How To Restore Watch Hands- Made Easy

In this video, I cover polishing watch hands and how to darken brass hands to give a vintage look.
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[@Trent150]

Your videos are very informative. I have successfully completed my second comprehensive service on a 1960’s Helbros. I contribute my ability to do this because of your ‘watch repair course’. Thanks … keep making us ‘better watchmakers’ :)

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Hey Trent, Thank you very much for your support in my endeavor. I am busy writing my watch repair course but i also have some interesting videos coming out soon as well. Thanks again. -Alex Let me know if you have any requests or need help.

[@ElderPinto254]

Watch Repair Tutorials is my favorite learning channel what i learned on this channel is gold .... grabbing the tweezers from the right hand to the left darn i learned it here haha yepp also the small things you do are so full of info

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Thanks 👍

[@ReviewsforNerds]

Those hands came out looking amazing! Thank you for sharing this.

[@watchrepairtutorials]

My pleasure 😊 I’ll am going to be doing a video on painting hands as well.

[@amandagelien9612]

The cool thing is using De solved shellack for purposes especially roller jewels & escapement jewels thanks for tip Alex

[@watchrepairtutorials]

You bet! Thanks Amanda. 🤘

[@itzhaccroitoru4082]

Hi Alex,Brilliant and very well explained.Itzhac

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Hey, thanks again.☝️

[@The_Scienceboy]

The watchsmith is excellent as always

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Appreciate you man

[@daffyduxxx]

What a great informative video. Thank you for sharing these tips and techniques.

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Not a problem my friend.👍

[@byrnejr]

Thanks you are a wealth of information appreciate you brother

[@watchrepairtutorials]

I appreciate that. Thank you

[@steinskotmyr2194]

Super interesting as always. I am doing some gunsmith work also so I know the Brass Black well. There is an Aluminium Black as well. The traditionally gun bluing liquid is great for steel hands as well, the best is the pen applicator, much like a normal permanent marker.

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Watch repair and gunsmith. What a combo. What are u using for a dehumidifier in your gun safe.

[@steinskotmyr2194]

@@watchrepairtutorials Today I use no dehumidifier in the gun safe since I moved it to dry room. I have not seen any sign of corrosion even on unprotected polished steel parts. Earlier I simply had a 25 watt lightbulb constantly burning inside the safe. However I always keep a generous layer of oil on all guns or parts that need to be stored.

[@ferguscosgrave7510]

Thanks

[@watchrepairtutorials]

No problem

[@pieterjlansbergen6988]

Brilliant and very well explained as usual. Exactly the tip I needed as I have an old Swiss watch from the fourties’ that was recently serviced but my watchmaker couldn’t be bothered with restoring the hands even after I asked for it. They look scruffy and make the watch look bad. I will try myself but I miss the shellac and buying a bag of it for just this job seems overkill. Any suggestions as to how to secure the hands otherwise? I thought of nail enamel which is rather easy to find and dissolves in acetone. What are your thoughts? /P

[@watchrepairtutorials]

You can use super glue as a substitute and then release it and clean it up with acetone.

[@brianwohlleben3182]

Great tips! Can you use the wax on blued hands?

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Sure you can put it on practically anything you want to protect.

[@Mr986Willis]

Hi Alex, I have a 1968 or so Gold Omega with gold coloured hands I'm guessing they are gold plated as they are now patchy. How would you recomend addressing that? Do i just need to pay someone to re-plate them?

[@watchrepairtutorials]

You can if you want to keep it original. Sourcing originals on the gray market is not gonna be easy.

[@MrJosiahCochran]

I got some Polinum and the cotton buffs that you link on your website. I’ve found the cotton buffs, which are made of stacks of cotton fabric, throw off a ton of fibers and the polinum throws some bits off when applying it to the wheel. Do you have the same issue and just do polishing away from everything since it does generate a lot of fibers? Am I using too high a speed? Should I try wool buffs instead? Is there some process you use on a new wheel to free all the loose fibers before using it? The polinum wheel combo does polish really well and im using a $12 battery powered rotary tool from amazon, but just wondering how to reduce mess

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Cotton buff are used for polishing hard wool. Polishing is messy no question about it. That’s why they make dust hoods. Try running a new cotton buff across the back of your tweezers when it’s new and that will remove a lot of the small hairs but you’ll never get rid of all of it. You shouldn’t be throwing off much compound from the cotton buff either you only need a small amount applied to the buff.

[@michaelbelligoi6335]

🙏❤

[@watchrepairtutorials]

Yes sir, thank you.

[@rasheedpm1063]

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