recovery videos are not only your best videos but the best recovery videos I have seen on TH-cam. Hope you keep doing them from time to time
Cody just casually builds his own furnace
@@devincoder4927 you can buy kilns for less then $100, it's takes mass production to be able to compete with mass production prices.
Y'all remember when Cody was out here blowing shit up. Straight making high explosives with glycerin and lemon juice
Here
I miss the Wild West version of TH-cam :(
@@beepthemeep12and chlorine ||-//
@@DavidRamirez-lq2co uwu
I remember the progression of his sugar rockets
Goodness me! I could watch you for hours. You're so skilled at so many things. I'm going to make sure i show my daughter this one, she wants to be a scientist. Thanks for all your great videos.
Back to chemistry and gold. Love it, thanks Cody
That's a £1000 watch strap you just dismantled for maybe a few £100 in scrap metal terms. It hurt to watch.
1: Destroy $1000 strap and turn it into scrap metal. 2: sell scrap metal. 3: buy $10 watch strap 4: keep leftover money and buy pizza or something.
And a grand or two movement that was probably repairable for about 10% of that cost. Whoops.
@@rubiconnn Just sell the strap, no need to turn it into scrap metal.
@@Eis_Bear I think that's the joke
It was already destroyed by the what's inside guy. He took a dremel to it...
But what was the final purity of the gold?
24K
Whenever cody refines gold into a bead its 24K
probably the gold around the bezel was 18k and the band gold was 14k
When he refines it he take all the other metals out which makes it 24k
24 Karat Magic in the aaaaaaaaiiir
Your videos are freaking excellent, even the extra content at the end. Just wonderful. Keep on keepin' on!
As a watch enthusiast I cried...
The "What's inside?" channel is pretty much just "let's buy something most people couldn't afford or justify and destroy it."
@@Markle2k I hear that... I more like quietly screamed at my screen and then my heart broke a little.
@@Markle2k Agreed, they try to give any kind of insight but in the end it's just "OH LOOK IT HAS GEARS AND STUFF, COOL!!111"
@@Markle2k I remember when they sawed a pristine ibm pc 5150 in half. Not even flex tape can fix that.
As a watch enthusiast, I rejoice every time I see a Rolex meet its unmaker. ;-)
This one weird trick luxury watchmakers HATE!
:P
No the watches value is not in the precious metal but the movement and craftsmanship, the gold and diamonds only appeal to the rappers ect and add a little onto the value
Yet another amazing video. Entertaining as well as informative. As a content creator myself, I highly admire your videos. Keep up the great work Cody!
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Great video Cody - really clean and well edited. You da man
Quite an amazing demonstration. Learned lots from it and I will never look at a Rolex watch in the same way again. It is amazing how little gold was actually in it. Reminds me of the old sayings, “All that glitters isn’t gold.” Five thumbs up. 👍👍👍👍👍 Mark
Yes! Another Cody'sLab video to brighten up the day!
Alchemy at its best Mr. Wizard, thanks for making this Video...
I love you Cody you make my nerdy hormones run wild
@@kokokam833 weird flex but ok
The copper wire method you used to extract the silver reminds me of my hs chem class. My chem teacher had a dehydrator to dry off the silver and almost burned the school down because she left it on over the weekend. Always a pleasure to watch another video Cody!
Those diamonds appeared to be around 0.10ct. It's hard to tell in the video but they were probably Imperfect grade i3M to i3O.
That means they'd be around $40 - $75 a piece. They looked very pink in the video, and I counted 50 of them. So you'd have at least $2500 in diamonds if they were $50 a piece i3O quality.
However, diamonds have an incredibly low resale value. So if you brought them in to a jewelry shop they'd probably give you less than $1000 for them all.
I'd be surprised if you could sell the diamonds for more than a couple hundred dollars. Diamonds aren't rare to begin with and the ones they use for this purpose are generally pretty low quality. All they have to do is sparkle.
They're higher quality than the ones they use in abrasives for sure. Those ones don't even sparkle
What is i30? Do you mean I3? Even if they were D/I3 diamond max rap is 35 each, I don’t know where are pricing diamonds but you’re 100% wrong.
Secondly, the diamonds are not even close to .10ct each. This is a Rolex Oyster Perpetual Datejust, looks like a men’s 41mm. That means the bezel is approximately 128 mm around, with 50 diamonds the largest stones you could fit would be 2.5 mm each - or .05 carats.
Lastly, this is a diamond bezel on a Rolex. Rolex is not going to use subpar I3 goods. These are almost 100% VS+ goods with G+ color.
Quit spouting garbage.
@@hunterbrown9152 Rolex is the lowest grade haute horlogerie. They are just a click above ETA driven timepieces, which by some watchmakers are still considered better. That being said you can't rate the diamonds by what their slapped on (although they are definitely not cutting tool grade either)...
Sketch1994 Go buy a Rolex and tell me what the goods look like.
You won’t find I clarity goods in Cartier pieces, you won’t find them on a Rolex. It would diminish the appearance of value and luxury. People don’t buy a Rolex anymore because it keeps great time, I have a cell phone if I want to keep track of time. It’s conspicuous consumption, that’s it.
I understand what you’re saying. I’m aware of where Rolex stands in the watch community. It is still a luxury piece, with luxury goods, with a luxury price tag.
Will you be getting rid of the X-ray gun in the future? I noticed you said "while I still have it"
He almost definitely meant "while I still have the watch in one piece"
@@InsaneThe haha that would make a lot more sense wouldn't it
Pretty high chance he might just be borrowing it from his university?
@@JustusLynetta nope, he bought it after a discussion on patreon
@@JustusLynetta he bought it with money from patreon
I like the new furnace, hope it works well for you.
This kind of video is what my life has been missing. Welcome back, Cody! We've all missed you!
You're an amazing human. You show people how cool it is to be smart. Thank you Cody.
Send me the diamonds, I can tell you their worth.
Trent Slichter hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
You said "While I still have it" in reference to the x ray gun. Is it on loan? If so, how much longer will you have it for?
46 seconds.
It's because his next video is "how much gold & precious metals in an x-ray gun"
@@lilaclizard4504 he's buying an xray gun to see what's in his xray gun
He has it on loan from his uni
Jacky Fox I’m pretty sure he said he bought one... maybe he needed this one because his isn’t programmed with all the elements as he mentioned before
So happy to see these videos again
Cody,
Every time I think you couldn't come up with a cooler idea than your last video, you surprise me. I'm into metallurgy and I just love your videos! You deserve every view. You work very hard studying, doing Science, thinking about video ideas and editing videos, that nobody sees. Thank you for making these videos!
some of the best quality content on youtube is found right here on this channel
Cody constantly makes me feel real dumb, but I love his videos.
Well that was cool, interesting results.
Thanks Cody
Very Nice vid ! Your gold extraction techniques are getting better and better every video xD
Everybody: 😐
Cody: "in case you were wondering..."
This is my favorite Cody’s Lab video just because I am a watch guy. Seeing a true Rolex breakdown of materials is so awesome
I freaking love these videos. Really relaxing to watch :)
Well put together Cody, Awesome!
i love the hidden NileRed plug. Good Guy Cody!
Same haha, that was great. I wonder if he got those from NileRed, maybe bought them as over stock or part of a bulk deal.
@SW627 Thats why i didint include a time stamp ;)
You missed the rubies on the clock internals
That's what I said!
They are worthless. You can buy them for way less than a dollar per piece. A usual automatic watch uses about 17 jewels. A luxury watch with date usually not more than 34. So it might be about 24 for the Rolex, which concludes in roughly about 20 dollar if they were new.
Not on an entry level Rolex...
@@ReNeyer Every automatic watch has jewles, even the cheap ones. But as 2 above said theyre basically worthless since theyre manmade.
They're synthetic, even in $100k watches they still use synthetic jewels in the movements
Just tuned in again for the first time in a year or more. You've finally relaxed your thumbs-up gesture! Congrats!
That was really cool man. I love it! Good job
Next up: im gonna try to extract radium from this watch face
Chungus is a ded meme
It’s pretty easy, better if you do it from uranium ore, spoiler: he already has the supplies to do so and the first step done.
*Cody extracts radium from watch face*
*All government agencies:* Hey Cody, whatcha doin?
Technically it's tritium and those inserts were found in Luminox watches
I'll let you know before I even watch this. Rolex's are mostly stainless steel. The money is in the quality of manufacture and the attention to detail, not the materials, especially a base model like this one.
And what about all those $500000+ watches?
7gs for a base model? Holy poop Batman!
@@christianheichel Yep, Rolex prices are pretty nuts. I really want one but I'll have to finish my Ph.D. and probably work a few years and probably hold off on kids if I want to make it happen, haha.
Agent J I definitely don't think that those prices have something to do with extreme accuracy and/or durability, that's why I'm asking.
I only know of their existence because corrupted Russian officials *really* like wearing $500000+ watches :D
@@tinldw Automatic watches are definitely not known for their accuracy or their durability. A very expensive watch like that is probably mostly brand name value and only then priced on rarity, the craftsmanship of the movement mechanisms, precious metals and gems, stuff like that. No expensive watch like that ever beats way cheaper watches in terms of functionality.
Wonderful stuff here Cody
Great video Cody!
Look, I fixed your Rolex watch 😂 *shaking a cylinder of fluffy silver powder*
Do you have a video about this Xray device 2:40
doesn't these handheld materiel-Xray-analyzers cost like an arm and a leg?
fascinating device.-
Really good! Tnx 4sharing! Don't stop making more videos
The reason it is $7k, it not in the materials. It is in the craftsmanship and the quality. The gold Rolex uses is always 18K gold and the steel is a Rolex's own 904L steel, that is made to look ekstra special when polished. There is also the MOP dial with diamond hour marks and a fully encrusted bezel with diamonds, that of course adds up in the value. You also pay for the name Rolex, but that DateJust is actually worth a bit more than $7k, since their watches are highly sought of.
I'm pretty sure everyone knows this. Without the name behind it, it's not a 7k watch just as gucci and prada etc. would be valued far less.
This video is strictly about the material value, or did you get confused?
@@DeedlyDood More about the fact there have been around 10 different educated people working to make that watch. Also it takes around a year to complete the watch, that is also an expense you are paying for. The testing of the watch lasts a week. You are mostly paying for quality.
It takes Rolex about a week to build a watch from cutting the blanks to ebauche to decoration and plating. They produce over a thousand a day. When they say it took a year to make a watch they're talking about development.
So, basically, it's artificial price inflation
@Rasmus Berg Exactly! I typically like his videos, but I was getting annoyed when he kept suggesting it was gold filled and not 18K...
What happened to cody's mine
It minds its own business.
.... I know the way out
@@misium sweet fancy moses! I laughed way too hard at that whole comment. My ten-year-old calls those dad jokes but somehow, despite it being over the internet, your comedic timing was perfect.
@@MrCytree oooooooooooooofffff
He wants to get explosive licenses before fooling with it.
It's also incredibly played out.
Why the hell do people continually ask about that series when he's addressed it multiple times?
Thank you for breaking that down awesome video!!!
This is the collab I didn’t know I wanted, as always Cody is an example of excellency on youtube
1:08 "I guess ill send it back to him" HAHA
Alternate Title: How to void the warranty on a watch
LOL
Early
Also you have 3 likes 24 minutes in. Surprising...
Why here, at least leave us this
Why do i see you everywhere
Your a modern day da Vinci my boy. Keep the dream alive Cody. Express that mind of yours. You have such a gift. Use it to help others. I know u can.
Super cool channel! I work with alot of these in the metal finishing industry! Great work! 👍💪🇨🇦
What about using your pill press and smashing the silver back into a solid piece like you did with the gold?
Unlike gold, I don't think this'll work with silver.
Have him send it to hpc to see if tbey can do it in the press lol
Nobody:
Cody: how to make your $7,000 watch loose 93% of its value!
nobody:
rolex: how to make 900% profit out of your gold (NOT A SCAM)
Paying for the best comes at a premium, but some people rolling in the dough won't even miss that money for a second. Whatever floats their boat, I say. Live and let live.
@Adam Defibaugh Theres a lot of factors that determine the value of a watch. Theres certainly not $7000 worth material there but that's not all your paying for.
Robin Lundqvist if you think about it $500 for the gold and $2k for the diamonds and you have to pay someone to make the watch by hand so really i can see the justification for the price. Also you can get this Rolex fro probably around $4k if u wanted.
Obviously money isn't his main priority. I respect that.
Just binge watched the shit out of all the refining videos. Great channel Cody !
Cool video Cody! Good on ya!
Rolex never uses plating on their watches but they do use lots of stainless
This is a hipsters wet dream: Deconstructed Rolex
why so low????
This one was great. Thank you so much!
Thank you for doing another gold extraction video. I like your older vids.
Do I hear another episode in the precious metals recovery series?
No,and fuck you.
Cody did you use bromine instead of nitric acid just to be fancy or is there another reason?
Bromine is better because I can remove it so quickly.
@@theCodyReeder thank you cody
Awesome vid Cody
Hey cody!
Glade to see you've been keeping your self -- dispite the a fire and whatnot
Will you ever bring back the mine?
It is buriwd in snow sir
He's abandoned the mine project, at least in the state of Utah. He talked about it a few weeks ago in another video.
He is in the mine. He turned his mine into a workshop. Dunno what experiments he does in there. His underground lair holds all the secrets of man.
Will you put it back together in next video?
plutonium87 _literally how_
Ra'Ahm Piece by piece.
Love these projects!
What an amazing brain you have. You are a gem! Love your videos
Poor watch, I hope TGV doesn't see this otherwise he's gonna faint...
Haha send it to him please!
Ahahaha make sure he sees this
Up Next: "I didn't want you to reduce my watch"
OMG Ican't believe i just find this guy on youtube....
He's like the cooliest/craziest guy EVER
Been a subscriber for years now damn you deserve these subs 💪😎
Are u getting rid of the X-ray gun? Why u say "while I still have it"?
He means while the clock exist
@@mihaimera7837 Funny cause I got it while english is clearly non my native language ;) First time I hear that clock != watch. I guess they are pretty similar, no?
@@ZElTGElST In American English (no clue about British English) - Clocks are the time telling devices you hang up on the walls or leave on your nightstand, Watch(es) are the time telling devices you wear commonly on your wrist or body. Hope that clarifies :).
@@mihaimera7837 a watch is a clock, but not every clock is a watch ;)
@@QuackZack >wrist or body
i've never seen anybody wear a watch anywhere other than their wrist
also to expand a little, watch faces are typically small (somewhere between 1 and 2 inches in diameter) while clocks are bigger than that, 6+ inches in diameter and 2x4x8 inches for a digital clock without any fancy designs
edit: spacing
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I have a watch channel and I hate seeing you destroy a datejust [hope you saved the dial]. This was an incredible video. I am blown away with how talented of a scientist you are. Keep up the great work on the channel and thank you for making this video because it was extremely interesting to watch.
The chemistry here isn't difficult. You are easily blown away
m woo I meant that in a broader context
Please do more like this!
I'd love to see you make/attempt to make Aerogel if possible
Psst, your pfp is adorable.
@@lir207 Thanks.
"Did you send Cody that rock we cut apart to analyze what's in it?" "Yep, also sent that watch you inherited in to be repaired". At the watch maker "Why would they send me a cut apart rock?"
You never cease to amaze me Cody
Awesome Cody! Where did you learn how to do all this? Very fascinating!
Can you reupload the Cody's Mine videos, or at least explain why they are taken down.