aweeee! how awesome and sweet

tell her we enjoyed her reaction and story lol

That's super sweet! Great that you were able to bring her so much joy!

Hey Marshall, I have an early 70s Wakmann chronograph that my father bought new and handed down to me. The watch hasn't been serviced since new and "runs" but stops often and the chronograph function is inoperable. I would like to keep the watch in the family and one day pass it down to my kids. I know it's a long shot, but, if you would be willing to tackle the job I would be more than happy to ship it to you.

How can i approach you to help me restore my grandfathers watch it is a mechanical Citizen from somewhere around the 60's i think it runs when wound up but stops after a while starts running again when tapped slightly i live in South Africa?

It’s the heart of a watch, reminds me of a heartbeat or a pulse

@Welshwazza Thanks tips, I'm well aware that it's a watch.

@@lilkittygirl it always reminds me of heart muscle jumping into action. Just magic.

@Welshwazza no its a watch damnit!!

I just bought a Fossil that you can see the balance wheel in, my daughter loves watching it lol

Right

You still have it worse when you drop something in the engine bay 😉

@@deephorizon1365 so many 10mm sockets ....

Plus its crazy how this all miniature stuff was made in the first place, I mean it was quite long ago

Don't worry walmart has batteries for this guy on tap.

LOL.. I like watching as well. Im a carpenter of 35 years and feel the same... My hands are basically nerveless grippers on the ends of my arms

@@emanuelsommar7243 Me three, I'm a scaffolder of 35 years and I know what you mean, my callus have callus 😁😁

Me four! I made a living selling Rv parts, no hands required. I used my experience and my mouth. But this intrigues me.

Good to know, thanks Colin!

Oh man my mom actually has a whole lot of mirror-backs from when she was into embroidery and chumki work (I'm not sure of the Western equivalent?)

They are foil back rhinestones

I got lucky once with an old 50's Benrus... It ended up having diamond 1/4 markers and an unmarked 14k Case... Still have it in one of my boxes...

@@OldSkoolF You should wear it, no sense having locked away

Columbo - A Trace of Murder. The forensic guy, who'd actually done the murder, suggested something similar. Hoover the room then empty the contents onto a white sheet.

Works with any vacuum cleaner and porous cloth, better with one that can be turned down a notch.

Yep also works if you drop your ground weed , apparently

That's a bloody damn good life hack! 👍👍😎

@@davefarmery8180 Not that we would KNOW from personal experience... Or anything like that. All together now, to the tune of "Row, row, row your boat": Roll, roll, roll your weed Gently to the end Light it up Toke it up And pass it to a friend. Thanks to Bud Greenweed at Weedaminophen for that charming ditty that I CAN'T GET OUT OF MY DAMN HEAD!!

I'm a bench jeweler too and I always thought you had to be a little crazy to be a watch maker. I mean we just have to make something look pretty, we don't have to actually make it run!

Sure, but I wonder where it could be from

@@walnutsandbeastiality866 it's a good question. I initially thought maybe part of it's own stem broke off.

The suspense! Over a tiny wristwatch! I was on the edge of my seat.

I would end up with a pile of parts as I wouldn’t remember where all the parts go for one thing appreciate your skill

I bet you're right

Ooh. I was going to say that about the date of manufacture. I agree with your opinion about the band!

Considering the different eras of the watch and the band, they work amazingly well together. Someone did an amazing job when finding that band.

@@seonaelizabethcoster8465 They really cared about that watch. It's a real heirloom.

Actually, the Speidel "scissor" band was introduced in the 1930's, so it is period correct. I have this same watch with the same band

Funny, I wasn't relaxed. I was tense and gritting my teeth. 😬 I think I was projecting my inabilities, like shaky hands.

pun intended? (jk lol)

I just repaired my laptop mainboard a couple weeks back. It had a short B+ rail to GND. B+ is basically the main high-power, highest-voltage rail, which will be either at the battery voltage or at the charger voltage depending on whether the charger is connected, and it goes literally everywhere. With some help from someone more experienced with laptops than myself, i found a bunch of solder bridges that i could remove to start isolating the functional subunits of the board. Then i checked all power MOSFETs for shorts, and finally injected low voltage, high current into the remaining fault, and a 0805 size ceramic capacitor flared up, it had grown an internal short, probably got cracked by temperature cycling. The replacement part was basically several cents, but procuring decent quality ones turned out a little difficult today and made for a little bit of cost, but not much. This is probably the single most common laptop mainboard fault and someone with more experience can probably track it down in several minutes. I had done a rebuild of a dead LCD monitor from CCFL to LED backlight, which involved some re-engineering of the power supply, and peeling and reassembling the glass stack, getting the control pin for the backlight PWM out of the power supply and disabling unneeded high voltage circuits and their error reporting. This was quite a faff and the monitor died 4 years later, i seem to have left a tiny piece of dust between the glass layers, and eventually the panel cracked right across the spot where that was in. I have done countless "simple" repairs where it was just a dead cap or transistor, worst case, you lift out enough components if they cannot be tested in-place, you test them individually. Schematics and diagnostic guides (expected signal at test points, flow charts) would cut down that work drastically. I barely even have anything that i haven't had to repair at this point. OK my phone is new, but my prior one had to have USB socket replaced a couple years in, i kept it for 5 years. Recently rebuilt a PC power supply which was suspected wonky, lifted and tested a lot of individual components. It was an old Delta so i deemed it worth saving. One capacitor was very unconvincing and got replaced, otherwise it's all good, and runs well today. I have another one but it has some sort of cascade failure, and since it has failed in the 5VSB circuit and isn't draining the bulk cap, working on it requires a lot of time and safety measures. But at least the magnetics which are unique seem good so i'll probably get it going eventually good as new. And yeah completely dismantling and reassembling things isn't so rare. Basically every PC enthusiast knows to reassemble their PC every 2-5 years, to reseat all connectors, replace the potentially degraded CPU paste, repaste and re-pad their GPU, the latter often involves like 17 screws, but fundamentally it's dead easy. Haswell CPUs are now at an age where often the paste within the CPU package has degraded as well, you can see it when you software probe the temperature of individual cores, and one of them is way too high but others are OK, so the permanently glued-on heatspreader needs to come off for maintenance. Of course in better times you'd be replacing the PC every few years nearly entirely, but with economic circumstances being what they are, parts need to be run longer and they'll need some care. Actually a lot of old computer stuff that had been thrown away decades ago is now in high demand and fetches good prices. If you have a Voodoo 5, or an AWE32, or a Super Socket 7 system, those go well. People are rediscovering classic games and they want a fully compatible system to do so in a way software workarounds and emulation won't provide, or maybe a dream system they wish they had 20 years ago and couldn't afford, maybe a build that would have seemed silly at the time but has unique traits. Tech has cultural significance beyond utilitarianism.

My background is electronics as well but love working under the microscope so much I'm looking at Ebay watch lots myself. It's such similar work. See if I can make a go of this. I was a chef with tickets for many years and then fell into the transmission rebuilding trade for 15 years. Now my eyesight is gone working under a microscope is the only thing I can get away with now. Also a big fan of Louis channel.

Came here to look for this comment!

Love that! Thanks for accidentally stopping by :)

She's a special lady for sure :)

My kids grew up as close to uncle William and his two children. My daughter's 43 and yesterday told him he's most definitely her real uncle and she loves him more than her bio uncle's. He's her dad's best friend since school days.

Same job, same attention to detail, just on a different scale.

Even as a 3D printing hobbiest I am absolutely mesmerized by these videos, the masterful engineering to make these movements work almost makes them seem somehow more advanced than modern electronics, perhaps just because you can watch it work directly whereas modern electronics are not only obscure their workings but tend to be built as such that they can't readily be opened or fixed. Part of why I like 3D printing because it's blending a bit of both, the electronics run the show, but the mechanics of the process make it feel alive while it works, in addition to the fun of watching something I designed take form. Watching these videos is certainly making me question why I don't have my own mechanical watch, though I'd probably get something modern that shows off its inner workings rather than test my luck on trying to find something older

Ultimately the same mechanical principles when it comes to transmissions. Now the awe inspiring part here is how they used to make such intricate components so far back in time. No cutting corners. At it's prime, I bet this would have been incredibly accurate for the time period. As an automation specialist, I deal with transmissions all the time and I must say, this impresses almost as much as the old steam powered leathes that we simultaneously massive and incredibly precise. Hats off. Also, have to hand it to our man here - the patience is there, the fine touch is there as well. Loved this video.

Check out the Nekkid Watchmaker

'Someone trying to fix his power hammer' for some reason I found that funny. Isnt it therapeutic though. Watching someone else fixing stuff lol.

This can be addicting. Marshall is very unique and somewhat hypnotic to watch.

Congrats! That's awesome. Post some pics on instagram and tag me!

Were you taught at the Waltham School in Massachusetts? My father's father learned there. I know nothing of the profession as my grandfather never found it important to be with family. I only know just a bit from what my father told me. Dad used to have this yellow plastic Plano tackle box absolutely full of super tiny gears of different small sizes and watch hands. I used to be so fascinated by how small, fine and delicate they were. I dont know what happened to that box.

@@rpurdy4821 no I went to Hiram G Andrews near state college Pennsylvania

The bearings are synthetic ruby, which has been used for this purpose by watchmakers since the turn of the last century. (You can look up the "Verneuil process" if you're interested.) When you see something like "17 jewels" on a watch movement, it's a reference to the number of jewel bearings, which back in the day was an indication of quality (and cost.)

Do you remember where all your pots, pans, bread, canned goods go in your kitchen? Do you remember where the packets of pasta go as opposed to the cans of tomatoes and the dried fruit? The sugar, the coffee, the flour, the syrup? The cups, the washing up liquid? I bet you have a similar amount of things in your kitchen. Same with your bedroom. Where do your pyjamas go? Underwear? Tee-shirts? Dresses? Jeans? You know because you know. It looks impressive but it’s not _the_ impressive thing with watch repairs.

@@JulieWallis1963 That’s fine cause you have ONE kitchen and use ONE bedroom where all the draws are in the same place everyday. This guy has to remember where all the parts go on DIFFERENT watches, makes, brands, styles where each screw is a different size, depth, left or right threaded on that particular watch. I’m sure there’s a logical familiarity to a degree from experience but try unpacking the shopping and groceries from a random house on the other side of town then put every item back where it belongs.

Yes, it’s crazy how specific jewelry crafters get!

Certainly handy to know, even if I have no immediate plans, it's always surprising when little bits of information like this become handy

"Watch" it 🤣

2-24 for me 😂

Haha 😄 me too

Exactly what I was thinking! I'm like 'bro.. we are all here for the same reason!'

Wow thank you!

@@WristwatchRevival I agree with Bruce

Good to hear brother🌟🥰

Has to be interesting seeing the similarities between what you do and this, even though the scale/forces at play are on complete opposite ends of the spectrum.

That's why I watch. I'm a Journeyman Machinist and love mechanical things. I'm less than a novice at wristwatch repair, just an avid viewer.

I also marvel at the machining and finishes on the internal watch parts. For all I know about machining, I can't imagine the machines (or by hand work...) that make these tiny, tiny screws. Or some of the beautiful patterns and finishes on the bridge and noticeable areas.

Been there buddy, and will be there again I'm sure lol

The one

@@WristwatchRevival I think we all been there :D

Thanks! I do have a decent amount of other videos and more coming!

Send it in! I’d love to see that restored

@@sanslik5141 I would love that but somehow I don’t think Marshal would be to keen about a watch showing up on his door step unannounced with a note attached to please fix and return lol!

Check out Clickspring's channel here on youtube. He machines a bunch of these super small bits and it is fascinating.

Yeah I bet I will some day. I've done a Raketa and it was sweet.

Yes please, vostok watches are awesome!

Me too. I doubt many of the modern day 24xx movements get serviced now. It's about £25 for a new one.

I love it. Well done

@@WristwatchRevival I've got a CCCP issued Vostok Komandirskie that I think the mainspring broke on, if you ever want to repair one. I wore it for a long time and was really sad when it broke, it's a beautiful looking Soviet watch.