Restoration of 1970s Seiko Bellmatic, Rusted Solid and broken - Lets get this watch working!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
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I purchased a complete junker of a 1970's Seiko Bellmatic with a 4006A movement inside. This movement and the watch as a whole was rusted solid to the point that the hands could not be altered and the movement did not run at all. Join me as I strip this down and attempt to make it run again.
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This ain’t a job, this is ART 🌟
Thanks for the encouragement. And thanks for watching
Couldn't agree more!
No it's just a job. Stop exagerating
Big difference, I love the final outcome. Patina on dial through clear lens is my favourite. Thanks
Thanks for a very interesting video. I think you did a stellar job. You Sir are the watch whisperer! You have great patience. I own a Seiko Bellmatic that’s in. Fine shape but needs a cleaning. Kudos to you
Just got one that’s in descent shape but as dirty as any watch I’ve ever seen…. Can’t wait to take it apart
Great video and great job watched it all the way through. Thanks
I agree with leaving the dial as is, it is the soul of the watch.
Amazing restoration well done 👍
You have an amazing skill set! More of these, please.
I love these videos, mesmerizing! I would love to be able to repair something as wonderful and intricate as a mechanical watch! Huge skills !
I have a Soviet Poljot alarm mechanical watch. Lovely 35mm watch which still works. £25.
It has the 2612 movement and is very reliable.
Awesome restoration.
Btw it this alarm always runs at 12 o clock? I thought user can set an alarm to the time he wants. Strange feature...
Bravo Bravo Maestro 😃
good job but I think you could make some parts of the watch cleaner then assemble it, I enjoyed it anyway
Another great watch job! the music is extremely boring. But then i suppose it is meant to be. Or is it done to relax you - or us?
You are amazing !
Hi sir citizen automatic CHRONOGRAPH and Seiko also
Plese do the old hmt repair video
Hi everyone there I just have one question from where I can have some watch class I had around 23 different watch with broken or damage glass
I want it 😁
I feel like building a rocket would be easier
Einstein wanted to be a watchmaker...tells ya somthin.
hahahaha, yeah really !
@@thomassavage527 instead, he solved time.
agreed
rocket science is like, way overrated
put a big enough banger under it and its gonna go up
dont ask me how I know this, ... I still get flashbacks
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COMPETITION WINNER ANNOUNCED HERE: at 36:00
I purchased a complete junker of a Seiko Bellmatic with a 4006A movement inside. This movement and the watch as a whole was rusted solid to the point that the hands could not be altered and the movement did not run at all. Join me as I strip this down and attempt to make it run again.
How much did you sell it for?
But - It Wants To Run! That alone makes it worth the effort. Man after my own heart, love these watch rescue videos!
@pedro silva - The manual for this movement states 180 degrees and above. We got it above ;)
Thank you Broderick
and I can’t even put a sandwich together
I love how conservative and understated a lot of the older watches are...beautiful work and watch.
Cheers. Really appreciate that.
I could hear the watch thank you when you were applying lubricant.
😂😂😂
you sir are one of the gifted people with patience and steady hands. really love your works. keep it coming. :)
So therapeutic. This should be prescribed for people who suffer from anxiety
It's amazing how much more complicated that movement is with the addition of an alarm function. I've always been in awe of you guys who can build and repair these little machines, but I've never really thought about the people who actually design these complications. They must be some mad geniuses!
I inherited a Bullhead from my dad. He died a year ago now and I would love to honor his memory by repairing it myself.
He was a watchmaker, but I haven't opened a watch since I was a teen, though, so I think it might be good for me to watch a few instruction videos to get my memory up to date and fill in all the blanks. 😊
Amazing vid, amazing work! I really enjoyed watching that 😍❤
Thank you Mack
How do not scream “it’s alive!” Once it starts running? Love your videos. Keep them coming.
"Luckily, I had a spare one."
Such a great watch two reasons it’s a Seiko and it has a mechanical alarm, been on my watch wish list for a while
Really enjoyed “watching” you bring this timepiece back to life. Highly skilled and artful... big thumbs up.
I wish they would make a new mechanical alarm watch.
Your meticulous work with tiny beautiful machines, your calm, quiet commentary, the unobtrusive music, I could almost fall asleep, if i weren't so absolutely fascinated. I wish I could do what you do, but I'm happy to watch and admire. These are among the most calming videos I've found, well done, sir.
Note to self: Stop marking up watches with arrows!
Another great instructional video. Pure magic again. I've a Bell Matic 4006-6031, but I'm afraid I'll sell it one day in order to change it for another model (i.e. the more fashionable 6027 in my humble opinion). Anyway I like this age patina on the dial because is part of the watch history. Best regards from Mallorca.
The watch looks great! I love seeing things repaired, or repairing them myself, that most people would throw out. Nothing better than rusty junk coming back to life.
錆びの出た機械は、絶対に元の精度には戻らない。錆びを取ると、金属が痩せてしまうから。しかし、70年代の機械式はなんとも味気ない。クォーツショックで、セイコーでも自社の機械式を廃れさせてしまっているのが良くわかる。この方の再生努力には敬意を！
Great video. A pleasure to watch! Surprising how much you can learn just by observing. Having just completed your Level two course I think this is a project to far for me at the moment but still, inspirational. Thank you.
Thanks Jason
Am not in anyway qualified to even open up a watch. Watching this video makes me happier knowing its complex parts and having this watch for the longest time.
Hello Mark, Sweden here again.
I felt I had a anxiety/panic attack comming on a while ago, felt the need to combat that with a few meds and as I did this video came up in the feed,, watched it of course.
Soft background music and that gentle voice.. Much better now.
Thank you Mark.
glad to hear that Peder :)
Be careful with the pills. If there benzos they cause a nasty addiction. I would know
Great video as always. Enjoyed every minute of it. Thanks
This was fun and relaxing to “ watch”...pun intended! Great to see an older and abused watch given new life. Cheers from Nova Scotia, Canada.
Thanks - Appreciate the comment Michael
You said chrome plated brass - there are methods to quite easily plate other metals with chrome, seen on multiple restoration channels here on YT. Would you give that a try if you encounter the same type of scratched up hands again?
This video made my day. You are amazing. Your videos relax me and teach me. I own a Seiko Bellmatic 4006-6037 in much better shape than your patient. You brought it out of the ICU like the genius that you are. Thanks so much!!!
Cheers. Really appreciate that.
I actually just sold a non working seiko bellmatic I thought for a quick second this could’ve been mine, but I think mine was just a little bit better condition than this hahaha
Incredible. There is a joy in bringing forgotten machanical things back to life. You are truely a gifted master!!!
Well, Ireally thought it would have been a write off. Amazing work from an artist.
" Has been treated like an golden egg!!"
Laughing my bud off!! ;)
it's a "Special" watch :)
@@WatchRepairChannel I bet it is!! ;)
The worse the watch at the start, the better the video.
How do you know where everything goes after you take everything apart, and what's the purple stuff you keep applying, some sort of lubricant?
because he is a watch maker
I feel that the old watches had a soul and a heart beat and the battery operated watches don't.
Of all the great content you've uploaded, this is by far my favourite video! I've also taken to repairing absolute junkers, and although I don't always succeed, when it does its so much more rewarding
Thanks - Appreciate the comment Antti
I do not think I've seen one of your videos where you replace the gasket around the Crown stem.
what is that blue grease that he's using to oil the stem?
And tonight on Friday 13th, we're going to pick a "lucky" winner.................
after i see u video ,i purchase a bell matic on ebay from japan. i really like it
13:48: That's the time when one of my cats would decide to "help" and jump up on the bench and knock everything all over the floor.
lol yes I use to allow my cats into my work area, until I came home and found that they helped me clear my bench.
😂😂😝
@Brains ironically. 🤣🤣 yes both cats would jump on my lap when I had a soldering iron in my hand.Electronics was not the best hobby with Cats who adore you. 👍👍 But I wish that they were still with me. Bless them. My late Wife used to say to me,it’s a shame that you can’t attract women like you can attract Cats.. 😁😁😁.
Thanks Mark! The watch looks a lot better now. Yep, you have to pay close attention to the photos. Sometimes the sellers don't even know what they have.
I won a bid awhile back on eBay and the seller, and I guess everyone else that viewed the two tools, thought that the tools where for installing hands on watches. After close examination I realized that they were actually very nice Bulova Accutron index finger collet adjustment tools on one end, and index finger pawl adjustment tools on the other end.
I got them pretty cheap even considering shipping from across the pond!
Thank you Robert Calk Jr.
Somebody's been watchin This Old Tony :)
Hey - not so much of the old!!! I'm not yet 50 ;)
By the way - how did you know my middle name is Tony - I don't think I ever made that public.
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@@boj4ngles Cool - thanks, looks great.
I think he's referring to a TH-cam channel by a guy called "This Old Tony" who's funny and brilliant at the same time. Similar humour!!
This is amazing work. A very complicated movement done so easily. You are a thoroughbred professional.
This is so much funn to watch. Thanks for doing it and bringing it back to life. I hope you enjoy it a lot
85 euro for that doorstop?? the antikythera device was in better condition.
Wonderful bringing to life a watch that wanted to live. You played the doctor to a dying patient
And some say aliens don't exist after seeing this I know they're real
Yikes.
My favorite way to clean stuff like this is in my small blast cabinet.
Using walnut shell media and keeping the pressure down, this type of crud just blows away.
Keeping the pressure low prevents disappearing parts. Thanks again for the great video. I learn something every time.
Also, a product called Kroil is way better than WD40.
Thank you
I got a really nice condition one for 200$, problem is I can't find someone to service it. After seeing this video I can see why! Lol
Mark, I loved this video. You brought life to that dead watch. I want to do this. What is the best way to get started?
Mark do you sell those back on EBAY once they work?
It's amazing how you're able to take to watch apart and put it back together. I really enjoy your videos
How do you remember all parts ?
Nice video and very informative! The watch looks great, amazing! Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you Cristobal Osuna
Hi, I have a vintage mechanical watch (Nezach). The balance wheel shaft and hairspring are broken. I would like to buy a new assembly but I don't know how to chose the right one. The only markings on the movement are 'swiss' and ´17jewels'. How do I chose the right replacement part?
Thank you for making these superb films, they are so well photographed and edited, such a great cure for stress and anxiety! Much appreciated Mark
I just started working on watches, but I reckon I am halfway there. That means I can get to the place depicted around 13:50
Not sure where to go from there.
Keep practicing - you will get more confident for sure.
Not a watch maker but I owned one of these in the 70's, bought in the PX in Germany when I was in the Army. The watch was stolen in a burglary of my house in 1987. It was a great watch, felt good and when the alarm went off it made a nice buzz on my wrist. Important lesson. Never store valuables in the top dresser drawer. Burglars know where you keep you nice things.
Superb transformation, great clean up and restoration. Yes expensive considering its appalling condition, but you have rescued it, given it another life which I guess the watch thought it would never work again.
It's little heart was still beating and working when bumped.
MY GOD, how are those parts even made?! And how the HELL do you remember where each part goes? This is sorcery.
The easiest way to figure out how to put something back together after you've taken it apart is to film the taking apart process and play it backwards. That is if you remember to film it in the first place 😉
Thanks Mark, your instruction and quality is the best.
I have (somewhere) a Seiko Bellmatic I bought somewhere in the 1970s, and used daily as both my main watch and alarm clock until the early 1990s.I loved that watch and would love to have it back working again, but I probably don't want to spend the money it world cost, (it is when last seen) in MUCH better shape than your Emergency Room example. Great old watches, but I'm enjoying my cheap Russian Vostoks and Chinese Loreo "Divers". Being retired now and mostly housebound I have nowhere to be at any particular time.
I know this was difficult because you make it look so easy.My mind boggles as to how you remember where all the parts go.............................
Cheers. Really appreciate that.
Could have bought new seiko for another thirty pounds if ud paid eighty five pounds for that u were conned
Is there a way to hack the 4006 movement? just like the glitch we can do with 7s26?
Thanks for this, especially as I have one bought a while ago in non working condition just because I did not have an alarm watch. With your masterclass I will sort it out, no doubt with rather a lot of pausing and rewinding of the vid. Best wishes Vic
I couldn't believe it, this watch has some many moving parts. Great job
On restoration 👍🤝😎
What liquid did you use to clean them? Benzene and alcohol 95%? And did you brush 'em rust with brass brush or dip for awhile then it becomes clean? I got a belmatic from my grandpa and cz I live in tropical area it got rusty through the decades. I wanna fix them, sending out to you would be too far away and quite costly as I live in another side of the world and there's none watchmaker here that could fix it, so I wanna try to fix it myself. I wonder what to do...
I just bought one of these Seiko Bellmatic that doesn't run. Preliminary investigation seems to be very dried and gummed up oil. I feel lime I can service this watch based on this video. Lol... If all else fails I'll have some parts to sell to make back my investment... We shall see. Thanks so much for this video and for all of your great information on watch repair. One question if you happen to see this: There is dried oil on the day wheel. Do you have any advice on cleaning that off or should I get a new date wheel. Thanks.
Hi, I'm doing some watch repair as a hobby, I often find the screws are too tight in some of the ETA2824 and clone movements, I'm either damaging the screw head or the screw driver, (tbh usually damaging both), but seeing from your videos, you can remove heavily rusted screws without much trouble at all. can you advise how to deal with seized/rusted screwed please? thank you!
Watch restoration is pure talent 😍
😱geesh! How da hell can you remember how to put all that together! Yikes!🥴👍
Seiko cıtızen otomatik kronumetreli saatlerin içindeki ufak büyük dişlilerinin vidalarının yapılışıylan alakalı ve nasıl yapılıyor bunun alakalı video neden yayınlanamıyor ben seiko cıtızen hastası olarak cevabınızı bekliyorum
Brilliant work, I own one of these bellmatics and was always curious about how it looked on the inside. It's one of my favourites the charm of having a tiny hammer and bell alarm clock crammed into a wristwatch will never get old to me! P.S great music
So, how did you become a watchmaker? Were you an apprentice? Just wondering how long it took to learn the bulk of your skills, and how a person even becomes a watchmaker.
Very nice work as always! I have a Seiko on the bench at the moment, similar vintage and similar movement minus the alarm complication. I’ve let it sit for a while, but this episode has inspired me to get back into it. Thanks again... I love seeing these basket cases return to life.
May I ask you, what camera have you used to take this clip? It is bery clear and in focus in macro mode.
Amazing video - just seen! I have had one of these same watches from new. Recently repaired and cleaned after wearing whilst sailing and subject to a small ingress of sea water causing rust. (The watch over the years was no longer sealed.) After repair and cleaning the watch looses about 3 seconds a day whilst being worn and gains about 3 seconds a day overnight when placed face up. So, with a routine - I do not have to adjust the watch. 🙂 Watching your video gives me an insight into the workings of this timepiece. In 1977 the watch was being worn and survived a fire undamaged - more than I can say for me. Thank you. Watch is not for sale by the way 🙂
Forget Archie Luxury..... No watch is Junk until this man says it is !!! You Sir are the very definition of "craftsman"
Hello. I'm from Poland. 48 years ago,in summer 1972 my father bought for
me (from a US tourist) used watch Seiko 5 Automatic 21 Jewels 6119-8470
number 141526 TL. I have this watch (not working) today. Can you tell
me some information about year of production this watch and country? Is
the TL in number means Thailand?