Watch Restoration or Watch Resurrection ??? Trying to Bring Back to Life This Omega Watch
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2022
- I bought this Omega watch at auction. The state of this watch is horrible and I will try to restore it. The watch is not working and some parts are missing. Giving the state of this watch and with my hobbyist skills, this is more a watch resurrection than a watch restoration. Hopefully I will ba able to bring back this Omega Speedmaster back to life.
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What a pleasure to see this watch resurrected, such a complex movement also.
Now a working vintage iconic watch that would of sat in a drawer for years, good on you French for taking on this monumental task.
Thanks Henry
That is the most complicated movement I've seen on CZcams so far. Bravo!
It is quite a complicated movement and a very interesting one to work on.
Elle revient de loin, loin cette jolie montre vintage....
Merci pour cette vidéo docteur ⌚🙏🖐️
En effet elle est partie de loin
حقيقة صعب التعبير ويعجز الكلام عن اعجابي بهذ الخبرة.ابهرتنا ❤❤
Quel boulot titanesque !... Je comprends mieux pourquoi on appelle cela des complications... Je n'ose imaginer ta joie à la fin, lorsque tout refonctionne à la perfection. Bravo !
C'est ma restauration préféré.
Excellent restoration of a disaster! When you opened the case and revealed the loose movement and missing parts I had to wonder about the history of this watch and the abuse it had received by its previous owner(s).
Thank you Mike. For sure this part was consider as a spare movement because parts where missing. This watch had a lot of abuse too because I found quite a lot of bended parts.
Hello, a nice challenge and very nice work ! very nice watch!
Yes this one was tricky
Nice work!
I have the omega 176.010 yachting with this same movement.
It is a very nice movement
what a beauty......lovely vintage chrono, simple and beautiful. I admitre your courage to take this apart...well done.
Thank you
Great video! Spectacular Omega!
Thank you
Good to see a real man who takes pride in his work ...made mistake of taking my speedmaster to a butcher hand fell off opened up case and it's missing the rotor/swing unit for the self winding
This is why I started to do the restoration on my watches. I can only blame myself 😄
Another great build
Thanks again!
Agree with Paul.. great craftsmanship. I have one of these and whilst I’ve stripped and rebuilt a few watches e.g citizen 8110., I stared into the mechanism of my Jedi.. oiled the rotor bearing and retreated., Bravo
It is a great caliber. One of my favorite
Unusual watch never seen that style Omega before not surprised it got damaged as it sits higher on the wrist very good informative video great to watch
Thank you
Like you ,I also felt it would NOT start ,,, It was a big relief
It was a big relief when it started
Superb job, I love these restorations to bring back to life a great watch and keep it as original as possible with the patina. Cheers French a pleasure to watch.
Glad you enjoyed it
à l'ouverture du boitier j'ai eu un coup au cœur en voyant le balancier bagottant et vis manquante... bravo , mais un sacré bol de ne pas avoir trop de dégâts , et bravo pour cette super restauration...
Merci John. Moi aussi j'ai eu peur hahaha
Excellent work! Glad you were able to find the right parts to fix it. Doesn't sound easy.
It was not easy I can confirm. Thanks for the nice comment Bill
L'accent anglais est parfait. Superbe vidéo, on en redemande !
Merci beaucoup. J'ai aussi une chaîne en français si cela vous intéresse
What a nice work, what a beautiful vintage chrono watch!! Congratulations! And thank you very much!
Thank you too!
at 39:53 that green flaky buildup is caused by Oxidation and sometimes called verdigris. moisture got in and probably there was some bare metal on the pushers and that got the process going. a very common place to find it is on brass fittings, copper roofs and your car battery terminals. excellent video, watched it from end to end!!!😉
Thank you for the info and watching it fully
Excellent work and I really enjoyed every single minute of this restoration. By the way, beautiful vintage Omega.
Congratulations and many thanks for sharing.
Thank you for your kind comment
Love your videos !!! Respect and admiration from Vancouver BC.
Thank you Jose
Tres bien.. Another fantastic job on restoring that Omega. Fairly complicated movement...and strange how those pusher screws got so mangled...Wierd --But an excellent job on the restoration. Kudos.
Thank you very much
Well done. Adrian
Thank you Adrian
Wow! Very impressive work and dito result. Thank you for sharing
Glad you liked it 😉
Very well done. Keeping the original look was a great choice. Love the mark III's.
Thank you
That was the most complicated watch repair and restoration video that I’ve seen so far on CZcams. Very impressive considering the identification of numerous missing parts was required as well as the replacement and repair of damaged ones. While I appreciate the desire to not to perform a more complete restoration of the dial I thought the decision to not further improve the appearance of the case was curious. The expert restoration produced a beautiful movement deserving of a case in better condition. Now that I have offered my unsolicited armchair watch restoration opinion I will return to the peanut gallery where I belong.
Thank you Paul. I agree with you on the case but I like to do a proper and to do a good job on this case I need a lapping machine. It is a very expensive machine so if I get it one day I will redo the case.
I am sure that your channel will soon enough subscribers to provide the means for obtaining any tool you require.
@@paulbush7095 if I can get more tools that will be great to make better content. Will see
Masterful work
Thank you so much 😀
Yay! Another video! I can't wait to sit through this one too :)
Hope you will enjoy it
@@FrenchWatchCollector I love it. I looked up this model on chrono24 and I just think it is amazing
@@billiondollardan It is a nice watch. The case is very special.
Excellent work. A lot of parts and a lot of patience. Well done.
Thanks 😊
Well done THAT MAN
Thank you
Brilliant video, excellent work. Love it. Merci!
Thanks for you support
Amazing job. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you
Fantastic job, it's amazing the effort required to identify what is missing then to go and source all the new parts. It looks impossible to me to know which screw goes where.
Thank you Tony. It is a lot of research and for the screws I place them back when I disassemble the movement so like that I am sure I put the right one at the right place.
Great work as always. PERFECT. Keep well from New Zealand.
Thank you
What an amazing dail! Unbelievable to see so many parts in a watch.
Thank you
Amazing work. Well done. Great video.
Thanks
I really enjoyed that. Excellent work. Thanks
Thank you
Great job! I love those 70s Omega chronographs. Good thing you didn't polish it since the case was originally brushed vertically.
Thank you. Yes I like to keep things as original as possible
Fantastic job. Very nice to see this video. Thanks
Thanks
Very cool process, lovely watch.👍
Thank you very much!
Nice to see you managed to get the watch working perfect rebuild thank you for great video interesting
Thank you Ron
Absolument wow !! Je la vois un peu plus compliqué celle-là mais le produit fini est nickel. La lecture final est super pour une montre qui ne fonctionnait pas au depart et qui était dans une mauvaise condition !! Tu as tout mon respect !! ✨👌
Merci Alain. C'était vraiment un projet sympa de travailler sur une montre si complexe dans un si mauvais état. C'est des projets qui ne sont pas facile à trouver. Merci pour ton commentaire
@@FrenchWatchCollector Au plaisir
Superb work 👍😁🙌
Thank you so much 😀
Please keep it up--your content is as good as a few guys doing the same thing, and they have tons of views and subscribers--I imagine your channel will balloon soon. Love your videos.
Thank you very much for the nice comment
Absolutely fantastic restoration. So many new parts. If only Swatch would stop their stupidity all watchmakers could get what they needed.
I agree with you. It is so bad and frankly Omega so far doesn't give a good service for restoring vintage watches. They are doing great new watches but I think they should juste sell vintage parts and leave the vintage restoration to the watchmakers
joli travail !
Merci
What a hard life that watch has had. That's one hell of a whack the case has taken at the 11 o'clock position.
Yes it had a very rough life
Nicely done. It is hell lot of parts. I never done an chronograph I guess I would have to do like 1k pictures for reference. Changing the main spring is sane reason by this watch. It is a chrono it needs power. Plus like you said the condition of it. Nice job trully. Well done.
Thank you very much. You don't need pictures because you can findca lot of tech sheets online that tell you each step of the assembly. You should try a chrono they are the 👌
Yes many chronographs have 2 mainsprings.
Subscribed..fantastic restoration
Thank you Pascale
Hi. I have the same watch with a problem. When I pulse reset bottom the minute hand also move. And also the another minute hand of the chrono move a little alone during the day.
Do you know if the problem is heavy?
11:52 that was a close-call. The spring swung around and hit the table, just barely moving one part. I think it hit a winding gear. Just as you started to pull the barrel arbor out, I was thinking how it would suck if the spring popped out and hit all your parts. lol
I like to live dangerously hahaha
excellent restoration .
Thank you very much
Great job!!! You got a new subscriber here. Thanks a lot for sharing. Greetings from Argentina.
Thank you so much Marcelo
Merci beaucoup !!!
Merci à vous
Профессионально.
Sorry but I don’t understand
Thanks for the review. Great watch and learned a lot again. Do you also use a bit of grease on the backside of the winding pinion? It scrapes along the mainplate when you wind the watch.
Yes I do!
Super.
Thank you
Superb job brillant commentary , got a new subscriber
Thank you very much for the comment and to subscribe to the channel
Nice work but I notice that from 42:00 the hour hand and minute hand are misaligned, the minute hand is close to 12 but the hour hand is far off from 6 o'clock?
Yes I had to realign them after
Superbe travail toujours un plaisir de regarder les vidéos, sans indiscrétion sur quelles sites d’enchères les achètent tu ?
Continue comme ça 👍🏻
Un peu partout ebay, leboncoin, vinted, interenchere...
Guide mening, excellent travail, félicitations.
Thank you
Time is a dead god Thoth 🌷🌑👍 rest in the good news 💐 Okay bye
Fantastic work and clip as usual, and also thanks for answering all the questions, since this project seems to have more of a story behind… so I also have my own: how long did it take you to complete the restoration since you bought the watch?
Thank you for the nice comment. It took me probably more than 6 month. After I did not work constantly on it but some time you discover a broken or damage part so you need to order it and wait for it. It is a long process
@@FrenchWatchCollector wow! Given the amount of parts you had to source, I was expecting even more time! I sometimes have to hunt for one single part for 3/4 months…
Another interesting aspect is the need for specific tools. As a hobbyist I sometimes face a challenge where I don’t have the required tool for a job, in your case the broken screw, so the cost of a new tool adds to the overall cost of the restoration process and that can mean a delay too.
It is a game of patience!!
@@frodriguezpc yes sometime it can take quite some time but it depends on the movement. Some have more parts available. Tools can be an issue but it is part of this hobby. You need to buy a lot of tools. After you can reuse them when necessary on other projects
Great job with the mechanical restoration, but personally I wouldn't wear it because it still looks beat up. A simple case refinish makes all the difference.
You need a special machine to restore this type of case. I generally don’t really like to restore cases but it is true that this one split opinions
Definitely a Frankenstein watch. The dial is certain that it's a Speedmaster while the case back is confident that it's a Seamaster.
This poor watch had a rough life. So I try to salvage it as much as I could but yes the case and case back is not perfect yet 😉
This is how they came from the factory as evidenced from mine purchased new in 1973 and never serviced since. Keeps great time still!
great result! after watching a lot of your videos i would like to start as a hobby too. do you have any recommendation where to start ? i would love to see a video for beginners and explain how you did start your hobby and recommendation for tools . thanks
Thank you Arnaud. You need to start with some simple watches with no complications (date, chrono, automatic, triple calendar...) or even on a pocket watch. You can buy some very cheap mechanical watch on ebay with a simple movement. If the movement is standard (like an ETA) it will be easier and cheaper to find parts. After you need a lot of tools even to start doing simple work. I might do a video on this.
The hand : no good !
Yes I had to realign them
Woah... how in the world does one break a barrel arbor?! 😳🥺
That is a very good question
What about the hour hand? Should it not be corrected so that the movement becomes a perfect chronograph.
Do you mean the alignment of the hour hand? Yes it was realigned later on
My father passed away and had this watch in his collection. It’s the only real one with meaning and beauty compared to the others and unfortunately sounds like the main spring is broken. It’s in great condition overall and I’m gearing up to take on the task of opening it up to maintenance the movement (my first watch movement ever) but I’m determined to do it myself.
I want to do it, because when it’s done and working, I want to look down and remember the effort it took and the masterpiece which runs behind the face of the watch, and remember my father who bought it back when it was on retail for purchase.
Yes, I’ll probably break something, but I’m okay with that. I’ll try not to, but I’ll do my research and have already been doing countless studies on this specific watch and others and there are many similarities between them.
One day, I’ll give this to one of my daughters and explain it to them.
Thank you for your video though… it’s helped me immensely to become more familiar with what is fast becoming a project of huge proportions.
This is a really nice story and this is what makes watch restoration si nice. I am sure you will be able to restore your watch and you will wear it with pride for you and your father.
If you have any questions during the restoration, don't hesitate to contact me
I appreciate it and will not hesitate to reach out. I’ve already found the tech manuals, now it’s just piecing the tools together and finding parts.
I’m thinking of putting a small CZcams series together to catalog the process, as for you, this might be a single episode, but for someone like me, this will take monumentally more time and struggles.
Thanks again for your time and thoughtfulness.
@@Zairn12345 Good idea to put it on CZcams. Don't hesitate if you have any questions on equipment or other things
Sounds like a serious risk you are taking by doing it yourself. My experienced Swiss trained watch maker will not service mine as it was too complicated for him. Hopefully you are an engineer at least.
@@danieltllarson a watchmaker should be able to restore an omega mark III without any issues
Amazing video! Can anyone identify the container used at 18:05 for Lubeta? I can’t seem to find one anywhere.
www.cousinsuk.com/product/epilame-fixodrop-special-bottle-moebius?code=O34009
@@FrenchWatchCollector Thank you so much! Amazing videos. I am just getting into the hobby myself. Would you ever consider doing a video of your lighting and filming setup?
Wow watch
Thank you
Wow.. excellent results 👋 well done . Is this a keeper or a flipper ? I'd keep it after all the effort to get it to operate & run this well.
It is a keeper. I already have a speedmaster mark III in my collection but this one will have to stay as it is a very special project and watch. The other one will have to go probably
Amazing job, i would like to know how much you paid for the replacement parts. Just curious you know
It is probably between 150€ and 250€ I would guess
Quel travail !!! mes félicitations pour vos vidéos. Y a t il moyen de vous envoyer les montres pour restauration? Avec mes cordiales salutations. David
Bonjour, vous pouvez me contacter sur mon site. Vous avez le lien dans la description de la video
Excellent travail, superbe montre félicitations! Vous avez une chaîne en français il me semble ou l'on peut suivre vos aventures, quelle est son nom svp?
J'avais une chaine en français mais je viens juste de m'associer avec la chaine Le Calibre. Mais video en français son sur cette chaine czcams.com/channels/VWSDR3Vrdp6_lTf-tvB1xQ.html
Jolie
Merci Raoul
Do you accept old pocket watches with French movement inside for restoration from U.K.?
Thank you very much Mark but I never repaired a pocket watch and I don’t want to risk it on the one of a follower. Hope you will understand
I have to same watch and it needs a full restoration but I don’t have the tools or the knowledge to do it lol
I can do it for you. You can go on my website
@@FrenchWatchCollector how much do you charge?
@@noahgoldberger3345 go on my website and you will get all the informations
@@FrenchWatchCollector I don’t know how to get to your website lol
@@noahgoldberger3345 go to my latest video and there is a link in the description
Сложный механизм..
You really need to stop fixing all these beautiful vintage watches. I‘m running out of money to get them a version of them at the gray market 😄
hahah. I am so sorry. The Mark III is a cool watch. You will not regret it if you get one
I have a 1968 Flightmaster. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Great watch
@@FrenchWatchCollector I really don't know is value... It's in good condition, and working. 👍👍👍👍
@@ricardoabreu69 this one is so special that it is a keeper
@@FrenchWatchCollector my flightmaster??? It was given to me by my dad.
@@ricardoabreu69 nice to have a watch with history
Salut Monsieur 😃Le resaltat apres votre travaille est tres beau. 👍 Especialement, si tu considerier le condition originale, le reparier est bon 👍. Excuse me, but my written French is pathetic mate 😃I'm originally from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, so they don't speak your kind of "Francaise" anyway 😉😂. I would have thought you would spend some time working on the case (???) 😳 I don't like the condition of that watch case - The aesthetic with all the dents and scratches doesn't work for my eyes. Overall, I think you made a good investment. 👍😃 I think you were quite fortunate not to have a busted ballance wheel. The ballance wheel looked broken to me when you first opened the watch.👀
Hi Mark. Thanks for your comment. I thought the balance was broken too. After is the balance staff is broken is not that complicated to change. For the case I agree with you. I am not a watchmaker and right now I don't have the right equipment to refinish a case as complex as this one. Maybe one day I will get the machine to do this type of work and will refinish it.
А чего корпус то не отреставрировал?
I still don't have the right machine to do it. I want to do a proper job so I will dot it later
@@FrenchWatchCollector ❤
я бы их назад собрал, если был Богом)))
😉
Très belle vidéo. Very useful content! What is the tool you are using to remove the broken screw? Thanks!
Thank you. It is bergeon screw extractor. It is a special tool to extract broken screws
It looks a horology trainee has attempted to repair this watch, mechanism is too complicated he got exhausted and severely damaged the watch.
I dont know what happen but It had a rough life for sure.
@@FrenchWatchCollector
Sir.
Thank you, it's Happy to note you take pleasure in watching comments and replying to commenters. In particular a person like me who don't know ABC of horology.
@@mohamedshaheed1270 me too I don't know much hahaha
Disappointed you did not replace the dial and hands or even buff the case
It is all the debate on vintage watch. Some people prefer to keep the vintage/patina look (which is my case) and some other prefer to have a vintage watch that looks like new.
@@FrenchWatchCollector yes I understand and at the end of the day you are the one working on it so your opinion is the one that matters most
The Mark III is my grail watch. I deeply regret not getting one five years ago when prices were half of what they are now.
They are nice and I think they will still go up. They are still good value for money because the watch has few more complications than a standard omega chronograph
I admire your work and effort, however I was disappointed that you reused the same dial and hands. They look terrible. I know this was a "fix-it" watch, but why go thru all that work to have a terrible looking watch? I know this is an expensive watch, but I would not wear it.
For me if you want a vintage watch that looks like a new watch just get a new watch. Vintage watch tell stories and are unique.
Hehehe did not clean the caseback too?
This is not a restoration, everything should be polished.
You don't necessary polish a watch. Polishing remove the value and the history of the watch in most cases. After it is a customer choice.
The case has already been previously polished by someone. This had a uniform brushed case new that cannot be replicated.
Не отполировал, выглядят плохо. Не понравилось!
Don't like to polish a vintage watch. It is loosing its history
Very plain movement, I was surprised.
What has happened to your lighting set-up? , now over lit.
I started this project a long time ago. This was my first set-up and the sun light was too strong
@@FrenchWatchCollector Your presentation and lighting are excellent now, very well done.
@@velviaman3206 thank yoy