Incredible! Thankfully, there are people that care about the past as much as the present. These tools being restored and there for all the world to see is wonderful! Thank you for this video!
I really appreciate your cooperation with Mr. Speak-Marin. His project "Naked Watchmaker" already fascinates me, and your videos with him are the audiovisual icing on the cake with the usual great production value!
Thank You Andre for taking the time to save these machines , seeing the workmanship that goes into designing and making of these machines which are not only functional but beautiful is humbling. Thank you Peter for the explanations and the presentation and most of all Mads..you have done it again...a brilliant edition that looks at another aspect of the world of watches...
A bundle of thanks to everyone involved in making this video, and Mr André Léchot specifically for having such an amazing collection and restoring it all by himself. Collections like these deserve to be preserved and made available for future generations, along with helpful videos like this, to showcase the human ingenuity, passion and brilliant craftsmanship. It is more pertinent now, when our attention spans are decreasing and main sources of human attention are getting restricted to rather silly and uninvolved avenues.
Marc, this video demonstrates that you really know your core audience. Utterly fascinating, I wish it was twice as long with close ups and demonstrations!
I'm a machinist by trade and a hobbyist watchmaker. The tools and "machines" here are truly amazing. Pocket watches in most instances were the most expensive and technologically advanced devices a person could own. They could cost nearly a years wages. They were cared for and repaired when necessary because accurate time keeping was so important to daily life. This is why one can, with relative ease, acquire a fully functional pocket watch that is over 200 years old. Getting to see these tools makes me appreciate my hobby even more. I'm very grateful to Andre for his passion and hard work invested in these historic machines and tools. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Beautifull. This is the reason I work as a toolmaker, this appreciation, and value that I have admired in past generation machinery. Buil for a specification not for a price. Unfortunately, most companies are now driven by accountants and they have little care about engineering finesse. All they see is profit margins and now pride in quality.
Wowowowowowo what a stunning video….. thank you to you and to Peter to explain to us the working behind this lovely machine.. we need to visit this place pleeeease i would really love to go and visit him….. pleeeaseeeeee thank you very much ! All the best
Go back for 4 hours and I'd pay for that on DVD. This was wonderful, my dream exactly if I won the lottery. I knew what every one of these tools were and how they were used- except for 1- the balance clamping rest for removing balance screws. Even the bow mill I knew. He picked the most common tools that many know...I would love to see him go through the whole collection for 4 hours 🥰 Thank you so much for making this, it brought me such joy to know someone else cared about these as much as me. Is his collection viewable by appointment?
Really a great video. Congratulations to M. Léchot for his incredible collection and to Mr. Speake-Marin for the passionate and clear explanation. Thank you theWatchesTV for the nth excellent proposal. Keep on this way.
This is breath taking !!! I wish in the near future , Mr Speake Marin will use these babies to produce timepieces again !! that would be like the cherry on top , in watchmaking !!
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful lifetime of restoration Andra LeShone (sorry about your name spelling sir) you are a very passionate man, you have spent these 40 years doing a job that is priceless. We are in the Untied States and while we have been at this for 15 years to your 40 years we are proud to be made aware of you. Thanks to the expert standing with you Peter who explains these tools well and to TheWatches.tv crew for finding you. While we have many of these machines and tools like you, we just want to share that we to this day utilize many of them daily as well as we restore them along the way add new ones too often (addiction we think). Anyways Mr. LeShone (sorry again for the spelling) we honor your efforts and thank you so much for allowing the outside world in to see your wonderful work and collection.
Thank you so much for this super appreciated comment and very happy to have brought this to your attention. And also truly happy to heat that you do the same!!! All the very best
Wow, one of the best videos so far. Just one minus, it was too short. I would have liked it to be longer, much longer. Are you gonna make a second video covering more tools in more depth ? That would be awesome. As I'm new to the watch repair, I like the old tools and the work they could do. Modern machines are great, but they miss on the personal level of care when it comes to making a watch. Thank you for another great video.
Very educational video and great content as always. The owner really should consider setting up a museum to publicly display and share these amazing pieces.
What a fantastic collection! In must have been an amazing amount of time to restore all this beautiful machines to this condition. On some of them I am working nearly every day, and dispite the fact that some of them are over hundred years old, their accuracy is still absolutley top. Many people who visit my workshop are thinking that I just collect them because they are beautiful to look at, but they are still great to work with!
Ahhh great to see you again Marc Andre! Been away from TH-cam but glad I am back for another extraordinary video from my favourite timepiece connoisseur! Always a pleasure Marc, cheers from Kevin, Louisiana, USA
I would have loved to see more of this collection. Oddly I found this video whilst searching for instructions on a Vintage watch tool I just purchased. I restore vintage watches and get vintage tools as part of lot purchases. Amazing video thanks you.
I'm sure everyone agrees that's why own a nice time piece is so mesmerizing if you appreciate, what is a behind the final product, very interesting video, thanks guys
Marc and Peter: Having just got in watch repairing after retiring for work. The tools used in watch making are fascinating, and this collection is beautiful. Thank you Peter for explaining the use of some of the tools. Thanks to the collector for sharing his passion and to you Marc for another great video. Keep up the excellent work you do on TheWatchesTV.
A fantastic video, thank you Marc.why did Peter only wear one glove? He put his fingerprints all over the brass work! I'm sure the owner was delighted.
What a fantastic collection and video, thanks Peter for your detailed explanations. This collection needs to be preserved for posterity in a public museum, not least as a monument to this man's dedication in preserving these treasures. If ever you are in Waterford go to the new Irish Museum of Time where fantastic private collections of watches and clocks (mainly) are preserved and presented beautifully. How wonderful it would be to actually see these machines in operation. Just a comment on the wheels with fancy serpentine spokes. When wheels are cast it is well known that the spokes often crack as a result of contraction during the cooling process if they are strictly radial---the serpentine shape provides more flexibility and partly at least alleviates the problem. So as well as decorative, the shape may have a very practical function if the wheels were cast. You will find this technique used on cast wheels on even very humble farm machinery.
I find myself alternating which wrist I'd wear my watch on depending on which particular style of watch i chose to wear at that time, for example my Casio Pro Trek would be on the left, Tag on the right, just depends on mood and destination i guess.
Speake-Marin watches blew me away the first time I handled them and saw their price point. For my personal taste, the lugs and crowns were a bit too much for me. But after seeing this, I feel like I understand his brand much better now (albeit that he is no longer at the company) and am definitely re-interested in trying another on...
I could watch this kind of video all day long. Then tomorrow I'd like to see them in use with some very good in focus close-ups, because I have a lot of stuff like many of these things, but am not really sure what they all do. Save the watches and tools from the ones' that believe themselves to be (steam punk "artists"), put an end to the senseless, narcissistic destruction of these true works of art.
Amazing BRAVO 👏👏👏❤️💯🙏 I Love this mashines to ,first tool in my collection is taping device from my grandpa ❤️💯🙏 Work of Art and rocket science for today China's mashines...i will try to save every mashines and old tool that i find in future 💯🙏❤️😎
Is there a book about these vintage tools and how they were used. I would be very interested in an inventory listing all these vintage tools with descriptions of their use and pictures of these unique and rare tools'
Yes- Look up the books written by Ted Crom, a horological tool collector. He's gone now, but he wrote a series of self published books on exactly that. Look up Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900, Horological & Other Shop Tools 1700-1900, Early Lancanshire Horological Tools & Their Makers, and lastly Early Horological Wheel Cutting Engines 1700-1900 to satisfy your curiosity. Simonin in Switzerland has others as well. All 4 of these books are uncommon to rare at this point, but I have all 4.
Nice collection and vid. Most of these tools, or simmilar, i saw in this video, we still use in restoration of wrist- and pocketwatches, come visit us, if you want to see them in action. Belle Heure, Zeist, Netherlands
I would like to see Michel Parmigiani's collection. His company is considered one of the best in the world for restoration of antique watches and automata.
they used to make really high quality tools then as bergeon still do today , not like a lot of rubbish these days, especially from China. Can some of these be used for clock making and repair
There's a bit of that, but at least memory is kept and very hopefully some of these tools will find a bit of working time on some strange project... Best to you
Outstanding! If it was two hours long, I would have watched every minute.
Agreed.
In that case we might have to go back!!!! Best to you
Yes! Please go back!
SAME
@@user-zl2sc3bg3g Please go back with longer version !!!!!!!!!!
Incredible! Thankfully, there are people that care about the past as much as the present. These tools being restored and there for all the world to see is wonderful! Thank you for this video!
So happy you liked it, thanks a lot!!
I really appreciate your cooperation with Mr. Speak-Marin. His project "Naked Watchmaker" already fascinates me, and your videos with him are the audiovisual icing on the cake with the usual great production value!
That is so nice to hear, thanks so much, makes us truly happy!!!
The creativity and engineering prowess of these early watchmakers are to be respected for their beauty in creating these wonderful tools.
Thank You Andre for taking the time to save these machines , seeing the workmanship that goes into designing and making of these machines which are not only functional but beautiful is humbling. Thank you Peter for the explanations and the presentation and most of all Mads..you have done it again...a brilliant edition that looks at another aspect of the world of watches...
So happy to read this nice comment, thanks so much!!!!
Another awesome video by Marc...
This is the only video online which delicate itself purely on watch making tools. Good job!!!!!!!!
Love showing the broader spectrum of watchmaking!!! Thanks for the comment
A bundle of thanks to everyone involved in making this video, and Mr André Léchot specifically for having such an amazing collection and restoring it all by himself.
Collections like these deserve to be preserved and made available for future generations, along with helpful videos like this, to showcase the human ingenuity, passion and brilliant craftsmanship. It is more pertinent now, when our attention spans are decreasing and main sources of human attention are getting restricted to rather silly and uninvolved avenues.
Marc, this video demonstrates that you really know your core audience. Utterly fascinating, I wish it was twice as long with close ups and demonstrations!
Beautiful watchmakertool collection
This was a great video. And has added to my appreciation for the craftsmanship from the past. Thank yog
Makes us truly happy, thanks a lot!!
I'm a machinist by trade and a hobbyist watchmaker. The tools and "machines" here are truly amazing. Pocket watches in most instances were the most expensive and technologically advanced devices a person could own. They could cost nearly a years wages. They were cared for and repaired when necessary because accurate time keeping was so important to daily life. This is why one can, with relative ease, acquire a fully functional pocket watch that is over 200 years old. Getting to see these tools makes me appreciate my hobby even more. I'm very grateful to Andre for his passion and hard work invested in these historic machines and tools. Thank you for sharing this with us.
You're very welcome and I think so too that pocket watches are fantastic objects for what they represent! Best to you
Beautifull. This is the reason I work as a toolmaker, this appreciation, and value that I have admired in past generation machinery. Buil for a specification not for a price. Unfortunately, most companies are now driven by accountants and they have little care about engineering finesse. All they see is profit margins and now pride in quality.
Amen. No one cares or appreciates craftsmanship or artistry anymore. We are all loosing because of it.
Doing our share to put this forward ;) All the very best to you and thanks for watching.
@@user-zl2sc3bg3g No, thank you Mark for your efforts to film and edit this, is a real treasure and it inspires more than you think.
Wowowowowowo what a stunning video….. thank you to you and to Peter to explain to us the working behind this lovely machine.. we need to visit this place pleeeease i would really love to go and visit him….. pleeeaseeeeee thank you very much ! All the best
That opening just made my jaw drop. That is quite a collection and I'm pretty much speechless. Impressive stuff!
IC
Get your feeling, had the same one when I entered this incredible room for the first time (and the second time!!!). Best to you
OMG do I love this channel. I have watched this video three times in a row. No kidding!
Hahaha, I love it, thanks a lot!!!!!!!
Go back for 4 hours and I'd pay for that on DVD. This was wonderful, my dream exactly if I won the lottery.
I knew what every one of these tools were and how they were used- except for 1- the balance clamping rest for removing balance screws. Even the bow mill I knew. He picked the most common tools that many know...I would love to see him go through the whole collection for 4 hours 🥰
Thank you so much for making this, it brought me such joy to know someone else cared about these as much as me. Is his collection viewable by appointment?
Really a great video. Congratulations to M. Léchot for his incredible collection and to Mr. Speake-Marin for the passionate and clear explanation. Thank you theWatchesTV for the nth excellent proposal. Keep on this way.
That's very nice of you, thanks so much!
Such an incredible job restorting these tools! I'm so jealous and want all of them!
He did an astounding job with this; no compromise, no shortcuts taken, everything is mint!!!!! Extraordinary
This is breath taking !!! I wish in the near future , Mr Speake Marin will use these babies to produce timepieces again !! that would be like the cherry on top , in watchmaking !!
beautiful objects, i know nothing about watchmaking, yet i was fascinated.
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful lifetime of restoration Andra LeShone (sorry about your name spelling sir) you are a very passionate man, you have spent these 40 years doing a job that is priceless. We are in the Untied States and while we have been at this for 15 years to your 40 years we are proud to be made aware of you.
Thanks to the expert standing with you Peter who explains these tools well and to TheWatches.tv crew for finding you. While we have many of these machines and tools like you, we just want to share that we to this day utilize many of them daily as well as we restore them along the way add new ones too often (addiction we think). Anyways Mr. LeShone (sorry again for the spelling) we honor your efforts and thank you so much for allowing the outside world in to see your wonderful work and collection.
Thank you so much for this super appreciated comment and very happy to have brought this to your attention. And also truly happy to heat that you do the same!!! All the very best
Wow, one of the best videos so far. Just one minus, it was too short. I would have liked it to be longer, much longer. Are you gonna make a second video covering more tools in more depth ? That would be awesome. As I'm new to the watch repair, I like the old tools and the work they could do. Modern machines are great, but they miss on the personal level of care when it comes to making a watch. Thank you for another great video.
This was beyond wonderful. Tank you for all of your efforts, watchmaking would not be the same without you.
That is so kind of you, thanks so much, means a lot to us!!!
thank you for this new video, the comments and explanations of Peter are really interesting.
Very welcome and thanks!!
Great man to collect and restore such wonderful history.
Thanks for this nice comment!
Incredible collection and Incredibly important collection without those tools none of the watches we collect and enjoy today would exist!.
Wow!! This gives a whole new level of appreciation
Absolutely masterpieces of machinery art what a stunning collection!! 😱😱😱💯💯💯💯
One word. UNBELIEVABLE!
Top quality and class this channel ! 👍👍👍
Many many thanks, makes us very happy to hear this!!!
An astounding collection of historic tools. I would love to see each one demonstrated.
Very educational video and great content as always. The owner really should consider setting up a museum to publicly display and share these amazing pieces.
He would love to, but really the entire collection to be put on display, so naturally a bit complicated to organise. Hopefully one day! Best to you
What a fantastic collection! In must have been an amazing amount of time to restore all this beautiful machines to this condition. On some of them I am working nearly every day, and dispite the fact that some of them are over hundred years old, their accuracy is still absolutley top. Many people who visit my workshop are thinking that I just collect them because they are beautiful to look at, but they are still great to work with!
I'm sure they are and love the idea of them still being used!! All the very best to you and have a great day
Ahhh great to see you again Marc Andre! Been away from TH-cam but glad I am back for another extraordinary video from my favourite timepiece connoisseur! Always a pleasure Marc, cheers from Kevin, Louisiana, USA
Thanks so much and welcome back ;)
I own three simple topping tools, not as beautiful as these but indeed, a work of art in itself.
Nice Video Marc Love it👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Cheers
Alan
Thanks a lot, happy you liked it!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video
So wonderful to see these old fantastic tools
Thank you so much for this wonderful video, Marc!
You are very welcome and thanks for watching!
Superbe mécanique, merci pour cette vidéo.
De rien et merci de regarder nos vidéos!!
So frustrating. I am looking for those machines and they are all right there.
I would have loved to see more of this collection. Oddly I found this video whilst searching for instructions on a Vintage watch tool I just purchased. I restore vintage watches and get vintage tools as part of lot purchases. Amazing video thanks you.
Excellent video , Stunning collection of tools , a real labor of love and Peter's explanation of there function was brilliant .
Thanks a lot for this
Absolutely mind-blowing
I have a First Original Set of Watch Making Tools from my grandfather. He worked at one of the houses when he was young.
Where are you from?
André did a great job. His collection is unique.
Absolutely, fantastic job!!!
Pretty much beautiful works of art in my humble opinion. Outstanding collection.
I'm sure everyone agrees that's why own a nice time piece is so mesmerizing if you appreciate, what is a behind the final product, very interesting video, thanks guys
That's right, it's the full picture which is important!! Thanks a for watching and the comment
I am lost for words, so beautiful.
Quite something for sure 👍👍👍 thanks for the comment
I only know most of those tools from my Flume 1906/07 catalog! Thankˋs a lot.
Very welcome, happy you liked it!
Outstanding the best show I’ve ever seen. I think the tools are priceless love it.Thank you
I appreciate this and you both, thanks for sharing this with us
Amazing! Bob
Marc and Peter: Having just got in watch repairing after retiring for work. The tools used in watch making are fascinating, and this collection is beautiful. Thank you Peter for explaining the use of some of the tools. Thanks to the collector for sharing his passion and to you Marc for another great video. Keep up the excellent work you do on TheWatchesTV.
This really makes us happy, thanks so much, highly appreciated comment! Best to you
Fascinating, and who better than the Naked Watch Maker to take us on a tour. Simply brilliant.
Merci pour cette vidéo 👍
C'est très enrichissant.
Dommage qu'on ne puisse pas le visiter.
Merci à vous et peut être que dans le futur ce serait possible, on vous tiendra au courant!
Great tour and wonderful restorations, thanks. The working principles are timeless even if their application to watches is fading.🙂
Great video!
Thanks a lot
I see so many tools I wish I had in my workshop. I love that they're restored and preserved I also wish I could put them to use.
I would actually love to give them to this gentleman since they are a part of history. They would be cared for. He would have loved that!
I had no idea it was a cutter and blades and tourbillon tools
Hello and this is a really nice thought, we can help you coordinate if you want. All the very best to you, have a great day!
Absolutely outstanding. Great educational video. I have owned a few vintage tools including a hairspring vibrator.
A fantastic video, thank you Marc.why did Peter only wear one glove? He put his fingerprints all over the brass work! I'm sure the owner was delighted.
To demonstrate them it is a bit easier ;) Best to you
Great and fascinating video!
I cannot imagine the amount of work to restore the tools.
Absolutely Fabulous......
I'm hoping these machines make it to an horological museum eventually. A treasure for sure. ✌
Great video!!!
Very fascinating!
Happy you liked it!!
@@user-zl2sc3bg3g I did. Great not to forget about the past.
Highly important to know where we come from!!!
@@user-zl2sc3bg3g Indeed!
What a fantastic collection and video, thanks Peter for your detailed explanations. This collection needs to be preserved for posterity in a public museum, not least as a monument to this man's dedication in preserving these treasures. If ever you are in Waterford go to the new Irish Museum of Time where fantastic private collections of watches and clocks (mainly) are preserved and presented beautifully. How wonderful it would be to actually see these machines in operation. Just a comment on the wheels with fancy serpentine spokes. When wheels are cast it is well known that the spokes often crack as a result of contraction during the cooling process if they are strictly radial---the serpentine shape provides more flexibility and partly at least alleviates the problem. So as well as decorative, the shape may have a very practical function if the wheels were cast. You will find this technique used on cast wheels on even very humble farm machinery.
I love tools. I would of loved to watch someone work on parts on each of those.
Any chance of making a video describing the much more interesting tools we see in the background?
we like your videos long marc dont worry!
Ok, got you there ;)
great to see that i'm not the only one wearing a watch on my right arm... i feel weird sometimes lol
I find myself alternating which wrist I'd wear my watch on depending on which particular style of watch i chose to wear at that time, for example my Casio Pro Trek would be on the left, Tag on the right, just depends on mood and destination i guess.
Interesting! ;)
Speake-Marin watches blew me away the first time I handled them and saw their price point. For my personal taste, the lugs and crowns were a bit too much for me. But after seeing this, I feel like I understand his brand much better now (albeit that he is no longer at the company) and am definitely re-interested in trying another on...
Nice attention, thanks and all the very best to you!
wonderful video, please make more! did the manual lathes require 2 people, one to turn the wheel and the other to work on the watch? all the best
Amaizing 😮
I could watch this kind of video all day long. Then tomorrow I'd like to see them in use with some very good in focus close-ups, because I have a lot of stuff like many of these things, but am not really sure what they all do. Save the watches and tools from the ones' that believe themselves to be (steam punk "artists"), put an end to the senseless, narcissistic destruction of these true works of art.
Amazing BRAVO 👏👏👏❤️💯🙏 I Love this mashines to ,first tool in my collection is taping device from my grandpa ❤️💯🙏 Work of Art and rocket science for today China's mashines...i will try to save every mashines and old tool that i find in future 💯🙏❤️😎
amazing tools
so good...
Is there a book about these vintage tools and how they were used. I would be very interested in an inventory listing all these vintage tools with descriptions of their use and pictures of these unique and rare tools'
Yes- Look up the books written by Ted Crom, a horological tool collector. He's gone now, but he wrote a series of self published books on exactly that. Look up Horological Shop Tools 1700-1900, Horological & Other Shop Tools 1700-1900, Early Lancanshire Horological Tools & Their Makers, and lastly Early Horological Wheel Cutting Engines 1700-1900 to satisfy your curiosity. Simonin in Switzerland has others as well. All 4 of these books are uncommon to rare at this point, but I have all 4.
Beautilful machine's .
Amazing content!!! Ahhhhh
Very happy you liked it!
I need to take a coarse Peter, just to understand these vintage tools
I love these videos!! so interesting. Marc Andre, How do you get this access, OK don't tell but keep showing please.
Count on us ;) And thanks for the comment
And then the quartz arrived ! :)
Marc... how many more times? Just don't worry how long your video's run for... the longer the better!
So happy you like this!!! Thanks a lot
Great video, very curious at to the watch PSM is wearing looks like a blancpain to me any thoughts
It's a recent project he's been involved in called Stoic. All the very best to you
Absolutely stunning collection, thank you so much for this video
👍👍
You are most welcome and thanks for this nice comment!
I’m going to send you my pocket watch that’s broken. Don’t say you can’t fix it!!
We’ll shake it around and see if it does the trick 😉
Nice collection and vid. Most of these tools, or simmilar, i saw in this video, we still use in restoration of wrist- and pocketwatches, come visit us, if you want to see them in action. Belle Heure, Zeist, Netherlands
I would like to see Michel Parmigiani's collection. His company is considered one of the best in the world for restoration of antique watches and automata.
interested about the bearings?
Scary to watch. Must he pick up everyone of them?
Just unbelievable. Now everything is done by CNC.
Actually- ages ago people were much more sophisticated .
This stuff is the only reason i'm interested in watch making. the actual watches seem a bit of an anti-climax after the tools that make them.
Jika aku ditanya.lebih memilih mana antara ferrari atau semua alat ini..??
Pasti aku jawab semua alat ini
Pourquoi ne pas mettre cette video en francais
they used to make really high quality tools then as bergeon still do today , not like a lot of rubbish these days, especially from China. Can some of these be used for clock making and repair
Hai sir I need one video
👍👍👍👍👍
I feel sad, it's like visiting a place with stuffed animals when you like nature. All this won't ever be used anymore.
There's a bit of that, but at least memory is kept and very hopefully some of these tools will find a bit of working time on some strange project... Best to you
Does Peter also speak German?
And the answer is no ;)