Worn out Rolex Datejust service - SOLD AS SERVICED!
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Rolex Datejust not serviced for many years, possibly decades and it was sold as fully serviced!
Very difficult to wind. It feels that something is going to give. Many parts are worn and need replacing.
Rolex Datejust, calibre 3035, 36mm, white gold fluted bezel and sunburst silver dial.
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I am owner of the Rolex in the video and i must say i am delighted with the service Leo has done . He says he is only a hobbyist but you can see from the video his level of skill is more than that .Thanks again Leo , All the best Jim.
Thank you Jim! It was a pleasure working on your Rolex and making this video 🙂👍
It is such a lovely watch ❤
@@cheeziest2313 yes, thanks to Leo.
This is by far the best detailed video I've ever seen here on YT, you're really taking care of any detail for this service. Audio is excellent, 4K video and the macro shots are... simply stunning. Please continue with this quality!
Thank you! I'm glad to hear you enjoyed it 👍
@@MacroTime28800 you are a pro... you understand each part and its purpose- great vid
probably a sizable bill for the owner, but well worth it
@@callaway19647 thank you!
@@MacroTime28800 A maestro at work
Suck up
Best show of skills and professional prowess ever seen.
Thank you!
Fantastic clear macro shots put other watch repair youtubers to shame.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
Love love love this. The video work, the commentary, editing, not to mention the watchmaking. All top notch. You're setting a very high bar!
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Leo, your detailed videos of watch services are marvelous tutorials for beginning watchmakers. Many thanks for what you do.
Glad you like them!
You make great videos. The explanations, videography are top-notch!
Glad you like them!
The way you explain each part in each video is really appreciated also. Thank you. You are my favorite watch service video. Keep it up!
Glad to hear you enjoy my videos 😊
Definitive The BEST watch repairing youtube channel on earth. Inspired me a lot. Thank you.
Wow, thank you! 🙂👍
Man, what a channel!! Your knowledge of watchmaking, your work on the movement and your work with the camera are all on another level. It shows your love for a job well done. Congrats!!
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Your attention to detail is superb! You caught things very few people would catch. Thanks for a great video.
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Excellent vid of a beautiful movement, imo. Very accurate and detailed..and great clarity while in motion. Love your workmanship. Maybe my DJ is due for a full service....! Thank you sir.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow ! What a Transformation Your Level of Skill in Servicing and Macro Photography is Astonishing. More Videos Like This Please. !
Thannk you! More to come 👍
Worth the wait. I particularly enjoyed the defect diagnosis.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Thanks, you are really an honest man when you mentioned that you can find the manual online.
Thank you!
Yes, the manufacturer always produces a service manual for the watch repairers. Not all, but many can be found on the internet, just like this Rolex 3035 👍
Your explanation and attention to detail is impeccable!!
Thank you!
Always look forward to seeing a new video from you Leo.
Thank you! 🙂
Wow, amazing visuals and expert explanations! Thanks so much for sharing your craft!
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Abslutely suuuperb explained …i don`t remember if i have ever seen such a detailed explanation of how certain parts are working :) Thank you
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Amazing service, Leo, really. Love your videos.
Thank you very much!
You have one of the best close ups cameras on watch repair channels, subscribed!
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Fantastic video, absolute pleasure to watch and listen to.
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Great details! Thanks. Carry on & greetings from Cancún México.
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I really like your videos. Brilliant photography. Please do more.
Thank you! Will do!
❤❤❤❤ bro, I really love the close ups.
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Pleasure to watch and follow your narration, thank you :)
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Amazing work!
Thanks a lot!
Really enjoyed watching your video sir... keep it up!
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It's tremendous skill about watches, like this restore Rolex, thanks to your amazing idea and unique technique.
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Absolutely perfect!! I've seen many videos. This one ist just great and very helpful👍
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Wow... Great great job for a wonderful timepiece, sir.
I send you my Explorer, when it will need next service 🙂
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Thank you for the video. I commend you on your knowledge, talent, and skill. Mechanical watches fascinate me.
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incredible qualtiy and even better service!
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Nice video, thank you for posting.
Thanks for watching!
Excellent video. Really enjoyed that.
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loving this
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Thank u so much for this video
Most welcome 😊
Absolutely brilliant, really enjoyed watching a master at work.t.y
Many thanks! 😊
Excellent video quality as always and great work. What a disaster that was.
Thank you!
Yes I thought I'd have an easy ride but it was quite the opposite 😆
Impressive skills.
Thank you!
Just wanted to say that color grading of the video is fantastic ! Looks like a vintage documentary filmed on film
Thank you! I don't really know anything about colour grading. I play around with it a little and hope for the best 😊
Beautiful view of all details never seen anything like this before.
My compliments and waiting for the next one perhaps on a oyster perpetual date caliber 1575.
Oh I wish I could afford one and make the video.
Glad to hear you enjoyed it 👍
Excellent in all respects! ❤
Thank you kindly!
If I ever get my true grail which is a vintage datejust 1967-1972 with a silver dial, I want YOU to service it and get her running as near to perfection as possible. 🙏🏼👍
By the way.. ... What year is this one?? She's stunning!!
Sounds great!
1987 - one of the last 3035 movements
This is pure inspiration !.🤔
Thank you!
Great video good job
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I can't believe this channel is not one of the largest, this is such a wealth of knowledge and instruction in the best possible detail, it's incredible!
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👍👌👏: nice work (yours, not the previous one), though this must have been a very costly restoration - 🤪.
Thank you!
Yes it wasn't cheap. It needed a lot of new parts and Rolex parts are expensive 🙁
Great video. A butcher did some bad job before, with inapropriate tools perhaps. How can someone even bend a bridge!
Someone did a dreadful job. And the fact that the dealer sold it as fully serviced makes it even worse, you can’t trust anyone.
Thanks
Thank you very much 😊🙏
Very nice job sir.
Andy UK.
Thank you!
Perfect readings great job. I own 3 rolexes 10 Omegas I stop buying getting to expensive on the maintenance. Cheers
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it 👍
Hi could u service mine it's an oyster I'm in the u.k
I am a hobbyist and only service watches to produce videos and that can take long time.
If you are interested, you’ll find my email address on my channel.
Alternatively I could direct you to a professional in the UK.
An absolute amazing perfectionist,
I try my best 👍
This is the first upload of yours I have seen & I thoroughly enjoyed it. Your level of skill & knowledge is superb. I look forward to the next.
ps Your accent has me utterly stumped! It sounds Dutch/German but having lived in the UK for some time. Not that it matters, I just found it perplexing :)
Thank you! I’m glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I’m from Czech and even though I spent most of my life in the UK the accent is still there 🙂
@@MacroTime28800 Thank you for your reply.......I wasn't a million miles away on the accent! Now I'm going to say you've spent sometime in Liverpool or pretty close to it :)
You're right. I'm close to Chester 👍
Great video quality, love the comment
Much appreciated! 🙂🙏
This video is 24:20. I would like you to show more detailed repairs, Your microscope repairs are the best I have seen. Thank you.
Check out my other videos, they are much longer and detailed.
Here’s a prime example, purely jewelling, tools in detail and how they are used:
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Wow, nice filming
Thank you!
you have a really good voice
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Wow i like this thanks gracias
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My favorite timepiece of all time
It's timeless 👍
Liking to penny pinch,I hate to say this but it must be said. This is an art,it's becoming a lost art,i believe CZcams pushes others to get involved in this type of service.The part I hate to say,money is no object in this case.I really enjoy your work and attention to detail...
Thank you, nice to hear you enjoyed it!
I’d say that the art is perhaps in designing the movements rather than servicing them 👍
Absolutely the best macro photography! Is it microscope or photo camera with macro lens? Or both? Thank you for the great video!
Thank you! Just a macro lens, that's all 👍
hopefully someday I'll learn what you do
Time and patience 👍
I was surprised to see the tweezers you used to pick up the hands.
I was expecting the carbon tipped ones.
Could you highlight the ones you used at some point.? Thank you 🙏🏻
Mirror polished Bergeon hand fitting tweezers:
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Well done. I'd like to learn a bit about you if you don't mind. Are you a professional watchmaker? Retired? Active? Expert amateur watchmaker? Absolutely outstanding video. Also I love seeing watchmaker's setups and 'offices'. Cheers to you mate.
Thank you!
This is only a hobby I do in my spare time. Evenings, weekends, in the spare room when I get a chance to work on watches 👍
Very impressed with the shots! What setup do you use to film this? A microscope?
I use a macro lens 👍
Nice
Thank you!
You can't see the whole beauty of a mechanical watch because it's inside the case.
That's the way it is with Rolex watches
Even the very best watches need regular servicing , which explains why so many people just go with a quartz watch which will probably last 20 or more years with care .
Yes quartz is cheaper
I have a Swiss chronograph from the 1940’s, it uses a Landeron L50 movement and I have the exact same issue, your video made me very worried 😢
Bought the watch as fully serviced and it always has been extremely hard to wind. When the power reserve is fully depleted, it winds with some moderate resistance (more than what I would consider as nornal), but as you start to accumulate some winding on the main spring, it starts building so much resistance on the crown that it comes to a point where you can’t continue winding without hurting your fingers… I know it’s not resistance from being fully wound because it happens with some 12 or 15 turns on the crown, so I’d think there’s a few more turns to go before reaching the limit, but it’s just impossible to go any further by hand.
After watching your video, it made me think if maybe I have some sort of similar issue, with a bent barrel bridge or something that could turn the watch useless by the lack of a replacement part…
It sounds like the issue I had with this watch. The resistance in my case was the worn out bushing. It allowed the barrel and the ratchet wheel to tilt so much that the ratchet wheel was touching the underside of the automatic bridge. Hence the resistance when winding. It could perhaps be the same issue. You just don't know until you inspect it. I'd get it serviced sooner rather than later.
@@MacroTime28800 yeah, that’s what I figured. In my case, there’s no automatic bridge, the watch is a manual wind only, but surely something there is rubbing against something else that it shouldn’t.
I stopped using the watch to prevent any further damage, but I’ll have to send it to service whenever possible. It’s hard to find people willing to and capable of servicing this kind of watch here in Brazil, at least close to home, most watchmakers only take simple servicing jobs and/or only work with simple watches, not mechanical chronographs. We have some very good watchmakers (Omega Authorized Technitians and etc), but they’re not accessible in a way that you can bring the watch yourself and talk directly to them, you have to send it via mail, and it takes a very long time for them to even perform an evaluation and send you a quotation for the service.
By the way, loved your channel and your content, congratulations and keep up with the good work!! 😃
I think most people will have to post their watches to get them serviced and it can take a long time to get them back, it can take months. But eventually, you’ll have a nice watch that works well
Even Rolex have plastic part 😂
And everyone complains about Seiko 🙂
2 years ago I bought an omega Seamaster 300m from 1999 from a grey market dealer. It was a nice store but the day after I bought it, I noticed the watch stopped at night. And it didn’t run within chronometer specifications. I brought it back and they serviced it and since then it works fine. I wonder if they just tried to get away without servicing the watch.
I'm afraid I couldn't tell whether it was serviced or not. It's only when you open it and start inspecting it you'll find out whether it was serviced or not.
I need you to make more videos
Will do!
I still think the cal 1570 is the forever calibre
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@@MacroTime28800
I bought a reck OPDate (ref 1500, from 1965) in 1980. And had it properly worked on. It’s been my daily. I’ve suffered some bad service and I’ve learned how to source proper service. (Rolex factory once, and that was an expensive disaster. It’s been made right since by true watchman.)
It’s been 1-2” day for decades. I figure it’s maybe at half life. So I anticipate another 30 more years of stunning performance and timeless appearance.
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Unfortunately we are at the mercy of watchmakers. I had my speedmaster serviced at high cost by someone highly recommended. The second hand now fouls the minute hand in some positions so I cant use the chronograph. I know probably easily fixed but shows poor work and i didnt want to send it back. More seriously it now keeps poor time and the power reserve fell to 30 hours. He had the watch for weeks and only gave back when I chased him. I'm convinced that he didnt acrually service it and I wish i had not sent it to him.
I can imagine how you feel and I understand why you feel that way.
Sometimes it’s not that easy, we all make mistakes, miss something, things go wrong whether we like it or not.
My understanding is that he’s a watchmaker rather than a seller like in the case of my video where they did a very poor job just to sell the watch to make as much money as possible.
If I’m correct, that’s not your case with an independent watchmaker. Perhaps he would be very embarrassed if you contacted him and told him what issues you have with the watch and he would gladly sort out the issues.
As for the time it took, I cannot really comment on that. My case is very different, I have to rearrange the lights for every shot, reposition the camera, change the settings… It takes me far, far longer than most people would be prepared to wait for unless they have other watches and are not concerned about the time it can take to produce the video because their pleasure is in seeing the video of their watch being serviced.
For watchmakers who do this for living, they may have a backlog, they may have to source parts that may not be so easily obtainable, they may struggle to identify particular issues…
I truly understand how you feel and I don’t blame you. But maybe he is a good watchmaker, you say he was highly recommended, and he simply missed something.
Most of us naturally feel we’re being ripped off when something goes wrong, but not everyone is bad, we’re only humans, we all make mistakes.
Curious. Epilame is used to hold oil in specific places. Pallet fork jewels, escape wheel, wheel pivots, Inca block jewels. Ive heard the if the fork of the pallet fork has epilame on it, the impulse jewel hitting it will create a fine powder and potentially damage the parts. I would think the would be the same might happen with epilame on the second hand. There is no oil used on this so why the epilame? Just wondering... Is lubeta the same as epilame? Im also under the impression lubeta is used for the automatic winding parts. Great video!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Epilame repels lubrication. I run the movement for a short while to wear out the epilame on the pallet stones and the escape wheel. Then I lubricated the escapement.
Yes, that’s correct, the roller jewel hitting the pallet fork causes an issue if the whole pallet fork is dipped in epilame.
The second wheel, I see your point. I’ve never heard of anyone mentioning any issues with it and Rolex service guide tells you to treat it with epilame.
Lubeta is a lubricant, epilame alters the tension of the surface to repel lubricants 👍
@@MacroTime28800 Awesome. Great info. If Rolex says use it, that's the gospel. Thank you!!!!!!
@@skudworth1983 My pleasure!
Not servicing at watch will not cause that kind of damage. Bad servicing does.
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Thank you for the video. I would love to know the brand of the dial storage container. Can you tell me the brand? The best way to purchase such a container? Thanks.
This is the one:
www.cousinsuk.com/product/watch-dial-box
@@MacroTime28800 Thanks!
Damn I feel bad for the guy that bought this watch
Well, it's all sorted 👍
The problem is that buyers have to rely on the sellers when they say the watch they are buying has been serviced.
@@MacroTime28800 I know, and it’s the good honest people that always get butt hurt
Im looking for someone to sort out my late grandads old rolex which i think is from the 50s how do i contact you ?
If you view my channel you'll see my email when you click on '...more'
If you love watches this is full on eye candy.
Glad you liked it 👍
How would I go about getting you to service my 94 Rolex oyster?
If you go to my channel you will see 'More about this channel ...more'. You'll find my email there and we can have a chat about it 👍
I don't see an email.
It's on my channel page, just above the subscribe button, click on the '...more'
I sent an email to you.
I haven't received one 🙁
Hey can u teach me about watches
I'm sorry I am not a professional who could teach and I do not have the time.
This is where you can start:
www.watchfix.com/
this is why i stopped buying vintage watches, you just don't know the history
It is a problem, no doubt. If I was a regular buyer who cannot service watches, I’d say to the seller I’ll get the watch serviced regardless of the fact it is being sold as serviced and if there are any issues I will be back with the bill it cost me to get this watch right. The seller’s response should give me a feel how comfortable he is selling that watch.
Thank you very informative , good sound principals of watch making taught. Much respect 🫡🤝
Thank you!
Thank u so much for this video
Most welcome 😊