How a watch works (1949) | Hamilton Watch
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- A simple demonstration of the basic design and operation of a watch, including stop-motion animation showing a watch being assembled from many parts.
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This voice has taught me almost everything I know
Pypamid LOL right?
Who's voice is this tho?
This voice has also announced pretty much every single superhero
This voice also did a superb video on differentials. czcams.com/video/yYAw79386WI/video.html
Does anyone know what public information series these are from, or if he did any others?
Actually, they may not be the same person. But I'd still be interested if there are any more videos like this.
I love how old time videos and documentaries explain how things work better than anything today.
There's another one on how car differentials work, which is exactly the same style as this one and its brilliant as well
@@Aramis7 link
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@Jake who cares about aumtomatic thas shi8t, you knopw why they appeared. it was an error of rolex...
thye made a water resustant, so htey hade to screw the winding system, thta created a problem, youy want to wind the watch you have to unscrew, so thye created that shit, automatic
ny the way the system was not rolex patent.
@jake none automatic, it is just "self-winding" movement, you dont need to wound your watch morning, just wore it and it will restore its power by itself.
I’ve looked at most all of the CZcams videos showing how the watch works. This one is by far the best and most detailed, though it’s almost 70 years old!
I addition to modern videos, they add annoying music.
Some things just cannot be improved upon.
Just as my Dad's old railroad watch still keeps perfect time, despite its last servicing being in the late 1950's.
Exactly -- 70 years old ad, and still better than all the others. The slick modern videos even get the basic physics wrong.
That's because back then they didn't want a ignorant society and wasn't afraid to share the knowledge.
@@spvillano
I'm a watchmaker, I don't believe you. Lubrication will be gummed up and cause a time loss.
I love how this is basically an ad but I really learned something. And the emphasis at the end was not "Hamilton watches", but "FINE watches".
Great stuff.
Same here. It's very classy on their part.
Basically, the emphasis was that Hamiltons are fine watches.
@@modernvintagelifestyles But not entirely. It seems now an equivalent rolex commercial would teach nothing - promote no overall quality standard - but just simply imply things with buzz words and name drops.
Quality is art. Intelligence is quality.
Unreal how a video from 1949 is the best demonstration of how a mechanical watch works on CZcams!
I don’t know what it was about these WW2-era instructional videos that made them so wonderfully educational.
A slow step by step brogressive approach of the subject? I'm not sure how, but old videos do seems to convey techincal concepts in a very effective way.
I wonder if the people involved in producing this amazing video could even image that it would still be teaching us about the wonders of mechanical watches some 70 years later.
Edit: Also, imagine being one of the pricks actually disliking this video.
absolutely the best video explaining the workings of a mechanical watch!!
Watch Geek *_I watched this vid because of you man. ‘Preciate it. Once I watch it about 5 more times, then I’ll grasp the understanding of a mechanical watch._*
I am falling in love with the old times and the teachers. How easily and efficiently everything has been explained. old times were gold. I've spent like 2 days finding how the watch and basically the wind up mechanism works and this is the only video that helped actually.
ehh yes but also a slippery slope bc socially, the old times were NOT gold for anyone who wasn't a straight white man
hello
@@andrewahn2536 @Andrew Ahn you must be about eleven years old because that statement is absolute bullshit, it was way better in the 50s for just about everybody, yeah there were racists and sexists, but there always has been rotten people in all areas of life. Doesn't mean everyone who wasn't a straight white male had it way worse then as they do now. It was good and bad in different ways for everyone regardless of who you were, what really mattered back then as it still does today is how much money you had and the connections you had in life. Back then you could get away with so much more than in todays world as technology wasn't tracking your every move as is the case nowadays. you could actually earn a decent wage back then and afford a house a nice car and a pretty good middle class lifestyle on a single parent income, nowadays both parents have to work, just to barely get by, crime was way lower in the 50s as compared to now, not saying there wasn't hardships but comparatively is was much easier to make ends meet, the cost of living was so much lower and inflation hadn't gone rampant. the government left you alone for the most part, there was more social cohesion, and way way way less corruption back then as compared to now. YOu could literally live off of minimum wage with no high school diploma, now everyone needs at least a bachelors degree just to be able to compete in today's market, with so much power in the hands of so few people it's way harder to come up and start your own business nowadays.
The only regular ordinary people that strike it rich like the gold miners, oil millionaires, actors, musicians, painters and inventors of brand new technology like the telegraph, radio, television and patent millionaires are Instagram, CZcamsrs and TikTokers and other social media influencers, people who become living billboards and sign their life away for just a few million then become broke themselves in a matter of years until they themselves are no longer the new fad and become ancient history, or they do something socially unacceptable and become cancelled and have their lives completely overnight due to one single screw up that in the old days either no one who know, care, and could be forgiven if it wasn't too bad of a stain on their public image. The people who work 9-5s are getting screwed over more and more everyday, just trying to make ends meet and then you've got 16 year old influencers who will make more in a single week than they will over their entire lives, yeah it was hard for some minorities back then and was very hard during the Great Depression but when the war ended and everyone returned home it was the great single creation of wealth and middle class in history, the baby boomers had literally everything handed to them growing up and could actually pull themselves up by their bootstraps but nowadays that's pretty much a dream just to be able to live a nice quiet and easy life they did. They had it all and left Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z with pretty much no future whatsoever, it is definitely way harder nowadays to be able to accomplish what they could with ease, whether you were white, black, hispanic, latino, asian, mexican, orange, purple, blue, a man, woman, a duck, a ferret, a clown, a bulldog, hearing impaired, blind, a foreigner in a strange land, an Iguanadon, an eskimo, a member of the Sammi tribe native to northern Finland, a Yeti, native to the Tibetan Slopes, Sasquatch Sasquatch Sasquatch, native to the Cascadian mountain range, Chupacabra, native to Latin American countries especially around drug fuled economies of Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia, hangs out around the Sinaloa cartel, catching cartel members and dragging them off into the woods sucking their blood and leaving just their dried up husks left for the maggots and rats to eat, then they died because Chupacabra only leaves a highly toxic poison in their bodies that will annihilate any other animal which dare consume anything after it, Dinosaurs did ok back in the 50s especially the dreaded T-rex but Brontosaurus was removed from being a real species of DInosaur just like Pluto being relegated to just a sub-planetary body or the politically incorrect term a "dwarf planet" which doesn't sound very nice at all i mean wtf people come on now don't have to call the guy a dwarf now, he knows he's little.
@@andrewahn2536 @Andrew Ahn So there's a long list of characters that didn't have it so bad as you say in the 1950s, it wasn't perfect, but under the Kennedy presidency things were looking pretty good even though they had the very close threat of nuclear annihilation looming over during the Cuban Missile Crisis, thankfully cooler heads prevailed and we got out of that mess without the entire world blowing up and with all of us with it leaving only cockroaches left to devour our dead bodies and civilization. Yeah this has turned into a huge rant but I'm really just practicing my horrible 2 wpm typing speed in order to get ready for typing an entire essay on the enlightenment values of the 18th century which lead to the development of electric devices and the changing world of the 18th to 19th but much much more drastically seen between the 19th to 20th century with the advent of electricity being way more common in households, the telegraph, telephone, wireless communication and radio broadcasts, television, film and photography, computers, steam then gasoline and deiseal powered transportation, various more methods of annihilating your fellow man, such as machine guns, bombs and flamethrowers, the airplane, Zeppelin, rail and cruise line industries then on up to jet powered aircraft and finally rockets and space travel and harnessing not just molecular energy but finally the realization of atomic energy along with all of the various medical inventions of the last 2-300 years that led to the sky rocketing population growths we saw even with all of the mass destruction of human life during the first and second world wars along with all of the unnecessary state sponsored murders of the 20th century by the likes of Pol Pot in Cambodia extinguishing all of the intellectuals and high members of society whether they were communist or not, Stalin and his great purges like the Holodomor in Ukraine and purging the military and the death quotas established by him all across the Soviet Union and Mao with his "Great Leap Forward" which estimates about 90 Million dead and about 250 million people altogether being lead to death by war, starvation and communism during the 20th century
So yeah, many, many people died and didn't matter who or what you were, outside of America and western Europe after the wars it was a pretty terrible time to be alive as a straight white man, as you were very very likely to be shipped off to war or a gulag or a prison cell in the middle of nowhere for the rest of your life and no-one or nothing knew where you'd end up or if you'd ever see your family alive. America was about the only place where you didn't have to worry about men in the night coming to get you and your family and hauling you all off into some dreaded place never to be seen or heard from again. I'm guessing all of maybe 2 to 3 people on planet earth will ever read this comment in it's entirety and make it through to these words as I type hear, hear hear! Thank you for watching this trainwreck of a comment and stick to it to the end. I wish you the best of luck and do a bit of studying and reading on how life really was in the past instead of mindlessly repeating the nonsensical bullshit you hear on TV or social media having to do with how unfair life was for "minorities" or whatever dumb shit you infested your brain with to even think then type out that nonsense about the patriarchy and how bad it was for everyone. Remember it was Europeans the world has to thank for giving us all the luxuries of modern life, not people in Ghana, not Uzbekistan not Japan or the Koreas or the Chinese or Micronesians or anyone in the Middle East that went around the world spreading knowledge, yes they did do some evil things such as slavery (which literally ALL other groups of people participated in) and ripped natural resources from the earth and yet the Europeans built the modern world gave us all the modern conveniences we all take for granted nowadays. It WAS the English to be the first group of people to outlaw slavery, just think of how strange and out of the blue it was for an all powerful group of people to go around the world and telling all other groups of people to stop enslaving each other and even going to war with other groups forcing them to stop trade humans as mere commodities, it was unprecedented, never before had anyone said put an end to stealing other people's lives, it was unheard of and now 200 years later it's illegal in almost all parts of the world aside from select African and Middle East countries. That is really, truly an amazing feat done by "evil colonizers" no one in history ever did that and even my Irish ancestors were enslaved by the English for far longer than they did to anyone else but we forgave them and were granted our independence in 1922. The Europeans weren't perfect by no means and had hands as dirty as the rest of the world but at least we got the modern world where you can even express yourself and people were given the ability to protest and not be shot to death immediately like the Tiananmen Square Massacre shooting young students and bringing in the tanks to put down the protests. Yeah the American government di the trail of tears, Ruby Ridge, WACO Texas incident, sent spies and CIA agents into Latin American countries and Iran to overthrow their leaders, terrible terrible stuff yeah, but with the bad there is much good and the fact remains people are willing to risk their and their family's lives to come to Europe or America in order to start a new life and make it here where home is too dangerous to live with bombs being dropped and machine guns bursting through the night and tropical diseases devouring your entire family so they get on homemade rafts or fly to Mexico then walk up the Rio Grande just to be able to come here to America to live
@@andrewahn2536 Get out of here with your racist fantasies.
Straight white men are some of the most hardworking men throughout history, and both their efforts and suffering is being erased by ignorant racists like you.
Straight white men are also the most accepting, fair, welcoming and tolerant people you can find. You only hear about their intolerance because they actually let other people in, unlike the rest of the world, and because there's a disgusting modern movement that is trying to paint a false and vile picture of the past in their frankly religious drive to erase white history and actual truth in exchange for your racist ignorant nonsense.
The old times where gold for everyone thanks to straight white men, and to this day everyone is still flocking to the straight white man.
And what do they get in return? Straight white men are the only race and group you're allowed to discriminate against, despite the simple fact that we where never as discriminatory as everyone else in the past...
Learn some history and stop spreading your racist propaganda.
What an amazing documentary/advertising for mechanical watches and the Hamilton company in particular.
No CGI, clearly spoken and explained.
Watchmakers really are amazing.
Awesome. They really knew how to make amazing instructive videos in the 1940s... Too bad it seems to be a lost art by now ! Thanks a lot for uploading this.
Back then you would make no money from clickbait. There were smart Americans back then, Not anymore.
The Jam Handy Organization was very good at what they did.
This was from the era when a vehicle’s owner manual explained how to service the vehicle. A lot has changed since then a most of it isn’t for the better.
@@Bob_Smith19now the owners manuals tell you not to drink the contents of the battery and to call the dealer for everything
After watching this, everybody that owns a mechanical watch will now have a greater appreciation of the marvel of micro engineering they have strapped to their wrist.
Made me buy another one just so can appreciate the engineering.
Love how this is as relevant today as it's always been, and forever. The materials may improve but the principle is as solid as the laws of physics.
Interesting that a video from the 40's can still be so educational and informative. I love the stop motion animations and the huge full size model is awesome! Makes me love my mechanical watch collection even more!
A mechanical watch in motion is one of the most beautiful sights, in my opinion.
Yeah but what about a naked woman?
+Porter Carr Never lose sight of the important things in life :D
every 8th grader should get an old watch and screw driver and take it apart
one of the great inventions
@@paulwilson3434 you used to be able to get clock kits as toys - big sets of gears and springs that you had to put together to make a working clock. My brother got one when he was little and it is really cool. They weren't super accurate, but they illustrated very well how a clock works
this video literally is a travel through “time”. priceless for an automatic watch enthusiast.
Hamilton was a great master producer of extraordinarily fine time pieces. If you love watches, you must own either a hamilton or an illinois!
These old videos couldn't rely on computer graphics to explain stuff, so they actually focused on simple examples and clear explanations. That's why they're always so much better.
that demonstration would actually make a really nice wall clock... I want one
you can't beat the old educational videos. everything was explained so well. ive watched like 3 different videos from modern watch companies and watch channels and they just gloss over most of it. this covers everything. i understand every part of the watch and how it interacts with each other.
Some people need to come together and start making educational/instructional videos in this similar way. Some of the things in the past(old) are really gold! and perfect for emulating!
This was fascinating from start to finish. I have a small collection of watches including several Hamiltons. No matter what brand I look at, I find myself coming back to this brand.
I love how these old commercials aren't a glorification of a companies product, there a detailed and interesting explanation of everything that makes that product work well, shown on the advertising companies example.
That would actually make a really great wall clock.
I looked at the meticulous and beautiful inside of a Hamilton 1907, according to its serial number, and was amazed at the perfection
as in a work of tiny art. Little rubies , gears . The inside is prettier than the outside.
This is the best video that I have watched so far for explaining how a watch works.
I found everything about this video to be fascinating. The construction of a watch, the size of the components, the engineering required to get all those little parts in such a compact package, the engineering required to make an enormous counterpart to more easily see how it all works, the stop-motion animation where the parts moved around by themselves... That alone must have taken days!
Holy cow, that was fantastic! I'm interested in learning how mechanical watches and clocks work and this was a big help. But just imagine how much work it would have been to shoot that stop motion footage showing the watch parts!!
we need more modern videos like these.
This explanation is 10x better than all modern ones, that I have watched.
After hundred of videos, this is the one who make me finally understand, I really appreciate it.
It took you a few hundred videos
18:04 Watch parts making sweat pores and fingerprints look like a tilled field. Mad respect for watchmakers.
I own 6 modern Hamilton watches and 11 pocket watches from early in the century and am proud to have them in my collection, thanks for posting
Not too dang shabby for a 1949 educational documentary! Not too bad at all!
6:39 The most beautiful part in my opinion
It's amazing how old videos are so informative and clear. Great lesson.
Easier understood than most basic watch tutorials these days
2:20
When they explain all that a watch has to deal with it makes it feel so much more amazing
THANK YOU for uploading this masterpiece.....this kind of historical videos are made and written better than 80% of current time videos, specially on technical subjects
old but gold, still same movment used in hefty priced watches todays
And Chinese clones for $60. Apparently they do not oil them though to save time so they only last a couple of years,
Still today, this is the best explanation!
The best explanation I’ve seen of how a watch movement works. Awesome.
its amazing that such old videos are so relevant even today and teach you the very basics that you can build upon.
This is the BEST video explaining how a mechanical watches work.
By far the best explanation on youtube of how a mechanical watch works.
I was looking for such video but none of them is worth it. I was looking for Hamilton watches and accidentally came across this video (Thank you youtube). This video is excellent. My first Automatic Mechanical watch is going to be from Hamilton. :) I will buy it at least for this video. Thank you for sharing it.
Just mind blowing considering the age of this video before even the NTSC color format was introduced in 1951.
As well the amezing technology wich is still used to this day.
Most watches use quartz mechanism these days.
@@afridmohammad9229 Most is not all. There are still plenty of mechanical movements available. Just look at Seiko’s offerings. And they are just one company.
Excellent film! I have a 1930s American Hamilton pocket watch and more modern Swiss made Hamilton wristwatches - love 'em.
It's documentaries like these that I hope one day it becomes possible to invent a time machine
This video is invaluable.
Best explanation ever
Holy shit, it really is the best explanation, still up to date. I wonder if the music is original, specifically made for this.
This thought me more and in much nicer and condensed form than the first weeks in watchmaker school
The best video to let me know how a mechanical watch works. Searched all over the internet and found this is it!
This video is a masterpiece of a masterpiece.
anybody watched this a couple of years ago then came back here for nostalgia?
So much simpler than I thought. Great explanation.
Even for me, I love to watch old instructional/documentaries videos, I grow up using encyclopedia to know how things work, no wonder that old encyclopedia has the same efficient and simple explanation like on the old videos.
Just got a vintage Hamilton wristwatch similar to one featured in this film, 747 inside it too. An American original and an informative video!
This is so incredibly well done - true evidence of greatness in filmmaking.
Great detailed simple explanation! It’s seems hard to find that these days!
I felt like I travelled from 2017 back to 1940's trough this video. Nice work.
I just travelled from 2021 back to the 40s then forward to 2017 reading your comment
Proudly wearing my seiko 5 almost every day!
Wearing my Patek Philippe to pick up dog shit proudly... jk I have the same Seiko lol
@@TRUYORK718 I dream to own a Patek Philippe. It's beyond me to afford it, but hey, it's free to dream.
I dream but enjoy a lot of the reality o my seiko 5
I am 19 and my dad has gifted me his seiko 5 which he was gifted by my grandfather and i am wearing it proudly.
@@TRUYORK718 I see what you did... Patek is dog shit.
man did i enjoy this video, i wanted to understand escapements in a watch, as i am wanting to get into watch repair and restoration - the explanations and large models were a great way to convey this information
Man I love my old Hamiltons
This was so cool... I just started learning how to repair watches as a hobby.(Thank you, Marshal [Wristwatch Revival]). This film should be essential to everyone who is thinking of making watch and clock repair their hobby or even their vocation...
How's it going? I'm just about to start in the hobby.
one of the greatest video i've seen on youtube
My uncle was a tool and die maker at Hamilton until his retirement in the late 80s or early 90s
People really took pride in every aspect of their lives and it showed, No corners cut!
Even though I'm an Elgin fan, I have to admit this is a really excellent film!
That was fantastic! Thank you for sharing sir.
I borrowed a copy of this film from the NAWCC Library (a decade and a half or more ago)
and used it at a meeting of NAWCC Chapter 52.
It was one of the best and most appreciated videos we ever saw.
A companion film, titled What Makes A Fine Watch Fine, is another I highly recommend.
I recently restored a vintage Hamilton from 1948 which uses the exact movement featured in this video.
Wooooow!!!!! This video explained this concept better than anything else!!!!!!
Wonderful video. It is amazing how a watch is a near perfect device.
Seen a few videos and read articles on how the motion works and gear train etc works but this is by far the clearest description. Every potential buyer of a watch , mechanical, quartz, fashion - whatever, should see this video.
This is by far the best ad Hamilton can ever hope for. If this video doesn’t make you wanna go out and buy a Hamilton watch, I don’t know what will!
Absolutely amazing!!
100hp of a fine car! So much power!
That's what my car has today and I think it's plenty enough.
They're different horsepower though, I'll admit that.
Jam Handy Productions also made amazing educational films about automobiles.
Well worth watching.
This is absolutely relevant in 2022! Fantastic explanation.
Absolutely amazing skill. For me watch makers are the top in skilled trade
This is wonderful, thank you!
I love videos like this!
Fantastic film! Thank you.
Best demonstration of how this works IV ever seen
Very informative, now on to discovering how the make those tiny parts... that's insane.
Clever stuff no doubt about it! - the thing I find most interesting is that, as far as I know; no one has been accredited with the invention of the 'escapement mechanism'.
As amazing as it seems that the tech. of making small pieces for these watches in the 1940's - it's staggering that watches of not so different size and complexity were made in the 1600's.
Amazingly (good) battery operated watches still kinda work the same way. They just swapped out the main spring for a 32,768 hertz oscillating crystal and a tiny 14 bit shift register. Since 32,768 is equal to 2 to the 15th power, 32,768 hertz will pulse out the 14 bit shift register every second and send mechanical power to the hair spring.
Still amazing and cool, just different physics. :)
Nope - watches of that size came about in the late 19th century.
I wish this amazing video was in 4k. I'd be happy to wait for the download.
Listen what do you hear? A really cool video!
Explanation is far more better than modern day classes 😑
HAMILTON my favorite automatic watch
The way the wheels and the other parts of the watch move around to create a watch, they used to call that trick photography.
You can really see the difference in commercial advertising between this long gone era and now: not once the voice tells you the brand of the watch. It only tells about FINE watch and you really have to look the images of the video to understand what brand this commercial tries to advertise for.
Verry well explained and great old video. 5star!
Old is gold! :)
"Recording the flow of power"
-essence.
The large watch train model needs to be in a museum... or *MY* house!
Thank you very much; I really enjoyed this and shared with many. - Adam