That was THE most interesting video I’ve watched ever since I started watching TH-cam! I don’t know why, but ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated by timepieces. I’m in my fifties now and I still feel the same way about mechanical watches.
My Dad used to do clock and watch repairs at home, so there was always random ticking. I still find it lonely not to hear a clock at home - they’re so companionable. I love the mechanics too!
Amazing craftsmanship and they still function after hundreds of years I rather doubt any of our modern machines of even modest complexity would come close to surviving as long. Thank you for creating this excellent video.
Amazing to think that probably more than 500 years from now when the pads and smartphones and gadgets that we make today have long broken down due to the ever decreasing quality in workmanship and materials that plagues some technology, these little pocket watches could still be ticking due to the incredible level of labour and love that went into them. Beautiful items.
I'm sure for every such pocketwatch still in existence there are hundred a pile of rust somewhere. In few hundred years they will say "look at that iPhone, it still works, these were the days" and conveniently forget about hundreds of millions of iPhones lying in garbage dumps.
We dont remember all the crap that were made hundreds of years ago because it has fallen into disrepair and is long gone. Chances are that in a couple of hundred years somebody will make that exact statement due to some item that survived from present day.
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Bullshit, no Iphone can withstand the constant update process, it's like trying to bail out a boat as you're rowing.
They are very beautiful antique pocket watches, or due to their age I should say functional historic relics. It really gives an insight to the value of items people of the past owned, and the level of craftsmanship which is sadly lacking in today's world. They have withstood the test of time and are in incredible working order. Thank you for sharing these wonderful time pieces and some of their history with us.
I'm a vintage wrist watch collector didn't really have an interest in pocket watches or clocks but last year I found a triple date moonphase pocket watch that caught my eye I payed £120 for it and as I started to look at pocket watches I gained a new interest and now I understand that if i want to own a very old time piece then it will have to be either a pocket watch or a clock,, almost anything old and well made is impressive to me my main love is 1950's - 1960's Swiss wrist watches the brands that I collect are omega, tudor and longines but I am amazed by your pocket watches they are so beautiful and such good condition for their age Thank you for sharing them
There is something truly beautiful about fine mechanical devices. Watches, guns, engines... I love the art of mechanical things. People don't appreciate the skill that goes into old-school machining or in modern manufacturing. What we can do with materials is crazy.
Simply amazing and elegant machines. You're so fortunate to possess such divine time pieces that are still functional. You sir, are a gent for sharing some of the splendor of your collection. Thank you! Myself? A bit of a clock and watch nerd... fascinating. Simply fascinating.
Stunningly beautiful antique time pieces. Astonishing to think that the men who assembled these marvels of fine engineering and art are dust in their graves. What would they have thought if they knew hundreds of years in the future people would still be admiring their work via the magic of moving images.
I have variety of fantastic antique pocket watches ,some of them have 337 years old . All of them are in excellent working condition. My you tube channel is called world of pocket watches . The link for my playlist is th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=worldof+pocket+watches and I will post more videos in the future . I hope you enjoy watching my videos . All my best wishes
This is a beautiful watch. The inside is just as beautiful..I love all those little gears and the brilliance it took to construct something like this....wow
Nice lesson on time pieces, i realy liked the eppisode, thank you very much and i too hope to find a gold pocket watch someday in the dirt, all ready found a ladies gold wristwatch and a omega 18k and ss, need a solid gold one to scratch off the list. Gl and hh.
I hope to find one one day but that aside it is lovely to see 200 year old craftsmanship.They must have really been craftsman back then,to make something as accurate in timekeeping and hand made.
i just picked up a ww1 trench watch and i thought that was old. Interestingly it is engraved with a name and date that narrows it down to about 15 men. One being my great great uncle
I would not class myself as an antiques kind of guy but these are extraordinary. The fact they are working is truely jaw dropping. Great content from an obvious watch aficionado. Thanks for sharing things we will most likely never see ourselves. These must be eye-poppingly expensive.
I love pocket watches! I gave my oldest grandson one for his birthday when he turned 12 years old. He just turned 26 years old 2 days ago. Time marches on, but beautifully with a pocket watch! Loved your video!!! Thanks for sharing!
How did you find these, I can't imagine how difficult it was to aquire these. Oldest pocket watch I have is 150 years old, I can't imagine having one over 300 years old!
Absolutely fascinating! I love old watches! I've never seen any this old, so this was a whole new adventure for me! Don't think I'll be finding any 17th century noble man's gold pocket watch here in Iowa though.... but you never know....
When you consider the craftsmanship that went into making a watch like this it boggles the mind. The extremely tight tolerance of the parts involved is truly amazing considering that every piece was made by hand. No computer controlled machine shop here. No laser cutting either. Just a very skilled man with basic hand tools. No wonder these cost a fortune. The amount of time involved in making one must have been huge. They are true works of art. Thanks much for the show and tell. Amazing. ATB Doug.
That's right they cost a fortune, so to compare todays "cost a fortune" watch you would have to go far more than an IPAD at $500, you would have to compare against todays high end $50,000 watch.
Watches weren't the only things made entirely by hand...all microscopes were usually made by one craftsman; brass tubes, grinding the glass for lenses, cutting threads. Remarkable craft, sadly long forgotten.
I saw a video of a multi-million dollar watch being made. there was a good amount of handwork but there was a lot of CNC machine involvement. the complexity was off the charts though.
It's wound from the front through the central pillar because the French liked to be innovative at the expense of complexity. That's why we had the likes of Perrelet or Lepine and his apprentice Breguet. I would love to have an 18th or early 19th century quarter repeating watch one of these days.
Chill Bill, I've been watching your metal detecting videos for a while now and I just now stumbled across this video. Absolutely incredible that you would own these museum pieces. Your watches are nearly as old or perhaps older than the United States... incredible. I know that the value of these watches are not the focal point and perhaps it's even bad manners to inquire about the value of these watches given the context of the video but I have to know as I am not only dumb founded but amazed. These watches look pristine as if you plucked them directly out of the past, 300 years ago. WOW!
my wife's grandad had a verge watch from the latter 1600s amongst his antique items he'd collected. Unfortunately, 30 odd years after his death in 1971, this watch wasn't found anywhere in the house, so presumably, one of the several missing items he'd listed I presume that was sold.
Thanks for a very educational video. I love pocket watches and I have been collecting them for the past 8 years, mostly late 19th and early 20th Century pocket watches. I knew absolutely nothing about the 17th and 18th century pocket watches so thanks for an absolutely fascinating lesson on these beautiful time pieces.
Wonderful!!! So informative, though there must be horror stories about the child labourers! Gives one a whole new perspective on early society. We take watches so much for granted. Also a whole new perspective on your abilities!!! Luv U.
Love the ticking sound. You could post a soundtrack only vid with just watch ticking much like relaxing rainforest soundtracks. To some of us the sound would be just as soothing.
They're so beautiful!!! just watching I started to tear up! It's so sad that much any more the cases are melted down or sold of to be melted for the gold.
Wonderful video. I suspect I'm like a lot of people, whereby my obsession with wrist watches is slowly taking me into vintage watches and pocket watches. I would like to own an old 18th century pocket watch one day and I learned a lot of from this. Well done and thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion.
I remember this vid from a few years ago; nice to see it again. 😀 Simply astounding workmanship, wonderful history, nice reminder of yet another facet of the legendary TH-cam personality that is *Chill Bill*... 😏
Just had to give up my old 72 Catalina 27. Got a lil history up at my spot on an old pocket watch fob that I found metal detecting. Quite a cool history on this object, best find yet. Stay safe.
Wonderful video showing pieces created when to own a watch was to be a person of wealth. I would love for you to do a video about "modern-day" pocket watches (say from 1900 to now).
Hey there Chill Bill. Love your metal detecting videos, but this may be one of my favorites since I am very interested in horological history. Great video! And, what a gem of a watch… wow!
Absolutely fantastic! TH-cam does throw up a gem now and then! I use my gg grandfathers watch daily. Solid gold case, a couple of pieces of the inner workings are gold as well and it’s over 19 jewels I believe. The really gem is the assay mark! It’s Birmingham, known for the silver usually but the assay office for the A.L.D watches burned down. So they moved into Birmingham for a short while, only a couple years I believe. Just like that one there is a beautiful ticking sound and it keeps time very well still. Excellent video :) great watch.
This is the best weirdest random video I have come accross and I am very delighted I decided to watch this! I'm not even into clocks, yet this was awesome!
@@ChillBill1 This video was posted 6 years ago, and you still reply to comments 5 years later....well done mate! I also enjoyed watching this video, very peaceful and relaxing listening to your voice :)
I have 4 antique pocket watches made in the 1730-1760 period they need a lot of help to make them work again. Wish I could find someone to help fix them up. I love to wind them up and just spend hours watching them work.
, watches like this belong in a Museum. absolutely magnificent and breath taking that such precision could have been achieved by hand in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
absolutely amazing that in the 1600's, when the world population was only in millions, not billions, and mankind, knowledge, materials and resources were primitive, someone figured out a way to make such a intricate work of metals time piece from scratch, with scratch made tools, that has a quality on par with today's watchmaking, and still works and will even probably continue to outlast a modern watch in the long run.
Bill, That was an awesome tutorial on watches. I love it so much, you deserve a special shout out for it. Kudos for finding the gold coin. The first of you videos I watched. This is #2
This is one of my favorite videos on youtube (literally). There's so much information and the pacing is very relaxing and enjoyable too. I'd love a sort of series like this where you take us through coins, bullets, other watches, etc. and show us all the differences and such. I bet it'd be a hit on the channel! Really can't compliment this video enough. It's the perfect example of what a history class or museum tour should be.
Every now and then you come across an absolute gem of a video - this is one.
I could listen to this all day!!!
Agreed! Love antique timepieces!
It is fascinating that this was created all by hand, without any precision machinery. The amount of skill and passion that must have taken is amazing.
That was THE most interesting video I’ve watched ever since I started watching TH-cam! I don’t know why, but ever since I was a child, I’ve been fascinated by timepieces. I’m in my fifties now and I still feel the same way about mechanical watches.
My Dad used to do clock and watch repairs at home, so there was always random ticking. I still find it lonely not to hear a clock at home - they’re so companionable. I love the mechanics too!
Amazing craftsmanship and they still function after hundreds of years I rather doubt any of our modern machines
of even modest complexity would come close to surviving as long. Thank you for creating this excellent video.
Amazing to think that probably more than 500 years from now when the pads and smartphones and gadgets that we make today have long broken down due to the ever decreasing quality in workmanship and materials that plagues some technology, these little pocket watches could still be ticking due to the incredible level of labour and love that went into them. Beautiful items.
The were the Ferrari of their age.
Oh well said, Ireland Deity
I'm sure for every such pocketwatch still in existence there are hundred a pile of rust somewhere. In few hundred years they will say "look at that iPhone, it still works, these were the days" and conveniently forget about hundreds of millions of iPhones lying in garbage dumps.
We dont remember all the crap that were made hundreds of years ago because it has fallen into disrepair and is long gone. Chances are that in a couple of hundred years somebody will make that exact statement due to some item that survived from present day.
Bullshit, no Iphone can withstand the constant update process, it's like trying to bail out a boat as you're rowing.
They are very beautiful antique pocket watches, or due to their age I should say functional historic relics. It really gives an insight to the value of items people of the past owned, and the level of craftsmanship which is sadly lacking in today's world. They have withstood the test of time and are in incredible working order. Thank you for sharing these wonderful time pieces and some of their history with us.
I'm a vintage wrist watch collector didn't really have an interest in pocket watches or clocks but last year I found a triple date moonphase pocket watch that caught my eye I payed £120 for it and as I started to look at pocket watches I gained a new interest and now I understand that if i want to own a very old time piece then it will have to be either a pocket watch or a clock,, almost anything old and well made is impressive to me my main love is 1950's - 1960's Swiss wrist watches the brands that I collect are omega, tudor and longines but I am amazed by your pocket watches they are so beautiful and such good condition for their age Thank you for sharing them
My heart skipped a beat as soon as I saw that second watch. Simply beautiful both inside and on the outside.
That was a wonderful history lesson on watches. It was so interesting to watch.
Linda Martin nice pun
There is something truly beautiful about fine mechanical devices. Watches, guns, engines... I love the art of mechanical things. People don't appreciate the skill that goes into old-school machining or in modern manufacturing. What we can do with materials is crazy.
!00% spot on. I also love well made mechanical things such as watches etc.
Simply amazing and elegant machines. You're so fortunate to possess such divine time pieces that are still functional. You sir, are a gent for sharing some of the splendor of your collection. Thank you! Myself? A bit of a clock and watch nerd... fascinating. Simply fascinating.
I think I'll be doing another in the coming months.
Don't tell me you're an 11 year old furry...
The 3 people that disliked this video clearly lost their pocket watch in a field.
trying to down vote it out of suggested videos most like.
Lord, that or their marbles. ;-)
36 as of the moment i made this comment!
37 cats disliked this, i really thought this was a wonderful video travelling back into time!!..these people are ignorant cats!
Or use their phone to know the time
Stunningly beautiful antique time pieces. Astonishing to think that the men who assembled these marvels of fine engineering and art are dust in their graves. What would they have thought if they knew hundreds of years in the future people would still be admiring their work via the magic of moving images.
I have variety of fantastic antique pocket watches ,some of them have 337 years old . All of them are in excellent working condition. My you tube channel is called world of pocket watches . The link for my playlist is
th-cam.com/users/results?search_query=worldof+pocket+watches
and I will post more videos in the future . I hope you enjoy watching my videos . All my best wishes
This is a beautiful watch. The inside is just as beautiful..I love all those little gears and the brilliance it took to construct something like this....wow
even today it will be a challenge to construct these clockwork mechanisms as an individual experimenter
Fascinating historical look at what elegant machines these pocket watches were. Wonderful for you to provide us this excellent video.
Nice lesson on time pieces, i realy liked the eppisode, thank you very much and i too hope to find a gold pocket watch someday in the dirt, all ready found a ladies gold wristwatch and a omega 18k and ss, need a solid gold one to scratch off the list. Gl and hh.
I hope to find one one day but that aside it is lovely to see 200 year old craftsmanship.They must have really been craftsman back then,to make something as accurate in timekeeping and hand made.
This makes the 110 year old pocket watch I carry every day seem barely broken in!
You wear it every day?
What watch is it? I'm always learning new things about these gems!
i just picked up a ww1 trench watch and i thought that was old. Interestingly it is engraved with a name and date that narrows it down to about 15 men. One being my great great uncle
This is precious
Loved the video, very informative. Love the craftsmanship and artistry that went into making one watch. Truly amazing.
i can imagine the blood and tears from those children, beautiful!
Why would there be blood and tears? They probably enjoyed making those little chains as it gave them a sense of pride.
I would not class myself as an antiques kind of guy but these are extraordinary. The fact they are working is truely jaw dropping. Great content from an obvious watch aficionado. Thanks for sharing things we will most likely never see ourselves. These must be eye-poppingly expensive.
Absolutely breathtaking. A joy to look at forever.
Spectacularly inciteful. Magnificent. Thank you for sharing you historical insights and knowledge!
Fascinating, one of the better educations I have seen in a long time.
I love pocket watches! I gave my oldest grandson one for his birthday when he turned 12 years old. He just turned 26 years old 2 days ago. Time marches on, but beautifully with a pocket watch! Loved your video!!! Thanks for sharing!
I hope you buy him a waist coat for him at some point.
Had to look that up..."waist coat" but I was right when I thought you were writing about a vest. He would look very smart in one, so yes I must.
On my sons 10th birthday I gave him a top hat and monacle, along with a walking cane.........he hasn't spoken to me since!
How did you find these, I can't imagine how difficult it was to aquire these. Oldest pocket watch I have is 150 years old, I can't imagine having one over 300 years old!
Absolutely fascinating! I love old watches! I've never seen any this old, so this was a whole new adventure for me! Don't think I'll be finding any 17th century noble man's gold pocket watch here in Iowa though.... but you never know....
what lovely craftsmanship thanks for sharing. this really made me smile
I'm a total watch fanatic have been pretty much my whole life your video just about blew my head off the best I've ever seen God bless you thank you
These are beautiful pieces of machining. Stunning
When you consider the craftsmanship that went into making a watch like this it boggles the mind. The extremely tight tolerance of the parts involved is truly amazing considering that every piece was made by hand. No computer controlled machine shop here. No laser cutting either. Just a very skilled man with basic hand tools. No wonder these cost a fortune. The amount of time involved in making one must have been huge. They are true works of art. Thanks much for the show and tell. Amazing. ATB Doug.
That's right they cost a fortune, so to compare todays "cost a fortune" watch you would have to go far more than an IPAD at $500, you would have to compare against todays high end $50,000 watch.
Watches weren't the only things made entirely by hand...all microscopes were usually made by one craftsman; brass tubes, grinding the glass for lenses, cutting threads. Remarkable craft, sadly long forgotten.
Doug McArtin A very skilled man backed up by a team of hungry orphans. I hope they got to learn to make the watches or to read at least.
the design and math involved is amazing too.
I saw a video of a multi-million dollar watch being made. there was a good amount of handwork but there was a lot of CNC machine involvement. the complexity was off the charts though.
It's wound from the front through the central pillar because the French liked to be innovative at the expense of complexity. That's why we had the likes of Perrelet or Lepine and his apprentice Breguet.
I would love to have an 18th or early 19th century quarter repeating watch one of these days.
Chill Bill, I've been watching your metal detecting videos for a while now and I just now stumbled across this video. Absolutely incredible that you would own these museum pieces. Your watches are nearly as old or perhaps older than the United States... incredible. I know that the value of these watches are not the focal point and perhaps it's even bad manners to inquire about the value of these watches given the context of the video but I have to know as I am not only dumb founded but amazed. These watches look pristine as if you plucked them directly out of the past, 300 years ago. WOW!
Amazing craftsmanship and made to last .. beautiful
my wife's grandad had a verge watch from the latter 1600s amongst his antique items he'd collected. Unfortunately, 30 odd years after his death in 1971, this watch wasn't found anywhere in the house, so presumably, one of the several missing items he'd listed I presume that was sold.
Years later, scientists do not understand how it's humanly possible. It must've been aliens 💀
Bill, thank you for this wonderful journey into the past.
Great video of an amazing piece.
Thanks for a very educational video. I love pocket watches and I have been collecting them for the past 8 years, mostly late 19th and early 20th Century pocket watches. I knew absolutely nothing about the 17th and 18th century pocket watches so thanks for an absolutely fascinating lesson on these beautiful time pieces.
Today went to see a clock with 200 years old, and i was impressed mechanically.So smooth. and precise.
Absolutely amazing. I'm honestly surprised that they still work. I'd be to afraid to even wind them up. Bravo that you still let them run.
The entirety of this video is nothing short of pleasant.
Wonderful!!! So informative, though there must be horror stories about the child labourers! Gives one a whole new perspective on early society. We take watches so much for granted. Also a whole new perspective on your abilities!!! Luv U.
What a well presented and interesting video. The word Great doesn't convey enough. Many thanks.
Beautiful. Thank you for sharing three awesome pieces of mechanical art.
Love the ticking sound. You could post a soundtrack only vid with just watch ticking much like relaxing rainforest soundtracks. To some of us the sound would be just as soothing.
This is an absolute gem I love watches and coins and any old relics
Thank you so much Chill Bill ! I collect wristwatches and pocket watches never seen the inside of that old of a watch before! A real treat ! 🙂
Thanks everyone for the terrific feedback.
How many watches do you have?
They're so beautiful!!! just watching I started to tear up! It's so sad that much any more the cases are melted down or sold of to be melted for the gold.
is that a masons hat?
caleb wiggins they worth more as scrap
ItsMe NoName that's whay so many tubs down, the heat is rediculous
What no gloves ! I would not never . Priceless beauty .
Wonderful video. I suspect I'm like a lot of people, whereby my obsession with wrist watches is slowly taking me into vintage watches and pocket watches. I would like to own an old 18th century pocket watch one day and I learned a lot of from this. Well done and thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion.
They are morish!!!
Yes, they are! Unfortunately for my bank account!
Thank you. Greatly informative, with a wealth of contextual detail.
I remember this vid from a few years ago; nice to see it again. 😀 Simply astounding workmanship, wonderful history, nice reminder of yet another facet of the legendary TH-cam personality that is *Chill Bill*... 😏
Just had to give up my old 72 Catalina 27. Got a lil history up at my spot on an old pocket watch fob that I found metal detecting. Quite a cool history on this object, best find yet. Stay safe.
"A bare lady being approached by some gentlemen". This was such a genteel, thoroughly English phrase I laughed out loud.
Maybe the gentleman was bringing her a jumper to keep her warm!
clearly a wood nymph luring some hunters to some kind of downfall. The nudity is symbolic :P
Wonderful video showing pieces created when to own a watch was to be a person of wealth. I would love for you to do a video about "modern-day" pocket watches (say from 1900 to now).
Thanks for the suggestion, I'm planning another ancient pocket watch video
Hey there Chill Bill. Love your metal detecting videos, but this may be one of my favorites since I am very interested in horological history. Great video! And, what a gem of a watch… wow!
Absolutely wonderful video, beautiful watches with a lovely level of information added! fantastic.
Wonderful presentation! Thanks for sharing your time (pieces)!
Thsnks I might do another in the future.
I'd love to see (and share) it. A fascinating subject, and most definitely worth the time. Awesome hat, BTW. 8o)
A beautiful collection of stunning timepieces, thank you for sharing.
Wow...just...wow, to hear the sounds of the 16th century. Truly ancient machines.
TestTubeBabySpy
17th century you mean
Close its the 17th century
And we still pull things out of our pocket to check the time, it's just much more advanced.
Absolutely fantastic! TH-cam does throw up a gem now and then! I use my gg grandfathers watch daily. Solid gold case, a couple of pieces of the inner workings are gold as well and it’s over 19 jewels I believe. The really gem is the assay mark! It’s Birmingham, known for the silver usually but the assay office for the A.L.D watches burned down. So they moved into Birmingham for a short while, only a couple years I believe. Just like that one there is a beautiful ticking sound and it keeps time very well still. Excellent video :) great watch.
This is just fascinating. Love this video. Thanks!
See craftsmanship still can work if you think hard enough, Imagine after like 340 years it still works.
Where did you find all of these beautiful pocketwatches?
Absolutely gorgeous little wonders of engineering. Thanks for the tour and explanations.
How were the working parts manufactured back in those days? Would love to see a video on the 17th Century tooling and manufacturing process.
This 'old' video is a diamond,
would love to see in higher res, 60fps
please redo, there history in each of those time pieces
This is the best weirdest random video I have come accross and I am very delighted I decided to watch this! I'm not even into clocks, yet this was awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@ChillBill1 This video was posted 6 years ago, and you still reply to comments 5 years later....well done mate!
I also enjoyed watching this video, very peaceful and relaxing listening to your voice :)
It's crazy that watchmaking/clockmaking has been a tradition in Europe for over 500 years.
Thanks so much for sharing these exceptional pieces with us.
I have 4 antique pocket watches made in the 1730-1760 period they need a lot of help to make them work again. Wish I could find someone to help fix them up. I love to wind them up and just spend hours watching them work.
Love the early watches. If i could my whole collection would be pre 1800.
Very interesting video of pocket watch's from past history & those one you have are gorgeous
Wow ! All I can say is thank you for all that quality info. I have great respect for you and the time you put in explaining every part and extra info.
, watches like this belong in a Museum. absolutely magnificent and breath taking that such precision could have been achieved by hand in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Amazing pieces of horological history!! I wonder how much those would go for today.
Very nice collection of pocket watches Bill. Thank you for the lesson, love to learn.
Wonderful video! Beautiful watches!
Just stumbled across your channel, Cosy and traditional love a bit of late night history 👌 😀
Awesome! Thank you!
The watches are absolute treasures.
"very easy to break"
*slams face closed*
😂
gofercpt would hardly call that a slam.
Lol
SARedneckGoodTimes do you know the definition of “slam?”
@@hochspannunglebensgefahr5339 i believe it’s an accronym for “shut like a man”.
What a beautiful video. Wonderful job.
Amazing video. Thank you for sharing your collection and your knowledge.
great video,extremely informative as well..Thanks for posting this,also those three where beautiful pieces.
great video!
nice video. it's amazing what people did with their brains and hands.
absolutely amazing that in the 1600's, when the world population was only in millions, not billions, and mankind, knowledge, materials and resources were primitive, someone figured out a way to make such a intricate work of metals time piece from scratch, with scratch made tools, that has a quality on par with today's watchmaking, and still works and will even probably continue to outlast a modern watch in the long run.
Bill, That was an awesome tutorial on watches. I love it so much, you deserve a special shout out for it. Kudos for finding the gold coin. The first of you videos I watched. This is #2
how the hell were those components made? the chain the gears the spring? amazing
There were special tool, lathes, saws, all sorts, fascinating stuff.
Modern "Smart Watches" will not stand the test of time like these :) fascinating video thanks
wow, what an absolutely stunning video. those are exceptional timepieces. i am insanely jealous sir.. good job.
Excellent video!! So interesting and informative. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your interesting video sir. Beautifully delivered and full of facts. I wish I had any such watch if only forvthe pleasure of owning one.
This is one of my favorite videos on youtube (literally). There's so much information and the pacing is very relaxing and enjoyable too. I'd love a sort of series like this where you take us through coins, bullets, other watches, etc. and show us all the differences and such. I bet it'd be a hit on the channel! Really can't compliment this video enough. It's the perfect example of what a history class or museum tour should be.
Thanks Dozy, Ill see what I can do.
Chill Bill I'll be on watch haha! Good luck out there, hope you find something else really awesome soon! I have a good feeling about it.
Thank you for showing us this beauty.
You at very knowlegable.
Interestng and eloquent tutorial.
Thanks for sharing.
The Algorithm: "its 3 am and speaking of time, here's a video on victorian watches"
Very elucidating study of early picket watch fine mechanics! I just love that hat too!
Normally for handling watches they wear gloves. Very nice to listen to!
beyond incredible they were able to manufacture all the tiny precision parts!