A Strange Broken Vintage Watch to Repair !!!

[@jimgoodman1845]

Time was stopped at 420 👌 Thanx4sharing 👍

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

👍

[@giorgiogrlj]

Spring, springs, springs everywhere. :) Nice watch and nice work.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thank you very much!

[@andrewmurton8379]

Strange looking watch and quite complicated behind the dial, very interesting to see it all and well explained. Thank you.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thanks for watching!

[@brucebarlow6604]

Yes Perfect and great work. A funky watch indeed. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thanks Bruce

[@derekcarroll7524]

Nice watch and nice work well done

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thank you kindly

[@Restoration_watch]

Thanks for the video

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Our pleasure!

[@federicoprice2687]

Fascinating - I've not seen the movement of one of these before, and it's far more complicated than I thought it would be. These watches are in the "love it or hate it" category, with nothing in between! Excellent skill, great video, really good narration and .... superb English! 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Yes they are very particular. Thanks for the support

[@pipodorologio1648]

thanks for sharing......another nice vintage jump hour....very nice Forster movement...high regards for your courage to work all these movements with different complications

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thank you it is a pleasure to work on these movements

[@mikesexton630]

Very nice, I have an 70’s AVYStyle jump hour watch in my collection… very similar!

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Very cool!

[@RIH_Photography]

Great looking watch 🎉 all ways enjoy your videos 😊

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Glad you like them!

[@orvillefindley8117]

That's a pretty cool watch. 👍

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

It sure is!

[@velviaman3206]

Your inner engineer cannot resist a challenge. Interesting and entertaining as ever.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Yes that was a nice challenge.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Ah, Mike, (My retro Watches), did a watch like that too a while back.. Interesting :)

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Very cool!

[@Tom_Kowalczuk]

​@@FrenchWatchCollector Nike have couple of them and have videos of fixing them as well.

[@paynemaker]

Great video. I would love to see more strap making. A tutorial on the sewing would be nice. It would give me a new reason to feed my tool addiction 😊. A very nice restoration. Well done 👍🏻

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Great suggestion!

[@borassictime918]

What an interesting watch with a complicated movement - so many parts! You did a lovely job on it 👍. It’s always tricky to know how original to keeps such a watch; with a plated case it’s alot of work to take back to base metal, refinish it and replate it, and then it may not look right with the aged dial. Thanks for sharing 🙂

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@jeffreyhickman3871]

That's what's known as the jump-hour watch ⌚️. They were pushed 🫸 out of existence in the 1970's by the quartz watch ⌚️ 😉 revolution. I find jump-hour watches ⌚️ pretty 😍 neat. Some are battery 🔋 operated, others are automatic. I would not mind owning a 5 gallon bucket of these watches. Please keep 🙏 these great jump-hour 👍 watch ⌚️ videos 📹 coming. Your friend, Jeff.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thanks Jeff

[@SQueme]

another spring ... 😨 another spring ... 😱

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

A lot of springs

[@alanmckinnon6791]

A very interesting watch, most of these jump hour watches came out in the 70s in response to Japanese digital watches. Swiss entry level manufacturers didn't have quartz technology so many of these mechanical digitals hit the market, basically with discs instead of hands and basic movements - pin pallet and all-captive jewels. This one is a decent movement quality, perhaps Maty wanted to buck the trend and next go for cheapest entry level but a step or two higher.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Thanks for the info

[@StrongbowTX]

What do you call the tool with the rubber/silicon tip (at 17:30) to hold things down/nudge them into place? That looks very cool and I want to get one, but no idea what to search for!

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Here is the link of the product www.cousinsuk.com/product/component-probe-horotec-26009?code=C60127

[@StrongbowTX]

@@FrenchWatchCollector Thank you!

[@ygrbooks]

How every watchmaker would love to service such a weird beauty! And while I do love your presenting us with this really funky watch, there did not seem much wrong with it to begin with. Please, just do not go the horrible routine made infamous by Rolex of exorbitantly-priced and value-destroying servicing watches: "We will keep all the rare parts and charge you double for the common items." Just do your job and be humble and honest about it, if you still can. Also, I am really glad that you managed to remove the balance wheel which was "really tight" and the "less tight" pallet fork. It just goes to show why Arnold Schwarzenegger never passed the horological tests imposed on him: cudos to you: 🤪! I know that you must hate me by now, but could you just stick to this rule for once: "There pages - no adjectives." I think it would help your - excellent - channel a lot.

[@nicmost3044]

Hi. how much would such a watch set you back, if for instance i wanna buy it??? RE

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Around 500&

[@yanngt77]

Un mouvement förster(bernard förster) 225 . Se serais bien de le metre dans le titre car les videos sur förster sont extremement rare! Dans ma rexa guichet j'ais un förster 253 (idem sans le jour) Je trouve que c'est vraiment un beau calibre mais les ressorts sont une plaie. Il ma falu une roue de chaussé deporté que jais trouvé chez chronopassion. Cest dommage que vous ne fassiez pas vos videos en français, on a du choix en anglophone mais il serais tres bien que quelqu'un comme vous nous fournisse de contenue francophone. Votre travail est tres bon.

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Merci. Je reprendrai les vidéos en français plus tard

[@CAMPEDELLaurent]

Pour les surveiller sur les sites de vente, si on voit assez régulièrement des 253 (ou équivalent), c'est le seul 225 que j'ai vu (et acheté donc 😁). Par contre, acheté à un horloger (plus de 400€...), j'ai été désagréablement surpris lorsque FWC m'a annoncé que le mouvement était sale et les joints tout secs (donc non entretenu 😡).

[@CAMPEDELLaurent]

Ah bah la voilà la vidéo en fait. 😅 Vous auriez dû me donner le lien. 😅 Par contre c'est dommage de ne pas l'avoir en français (parce que les traductions automatique de Google, sur du technique comme ça, c'est "rigolo"). Au fait, on ne voit pas le nettoyage du ressort. Vous l'avez fait mais pas montré, c'est ça ? 🙂

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

Je vais reprendre les video en français la semaine prochaine mais sur une autre chaine. Oui bien sur le ressort a été nettoyé. D'ailleur l'amplitude est plutôt correcte

[@CAMPEDELLaurent]

@@FrenchWatchCollector Oui, le résultat sur l'analyseur est plutôt très bon, non ? 🙂

[@CAMPEDELLaurent]

@@FrenchWatchCollector Et il faudra donner le nom de la chaîne. Elle existe déjà ? 🙂

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

@@CAMPEDELLaurent Ce sera sur ma chaine d'origine en français @montrerestauration

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

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[@fscott1134]

POLISH THE CASE!

[@FrenchWatchCollector]

I cannot as it is a plated watch

[@moboei]

Replate it

[@moboei]

What a cool timepiece this is.

[@davidthompson1144]

Your scratching the rotor with your metal tweezers. 😢

[@StrongbowTX]

You notice he’s using brass tweezers, no? Brass isn’t going to scratch steel.

[@davidthompson1144]

Still metal on metal,i often wonder who it is that scratches the inside of the movement inside, it's nice to see an unopened, serviced watch movement, after 40 50 year's, and it looks shiny, as new.