Trying to FIX the Cheapest OMEGA Watch on eBay
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Hi, this video shows me attempting to repair the cheapest men's Omega watch that I found for sale on eBay. WARNING....If you fix watches for a living you WILL find this video painful to watch!!!!
Remember that this is just for entertainment and I am not an expert in these repairs. The processes in the video may not be the best way, the correct way or the safest way to fix these things.
I do love fault finding and trying to fix broken things so I hope that comes across in this 'Trying to FIX' series.
Many thanks, Vince.
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Vince trying to fix watches is scarier than horror movies.
OCD, OCD, has ruined watch face with the sea-monster ... awwww
@@BillAnt Me too...I work on Timex Electrics and my OCD kicks in when I find a micron of lint. I then have to do a disassembly, make some more mistakes, and I ruin a perfectly good running vintage timepiece!
As a professional watchmaker I found this video hilarious. Especially since this is a very easy movement to service.
You have some real balls doing this, I will give you that.
would you happen to know what the real issue was?(most likely)
@@leopineda6198 There are many things that could be wrong. The most common thing I see with this movement are A) the watch just needs proper cleaning and re-lubrication, B) the circuit has internal corrosion and needs to be replaced, C) the coil for the step motor has been damaged do to improper battery replacement.
I really don't think it takes "Balls" to work on a watch, just steady hands and great eyesight.
@@hazardousshluud2000 it takes lot more then good eyes and a steady hand to fix a watch. It takes knowledge and experience. The fact that he has the "balls" to attempt something he knows little about when most people wouldn't even attempt it, gets a page in my book.
@@hazardousshluud2000 durak chito il?
What this video shows is that the large number of watch professionals and advanced amateurs on TH-cam make watch maintenance and repair seem so easy that the viewer is left wanting to have a go themselves. They show the watches via microscopes and superb macro camera work, so you don't realise the incedibly tiny dimensions. They can do the work due to years of learning and hard earned experience. If there is a lesson here it is that watch repair is very hard and if you want to have a go then buy some old £1 watches from car boot sales to have a play with. To echo another commenter - this video really shows that Vince has some serious balls to let us all see this. Well done for trying Vince. We only learn by making mistakes.
"let's take everything apart and see what happens" thank god, you are not a surgeon xD
Don't give him any more ideas ;-D
How do you think surgery was learned in the first place? :p
Trying to fix my dead hamster
That's precisely how modern medicine was born - posh chaps taking a knife to the recently deceased poor to see how people are made. .
"I bought the cheapest human beeing on the dark web and I tried to fix it"
Fair play for uploading this despite knackering the dial. I’m glad you saw the funny side.
7 minutes in "if it's just a case of cleaning up the gears". Video is 1 hour and 8 minutes long... I doubt it will be that simple Vince.
Can't believe the work and money you spent on this video, true dedication, loved it and I don't even care about watches but I sat for nearly 70 mins glued to this.
Good story, 'I just ruined a watch what can I do next!!!...'. Long live the Vince!
You took a chance on a watch and it was knackered to begin with and you got it working. You probably learned out of it but it’s working.
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Immediately after you did the watch face reveal, Mr. Beans movie came to mind where he was "fixing" the painting he sneezed on. Oh, and that jumper story was hilarious. The dumb stuff we've all done as kids.
Oh yes I remember that Mr Bean movie, that bit was brilliant. It was a perfect example of things going to far when if he had stopped at the beginning it would have been ok :-)
@@Mymatevince Although you may not like the tattoo solution, it is still a lot better than Mr Bean’s pencil drawing.
TBH I REALLY liked the tattoo! It played off the white date nicely
U-turn an old watch, into a entertaining video. Thanks Vince
How to make the cheapest omega watch on eBay worth even less. Lol
Thanks for the honest video. Refreshing really refreshing
LOL!
😂😂😂😂 aww bless him he's a trier lol . I had my fingers crossed when he put the battery in as his Xmas would have arrived early lol
You should re name the channel to "Break it with Vince" lol
Bored smashing grocery store phones with vince
or OCD R' Us.. he-he
I love the look of the watch and I think you've created something rather special. I also admire you patience and determination. I'd certainly wear the watch.
Hey Vince, a rainbow unicorn sticker would really take that watch face into another realm, really class it up a bit. 😂🤣😂🤣😆
The engraving on the back means 'property of Dan'.
Thanks :-)
Dan might be a first name but, it is also the name of the biggest israely bus company.
Its in Hebrew correct?
@@EddieLeal indeed
Literally loved every second. I think you salvaged your effort great and look forward to future efforts.
I actually really liked the wave/ sea monster design. You should have kept it.
I liked the design as well.
I'd have bought it off him with the tattoo... It made the watch one of a kind. Now, it's just an old watch with a scratched face...
Same, I liked the wave tattoo
Thank you for making these videos! Besides being a great source of entertainment, I've really learned a lot from your channel. I recently picked up a broken PS Vita 1000 and was able to troubleshoot and fix it up again like new! Thanks for all you do for the fix it community! Can't wait for the next video!
Thanks so much :-)
Ironically, while I was watching this, I was working on a gameboy I've been restoring for a while. When I originally replaced the plastic screen lens with a glass one, I used compressed air to blow out any dust so it wouldn't show up on the screen. Dust drives me nuts, but I should have just let it lay, as the compressed air sprayed out liquid and I ended up having to wipe down the screen with a cloth, leaving smears on the inside of the screen. It's subtle, and is only visible from certain angles, but I know if I were to go back in and wipe the smears out, I'd just end up getting dust back in there. Your video helped me to keep my OCD in check and just let it go, so thank you Vince!
Thanks, nice example. I had a similar problem with a spec of dust on a glass screen protector on a Nintendo Switch. One tiny spec which most people wouldn't see ended up with me ruining the screen protector by trying to remove the spec. I should have left it but I knew I would keep focussing on it :-)
I quite liked the wave thingy imho but maybe you could get some paint and colour match it to the exact colour and gently weave it into the existing dial finish? Think the looniest thing I did ever was when me clippers broke and I have had no hair since 1976 so desperate for a Picard job I put a load of Immac/Veet on me head and had to go to casualty because it had burnt me scalp horrendously, I actually put a carrier bag on me head before I would step outside into the ambulance and it was all blistered up and red raw for weeks after but lucky or rather unlucky it didn't damage the follicles so I still have to trim me hair.
My mate put Immac on his Ass and Balls years ago and ended in terrible burns and all us lot laughing allot at him..
Haha Ian, that is a good one, exactly the type of story we all love :-)
I can relate to your pain! I tried to fix a Seiko automatic after I ruined the coil. I must have set it down where it got torn. They're extremely fragile. It took me hours to at least put it back together so it worked, minus the coil. Watch repair is not for the faint of heart. The small size of parts makes the simplest actions difficult.
That tattoo on the dial face came out amazing! Very impressed with such an economic solution
Your perseverance, patience and self-deprecation are admirable. Hilarious videos! SUBSCRIBED.
Vince, great video as always.
You did a good job on the watch face.
The decal wasn't that bad.
You should make your own decal design. Put it on the watch face.
Fix the second hand.
Omega Watch revisited.
I'd watch that.
Don't give up!
Thanks mate :-)
Great video, Vince! I actually really liked the wave tattoo on the watch!! It made it unique and added flare! Lots of people have a watch like this, but you made it your own! But I'm married to an artist, so I might just be used to things that are out of the ordinary!
Cheers Jim :-)
i absolutely love your channel you are extremely clever and fearless,you have an enquiring mind ,which is very important
you can get the movement for 20 new , the reason you pay 90 is the transport company on front that make it very colectable.
Great video. When I start on a new project I have not tried before, I make mistakes. But I learn and eventually I master what I am doing. It is easy to criticise when you master something. BUT I would choose a cheaper watch for testing, but maybe it is aesier to acuire spares for brand watches. Thanks for the video.
I have to say .....I like the dial!
Love to watch it today, because last night I screwed up my Seiko King Quartz. Couldn't refit the bridge wheels & the motor. I gave up for some other time.
I dig that design. It looks like waves.
i had to take a call halfway through this vid and missed the logo removal tattoo cover up and when i came back i thought you had just bought a new face for the watch i really liked the tattoo and think you should have kept it ,anyway really good video i really enjoy your watch fixes maybe a rolex next
You know what, if you like it, why not? It's your watch anyway. I kinda like it! The logo was ugly anyway, and you creatively got rid of it. You can now truly say it's 'your' watch, instead one of a batch.
I'm glad I ""watched" this one. It's about "time."
Some one should 'clock' you for that joke. I'm going to start a 'movement' and 'hand' you a defeat....just give me a 'second'.
These puns are so out of date
It went like clockwork. Haha
you guys are seriously ticking me off with these puns
I hate you 😂😂😂
You could make a small Seamaster sticker of the horse and cover that patch ? .. Also that story of the red dot on the t-shirt made me laugh ! priceless !
You should email omega. You never know they might re-release it. The new vince edition. 😁😆
Hey Vince, just a suggestion, you should look into getting a pair of hot tweezers aka desouldering tweezers. Will really help with removing small components from a circuit board without affecting other components on a board. Not necessarily related to this video but just a suggestion.
one of my watches stopped working, I send it to a watch expert, nothing wrong with it, few days later stopped working again. I ended up spraying car interior silicone, working like a charm so far.
Vince, you're hilarious man! Love the experimentation you're doing with the watch face there. If you collab with Omega, I'd definitely buy one!
Just come across this. Great video I'm a starting out on the watchmaking journey. Very informative thanks
I think you should try and repairing a wind up clock next time. I bought a wind up pendulum clock yesterday which I had to take apart and give it a clean and oil and it works very well now.
Have a look on ebay for model kit decals/transfers - I'm sure you'll find something you like that'll cover the mark up.
Have you come across the rather excellent videos by Mark Lovick? I have completed his online course and learned a lot from him. Without wishing to sound too critical I feel your technique would be much improved by learning from him.
Rather than go straight to trying to fix the watch I would of carried out a strip clean and service in the correct order and then tested the watch after this. Mark has several videos on carrying out this procedure on quartz watches. I can't recommend watching his videos before carrying out the work.
Man, I was repairing a ZX Spectrum while I was listening to this and I had to left it because of the laughter when you told the history of your friend and the stain, something very simmilar happened to me when I was a kid involving mercurochrome and a curtain xD. BTW, the tatoo didn't looked that bad, it seemed some kind of limited serial painting, but I know the feeling of seeing something that doesn't belongs there hidding a fault, something revolves inside your guts and at the end you prefer the fault than the patch. Well, at the end you have a working watch and that's what matters :)
Vince the Destroyer!!
Haha great video Vince! I've enjoyed it a lot! I felt so identified with the part when you ruined the sphere. It happens to all of us from time to time...
Thank you :-)
i kinda liked the tattoo but it looks good anyway , good job :D
Vince in the future just stick a My Mate Vince logo on the dial face to cover any unsightly logo you don't like.
Hmm.... it takes a while of learning to tackle these . Dial is ruined (sorry)
When working on watches never force a part ever. They will go together with the right placement.
Step rotors are a pain too with the magnetism. There are a few techniques but even I have broken pivots in my time.
Fair play for having a go but perhaps a lesser brand would have been better.
Thanks for the advice :-)
It’s not just alright. It’s awesome!
I've removed scratches from mineral crystals using wet dry sand paper. It works well. Put it flat on a table, wet it and rub the crystal over it until the scratches are gone.
it will work but you will have to be very precise and go through many grits (starting from 800 or 1000 depending on the scratches) ..maybe
The dial looks like a crashing wave you should have kept it just think though u can have that dial painted over
Haha, I started to watch and rewind to see if it was succesfull and I thought that it was intentionally made painting of some kind of waves or flowers. So as for me it looks interesting :)
ayyy, gotta love getting your teeth into different kind of tech, much better than monotonous daily repair :)
Best watch repair ever! Hahahaha this is awesome man! Although you didn’t go full ape and hit it with a hummer like I would! Kidding aside this is gold cause this is how we amateurs fix watches
I would buff at a slower speed because buffing creates a lot of heat that may warp the thin metal interal parts due to heat transfer. You also dont need to use much pressure. Let the compound do the work.
The hebrew on the back of the watch says "Rechush Dan" which means in english Dan Company's Property.
So now you better give it back as its stolen!!! Hahaha
No, It means "Dan is steward of this possession"
Yep.. this logo belong to a bus company in TEL-AVIV, israel. I think this watch was given as a gift to drivers after a 20 years of working in the company. BTW the company still working today :) dan - דן
Rodico is easily cleaned buy stretching it out then folding over, repeat untill its clean
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Shouldn’t it be killah?
Analog watches use the most power during the day /date change (11:30-1:30) cycle. Cycle (rotating) the hands a full 24 hour cycle BEFORE taking it out of the casing sometimes removes hair, lent or debris from the drivetrain. Scratches on the back casing along with the broken seal means someone else has been in it.
Thanks for the tips :-)
Just place a sticker on it. Get a sticker with Vince written on it or something related to Omega and place it on top. Done.
I love your channel,greeting from dominican republic,Sto. Dgo.
You’re mad! The face looks beautiful with that wave. I know it devalues the watch but I’d rather have it look individual!
At last ... Someone worst than me BUT I don't take on Omegas I'm a Citizen guy and I've wrecked at least 20 of them 😂😂 but still I enjoyed your video mate .
It does look good at a distance and glad your in a car , good for distance, thank for posting
The tattoo on the watch I thought looked ok. Now once removed. The Watch still looks good though with it removed.
Trying. To. Fix. The. Cheapest omega watch. On. eBay. Like 👍
The logo debacle just reminds me of that Mr Bean movie with the Whistler's Mother painting.
Learn by doing. When measuring the battery, the battery must be in the watch so that there is a load on it. There may be 1.5 volts without load, but with load it drops to 0.5 volts.
But good video.
Awesome video. Thank you for sharing the journey!
That jumper story was great! Maybe best to send that dial off now to get refinished? Alternatively: just an idea but you could get someone to do a little engraving over that spot with your own design. Or better yet get yourself a laser engraver Vince and lets see how far you can take this :p
Haha, engraver, don't give me any ideas!!!!….. this could be dangerous. Actually an engraving could possibly work :-)
The text רכוש דן means "property of Dan".
Dan is a bus company that is focused on Tel Aviv but you also get them elsewhere in central Israel. Nice seeing Israeli "Easter eggs" on TH-cam haha
Great vid!! I thought the watch looked great with the tattoo on it. That was almost as funny as the time you painted eyebrows on the two guys in the RC car!!
It's crazy how small those gears are. I would've lost my patience about 5 minutes after fiddling with them. That tattoo hack job is, well, clever.
That watchface actually looks cool...
Oh no Vince , i love the tattoo dial !
I would have tried with turpintine before Polywatch,still great video I´m currently ruining a Seiko 5, but with perseverance you get there in the end.
Ironic that most of the time you try to remove water damage......and here you are applying it! LOL.
Very commendable attempt at a repair, shame it turned out to be more of a 'replace'.....glass looks excellent though!
You should have kept the logo, it made it unique.
Really enjoying your videos vince but I was laughing /smiling so much at the wave/transfer honestly i was weak ..what about a omega logo over given area in matt vynil...keep the videos coming 👍
You definitely more patient than me. I would have given up on it. lol!
I love the outcome of it with the tattoo so much so that id buy it
i immediately noticed that דן(dan) logo, im from israel. nice to see it :)
You can change the mouvement against the original ETA mouvement in the worst case. But a few drops of oil generally would do the job.
I loved the tattoo but anyways ...... Yeah 😂
This watch is from Israel.
It had a bus company logo (named "Dan", the logo is the hebrew word "דן", where the "I" attaches to a bus wheel) on it haha, this is so random.
Probably a retirement gift to one of the drivers.
Edit: Just saw you mentioned it at the start of the video haha...
Thanks for the info :-)
I think the tattoo dial looked awsome 😁
I know nothing about watches . But I've just been watching this on both my tv and my phone and on the tv it looked more like it may of been catching at the centre pin part of the hands. Didn't seem to have good clearance between the second and minute hand at that point. Also you're a brave man working on such delicate and tiny parts. The ideas of doing these are intimidating to me personally. Love watching you do them though. I have a cuckoo clock my father in law has requested I fix but terrified to start it as it's over 40 years old
Thanks Dave, I will watch the video back to see. I wish I had a chance to work out what the original fault was but the stem caused me no end of trouble :-)
Nice video Vince,,, you could do a colour match of paint and get rid of that mark.... again would not be perfect but so very close.... watches are very hard to do, I have tried a couple and also failed :-) at least you got yours working again....
Thanks Peter :-)
got this vid the hole day in my brain,...
..lol now going to watch his other wath vids^^
Dear Vince, thanks for your soul healing videos .
You are more patient than me !
Great video =D It's so very easy to break parts in watches! From a distance lol! Of about a mile!!! I've done plenty of things like that where I cannot leave it alone when its 99.9% perfect, then I make it far far worse to the point its f$$$ed lol. A good example was a PSP screen I cleaned up - it was pretty much perfect, but that wasn't good enough for me, so I polished it some more, and a little more, each time it got worse... Tip, don't use PlastX on PSP screens, it's one of the few things that actually get worse from using it!
Haha, yes at a distance of a mile it might be OK :-) PSP screen must have been annoying because you are trying to make it better but you are putting time and work in to make it worse:-)
Hehe =D Overall the watch came out well though! I was amazed to see the movement could be swapped entirely! That symbol kind of looked like something WW2 related to me, so I wasn't surprised you wanted to remove it lol.
Yeah, originally I thought it looked like the rear wheel (tailwheel) on a plane. That is the good thing with the ETA movements, loads of spares and complete movements for sale. This one was very pricey, when I changed over my TAG watch years ago it was under £30 for the complete movement. Shows that maybe TAG watches might be overpriced :-)
Perhaps that watch was a company gift to celebrate an employee being with the company for a number of years. I know some companies give their employees gifts like this after 10 year and 20 years and such and such.
Hi Vince! ... actually I congratulate you for taking the risk of fixing an Omega watch ... it is not a cheap watch since it is a prestigious brand ... maybe you got it at a very good price and you have previous experiences ... I don't even touch it crazy ... hehehe! ... how good for you it's a great watch.
Thought about this sooo many times if Vince was in Monty Python
Nice work!
Personally I liked the tattoo, made it unique.