Beautiful movement! Thanks for allowing us to look over your shoulder this year. Your format is spot on with a perfect mix of history, technology and humor. Wishing you and your kin all the best for 2023.
Can't even appreciate the care that went into mass-producing these movements enough :) A watchmaker told me that you could swap bridges between movements and the Côtes de Genève would match up.
That's the cleanest and least worn watch I've ever seen you work on. The owner and previous watchmakers were very meticulous and careful. And you too, of course! Really cool how you showed the pallet fork staff skewed to the right, indicating the kind of beat error. I had not seen that before. Thanks as always, Stian, and Merry Christmas to you!
Beautifully designed and decorated movement. It almost deserves a a clear back so the owner can admire and show off the movement. Merry ho ho, Stian (and family)!
I do think this is one of the most beautiful movements ever made and that goes also for the styles IWC used in dials and cases back then. Highly underrated I feel. I would love to own an example one day. Simple black calf or buffalo strap with black stitching, a nice thin strap would be the perfect accompaniment to it as well. Non of those god awful modern things with the horizontal lug end stitches, YUK!
To make the watch even more special, buy one from the year of your birth. Thats what I did. Elegantly understated without bling. An 8541D.1967. It makes me proud every time I wear it! Oh yes. I am in worse shape than my IWC!
First. Man you're not kidding about the fix o drop bottles. Good grief it's insane. Nice watch, it cleaned up well. I'm in total agreement with you, the different materials used make for a beautiful color palette inside.
Hello. Thanks for the video. Interestingly, I'm renovating my father-in-law's watch. He got it from his mother 60 years ago. The watch is from 1949. Since then it (the watch!!) lay in a drawer and was not worn. Now I'm renovating it. It also has no scratches or so, so I have to be extra careful (am a hobbyist!). Thanks, the video helps me a lot. Greetings Marc
Merry Christmas to you and your family. I was overjoyed to see you working on a Cal.89! I bought one; a 1949 CAl.89 with teardrop lugs and fish crown, about 10 years ago, and paid 4000Skr., as it wasn't keeping good time. Nevertheless, I knew enough to know that it was a bargain for a calibre I'd always wanted to own. I got it serviced in Malmo straightaway and it kept very good time, but decided it could do better. I gave it the tiniest of nudges on the regulation and we were in business. From then on it never varied from the ORIGINAL timesetting by more than +/-15s after 3 months! The only reason why it wasn't longer is that I forget to wind it one day. What a superb piece of engineering and many thanks for your great program. BTW. Did you know that a major shareholder in IWC at one time was Carl Jung the Psychologist.
I love the sheer subtle elegance of watches like this. That being said: It's really hard not to picture this video being narrated by Christoph Waltz's character from Inglorious Basterds. 😎 Great work!
Others have mentioned it, this movement is really beautiful. The choice of colors and metal surfacing finishing is really something. Thank you for sharing this beauty.
Thank you for repeatedly explaining how things work every video. I admire your patience. Having to take apart something and put it back in over and over until it's just right would irritate me. Thanks for sharing and the new content. Merry Christmas.
I'm still amazed at the craftsmanship in watches in general Stian. The face is simple, yet elegant with no date or calendar to take away from its beauty. Merry Christmas to you and yours Stian and cheers from this old retired coot living the dream in Tennessee.
Thank you so much for the holiday gift. It's been some time since you last posted a video featuring the glorious IWC Calibre 89 movement. Watches with this movement should be retrofitted with exhibition cases. It's kind of funny that while mechanical movements generally are appreciated for having a smoother second hand sweep than quartz movements, in the late 1950s several manufacturers such as JLC, Rolex and Omega, invested considerable effort to develop the dead-beat second function, which caused the second hand to move in one second increments like quartz watches do. It was very difficult and expensive to accomplish. The watches were intended to provide more accurate time measurements for engineers, but never really caught on. Now they are comparatively rare. Hope you are feeling better, and Merry X-mas to you and the family, Stian.
My grandpa's old Hamilton pocket watch has service marks inside the case. I'm thankful it does because it's a permanent record of when the watch was serviced
For a guy who hates squeaking and grinding mechanics it's a joy watching your thorough lubrication of the entire movement. I've seen quite some videos of other watchmakers being quite sloppy with that.
At first I thought you were going to leave the hairspring untouched and do a lousy job, but I knew you knew better. Sure enough at 20mins you change the position of the hairspring to have the index zeroed and beat figured out. You would be surprised how many watchmakers across the pond just leave it and say to the customer "oh you just get that (error and a index off to one side) in a watch that old". Some of these schools don't teach hairspring work nor recommend a good bench practice book. Nice xmas treat though, thank you.
Lovely! Merry Christmas to you and yours! And thank you for being a good companion for another year. You are a small but important and wholly positive part of my life. If I may offer a very small correction, actually, there used to be two guilds in the watchmaking town of Schlopwasser. Die Rechtshänder Schrauber and Die Linkshänder Schraubendreher, and under the Westfalian Concord of 1710, the former could make only right hand turn screws, and the latter could only make left-hand turn screws. (This had something to do with superstition against left-handed people, but details are understandably murky.) Of course, the watchmakers were innocent of any discrimination, but were forced to live under the rules, and had to order their tiny screws from the two different sources. Interestingly, with the guilds, the distinction was even carried through to marriage traditions. The right handed screwmakers could often be heard to say to their wives, “Liebchen, you’re right, as always.” But their sinister counterparts said, “You’re left.” Understandably, their divorce rate was much higher. It’s all true, but you could be forgiven for not knowing.
We have dozens of Schott bottles in the lab, every lab has them , but your egg timer one is a rediculous price. Merry Christmas and a good new year to you and yours from Scotland.
Have a merry Christmas. Fortune to have cal 89 from 1950s. Same dial and hands, but the bombe lugs and it's original box. It really beautiful movement. It's my phone background actually.
Nice IWC watch. Legendary cal 89 movement and great conditions overall. It's always interesting to see your videos and learn something new about watchmaking
How nice to see things that are just made so beautifully. Thank you for making such good pictures of watches for us to be able to see. I like what you do. And it is pleasing to see a good quality old watch, and how well it has held up. It is mostly true that "You get what you pay for".
It is such a beautiful movement that I nearly drooled! 😄 I've heard of IWC, but never had the opportunity to see the craftsmanship behind the watch back. The watch parts are very clean...so this must have been a beautiful Christmas present to you before you let it go. Thank you for...the slow and patient way you went, taking your time, which in itself is educational and such a pleasure to watch. All the very best to you, Wendi 🌻
If we want to talk Maß produced beauty, Check out a Hamilton railroad pocket watch… although I do lust after a caliber 89 myself. I’ve bought a few watches after your videos of certain movements, particularly the Longines 30L and the Ebel 1911 Sport Chronograph; I also have Omega 550s (quite a few-lost count honestly) 1020s. (I own two, one being the first ‘luxury’ watch I ever bought, and the other costing me $37 in good, running, accurate condition), and an eta 2824 (a pair of Sandoz of Asian assembly, and I did own (but sold) a Tissot Ballade, the first Swiss mechanical I bought new- actually I only bought two Swiss mechanical watches new, the other being an Omega 2531.80) but those I bought before you started, lol. Excellent job on this one, and the other caliber 89. I mean the shown work is all that I’d wish for a watchmaker to lavish on a watch I sent in for service, and the serious commentary is brilliantly informative and understandable to the novice. But I miss the quantity of humor some videos had more of.
Must have spent a lot of time in the sock drawer, in between trips to Maison Manesse. Very nice (and careful) service! I think I will start growing lab-created fix-o-drop bottles - got to be cheaper than the hand-cut offerings! Speaking of proper tools for working gently, I'm still trying to find some brass #7A-BRA tweezers. You sent me contact info for Regine (thank you!) but they do not answer my emails. I actually tried calling (they are open from 3:30PM to 1:30AM my time) call went to hold for 5 minutes, then disconnected. Anyway, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this year! Please keep up the great videos. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I've been watching watchmaker videos for a few years now. When I do and they inevitably remove, clean and replace the balance wheel jewels, (cap jewel and hole jewel) after assembled and after running, I can't for the life of me think why they do this. I cringe every time the jewels are replaced, waiting for the jewel to drop into the spinning balance and snap off a pivot, or worse. All these other watchmakers do this without exception. Thank you for being the exception. Which IMHO, should be the rule. I'm just a novice, and therefore my opinion is perhaps invalid. But it seems to me that if you remove the jewels from the balance wheel cock and maniplate before being putting them into the cleaning machine, and reinstall them after cleaning and before running, all the parts will come out cleaner and you will reduce the risk of damage greatly. Thanks for what you do. Love your method, approach and style.
Next level filming now Stian, holy :D That was really nicely filmed! Ha det bra, god fortsättning! Haha, just heard the joke about fixodrop and new years resolution haha 😄
Lovely clean and cared for watch Stian. Some slightly different design in there like the click and the stud holder. Lovely movement! Have a great Christmas!
I notice this balance wheel has small weights on it. I've noticed other watches have no balance wheel weights. I assume they are weights and that they're used to balance the wheel, but how does the original watchmaker know where to place the weights? And why are there so many on this balance wheel but on others there are none? Thank you for sharing your work with us. It's a pleasure to watch a craftsman like yourself practice his trade.
Thanks for watching! Those little screws are timing screws, and they're placed in pairs symmetrically around the rim of the balance to allow a watchmaker to make tiny adjustments if the balance is out of poise. This balance in fact has two special eccentric weights at the balance spokes to make such adjustments.
Simple watch but a very nice quality movement love the final result ! Thank for sharing Stian !! I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas !! 🎄🎁
Great video Stian, especially your explanation and also illustration of beat error. I’m sure it satisfied many inquiring minds. I love that watch also. Those old cal 89s are so simple and elegant. Happy holidays to you and yours. Cheers
Thank your for this beautiful Christmas present, Stian. Also, for the gift of your voice and insights. IWC? Where to begin? When my father received an engraved steel IWC pocket watch for his 25 years of service in an important position in one of the most renowned Swiss industrial enterprises, his first impulse was to throw it against a wall and step on it. I rescued the watch, but had to promise never ever to remind him of its existence. My father had always been interested in watches and at the time owned an 18k yellow gold Omega Seamaster automatic, a white gold Blancpain ("the thinnest movement ever produced") and a white and yellow gold Rolex (for which we never forgave him). Anyway, the IWC seemed to insult him. Ever since, their watches have not been looked on favorably by our family. My own dream of buying a perpetual calendar watch had to wait for almost 35 years, because the only affordable model was the "Da Vinci" by IWC, which basically looked like a pocket watch ... and every serious watchmaker here in Zürich told me to stay away from IWC. Not because they are bad watches - your piece shows this very well - but because they do not have a great potential as investments. Your watch is classic and beautiful, though, so it should sell well and that is what I wish for you and your family.
A beautiful movement as mentioned...Love the tour and workmanship in servicing this classic. Looks great. Love the detail explanations as you work along. I feel like I'm there with you. Great job as usual.. A Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the best for the New Year. Look forward to more fascinating videos. Never get tired of them.. Cheers..!
Happy New Year to you and your family Stian. It’s been lovely to follow your channel this year since I discovered its existence. Lovely looking movement and a testament not only to IWC but also previous owners and watchmakers and kudos for showing your appreciation for their work. See you on the next one….
Beautiful movement! Thanks for allowing us to look over your shoulder this year. Your format is spot on with a perfect mix of history, technology and humor. Wishing you and your kin all the best for 2023.
Love these old minimalist watches. Somewhere Mies is smiling.
Can't even appreciate the care that went into mass-producing these movements enough :) A watchmaker told me that you could swap bridges between movements and the Côtes de Genève would match up.
That's the cleanest and least worn watch I've ever seen you work on. The owner and previous watchmakers were very meticulous and careful. And you too, of course!
Really cool how you showed the pallet fork staff skewed to the right, indicating the kind of beat error. I had not seen that before.
Thanks as always, Stian, and Merry Christmas to you!
Yes, the hands cleaned up well and passed muster.
After watching chaotic police videos, it's always a pleasure to relax to your dulcet tones.
Beautifully designed and decorated movement. It almost deserves a a clear back so the owner can admire and show off the movement. Merry ho ho, Stian (and family)!
That's a nice clean and classic watch face, almost timeless.
I do think this is one of the most beautiful movements ever made and that goes also for the styles IWC used in dials and cases back then. Highly underrated I feel. I would love to own an example one day. Simple black calf or buffalo strap with black stitching, a nice thin strap would be the perfect accompaniment to it as well. Non of those god awful modern things with the horizontal lug end stitches, YUK!
To make the watch even more special, buy one from the year of your birth. Thats what I did. Elegantly understated without bling. An 8541D.1967. It makes me proud every time I wear it! Oh yes. I am in worse shape than my IWC!
A straight and simple beauty!
A pleasure to hear you and see you at work . Hope you are already in vacation mode!All the best to you and all the viewers for the Holidays !🎉
First. Man you're not kidding about the fix o drop bottles. Good grief it's insane. Nice watch, it cleaned up well. I'm in total agreement with you, the different materials used make for a beautiful color palette inside.
Hello. Thanks for the video. Interestingly, I'm renovating my father-in-law's watch. He got it from his mother 60 years ago. The watch is from 1949. Since then it (the watch!!) lay in a drawer and was not worn. Now I'm renovating it. It also has no scratches or so, so I have to be extra careful (am a hobbyist!). Thanks, the video helps me a lot. Greetings Marc
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
I was overjoyed to see you working on a Cal.89!
I bought one; a 1949 CAl.89 with teardrop lugs and fish crown, about 10 years ago, and paid 4000Skr., as it wasn't keeping good time. Nevertheless, I knew enough to know that it was a bargain for a calibre I'd always wanted to own.
I got it serviced in Malmo straightaway and it kept very good time, but decided it could do better.
I gave it the tiniest of nudges on the regulation and we were in business.
From then on it never varied from the ORIGINAL timesetting by more than +/-15s after 3 months!
The only reason why it wasn't longer is that I forget to wind it one day.
What a superb piece of engineering and many thanks for your great program.
BTW. Did you know that a major shareholder in IWC at one time was Carl Jung the Psychologist.
Thanks for sharing, and the cal 89 sure was a piece of engineering marvel! Interesting that Carl Jung was a shareholder :)
I love the sheer subtle elegance of watches like this. That being said: It's really hard not to picture this video being narrated by Christoph Waltz's character from Inglorious Basterds. 😎 Great work!
This watch is absolutely.....uh..... timeless. Very elegant, and very elegantly serviced. Thank you
Thanks, Dave !
What a beautiful yet simple looking watch. Merry Christmas Stian.
Happy Christmas to you and your family, thank you for all the restorations, services and Humour throughout the year. Thank you Stian.
God jul to you and yours Stian (if you're celebrating). I hope you finally get the nose hair trimmer and toenail grinders you've been craving so long!
Others have mentioned it, this movement is really beautiful. The choice of colors and metal surfacing finishing is really something. Thank you for sharing this beauty.
Thank you for repeatedly explaining how things work every video. I admire your patience. Having to take apart something and put it back in over and over until it's just right would irritate me. Thanks for sharing and the new content. Merry Christmas.
Lovely movement in a very elegant time piece ❤️👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm still amazed at the craftsmanship in watches in general Stian. The face is simple, yet elegant with no date or calendar to take away from its beauty. Merry Christmas to you and yours Stian and cheers from this old retired coot living the dream in Tennessee.
Hope that you and your family will have a wonderful holiday season and all the best in 2023. IWCs are so classy. Many thanks.
Such a simple yet extremely elegant movement.
Thanks for sharing and Merry Christmas
About to rebuild one of these movements. I'm a total amateur watchmaker so this will be very helpful. Thanks!
I've never seen a prettier movement, a work of art for sure. Thanks for another fascinating video.
Time setting sounds so nice. Great click.
that setting lever spring going ballistic got me chuckling!
😂👍
Thank you so much for the holiday gift. It's been some time since you last posted a video featuring the glorious IWC Calibre 89 movement. Watches with this movement should be retrofitted with exhibition cases. It's kind of funny that while mechanical movements generally are appreciated for having a smoother second hand sweep than quartz movements, in the late 1950s several manufacturers such as JLC, Rolex and Omega, invested considerable effort to develop the dead-beat second function, which caused the second hand to move in one second increments like quartz watches do. It was very difficult and expensive to accomplish. The watches were intended to provide more accurate time measurements for engineers, but never really caught on. Now they are comparatively rare. Hope you are feeling better, and Merry X-mas to you and the family, Stian.
A very Merry Christmas to you and your family and thank you for all your fascinating videos this past year.
My grandpa's old Hamilton pocket watch has service marks inside the case. I'm thankful it does because it's a permanent record of when the watch was serviced
For a guy who hates squeaking and grinding mechanics it's a joy watching your thorough lubrication of the entire movement. I've seen quite some videos of other watchmakers being quite sloppy with that.
Hello Stian,
thank you for your gentle art of making teaching lessons.
Greetings from Czech Republic.
I love these Cal 89 IWC movements. I learned about them from a prior vid of yours in fact. Thanks! Merry Christmas!
At first I thought you were going to leave the hairspring untouched and do a lousy job, but I knew you knew better. Sure enough at 20mins you change the position of the hairspring to have the index zeroed and beat figured out. You would be surprised how many watchmakers across the pond just leave it and say to the customer "oh you just get that (error and a index off to one side) in a watch that old". Some of these schools don't teach hairspring work nor recommend a good bench practice book.
Nice xmas treat though, thank you.
Wow, what a beauty! Thanks for an awesome content, as always, Stiam! Merry Christmas!
Simple, elegant and awesome! Beautiful watch. Merry Christmas.
Lovely!
Merry Christmas to you and yours! And thank you for being a good companion for another year. You are a small but important and wholly positive part of my life.
If I may offer a very small correction, actually, there used to be two guilds in the watchmaking town of Schlopwasser. Die Rechtshänder Schrauber and Die Linkshänder Schraubendreher, and under the Westfalian Concord of 1710, the former could make only right hand turn screws, and the latter could only make left-hand turn screws. (This had something to do with superstition against left-handed people, but details are understandably murky.) Of course, the watchmakers were innocent of any discrimination, but were forced to live under the rules, and had to order their tiny screws from the two different sources. Interestingly, with the guilds, the distinction was even carried through to marriage traditions. The right handed screwmakers could often be heard to say to their wives, “Liebchen, you’re right, as always.” But their sinister counterparts said, “You’re left.” Understandably, their divorce rate was much higher. It’s all true, but you could be forgiven for not knowing.
😂👍
A very Merry Christmas Stian, thank you so much for sharing the wonderful skills and knowledge you have, best wishes to you and yours in 2023
Always enjoy your posts Stian, you and your family have a great Christmas.
I love the old IWC movements, just beautiful. I also love these videos, but I've seen them all now, some twice. You need to create more! 😁
Lost in a watch and real life happening all around you. Happy Christmas Stian. Adrian.
The wheezing became part of the video. Like a beat. Like a tick. Lovely.
Good restoration & nice timepiece
Very nice job again! Top tier service.
Simple but well made and beautiful watch.
That is a particularly beautiful watch, both dial and movement.
Stian have a great Christmas and a happy New Year. Great to see no trouble in paradise. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Merry Christmas. Thanks for the lessons and entertainment with your videos.
Great watch and great job. Thank you.
Beautiful watch and movement. Great job on the service!
We have dozens of Schott bottles in the lab, every lab has them , but your egg timer one is a rediculous price.
Merry Christmas and a good new year to you and yours from Scotland.
Lovely watch and a classic case of less is more.
Merry Christmas thanks for dropping this ..I now have something to watch while I’m wrapping 🎉. Have a great Christmas to you and your family 🇬🇧🎅🏻
gorgeous watch!
You made that look easy as usual!
Thanks for showing us this beautiful watch.
this IWC piece is really beautiful. Merry xmas :)
Thanks for another great video, Stian. Happy holidays!
Nice surprise on Christmas Eve. Thank you and season’s greetings!
Thank you for such beautiful videos this year sir.
A very Merry Christmas Stian from Westgate-on-Sea England
🎄🎅🇬🇧🍀
Fantastic work
That is a beautiful watch.
Have a merry Christmas. Fortune to have cal 89 from 1950s. Same dial and hands, but the bombe lugs and it's original box. It really beautiful movement. It's my phone background actually.
omg what a beauty well have a very merry christmas Stian to you and your family
Nice IWC watch. Legendary cal 89 movement and great conditions overall. It's always interesting to see your videos and learn something new about watchmaking
Takk for nok en flott video. God jul til deg og dine
Yes. God jul Stian! Og et godt nytt år! 🇺🇸🇳🇴🇺🇸🇳🇴🇺🇸🇳🇴
How nice to see things that are just made so beautifully. Thank you for making such good pictures of watches for us to be able to see. I like what you do.
And it is pleasing to see a good quality old watch, and how well it has held up. It is mostly true that "You get what you pay for".
I did enjoy that. Thanks. 🎄🥳
Thanks for the excellent video 👍 happy Christmas and New year
It is such a beautiful movement that I nearly drooled! 😄 I've heard of IWC, but never had the opportunity to see the craftsmanship behind the watch back. The watch parts are very clean...so this must have been a beautiful Christmas present to you before you let it go. Thank you for...the slow and patient way you went, taking your time, which in itself is educational and such a pleasure to watch. All the very best to you, Wendi 🌻
😊👍
Very nice watch. Thanks. Merry Christmas and Happy new year to you and your family.
If we want to talk Maß produced beauty, Check out a Hamilton railroad pocket watch… although I do lust after a caliber 89 myself. I’ve bought a few watches after your videos of certain movements, particularly the Longines 30L and the Ebel 1911 Sport Chronograph; I also have Omega 550s (quite a few-lost count honestly) 1020s. (I own two, one being the first ‘luxury’ watch I ever bought, and the other costing me $37 in good, running, accurate condition), and an eta 2824 (a pair of Sandoz of Asian assembly, and I did own (but sold) a Tissot Ballade, the first Swiss mechanical I bought new- actually I only bought two Swiss mechanical watches new, the other being an Omega 2531.80) but those I bought before you started, lol.
Excellent job on this one, and the other caliber 89. I mean the shown work is all that I’d wish for a watchmaker to lavish on a watch I sent in for service, and the serious commentary is brilliantly informative and understandable to the novice. But I miss the quantity of humor some videos had more of.
Must have spent a lot of time in the sock drawer, in between trips to Maison Manesse. Very nice (and careful) service!
I think I will start growing lab-created fix-o-drop bottles - got to be cheaper than the hand-cut offerings! Speaking of proper tools for working gently, I'm still trying to find some brass #7A-BRA tweezers. You sent me contact info for Regine (thank you!) but they do not answer my emails. I actually tried calling (they are open from 3:30PM to 1:30AM my time) call went to hold for 5 minutes, then disconnected. Anyway, I've thoroughly enjoyed watching this year! Please keep up the great videos. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
I've been watching watchmaker videos for a few years now. When I do and they inevitably remove, clean and replace the balance wheel jewels, (cap jewel and hole jewel) after assembled and after running, I can't for the life of me think why they do this. I cringe every time the jewels are replaced, waiting for the jewel to drop into the spinning balance and snap off a pivot, or worse. All these other watchmakers do this without exception. Thank you for being the exception. Which IMHO, should be the rule. I'm just a novice, and therefore my opinion is perhaps invalid. But it seems to me that if you remove the jewels from the balance wheel cock and maniplate before being putting them into the cleaning machine, and reinstall them after cleaning and before running, all the parts will come out cleaner and you will reduce the risk of damage greatly. Thanks for what you do. Love your method, approach and style.
THEO, MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR, TELL ALL HELLO...SEE YOU WHEN...GREAT VIDEO...
Merry Christmas Stian extend to whole family
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Next level filming now Stian, holy :D That was really nicely filmed! Ha det bra, god fortsättning!
Haha, just heard the joke about fixodrop and new years resolution haha 😄
😂
Stunning.
it amazes me how similar are the tasks of manual precision and dexterity in watchmaking vs.l surgery.
Lovely clean and cared for watch Stian. Some slightly different design in there like the click and the stud holder. Lovely movement! Have a great Christmas!
Merry Christmas Stian, to you and your family 🎄 🎉
That was fun!
Thanks for sharing mate have a wonderful Xmas and a cracking New Year...🎄🎄
Thanks so much, Rich, to you and yours also :) 🎅🎄🎊🎉
My favorite movement!
Thanks for yet another great video, Stian, and Merry Xmas to you and your family! All the best for 2023 and beyond.
Great job, it's too bad that the movent won't be seen! Happy New Year!
Thanks Ben, to you also!
Merry Christmas to you Stian and your family! Great video as always. Greetings from Ukraine.
Omg it's so beautiful
I notice this balance wheel has small weights on it. I've noticed other watches have no balance wheel weights. I assume they are weights and that they're used to balance the wheel, but how does the original watchmaker know where to place the weights? And why are there so many on this balance wheel but on others there are none? Thank you for sharing your work with us. It's a pleasure to watch a craftsman like yourself practice his trade.
Thanks for watching! Those little screws are timing screws, and they're placed in pairs symmetrically around the rim of the balance to allow a watchmaker to make tiny adjustments if the balance is out of poise. This balance in fact has two special eccentric weights at the balance spokes to make such adjustments.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
Thanks again merry Christmas 😊
That is a nice watch and movement. From my year too. :) Thanks for all the great videos you make! Marry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you Stian!
Simple watch but a very nice quality movement love the final result ! Thank for sharing Stian !!
I wish you and your family a very Merry Christmas !! 🎄🎁
Great video Stian, especially your explanation and also illustration of beat error. I’m sure it satisfied many inquiring minds. I love that watch also. Those old cal 89s are so simple and elegant.
Happy holidays to you and yours.
Cheers
Beautiful movement indeed and a joy to watch You working on it. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You and Yours, Stian!
Thank your for this beautiful Christmas present, Stian. Also, for the gift of your voice and insights.
IWC? Where to begin?
When my father received an engraved steel IWC pocket watch for his 25 years of service in an important position in one of the most renowned Swiss industrial enterprises, his first impulse was to throw it against a wall and step on it. I rescued the watch, but had to promise never ever to remind him of its existence.
My father had always been interested in watches and at the time owned an 18k yellow gold Omega Seamaster automatic, a white gold Blancpain ("the thinnest movement ever produced") and a white and yellow gold Rolex (for which we never forgave him).
Anyway, the IWC seemed to insult him. Ever since, their watches have not been looked on favorably by our family.
My own dream of buying a perpetual calendar watch had to wait for almost 35 years, because the only affordable model was the "Da Vinci" by IWC, which basically looked like a pocket watch ... and every serious watchmaker here in Zürich told me to stay away from IWC. Not because they are bad watches - your piece shows this very well - but because they do not have a great potential as investments.
Your watch is classic and beautiful, though, so it should sell well and that is what I wish for you and your family.
A beautiful movement as mentioned...Love the tour and workmanship in servicing this classic. Looks great. Love the detail explanations as you work along. I feel like I'm there with you. Great job as usual.. A Merry Christmas to you and yours and all the best for the New Year. Look forward to more fascinating videos. Never get tired of them.. Cheers..!
Happy New Year to you and your family Stian. It’s been lovely to follow your channel this year since I discovered its existence. Lovely looking movement and a testament not only to IWC but also previous owners and watchmakers and kudos for showing your appreciation for their work. See you on the next one….
Happy new year!