How to unwind a fully wound mechanical wind watch

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  • @thomasflynn5366
    @thomasflynn5366 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I love that you listen to your watches and try to give the what they ask for.

  • @Mark_MG
    @Mark_MG 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thank you so much I released the spring cause I wound it to tight and it works good now

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Thanks for watching. I’m glad it helped

    • @Mark_MG
      @Mark_MG 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @vintagesterlingfinds no, thank you. Yep.

    • @1955mercury
      @1955mercury 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Please explain to me how you wound your watch too tight. I've been repairing watches for around 20 years and I've never come across a watch that was wound too tight, although there seems to be a lot of watches not working because they are overwound on ebay. Do you wind the crown using a pipe wrench or something like that? It's not possible to over wind a watch using your fingers to wind one. When you can't turn the crown clockwise anymore the watch is fully wound and if you use some kind of force to turn it further you're going to break something, either the winding stem, the main spring or the barrel arbor.

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@1955mercury the watch came to me like this. My guess is the previous owner overwound the hell out of it

    • @1955mercury
      @1955mercury 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@vintagesterlingfinds I was replying to Mark_MG, it is impossible to overwind a watch.

  • @DurbinWatches11
    @DurbinWatches11 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hey, thank you for this quick informative video. I have a question, is it worth it to do this with every wind up watch? or just the ones that are fully wound?

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@DurbinWatches11 just the ones that are fully wound. There’s no point doing it if the watch is not fully wound

  • @impsire
    @impsire ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Very helpful video but how do you ensure it doesn’t happen again?

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It can always happen. I recommend stopping once any sort of resistance is felt. It takes time to learn the feeling

  • @robbydebeuf6405
    @robbydebeuf6405 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    thank you

  • @abihail
    @abihail 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hello, I try to wind it but the crown doesn’t move. What I can so is pull the crown and move hands to set the time

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abihail it means the watch is fully wound and not working

    • @yashpal6108
      @yashpal6108 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

      ​@@vintagesterlingfindswhat can be done in such a situaution

  • @droxgaming2178
    @droxgaming2178 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How to know watch is working or not by look ? Please guide

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because the balance wheel was not moving. If it is working the wheel would rotate back and forth

    • @droxgaming2178
      @droxgaming2178 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      ​@@vintagesterlingfindsthanks

  • @onelphil8832
    @onelphil8832 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    my clickspring doesn't push to the side, do I have to take it off?

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@onelphil8832 try winding the watch. That usually moves the click spring a little to push it.
      If you remove it the spring can go flying

  • @AURELIYPTSELNIKOV
    @AURELIYPTSELNIKOV 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Thanks

  • @HarperPath
    @HarperPath ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Question about selling on etsy. Say you list and item for 100 on there and it sells for 100. How much are you left with from that 100 after etsy take their fees. Online it says their fees are 6.5% but that sounds too good to be true.

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes it’s 6.5% plus a 2.5% transaction fee, so total 9%

    • @HarperPath
      @HarperPath ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @vintagesterlingfinds darn so 91 bucks is what you're left with. That's really good. Ebay comes out to about 17%

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@HarperPath i agree, but much more people shop on eBay

  • @danamcreynolds9456
    @danamcreynolds9456 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Easier to see what you're doing if you don't move your hands and the movement up and down.
    Thanks for this.

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danamcreynolds9456 anytime I have improved a lot since then

  • @elorairby12
    @elorairby12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ok guys, my screw fell out, the click and a spring 😢

    • @elorairby12
      @elorairby12 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you do a video on how to put your click spring back in? I was trying to be careful, but I loosened the screw to far. There is a tiny tiny spring that has me!!! not knowing how it was situated . OH BOY!

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@elorairby12 ok I can do that soon

  • @barryfleischer6553
    @barryfleischer6553 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That watch is not from the 1920's. Its from the mid to late 1940's or early 1950's.

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ok thanks, I took my best guess

    • @petersutherland2075
      @petersutherland2075 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      a nice looking thing all the same

    • @vintagesterlingfinds
      @vintagesterlingfinds  ปีที่แล้ว

      @@petersutherland2075 thanks

    • @1955mercury
      @1955mercury 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I don't think it's a Waltham watch. I don't see Waltham stamped on the movement anywhere. It looks like a recased movement of some kind, but I don't think Waltham made anything in this watch. It just has Waltham printed on the after market cheap rinestone dial.

  • @shanereid5663
    @shanereid5663 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    First time I did that it went zzzzzzzzzz😅

  • @Likeaboxofchoc
    @Likeaboxofchoc 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    So

  • @AURELIYPTSELNIKOV
    @AURELIYPTSELNIKOV 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you

  • @henrikhamd
    @henrikhamd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thanks