Hey Dean, I am very happy to be watching your videos again. This process you went through on this video was a good learning lesson. Most people would reason that it does not make sense to make a 6498 style movement, when they are readily available. However you have taken this on and challenged yourself. This means your lessons will be learned one time, and not repeated. Mistakes are highly valued. When this complete, you will have a movement that was completely hand made by yourself, and that will be a fantastic accomplishment, envied by all your viewers. Thank you for recording this journey and sharing it with us.

Great to see you back.

Thumbs up for using the FatRat music! Xeonogenesis is such a cool song

Love the video. When I was new to machining I made a lot of parts 3 times.

Hi Dean, great to see you back working on the watch. It's always amazing how someone can figure out a way of doing a task, and when they finish realize there was a better faster and easier way of doing it. I sometimes find myself saying "why didn't I do it this way first." I'm looking forward to the next adventure in your journey. Thanks for inspiring people to follow there passion regardless of the obsticals life may place in front of you.

Nice work ... awsome video as always :)

I admire persistence . As awatchmaker of over thirty years I have made many parts for watches but never had the courage to even attempt a whole watch keep it up my friend

I missed your videos so much! Thank you for doing a great job explaining about everything and the mechanisms behind, you are AMAZING!

Live and learn. :)

Hi Dean, we still miss seeing you more often but happy to have you here when you can. Nice enjoyable watch movement work, great to see and watch. No you are correct, the machined work on the part, it is not perfect, so what, we are not judging while working out issues. it is as you share a prototype so we are very impressed. Thank You Lance & Patrick. P.S. Patrick says hello to Dean.

Good to see you back at it, mate. Good video, thank you. I am enjoying watching your journey. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Człowiek, który pokazuje, że niemożliwe jest jednak możliwe.

Can’t wait to see more. We’ll be here until the end. I was literally just thinking if a new video of yours was out, and I was right! It’s cool to see your progression, watchmaking is an arduous journey, but as long as you keep at it, you’ve got nothing to lose!

welldone !

A fantastic and interesting horological journey that’s great to see continuing again. Neat vid content, editing and nice music. Especially, thanks for sharing!

Glad to see you back to making videos!

Glad you're back at it again!! Also stoked, you're leaving in your mistakes and just knowing this is a learning process! Keep it up Sir!!

great stuff!

Good to see you back on here Dean, keep it coming mate you are doing a stellar job😁

Welcome back! Nice to see you again.

Hey what's up Dean? Greetings from Finland. Good to see you back at it again! Believe it or not your channel and vlog is the first (and only) thing I've ever clicked the bell icon on youtube. :) It's just super fascinating to see you tackling these problems/things plus all the explaining and video editing is amazing. Btw, I have never used a lathe or anything close to it. I just love watches and somehow stumbled on to your channel. Keep up the good work brother. Cheers!

braver than ill ever be. if you stick to it though, im sure you are on the right track! love getting updates on this one

While I never have and almost for sure won't be doing any watch or even clock making, machining is the same no matter what the part is Dean. A huge help that will provide extremely important future benefit's for the rest of your life would be to research and study as much as possible the cartesian coordinate system until it's fully understood how it works and can be used to locate and machine any part. In a nut shell machining is exactly like finding a location you want to go to on a map. You first have to know where your current location is before you can get to where you want to be. With machining that would be a known reference surface. Had you turned the outside of that main part to a known and measured diameter even if it's still over size to the finished part dimension you then have that reference surface for the machining location in Z and then finding the edge in the horizontal orientation so you then know how far the cutting tools edge has to travel inwards. Coordinates can then be used to find any exact location on the part. For small parts like these even better accuracy can be obtained by using a good trustworthy dial indicator to measure the actual slide movements instead of relying on the feed screws that may possibly be worn or inaccurate. A very old machinist's trick is to edge find the part even with a sharp rotating tool is with a cigarette rolling paper. In North America I use the Zig Zag brand. There almost exactly .001" thick. If the cutting tool is rotating that paper can also find the tools highest tooth if there's any run out. But with a tool rotating I always hold the paper with a pair of needle nose pliers so my fingers don't get too close. Hold the paper between the part and the tool and very slowly advance the slide until the paper just rips but the part face is still unmarked. It takes a few tries until you get good results. But that paper trick will work on the lathe, mill or even to find the drill tip on a drill press to find any tools cutting edges or drill tip without marking the part by an uncertain amount. Thicker paper will not work nearly as well since the paper can then be cut to an unknown depth or with the tool stopped the paper can be compressed. But those dirt cheap rolling papers can do work even my $700 digital Haimer 3D edge finder can't do. With a bit of practice and a thin enough paper of a known thickness you should be able to find any surface to at least .0005" accuracy. If the tool diameter is known then it's simple to go half that distance and that puts your spindle and tool C/L at the edge of your reference surface. Coordinates are then used to move the tool to the correct location using X,Y or Z. The most modern and expensive CNC equipment made today still uses that very old coordinate system to make the highest accuracy parts. Mistakes are how you gain experience, the most experienced person on any job got that way by making most of the mistakes that can be made and learning from them so that past experience provides the education for what does and doesn't work. Governments and far too many in upper management seem to be the exception to how gaining experience works.

Hey bro, your content is so informative and helpful. It really pushes me to pursue this hobby more and more. Thank you for the amazing job. - neophyte watch repairer and aspiring watch maker (currently a civil engineer LOL)

i love to see your journey, as i also would love to to try this as a hobby once i graduate ^_^ Making watches sounds like a really relaxing thing to do :)

My Favourite youtuber is back!

Great you're back on track ! It's so nice to see you back at it again. By the way take care handling the marking dye you dont want it to end up spilling where you dont want to...lets say the lathe 😁 Just kidding keep it up 👍😊

Welcome back. Ball park, how much do you think tools would cost to form a good base to build upon over time with upgrades to be able to make watches? Cheers!

Hi Dean, I just came home drunk and wanted to watch a last KZfaq video. Now I saw that my favorite KZfaqr uploaded his next video and I am so glad that I could watch this :). Like always: Great editing and awesome video. Thank you so much for this. I mean if you watch Clickspring, AVE or This Old Tony, you have professional workers working for years in their expertise doing all this stuff and as someone who has never worked with metal before you sometimes just cannot follow. However you provide a learning journey with all the ups and downs :). I am not sure what took you more time: Editing and setting up all the cameras or working on the watch. The choice of music is also nice :). How did you align the cut for the shank? You did not use a dial gauge or anything else. Was it just by eye? There was also no "trick" like using rotation or a common point for aiming. Did you make the broken tool by yourself, or was this an off the shelf tool? And also do you aim your camera shots so that the blue ink on your lathe is not shown anymore :D? (not a real question ^^)

That's looking really nice! Excited to see how the end product will look. I might be trying to make a balance bridge for the 6498 at some point, since we have to do some finishing on a 6498 in the last year of the Finnish school of watchmaking (I'm currently in the second year) and I was thinking of maybe making a balance bridge that attaches on both sides of the balance and has the jewel kind of in the middle, if you know what I mean :D (similar idea as the Voutilainen movements but of course a bit more simple) Then I would also have to modify the 3/4 bridge aswell but I'm not quite sure how I should do it yet, haven't got around to planning it yet :D

What kind of table vice is that? I love the quick change.

Really cool! I am trying to build a 3/4 quarter plate myself. How did you make all the alignments of the wheel centers? I was wondering because I needed the screwshoulders already for getting all the centers copied on my bridge.

Great stuff Dean. Did you find the machining was better with lubricant as I tend to machine brass dry.

Where did you purchase the slot milling bit?