It’s a beautiful watch and the first I can remember admiring as a kid . I am fortunate to now own a champagne dial and brass bezel with date Seawolf from the late sixties , calibre 70-72 and I love it . The size is perfect and it has an individual style of its own I think . It does seem to need a service though and has a problem in the automatic function not winding the watch , or the hacking working . It works accurately when manually wound but it does sound a bit gritty or perhaps that’s the usual wind on it . I’d appreciate some advice from someone more experienced and knowledgable about the vintage Zodiac Seawolf as I am not at all confident in opening it up and making some irreparable mistake ! Thanks for any advice or suggestions .

A automatic quartz watch , never seen that before 🤔ah well first time for everything great vid Mike 👍👍

R.I.P Kevin , great video again Mike , keep em coming

I'm interested to know how many of the parts are made with powder metallurgy. Then again, with brass wire electrical discharge machining, i imagine tuning and honing time is brought down significantly.

I don't really have much interest in the jewelry aspect of watches, but the clockwork has always fascinated me. I'd buy this in a heartbeat with the money. I don't need some diamond studded thing with watch straps made of the skin of a corn fed Indian child.

I bought a clear face Accutron in 1966 from the USAF BX, but quickly decided the normal face version was better as you could actually read the time. In the end, I found that dropping the watch resulted in expensive repairs due to breaking of the tuning fork pawl. Soon the watch was retired.

Nice job! You don't fancy fixing my Doxa GMT do you😜

NIce one! Love those older Aegler movements, great workhorses 👍

Great video as always, well done mate 👍

I love these little Precisions. A few years back you could grab them for around a grand (for one in good nick), which represents huge value. They've shot up since then as the entry Rolex in the market but at 34mm they are obviously too small for most (me included).

Maaaan…, you’ve done my day!!! Will do this on my Submariner…

That Seiko is a beauty and you've done her proud.

Champion

Amazing design, and I have never seen or even heard of this watch before which is great to see.

Excellent content. I really enjoyed this video.

Tak!

Impressive progress in watch production. The finish of the dial, case, and bracelet is wonderful. The proprietary design of the case, the bracelet (with screw fastening) and the clasp, relying on their own historical traditions, are respected. The next big step should be to develop our own reliable and mass-produced watch movement comparable to the NH35A

Congratulations on successfully servicing your very first Rolex! Thanks for filming it.

Hi Mike, I love your videos 😊 Question, I have a few mechanical vintage watches, which I have opened. And it seems to me there is not much difference between a Tissot Seastar 1959 and this Rolex 1959. There sure are now a days, but do you know how much extra “finishing/detaling” there where between the “mainstream” switch brands of 1959…like Tissot, Certina, Omega, Rolex, Longines, Tudor? Br Klaus

As a watch enthusiast with NO budget, thank you AMZWATCH for great-looking mechanical watches that I can afford! their are very clean, classy look, $150 each. I still watch videos about expensive “proper” watches, but I enjoy what I have

Honestly, the screen was cleaner before you took it apart...WHAT THE HELL DO YOU SEE THROUGH THE MICROSCOPE if you leave the screen with garbage right in the center, you can clearly see the MIRTY right in the middle of the screen and you mount it like this...that is, dirtier than it was.. ... And you've heard of WOOD, wooden toothpicks, or soft plastic so you don't chip the screen/glass.... you can also clean the sealing frames with alcohol

The speaker comes out, it has a sealing gasket, move it slightly left and right and it will come out, you will see that it has a groove that has a gasket. this is so that you can better clean the holes where the sound comes out... I have 3 clocks and they sound very loud, they have those clean holes

Excellent work Mike! Great video. 👍

Your Seiko shown here are not correct. They ends up in cheap ends, but are showm first life mone from front. Costs here like 400 $. Yours shown in the end costs like 200$. I thought you made like mine first 😉😊

I have this amazing piece.but the gold. Works very well and is in GREAT condition . Thanks to your video I know I have a gem on my hands!

I've watched many of your videos so far, but I'm only just now seeing this one. The Blue Danube was a stroke of genius for that sequence. 😂

Sir any india subscriber give away 😅

Hi Mike, I’m not sure how to contact you directly but I wondered if you’d be interested in taking a look at a Emile Pequignet Moon Phase watch, it belong to my grandad who sadly isn’t with us anymore and I’d love to be able to wear it but it currently doesn’t work. Please let me know if you’re interested. Regards, Ashley

Honestly not a elegant movement by any means by todays standards a new rotor movement under 100 quid is much more modernized but ofc just stating the obvious

Great vid Mike! Some little gems in there. Well done on this, fantastic for a 1959 watch.

Hi Mike excellent vid as always, it's nice to know you are human 😊 and the things that go wrong with all of us amateurs also go wrong with you, could I be a pest please and ask that you pass on some of your techniques such as replacing the balance assembly which I constantly struggle with. Again an excellent vid Mike thanks for posting it.

What absolutely pathetic service! Seiko have absolutely lost the plot with regards to public relations and service in recent years. I thought Japanese people were always keen to save face, but that's obviously not true. They obviously couldn't care less. When an amateur can get the watch working spot-on in good time, why can't Seiko? Well done Mike! Great work, as usual.

Very nice video, 😂 is realistic the time ti assembly a spring parts

On the screw tightening, Alex Hamilton actually covers that in one of his videos, though I can't remember which one. IIRC his suggestion is to tighten until you meet resistance, and then tight by the width of the screw slot (actually, it may have been half the width?). If I can track down the video I'll update the comment

So glad to see you do a Rolex Mike. I have a 1993 Submariner "Bluesie" that I adore. I have only been mangling watches for abut two years now, so while I will admit to having taken the back off it to have a look, I have not yet had the balls to touch the movement in any way! Great video

Mike, I was disappointed to see that there were no jewels for the mainspring arbor?