Stian, again this video is so enjoyable. I learn a lot by listening to your commentary and watching carefully. I think anyone who has looked closely at your on-line store (which all should) will get a great idea of your eclectic taste in watches. Keep up the good work.
I love your collection. I don’t care how wonderful the movement is in most Rolex watches - as far as I’m concerned, most of them are “flashy trash”. Their outsides do not reflect their insides. I don’t travel in those circles so I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that a lot of the people who buy them might also fall into the “flashy trash” category. Just an opinion, of course. I do enjoy your commentary; you provide a lot of education in an accessible and interesting format. Thank you! Any chance you’re likely to have an A. Lange watch on your channel?
The UG is cool and the movement makes it even better. The Longines has a nice and unusual case. First time I see one like this. I had a good opinion on Seikos GS but the green one rocks!!! The faceted crystal gives it a very 70’s look! I think the extra-fort comes from the stiffnesses of the cases made by Eberhard. On gold watches was uncommon during the 50’s. Nice collection!
Thanks, Henrique, great insight and the Extra-Fort 👍 That GS61 is a stunner for sure and pretty obviously from the 70's, yes, but what a watch 😍 That Florentine case on the Longines is indeed pretty unique and that's why I like it. Not everyone's taste for sure, but that's alright.
Thanks for this second collection video. Loved the Grand Seikos and the Omega. There's something about vintage Seikos that parks them on your wrist. My KSs are the ones that get the most wrist time. Going to rewatch your GS61 vid.
I'm very envious Stian. If ever you feel charitable enough to send me one of your wonderful watches, you can rest assured that I would not be too proud to accept! ;⁰)
🤩 *I'll take the UG chronometer from the beginning, but will force myself to have the Omega De Ville chrono at the end, if that becomes necessary. ***_Somebody's gotta do it._* 🙃
I had a seiko gs in my younger days ,the clasp on the strap was loose and I lost it never too be seen again,30 years ago and I'm still crying,regards from -mark, Swansea, Wales uk 😓
great collection ! i just started as a wannebee wachtmaker one day.. at 49 time is running out ;) saving for the sonic cleaner ! and some leftoverwaches to practice ! time is on my side i guess.
All exceedingly gorgeous pieces Stian, though I think my favourties are the Grand Seikos. There's something uncommon about their unadorned excellence... there's nothing ostentatious or pretentious in their quality and precision. For me, Seiko stands quietly as a marque of excellence that doesn't need to be extravagant or conspicuous - internally or externally. I find that rather appealing. Thanks for both of your show-and-tell videos. And for all your engaging, entertaining and educational videos which I've enjoyed since I discovered your channel.
Hello Paul, that's really nice to hear. I love Seikos for the same reasons and so do a lot of watch enthousiasts. It's always funny to see the faces of non watch people when you say you like Seiko though, to them it's a cheap quartz brand 😁
Wow Stian, what a lovely collection. Thank you for sharing it with us. I’ll keep my eyes open for some of the lesser known brands to me. I look forward to seeing them serviced! No questions, you get of lightly this time;-)
Hello Stian! I love your collection! Very beautiful watches in and out. 😊 I know you’re not very fond of Certina watches, but I have a Certina Chronolympic Regatta in my drawer. Would it be worth to give it a full service and sell it? It’s from 1973. My daily watch is my fathers Rolex from mid sixties, and I love to wear it! ❤
Hello Jakob, thanks for watching! I'm actually a bit of a fan of Certina and think they're vastly underestimated :) I'd be happy to work on your Chronolympic Regatta, could you perhaps send me some photos and information about it to stian@vintagewatchservices.eu?
30 seconds in, a fellow "staircounter" detected.😂 I always wondered, if anyone does that. I'm binge watching your vids about the nitty gritty of "Watch-ing"✌️😎👍
Hello Angelino, the Vanac indeed has the same faceted crystal and is also very cool. Seiko shed their conservative selves a little bit on the Vanac and the GS61, and the results were in my view simply fantastic.
You have a superb collection, and one which must have cost more than a few Euros to amass. May I present an opinion? I think you do these class watches a discredit by wearing them so close to the back of your hand (in these displays at least). I think a prestige dress watch ought to be worn above the ulnar styloid on your wrist (Google?), because it is firm and unmovable up and down at that spot. I wouldn't dream of wearing that JLC L30 or the Omega De Ville so close to the hand. What do other viewers think?
Yeah, there are actually quite a lot of chronographs in my collection. They were a bit late to the ball, as I think the first 20 or so watches I bought were time/date only, but now I really like chronographs, also because they're fun to work on :)
I recently bought a jewelry chest with nests for twelve watches, only four of them are occupied; a Seiko flight computer, a mechanical Orient Star and two Invicta's. I'd like to get more into higher-end mechanical watches, at least to fill up the chest. One nest is reserved for a Sugess tourbillon, (I don't feel like paying six-figures for a Swiss one) the other seven nests are open. What's a good source for elite watches like these (please, not eBay) and what might I pay for them?
Hello Caledon, the best online source is eBay! 😂 That's where you have the biggest selection and where you can typically make the best buys, but it's also the most perilous place. Catawiki is a similarly dangerous place, and there are also a lot of forums where they sell watches, e.g on Watchuseek. Forum watches are mostly safer buys if they are offered by long term members. And lastly, Chrono24 is probably the safest place to buy and where you will find the most serious sellers, but it's also the most expensive given the safeguards they offer. Offline, iIf you have flea markets where you live you might be able to make some incredible bargains at those. There is a clear value to cost correlation for watches online, and most of the time you will be much happier with a watch that costs a bit more than a similar one, especially if the seller is someone you feel you can trust. It's a common saying that you should "buy the seller", and that holds true on any platform. You're much more likely to do a good buy if you buy from someone with a stellar reputation, but you still need to do your research on the watch you're interested in.
Stian, absolutely love your videos and sense of humour. Allow me to brake a lance for collecting vintage watches with lots of wear and tear on the dial and case, often dirt cheap but with quality movements, underrated and understated . They are time witnesses with a soul and history like the face and the hands of a veteran fisherman.
The mechanism has indeed started the change over of the date, and this is not an instant change over, so the date disc has started creeping towards the next day
Thanks so much! It's fun to share my own collection but also kind of revealing in terms of not taking proper care of my own watches... "The shoemaker's children go barefoot" 😂
@@VintageWatchServices haha that was quite nice quote :) I love that Seiko you have, in my collection only one Seiko, and I love this minimalistic clean design, very powerful atmosphere. And all those chronograph are magic, nice to see them so clean and working :)
Very nice collection. You are like the mechanic that fixes everyone else's cars and doesn't have time to work on his own. Thanks for sharing and taking the extra step of showing the movements.
What a collection!!!. Each watch priceless. I really loved the balance wheel oscillating in the vintage Rolex watch. But there is a thin pin sticking out somewhere from the balance wheel and fixed to the base plate. It is not a long regulator hand like what you have in an IWC Jones watch. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks for the video once again.Love your collection. Anything for selling, please let me know.
Thanks Krish! The Rolex has a protection bar, which is quite uncommon and honestly not that useful in my view. You will see it in the Rolex Datejust video here: th-cam.com/play/PLZLBOmesQP1bVD1Enr34tsi3rcy6Xw_8R.html A few of these watches will indeed be put up for sale, but I'll probably service them on the channel first. So if you keep an eye on the videos, you will know :)
Yes Stian, I saw the bar in the Rolex Datejust video.But as you rightly pointed out, if the balance wheel is removed without turning the bar, it is bound to damage the hairspring as it could get tangled with the bar. Thanks for the explanation.So very knowledgeable you are.
you said in the video that you have a strong feeling for seiko. the brand has a special place in my heart too, because the first watch i realy blindly fell in love with, a long time ago, was a seiko. it is "only" a quarz watch, but i would love to hear your opinion about it, since i have the impression this type is completely forgotten today. i was a teenage boy, laying in hospital and reading magazines to pass the time, when i saw the advertisement of the seiko windrose (i'm from germany, i don't know how it was named in other areas.) that was a watch unlike anything i had seen so far., the houres hand turnes the dial once in 24 houres and there are two minute hands at a 180 degree angle, that turn the dial in two houres each, since the dial has a 120 minutes scale. everything is at half speed with this watch. and i still think it is still a stunningly beautifull watch. i begged my parents to empty my sparbuch and lend me the rest of the money and buy this watch... and probably since i was in hospital they did it. it took me a while to be able to read the dial, but then it became second nature. the watch still runs fine today and i still use her on and of. have you heard of this seikos?
Thanks for your comment! I hadn't heard about the Seiko Windrose before your comment but I've seen it now and it looks very cool indeed. Very nice to hear it's still running!
@@VintageWatchServices that confirmes my thougt. when even a expert and seiko enthousiast like you never heard of this type, it mus be fallen into obscurity. i had put a fresh batterie in mine this morning and am wearing her right now
I loved the Longines mystery, absolutely fascinating. Not so much the green Seiko, sadly. On the other hand, you know what that means... more Seiko for you!
Very impressive collection you have there my friend 👍 my favorite of all your pieces is the Seiko with orange hends very cool great vintage collection, I have a Britix Chronograph 1940 a needs service .any idea how much would cost to service this movement 🤔....thank you for sharing your collection...
Hello Ricardo, your Britix probably has a Landeron movement? Does it have subdials at 3 and 9 o'clock? These are quite easy movements to service so if you Google vintage watches in your area and look at the reviews you should be able to find someone to help you.
Hi, my name is Clay. I too belong to Subdials Anonymous. I love subdials. I don't time anything, I just respect all that work to mechanically count things accurately. Very nice collection, Stian. I'm sure it will change a fair bit as time wears on. I might have to add a green dial, faceted crystal Grand Seiko to my collection sometime. Any love for Oris?
😂 No one actually times anything with their chronographs, so you're in good company! I have actually tried finding an Oris for a while on and off but still haven't gotten any. They have made a lot of nice watches though, so I'll get my hands on one sooner or later.
I count stairs too. Accountant here. Lol! Love the Compax. You do like the chronographs! Great watches! Can you please do a vid on the Zephyr? I love them. Been looking for one to buy.
Hello fellow step counter! It's apparently a form of OCD to count stuff, but for an accountant I can see the upside 😂 I like chronographs for sure, and looking at these videos I also realize I have no square-ish or tonneau pieces in my collection. I certainly prefer round watches but don't mind me a TV shaped one, for instance. But collections are dynamic things, so who knows :) And yes, I'll do a video on the Zephyr soon. They're probably the most beautiful watches Rolex ever made and quite un-Rolexy
Love what you do, great sense of humor also. Question, what type (name) are your brass tweezers, I'd like to get a pair. Thank you, can't wait for more!!
Thanks Gary! The tweezers I use are from Regine Horology and I buy them from Beco-technic.com. Horotec makes some relatively similar ones with a sharp bend instead of a curve.
Hi Stian looking forward to you servicing the landeron 248. I've sorted the chrono stopping on my Rodania the minute counter finger had a little to much tension on it. Now working great. Keep well from New Zealand.
UG is amazing, and the GS watch glass is unique , I'm a almost anti Rolex but that zefir is very classy! Never saw an Omega like that! Very nice video ! Was like in Alibaba cave! Treasures! nice and thanks that are sharing those with us!
Great watches you have there. Still, I am missing a moon phase in all of these. Also, there is no perpetual, nor even a year calendar watch in your offerings. Why? I have bought a chronograph (Georges Claude with moon phase), a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Thin Perpetual and very recently a Sugess Tourbillon, because I could not afford a Swiss made one. All I am missing in great complications is a minute repeater. Why do you not feature any of the great complications on your channel? Nor do - by the way - any of your colleagues.
Thanks for that and nice watches you have! I don't miss a moon phase, as I simply do not like them that much. It's all about personal preferences, this is after all a collection of watches I like, it's not supposed to be representative of all complications or varieties. There are for instance also no German watches in my collection, nor any square or tonneau shaped ones. And that's of course since I prefer round watches. When it comes to great complications, there's a very simple reason they are not in my collection; cost. A perpetual calendar will set you back at least 25k and a minute repeater much more. Unless you have a looooot of money, you're not going to have a big collection at that level. I'd rather have a multitude of watches that add up to the same amount as only one or two watches. Plus I'm into vintage watches as you might have noticed 😉 For the channel; I actually did buy a broken minute repeater pocket watch that I will try to make run again. It's a pretty big mess with broken parts here and there, which is what made it affordable in the first place. Hopefully that will be successful and a good video. For newer watches with these complications; they are again very expensive and the owners of them simply send them back to the store they bought them in for servicing. People who can afford a 6 figure watch aren't shopping around for having it serviced, they just pay whatever the store asks. And those stores do not make TH-cam videos :) Most watchmakers wouldn't want to work on a 100K watch anyway if they don't have the training for it and sometimes the specialized equipment necessary.
You have a lovely collection of watches, i am building mine up i have 13, 7 of which i got from ebay, they came cheaper because they needed servicing and fixing, love doing that though, your watches are really nice.
Thanks Dave, and that's how I built my collection also :) eBay is of course the biggest marketplace for watches, it can just be tricky and dangerous to buy good stuff there. I'm making a video on this subject very shortly.
Hi Stian, How incredibly lucky we viewers are , once upon a time we all used library's and books to indulge in the beauty of Horology and mechanical engineering, of course we still have that but , now not only do we get to see a watch maker talk us through step by step , History , workings complications , Servicing , what to do and what not to do and with a great sense of humour ( which we all enjoy ) , and now we are privy to his personal collection. Thanks for sharing what You enjoy so we can enjoy ... Service which ever suits you , We will All be there. That De ville . Wow ❤️ Regards to all Inc your Cat.
Most nice Stian! You have some truly unique and tasteful pieces. A lot of nice chronograph’s like that last Omega and the Universal Geneve. I found the Rolex quite nice too, never seen one before. It reminds me of an early Cellini, too bad someone tried to learn case refinishing on it. I was surprised to learn that you hadn’t been trained as a watchmaker from childhood, your knowledge of the different brands and caliber’s as well as the players in the business seems so vast. I really appreciate you sharing it with us (along with your humor). And seeing your collection was a treat. Can’t wait to see some of the services you mentioned. Take care.
Thanks so much, Randy! I loved watches from quite early on but only got serious about it some 15 years ago and went full time only a few years ago. But the passion was always there as you might hear from how I talk about watches 😁
I really like the long ones.what I really is enjoy what some people call the "off brands" many of the most interesting quality watches I have owned are not commonly known,but they have great history and they are the company's that made the innovations that are sought after now! Thank you again sir!
Wonderful Collection once again, This time my favourite is the florentine mystery dial Longines I love that Florentine look. Second is the Mirexal. I see a lot of this brand on Willhaben here in Austria, listening to your comments I will now look at them in a different light, thank you.
Hello Ian, that's very cool to hear! The Florentine finish is quite special and I think a lot of people might find it too fancy, but it is very cool as a dress watch. And Mirexal must be the coolest store brand ever! 😎
Love the GS Seiko but then I love all watches in your collection. I would be interested on your thoughts of the timex brand being as it’s an old maker and oft over looked. P.S I am an Omaga fan and own a Genevieve
Hello Clive, that's an interesting question indeed! Timex was actually quite famous in Norway for a while in the 1990s after a Norwegian businessman bought the company, but before that I had hardly heard of them. The reason for that is that Timex focused on so-called dollar watches, nice enough looking watches which were intended for running until they didn't, at which point you would throw them away and buy a new one. They were thus not intended to be serviced. You'll see this of you every try to take one apart, they are very cheaply made, using cone pivots for instance, which work alright for some time before they wear too much to provide reliable timekeeping. You'll see a lot of watchmakers refusing to service them because of all this. I think the relaunched Marlin looks great though!
Yeah, I hope I didn't sound demeaning to the brand, they made some very nice looking watches but their internals were typically cheap and not meant to last. Very similar to the pin pallet watch I serviced, just even a tad bit less refined 😉
Looking forward to the videos of the Longines and the Mirexal being serviced. Love the Omega DeVille! Wish I had an appreciation of Seiko. I don't. I'm ashamed. 😔
Shame on you! 😠 Now sit and fish! Seiko's are not for everyone for sure, but that just makes more of them for us who like them :) The Mirexal will come up before Christmas if all goes well but the Longines will probably have to wait a bit. There are a lot of watches in the pipeline so I'll see exactly which ones get finished first, depending on when I get various parts for them. But plenty of nice watches coming up!
Stian, again this video is so enjoyable. I learn a lot by listening to your commentary and watching carefully. I think anyone who has looked closely at your on-line store (which all should) will get a great idea of your eclectic taste in watches. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Doug, that's great to hear :)
Yoü have a pleasant presentation style, most enjoyable content too. Though not a Rolex fan, I did find that one interesting.....
Thanks a lot, Mark! I'm not a big Rolex fan either, but then again the Zephyr isn't very Rolex-y :)
FELICIDADES HERMOSA COLECCIÓN !!!!! .
Muchos gracias 😊
This 2-part video series is great, Stian. Thanks for making and sharing it. It's very interesting to know what a pro horologist owns.
Thanks, Woody! In Norway we say that people's tastes are like the butt: split. That saying sounds a lot better in Norwegian... 🤔
I love your collection. I don’t care how wonderful the movement is in most Rolex watches - as far as I’m concerned, most of them are “flashy trash”. Their outsides do not reflect their insides. I don’t travel in those circles so I don’t know for sure, but I suspect that a lot of the people who buy them might also fall into the “flashy trash” category. Just an opinion, of course. I do enjoy your commentary; you provide a lot of education in an accessible and interesting format. Thank you! Any chance you’re likely to have an A. Lange watch on your channel?
Thanks so much, Lynn :) And I wish I could have a Lange watch on the bench, but I'll have to become a bit richer first!
*Timepiece pornography at its finest.* *_This material will soon be declared illegal, it's so enjoyable._*
🤣 "Watch this video before it is removed"
The UG is cool and the movement makes it even better. The Longines has a nice and unusual case. First time I see one like this. I had a good opinion on Seikos GS but the green one rocks!!! The faceted crystal gives it a very 70’s look! I think the extra-fort comes from the stiffnesses of the cases made by Eberhard. On gold watches was uncommon during the 50’s. Nice collection!
Thanks, Henrique, great insight and the Extra-Fort 👍
That GS61 is a stunner for sure and pretty obviously from the 70's, yes, but what a watch 😍
That Florentine case on the Longines is indeed pretty unique and that's why I like it. Not everyone's taste for sure, but that's alright.
Thanks for this second collection video. Loved the Grand Seikos and the Omega. There's something about vintage Seikos that parks them on your wrist. My KSs are the ones that get the most wrist time. Going to rewatch your GS61 vid.
I love those vintage Seiko's also, they're so classy and timeless :)
That last Omega Chronograph!!!
It's a beauty, right? 😍
The vintage Omega with the date window at 9 is really interesting and beautiful!
Thanks for the video!
Thanks for watching it!
Looking forward to seeing what vintage Casio you have in your personal collection.
I had one but my colleague "accidentally" destroyed it 😂
@@VintageWatchServices It took him a long time and a lot of effort though. 😀Be well.
Just coming across your vids and really enjoying them.. Vintage is a nice way to go and I own a few - omega, breitling, LeCoultre
I'm very envious Stian. If ever you feel charitable enough to send me one of your wonderful watches, you can rest assured that I would not be too proud to accept! ;⁰)
Hehe, I'll keep that in mind, Martin 😉
🤩 *I'll take the UG chronometer from the beginning, but will force myself to have the Omega De Ville chrono at the end, if that becomes necessary. ***_Somebody's gotta do it._* 🙃
@@joeskeptical4762 🤣
I had a seiko gs in my younger days ,the clasp on the strap was loose and I lost it never too be seen again,30 years ago and I'm still crying,regards from -mark, Swansea, Wales uk 😓
great collection ! i just started as a wannebee wachtmaker one day.. at 49 time is running out ;) saving for the sonic cleaner ! and some leftoverwaches to practice ! time is on my side i guess.
I love the 2 watch you showed!
I'm jealous just kidding:)
What a Beautiful collection.
What a fantastic Eberhard chrono!
Very nice collection of watches.
10-10 ? What delivery would that be ? The smallest child knows it should be 11-11...
Really.....10-10 ....
Paddy
😂 Exactly!
All exceedingly gorgeous pieces Stian, though I think my favourties are the Grand Seikos. There's something uncommon about their unadorned excellence... there's nothing ostentatious or pretentious in their quality and precision. For me, Seiko stands quietly as a marque of excellence that doesn't need to be extravagant or conspicuous - internally or externally. I find that rather appealing. Thanks for both of your show-and-tell videos. And for all your engaging, entertaining and educational videos which I've enjoyed since I discovered your channel.
Hello Paul, that's really nice to hear. I love Seikos for the same reasons and so do a lot of watch enthousiasts. It's always funny to see the faces of non watch people when you say you like Seiko though, to them it's a cheap quartz brand 😁
I love the variety of your collection; "each watch tells it's own story",
Thanks so much, John! It's a collection built over many years although it's also shifting over time :)
Really enjoyed the watch travelogue on your watches and found a couple of new favorites as well....Good stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow Stian, what a lovely collection. Thank you for sharing it with us. I’ll keep my eyes open for some of the lesser known brands to me. I look forward to seeing them serviced! No questions, you get of lightly this time;-)
Thanks Boyd! So many watches, so little time...
Super video.
Your Longines Grand Prize is absolutley fabulous.
Thanks Clive! I like it also :)
Awesome collection.
Any tips you’d tell younger you about buying-repairing-selling watches?
I'd probably say "take your time" rather than buying too fast...
Hello Stian! I love your collection! Very beautiful watches in and out. 😊
I know you’re not very fond of Certina watches, but I have a Certina Chronolympic Regatta in my drawer. Would it be worth to give it a full service and sell it?
It’s from 1973.
My daily watch is my fathers Rolex from mid sixties, and I love to wear it! ❤
Hello Jakob, thanks for watching! I'm actually a bit of a fan of Certina and think they're vastly underestimated :) I'd be happy to work on your Chronolympic Regatta, could you perhaps send me some photos and information about it to stian@vintagewatchservices.eu?
30 seconds in, a fellow "staircounter" detected.😂 I always wondered, if anyone does that. I'm binge watching your vids about the nitty gritty of "Watch-ing"✌️😎👍
Staircounters of the world unite! 😂
The Longines Is so beautiful, am the Eberhard Is interesting piece, great video, vintage Is best.
Thanks Floyd, and I couldn't agree more!
3:30 I don’t remember your GS having a faceted chrystal. So cool. I have a LordMatic with one and aspire to a crazy KS Vanac (?). Nice.
Hello Angelino, the Vanac indeed has the same faceted crystal and is also very cool. Seiko shed their conservative selves a little bit on the Vanac and the GS61, and the results were in my view simply fantastic.
pls give me one
You have a superb collection, and one which must have cost more than a few Euros to amass. May I present an opinion? I think you do these class watches a discredit by wearing them so close to the back of your hand (in these displays at least). I think a prestige dress watch ought to be worn above the ulnar styloid on your wrist (Google?), because it is firm and unmovable up and down at that spot. I wouldn't dream of wearing that JLC L30 or the Omega De Ville so close to the hand. What do other viewers think?
It's probably a matter of personal preference. I don't feel comfortable wearing the watch higher up on the arm :)
I'm appalled. Not one single Casio. You're a watch snob.😁
I'm terribly sorry, Frank 😞 I had one but it had an unfortunate "accident"...
Again, vintage chronographs. So much awesome. 👍
Yeah, there are actually quite a lot of chronographs in my collection. They were a bit late to the ball, as I think the first 20 or so watches I bought were time/date only, but now I really like chronographs, also because they're fun to work on :)
Wow, I also have a Longines 1959 mystery dial 14k white gold round in shape with diamond index .
Very cool! Mystery dials were all the rage in the late 50's and early 60's and they're nice to have in your collection :)
You have some very interesting watches. Subscribed
Great to hear, Ian, welcome! And more to come :)
Excellent video! I have a soft spot for Omegas, I don't know why. I want an Oris Super too.
Thanks Donny! There's a lot of variety in Omegas, so there's a lot to love. And the same with the Oris Super, lots of variations 👍
many thanks
I recently bought a jewelry chest with nests for twelve watches, only four of them are occupied; a Seiko flight computer, a mechanical Orient Star and two Invicta's. I'd like to get more into higher-end mechanical watches, at least to fill up the chest. One nest is reserved for a Sugess tourbillon, (I don't feel like paying six-figures for a Swiss one) the other seven nests are open. What's a good source for elite watches like these (please, not eBay) and what might I pay for them?
Hello Caledon, the best online source is eBay! 😂 That's where you have the biggest selection and where you can typically make the best buys, but it's also the most perilous place. Catawiki is a similarly dangerous place, and there are also a lot of forums where they sell watches, e.g on Watchuseek. Forum watches are mostly safer buys if they are offered by long term members. And lastly, Chrono24 is probably the safest place to buy and where you will find the most serious sellers, but it's also the most expensive given the safeguards they offer. Offline, iIf you have flea markets where you live you might be able to make some incredible bargains at those.
There is a clear value to cost correlation for watches online, and most of the time you will be much happier with a watch that costs a bit more than a similar one, especially if the seller is someone you feel you can trust. It's a common saying that you should "buy the seller", and that holds true on any platform. You're much more likely to do a good buy if you buy from someone with a stellar reputation, but you still need to do your research on the watch you're interested in.
“I’m the kind of guy who counts the steps when I walk up a pair of stairs.”
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Stian, absolutely love your videos and sense of humour. Allow me to brake a lance for collecting vintage watches with lots of wear and tear on the dial and case, often dirt cheap but with quality movements, underrated and understated . They are time witnesses with a soul and history like the face and the hands of a veteran fisherman.
Thanks, Thomas!
My Grand Prize auto has a small second hand and traditional dial face . Would it be worth it to have it repaired and working properly ?
Hello David, if the dial is nice and the watch doesn't seem to have any big problems it would most likely be very much worth it.
What's happening with a date on your GS-61? Is it stuck between 5 and 6 @ 2:35 or it's just in a process of changing the date?
The mechanism has indeed started the change over of the date, and this is not an instant change over, so the date disc has started creeping towards the next day
Perfect collection, love those 1955-1970s pieces enjoyed by watching your comments and review.
Thanks so much! It's fun to share my own collection but also kind of revealing in terms of not taking proper care of my own watches... "The shoemaker's children go barefoot" 😂
@@VintageWatchServices haha that was quite nice quote :) I love that Seiko you have, in my collection only one Seiko, and I love this minimalistic clean design, very powerful atmosphere. And all those chronograph are magic, nice to see them so clean and working :)
Nice batch of timepieces! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching, Westend!
Very nice collection. You are like the mechanic that fixes everyone else's cars and doesn't have time to work on his own. Thanks for sharing and taking the extra step of showing the movements.
It's like the old saying: the shoemaker's children go barefoot :)
You don't have any of your watches for around $300.00
You mean none of them cost less than $300? In my current collection that's right, but when I started collecting I had a lot of watches below $300
Again you have a wonderfull collection!
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I really like the longines! Sorry for the typos!
Cool!
I'll offer you a swap, all of these for my Timex Marlin?
Hmmm... Tempting, lieu me think about it for a couple of decades 🤔
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Mirexal sounds like brand name medicine
🤔 It does indeed... for something like foot fungus? 😂
The second GS was really nice and that Rolex was just stunning.
amazing collection, wear them well
Thanks a lot, Pipo!
Lots of brands here that are new to me and I know nothing about.
Very cool to hear :) There were so many good brands half a century ago!
But my favourite is that pie pan!
It's a beauty indeed!
Merci
Do you resale watches
Yes I do, you can find the current collection at www.vintagewatchservices.eu
That omega at the end is gorgeous 😍
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I like the Eberhard!!!
It's very nice! Not vintage but the same feel, with very clean design. Love it!
What a collection!!!. Each watch priceless. I really loved the balance wheel oscillating in the vintage Rolex watch. But there is a thin pin sticking out somewhere from the balance wheel and fixed to the base plate. It is not a long regulator hand like what you have in an IWC Jones watch. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks for the video once again.Love your collection. Anything for selling, please let me know.
Thanks Krish! The Rolex has a protection bar, which is quite uncommon and honestly not that useful in my view. You will see it in the Rolex Datejust video here: th-cam.com/play/PLZLBOmesQP1bVD1Enr34tsi3rcy6Xw_8R.html
A few of these watches will indeed be put up for sale, but I'll probably service them on the channel first. So if you keep an eye on the videos, you will know :)
Yes Stian, I saw the bar in the Rolex Datejust video.But as you rightly pointed out, if the balance wheel is removed without turning the bar, it is bound to damage the hairspring as it could get tangled with the bar. Thanks for the explanation.So very knowledgeable you are.
you said in the video that you have a strong feeling for seiko. the brand has a special place in my heart too, because the first watch i realy blindly fell in love with, a long time ago, was a seiko. it is "only" a quarz watch, but i would love to hear your opinion about it, since i have the impression this type is completely forgotten today. i was a teenage boy, laying in hospital and reading magazines to pass the time, when i saw the advertisement of the seiko windrose (i'm from germany, i don't know how it was named in other areas.) that was a watch unlike anything i had seen so far., the houres hand turnes the dial once in 24 houres and there are two minute hands at a 180 degree angle, that turn the dial in two houres each, since the dial has a 120 minutes scale. everything is at half speed with this watch. and i still think it is still a stunningly beautifull watch. i begged my parents to empty my sparbuch and lend me the rest of the money and buy this watch... and probably since i was in hospital they did it. it took me a while to be able to read the dial, but then it became second nature. the watch still runs fine today and i still use her on and of. have you heard of this seikos?
Thanks for your comment! I hadn't heard about the Seiko Windrose before your comment but I've seen it now and it looks very cool indeed. Very nice to hear it's still running!
@@VintageWatchServices that confirmes my thougt. when even a expert and seiko enthousiast like you never heard of this type, it mus be fallen into obscurity. i had put a fresh batterie in mine this morning and am wearing her right now
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Thanks, Steve!
Amazing
Thanks Marcelo!
I loved the Longines mystery, absolutely fascinating. Not so much the green Seiko, sadly. On the other hand, you know what that means... more Seiko for you!
Thanks for watching, and more Seiko for me! 😁
Amazing collection there. That GS with faceted crystal looks great.
Thanks! That watch really got to me during the service of it, so I couldn't get myself to sell it :)
Very impressive collection you have there my friend 👍 my favorite of all your pieces is the Seiko with orange hends very cool great vintage collection, I have a Britix Chronograph 1940 a needs service .any idea how much would cost to service this movement 🤔....thank you for sharing your collection...
Hello Ricardo, your Britix probably has a Landeron movement? Does it have subdials at 3 and 9 o'clock? These are quite easy movements to service so if you Google vintage watches in your area and look at the reviews you should be able to find someone to help you.
Yeah 3 an 9 I leave small Town of St George Utah maybe Las Vegas I'll check out thank you my friend..
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Very enjoyable. Thanks for sharing your fine collection of vintage classics.
Thanks a lot, Chris!
There are some iconic designs in there for sure & YES I'm envious of you. Absolutely beautiful!!
Thank you, Peter! 😊 I'll be featuring some of these on the channel plus a lot of other cool watches, so stay tuned :)
Cool.
Thanks, Cormac!
Same comments as in part 1! I am looking forward to watch your Seiko 6139 and 7733 servicing to learn as much as possible! thanks for sharing again
Thanks Cristobal! Those two will be coming this side of Christmas if all goes well 👍
Hi, my name is Clay. I too belong to Subdials Anonymous. I love subdials. I don't time anything, I just respect all that work to mechanically count things accurately. Very nice collection, Stian. I'm sure it will change a fair bit as time wears on. I might have to add a green dial, faceted crystal Grand Seiko to my collection sometime. Any love for Oris?
😂 No one actually times anything with their chronographs, so you're in good company! I have actually tried finding an Oris for a while on and off but still haven't gotten any. They have made a lot of nice watches though, so I'll get my hands on one sooner or later.
I count stairs too. Accountant here. Lol! Love the Compax. You do like the chronographs! Great watches!
Can you please do a vid on the Zephyr? I love them. Been looking for one to buy.
Hello fellow step counter! It's apparently a form of OCD to count stuff, but for an accountant I can see the upside 😂
I like chronographs for sure, and looking at these videos I also realize I have no square-ish or tonneau pieces in my collection. I certainly prefer round watches but don't mind me a TV shaped one, for instance. But collections are dynamic things, so who knows :)
And yes, I'll do a video on the Zephyr soon. They're probably the most beautiful watches Rolex ever made and quite un-Rolexy
Love what you do, great sense of humor also. Question, what type (name) are your brass tweezers, I'd like to get a pair. Thank you, can't wait for more!!
Thanks Gary! The tweezers I use are from Regine Horology and I buy them from Beco-technic.com. Horotec makes some relatively similar ones with a sharp bend instead of a curve.
Hi Stian looking forward to you servicing the landeron 248. I've sorted the chrono stopping on my Rodania the minute counter finger had a little to much tension on it. Now working great. Keep well from New Zealand.
Hello Bruce, great to hear and well done! The Landeron will be featured soon 👍
UG is amazing, and the GS watch glass is unique , I'm a almost anti Rolex but that zefir is very classy! Never saw an Omega like that! Very nice video ! Was like in Alibaba cave! Treasures! nice and thanks that are sharing those with us!
Thanks a lot, Tiberiu! It's quite impossible to have a single favorite, that's why I have many 😁
Great watches you have there. Still, I am missing a moon phase in all of these. Also, there is no perpetual, nor even a year calendar watch in your offerings. Why? I have bought a chronograph (Georges Claude with moon phase), a Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Thin Perpetual and very recently a Sugess Tourbillon, because I could not afford a Swiss made one. All I am missing in great complications is a minute repeater. Why do you not feature any of the great complications on your channel? Nor do - by the way - any of your colleagues.
Thanks for that and nice watches you have! I don't miss a moon phase, as I simply do not like them that much. It's all about personal preferences, this is after all a collection of watches I like, it's not supposed to be representative of all complications or varieties. There are for instance also no German watches in my collection, nor any square or tonneau shaped ones. And that's of course since I prefer round watches.
When it comes to great complications, there's a very simple reason they are not in my collection; cost. A perpetual calendar will set you back at least 25k and a minute repeater much more. Unless you have a looooot of money, you're not going to have a big collection at that level. I'd rather have a multitude of watches that add up to the same amount as only one or two watches. Plus I'm into vintage watches as you might have noticed 😉
For the channel; I actually did buy a broken minute repeater pocket watch that I will try to make run again. It's a pretty big mess with broken parts here and there, which is what made it affordable in the first place. Hopefully that will be successful and a good video.
For newer watches with these complications; they are again very expensive and the owners of them simply send them back to the store they bought them in for servicing. People who can afford a 6 figure watch aren't shopping around for having it serviced, they just pay whatever the store asks. And those stores do not make TH-cam videos :) Most watchmakers wouldn't want to work on a 100K watch anyway if they don't have the training for it and sometimes the specialized equipment necessary.
Lovely vid!
Thanks!
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You have a lovely collection of watches, i am building mine up i have 13, 7 of which i got from ebay, they came cheaper because they needed servicing and fixing, love doing that though, your watches are really nice.
Thanks Dave, and that's how I built my collection also :) eBay is of course the biggest marketplace for watches, it can just be tricky and dangerous to buy good stuff there. I'm making a video on this subject very shortly.
Hi Stian,
How incredibly lucky we viewers are , once upon a time we all used library's and books to indulge in the beauty of Horology and mechanical engineering, of course we still have that but , now not only do we get to see a watch maker talk us through step by step , History , workings complications , Servicing , what to do and what not to do and with a great sense of humour ( which we all enjoy ) , and now we are privy to his personal collection.
Thanks for sharing what You enjoy so we can enjoy ...
Service which ever suits you , We will All be there.
That De ville . Wow ❤️
Regards to all Inc your Cat.
Hi Andy, thanks so much, that's very nice to hear 😊 I'm happy to share my love of vintage watches and will continue doing so 👍
More beautiful watches. I can't pick any favorites as they are all great and each has a certain flair.
That pretty much sums up what watch collecting is about, David! It's a slippery slope :)
Love the Rolex. Clean and elegant, not gaudy like a lot of Rolexes. Really enjoyed looking at your two collection vids. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks, James! That's exactly my feelings about Rolex and the Zephyr also 👍
You have a wonderful collection. I am particularly enamored by the 2 GS pieces you have. Without a doubt they are the best of the best.
Thanks a lot, Glen! GS's are pretty much all of them fabulous watches and the GS61 is more playful than most. Gotta love that :)
Most nice Stian! You have some truly unique and tasteful pieces. A lot of nice chronograph’s like that last Omega and the Universal Geneve. I found the Rolex quite nice too, never seen one before. It reminds me of an early Cellini, too bad someone tried to learn case refinishing on it.
I was surprised to learn that you hadn’t been trained as a watchmaker from childhood, your knowledge of the different brands and caliber’s as well as the players in the business seems so vast. I really appreciate you sharing it with us (along with your humor). And seeing your collection was a treat. Can’t wait to see some of the services you mentioned.
Take care.
Thanks so much, Randy! I loved watches from quite early on but only got serious about it some 15 years ago and went full time only a few years ago. But the passion was always there as you might hear from how I talk about watches 😁
I really like the long ones.what I really is enjoy what some people call the "off brands" many of the most interesting quality watches I have owned are not commonly known,but they have great history and they are the company's that made the innovations that are sought after now! Thank you again sir!
Thanks a lot, David! That's indeed the beauty of vintage watches, there were so many good brands that no longer exist.
Wonderful Collection once again, This time my favourite is the florentine mystery dial Longines I love that Florentine look. Second is the Mirexal. I see a lot of this brand on Willhaben here in Austria, listening to your comments I will now look at them in a different light, thank you.
Hello Ian, that's very cool to hear! The Florentine finish is quite special and I think a lot of people might find it too fancy, but it is very cool as a dress watch. And Mirexal must be the coolest store brand ever! 😎
Love the GS Seiko but then I love all watches in your collection. I would be interested on your thoughts of the timex brand being as it’s an old maker and oft over looked. P.S I am an Omaga fan and own a Genevieve
Hello Clive, that's an interesting question indeed! Timex was actually quite famous in Norway for a while in the 1990s after a Norwegian businessman bought the company, but before that I had hardly heard of them. The reason for that is that Timex focused on so-called dollar watches, nice enough looking watches which were intended for running until they didn't, at which point you would throw them away and buy a new one. They were thus not intended to be serviced.
You'll see this of you every try to take one apart, they are very cheaply made, using cone pivots for instance, which work alright for some time before they wear too much to provide reliable timekeeping. You'll see a lot of watchmakers refusing to service them because of all this.
I think the relaunched Marlin looks great though!
@@VintageWatchServices Thankyou for that informative insight into there brand.
Yeah, I hope I didn't sound demeaning to the brand, they made some very nice looking watches but their internals were typically cheap and not meant to last. Very similar to the pin pallet watch I serviced, just even a tad bit less refined 😉
Looking forward to the videos of the Longines and the Mirexal being serviced. Love the Omega DeVille! Wish I had an appreciation of Seiko. I don't. I'm ashamed. 😔
Shame on you! 😠 Now sit and fish! Seiko's are not for everyone for sure, but that just makes more of them for us who like them :)
The Mirexal will come up before Christmas if all goes well but the Longines will probably have to wait a bit. There are a lot of watches in the pipeline so I'll see exactly which ones get finished first, depending on when I get various parts for them. But plenty of nice watches coming up!