I Broke Watch Parts! Can I make it right? - Roamer Stingray Chrono Swiss Watch Restoration

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Horology Biology services the famous Roamer Stingray Chrono vintage watch with the Valjoux 726 inside. This watch restoration tested me for sure with broken parts and things flying!
The Roamer Stingray Chrono was a serious piece of kit back in the late 1960's and highly sought after.
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00:00 Intro
00:34 The Strip down
10:59 Pre-cleaning // Pegging the jewels
11:09 Mainspring removal
11:29 Fix 1
11:58 Fix 2
12:51 Basket Prep
13:12 The Rebuild
14:37 Mainspring Refitting
22:07 Pallet forks fitting and oiling
30:49 Dial refitting
31:12 Hands refitting
31:48 Timergrapher
32:36 Crystal polishing
33:07 Casing up the watch
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Cam 1: Panasonic Lumix G7 with a 14-140mm lens with a x2 magnifier lens
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@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

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@NoNonsense316 6 ай бұрын

Your work is impressive. I'm not sure that I have the patience or steady hands for this kind of work, but it absolutely fascinates me to see these little machines broken down to their smallest parts, cleaned, then put back together, working as well as the day they were first made - and sometimes better.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed it 👍

@tomholloway7566 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Matt, good to see I’m not the only one who has a difficult day at the bench!

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

One has to drop the realness every now and again

@lindenhoch8396 6 ай бұрын

A day to remember to forget. I suppose it could have been worse, like having a world of trouble removing a screw, only to discover it was a left threaded one.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

oh the dreaded left threaded screws lol Thanks for watching

@johnhannon 6 ай бұрын

We all have things sometimes break and fly away. I am glad you show this. The chronograph is a very complex watch to work on.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@rossjackson3670 6 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this video. Liked the way you showed the repair of the seconds hand and driving wheel. Benefited us lesser mortals. Good super commentary and explanation about aligning the driving wheel. Photography and camera use is excellent. The title notation at the bottom on the timing bar is so helpful.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks as always Ross :)

@markvitacco9814 6 ай бұрын

Brilliant, Mat having a bad day! Glad you showed this, I won't feel as bad when screws fly out of my tweezers and enter the fifth dimension. The learning curve (for me) has been very long but it builds character. I'm re-learning patience which helpful in other aspects of life.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Mark. In life anything can happen :P

@Trevorpartington-yc6ri 6 ай бұрын

I recently spent, 3 hours on my hands an knees looking for a second hand in deep carpet only to give up and say "F*** IT!".......... next morning I walked in and and spotted it in about 2 seconds. We all have days like this. Loved the video and loved the watch , don't normally like cronos that much but nice watch :D

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. I think the carpet is a big no no. That must be a nightmare

@jamessaund 5 ай бұрын

Amazing watch and seriously satisfying to see it restored so professionally!

@HorologyBiology 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much!

@bertiew7499 6 ай бұрын

We all have these kind of days, weeks or even months,or is that just me. Another great vid mate

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Cheers Bertie, thanks for watching

@WMIYC 6 ай бұрын

One of my favorite mishaps is when a part flies and you spend an hour crawling on the floor with flashlight, moving furniture, sweeping, dragging a magnet etc… and finding it stuck on the inside of the movement holder.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

That sounds like hell! lol thanks for watching 👍

@USAHaCkY 6 ай бұрын

I found one of your springs near my cup of coffee. Please let me Know how to send it back to you. Super fresh vid as always. Thanks for sharing.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

hahah thanks for watching. You may keep the spring

@chadpyett6441 6 ай бұрын

Great video threw me with the crown separation looks great like the old mechanical watches

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@andyyoung3233 6 ай бұрын

That watch looks badass mate 👍👍👍👍👍

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate 👍

@WristwatchMedic1953 6 ай бұрын

A great video. Beautiful watch. Thanks for the video

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Darryll :)

@nerome619 5 ай бұрын

I have that exact watch!

@HorologyBiology 5 ай бұрын

Niceee. Awesome chrono

@mrclassic2284 6 ай бұрын

Great Episode!

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@moboei 6 ай бұрын

Nice one.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Sir 👍🏽

@tomgalm1758 6 ай бұрын

Another great one bud.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

@andyyoung3233 6 ай бұрын

Cant wait for your Rolex video or is it a Pagini Design 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

🤫 lol

@brucebarlow6604 6 ай бұрын

Come on HB let’s see that Rolex video

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

lol 🤫

@brucebarlow6604 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology 😂

@Martin_Breu 5 ай бұрын

What a beauty ❤

@HorologyBiology 5 ай бұрын

That some lucky person will enjoy for sure 👍

@ehrenkrause9861 6 ай бұрын

Pretty big difference between a well-made movement that is hand fitted versus a machine mass produced off the shelf $50 movement. Look a lot more trouble than it was worth. 😊

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Definitely worth the trouble as the value is there for sure.

@colinbenfield326 6 ай бұрын

Nice save 😊

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks 😁

@TomislavHristicmchrile 6 ай бұрын

Perfect. I believe that there is no uglier strap than the one you put on this watch. I think a leather racing watch strap would be a better fit.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Haha it’s not the nicest is it! I did however kind of liked how the red and black matched up

@carlbenner4466 6 ай бұрын

Listening to you sounds like Ringo star is a watch maker

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Is that a good thing or a bad thing 😂

@carlbenner4466 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology a good thing 🤣 keep up with the amazing content

@soundmindtv2911 6 ай бұрын

Ah, mate! Beautiful result, but what a challenge! What could you do differently with that sweeper hand? I imagine it just is what it is, at that point? And those springs, they're just born to fly and won't be held down! "I'm freeeeeee!!!" Hahaha... Confession, I still put the whole thing in a bag to remove or install the yoke springs 😂 🙈 Corny, but at least I don't lose them anymore. I'm getting a lot better at taming them, but the times they disappeared forever still has me traumatized enough to not trust myself. Someday I'll tackle a chrono, but for now I'm still playing with cheap seikos and elgins. Although I do dream of the day I can restore a JLC without rounding off the caseback or dragging the finely-finished movement around unprotected on an anvil block 😂 🙈 Fantastic video, my friend! You're truly inspiring.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Cheers mate. You'll get there with the springs and as you can see it can still happen from time to time. I was happy that the sweeper could be sorted as that would have a been a pain to source I think. Things like that can just happen though. Was there a hidden message in that JLC comment I wonder lol

@soundmindtv2911 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology what? I don't know what you're talking about 😉 😂 🤐

@kevinparsons6211 6 ай бұрын

What I do if know that are springs going to fly. I have a 2 foot sheet of plastic I cover movement with room for my tools and hands underneath

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

lol that's extreme lol 😂

@timmy11toes 6 ай бұрын

Nice metal gear alert

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

The ultimate wtf effect

@nicklapietra3890 6 ай бұрын

Great video. I am a little surprised you didn't pean the hub to the driving wheel using your staking set but if it works great! Thanks for the video.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

I didn't think it was needed, you would have done it differently? Thanks for watching :)

@nicklapietra3890 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology You would know better actually feeling the parts. I was just concerned that as it came off once it might be a little loose and wiggle off again as it is running or begin to slip. Thanks for the courtesy of your reply.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

@@nicklapietra3890 Your question was totally fair. I've had this happen to me once before and thankfully the friction felt pretty strong when I was driving it back in. Obviously videos are edited as I don't think anyone would want to see a 15 minute segment of driving a driving wheel together with a staking set. Maybe I'm wrong :P

@boydsargeant7496 6 ай бұрын

We all have watch days like this!👍🤨😁

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

most certainly do :(

@DannyOhana 6 ай бұрын

I practice on brand new $25 AliExpress watches. 😄

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Enjoy working on them :)

@JiriMachovec 6 ай бұрын

Hi, could you please explain what exactly does a chronograph mean? Thank you! I have of course tried google, it says chronograph has a stopwatch function, automatic does not. Is it that simple? Also a video idea which I would certainly like would be an in depth look at the components of a watch, perhaps a simple one, with an explanation of what does each part do. However this would I believe be quite time consuming and maybe not even interesting for most viewers. Certainly great for learning though. Also amazing work on the repairs! I was quite worried that you have really broken the hand. What a relief learning its just a friction fit so you can basically just put it back together.

@JiriMachovec 6 ай бұрын

Also a "toolbox tour" would be so interesting for me!

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

I do have a video on the channel showing tools etc and what I use 👍🏻👍🏻

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

You are right with what you said. A chronograph in principal is a stop watch. This watch for example has the option to record the stopwatch timing up to 12 hours. I think it would take a lot of time making a video based on every single part. However there are some great books out there that really explain things well 👍🏻

@JiriMachovec 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology Ohh amazing, I was looking for that but clearly I did a poor job. I will try again! Interesting, thank you for the explanation! Looks like I might learn a bit after all haha

@jacek50 6 ай бұрын

Greetings from Poland! 🇵🇱 Fun fact - I know the name of individual parts of a watch (not all of course) in English, but not really in Polish 😂

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

lol thanks for the info 👍 Thanks for watching as well :)

@galeng73 6 ай бұрын

I've been subscribed to this channel for a while. I still haven't a clue what's going on. I have no idea why I watch all these videos.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Just embrace it, let them wash over you like a nice warm shower of watch love 😅😅

@galeng73 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology I've learned a little bit about watches while watching. So, there's that. I literally have zero interest in fixing watches myself. I own some nice watches (I'm a Citizen fan). I had quite a collection of watches that I mostly handed down to my son, but then I bought more watches. I've changed batteries in watches. I've taken apart watches that never went back together, but that was cheap watches and decades ago when I was a curious child. Meh... I watch your videos because they are interesting by themselves. I'm 99% confident that I'll never attempt a repair or cleaning. Your videos do make me want to take better care of my watches. I should take some in for a general cleaning.

@timothy4664 6 ай бұрын

Sucks man. You handled it like a pro though. 👊

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

@ElderPinto254 6 ай бұрын

i have bad starting 2024 to m8 i feel you bro there is something in tha air ... great watch nice Roamer! do you got a rolex as suprise !!

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Ouch mate sorry to hear :( only a couple of weeks in a well.

@ElderPinto254 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology lot of my orders got stolen crazy here....

@johnnyarsenault9124 6 ай бұрын

Is your unknown brand: Hauer? Always super content! 👌❤️👍

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

What's Hauer ??

@johnnyarsenault9124 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology Hauer was before joining and making Tag/Hauer

@andoletube 6 ай бұрын

@@johnnyarsenault9124 Heuer. Probably sounds pedantic, but if you speak German it's like comparing Rolex to Poleaxe.

@francishagen8508 6 ай бұрын

Takk!

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thank you Francis 🙏

@DannyOhana 6 ай бұрын

At the beginning of your videos I head over to ebay to see what the watch your working on costs, this one's price almost gave me a heart attack, it's north of $10 grand.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

lol noooo, no where near that value. Around the $2.4 mark

@DannyOhana 6 ай бұрын

I saw one for over $10 grand on ebay I'm not kidding, I'd post the link to it but youtube won't let me. Here's the funny part, it was nowhere near mint condition, for that kind of money one would think it would've been immaculate.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

That’s a ridiculous asking price. There is always a big difference between what someone is asking and what the actual sale price was 😉

@AICD1999 6 ай бұрын

I have bought duplicate donor movements for cheap because Im learning

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Solid move 💪🏻💪🏻

@AICD1999 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology So my first was a Forster 220 movement. It has a weird automatic rotor system that uses a flat hairpin clip to retain the rotor from falling off. Well it went flying and after 30 min of sweeping and a flashlight I found it by light reflection in a spider web under the table. At least I found it right? Well no because when trying to get it clipped into place it broke in half, thats not fresh. In fact its super stale! S now Im waiting for its donor movement.

@andyyoung3233 6 ай бұрын

Bro I break things all the time LOL

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

lol cheers mate

@kevinparsons6211 6 ай бұрын

7:52

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

👍

@apb3251 6 ай бұрын

Spotted it for sale on eBay

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

You most certainly did! Thanks for watching

@apb3251 6 ай бұрын

@@HorologyBiology it turns out I’ve been unknowingly following your eBay store longer than the KZfaq channel. Keep up the good work on both fronts 👍

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Small world

@slammermx 6 ай бұрын

I thought I saw an ETA logo on the movement.

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

It's the valjoux logo 👍

@J.MatthewTong 6 ай бұрын

I think you’re “aura” was definitely wrong squire 😂

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

My ju ju was definitely low 😫

@user-hu8bn2dm3n 6 ай бұрын

من فضلك عندي ساعة pierpont ميكانيكية نسائية قديمة وهي بحالة جيدة وعندي ساعة Sndoz قديمة رجالية خدش بسيط بالميناء ولكنها تعمل بشكل جيد وساعة sirgint تعمل بشكل جيد اريد بيعهم وساعة ام صليب قديمة يلزمها اصلاح بسيط وايضا اريد بيعها

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. eBay is your best bet

@chadpyett6441 6 ай бұрын

Some days are diamonds some days are coal just keep smiling take a deep breath

@HorologyBiology 6 ай бұрын

Exactly that