How To Straighten a Curved Watch Hand, Check Alignment?! | The Watch Doctor, Uncut #1 | Watch Repair

How you can straighten a curved watch hand and check the alignment of the watch hands? In this video I will show you an easy way to do this!
If your watch is not moving then there is maybe a problem with the watch hand alignment? After a heavy fall or impact of your timepiece, the hands may have shifted: The second hand can touch the glass, or the hour hand can touch the dial, or the minute hand can touch the hour hand, you see many options are possible!
Welcome to the first video of our new video series: 'The Watch Doctor @ The Bench Uncut'!
In this new video series I will show you my daily work @ the bench. I will also do my best to tell something about the watch in question and off course with the necessary 4K macro images as you are used to ;-).
Then I will try to gradually tell the repair 'live' what I'm doing and were you have to pay attention. This seems like a nice way to get a better insight into my work, and to get to know me better as Dimitri, the watchmaker.
I also occasionally make a mistake, and you will undoubtedly find that in this video series :-). If that sounds interesting, let me know in the comments section and give this video a big thumbs up ;-)
Thank you and enjoy the video! ;-)
Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Problem with hands, touching each other on a Rodania Titanium LM23835 watch
02:20 - Take the movement out of the watch case
05:38 - Remove the hands
08:23 - Straightening the watch hands
14:54 - Checking the alignment of the hands
16:20 - Tip and own opinion related to titanium watches
16:56 - Checking the alignment of the hands when installed
17:50 - Outro & Do you like this sort of video or not?
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[@petercampbell3828]

Nice to see you working on every day watches also. These repairs are ones a person may attempt on their own, although I'd predict some very bent up hands! I think a short video demonstrating opening and closing the different types of casebacks would fit into this series.

[@ABGG55]

Hi Dmitri Thanks for uploading

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks. You're welcome ;-) Oatbaa :-)

[@phillipmaclver9442]

Another excellent show case of a watchmakers skills... Thank you.

[@johncunningham5435]

I like the approach; "yes" really adds to my skill level, very informative.

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks for your comment John.

[@SlamDunkz3ooo]

Learned a lot thank you. Now I can correct the bad job I did on my L.L. Bean watch movement replacement! Bent the seconds hand into a scorpion! Subscribed.

[@bangy55]

All of your shared knowledge is greatly appreciated regardless of the format. Your videography is also exceptional. I must say, I enjoy the full strip-down and assembly videos best. Regardless, I learn from both. Cheers.

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks for the comment Chris, "I must say, I enjoy the full strip-down and assembly videos best." I can believe that :-), no doubt there will be more of them ;-)

[@joelgoodwin4092]

I really enjoyed this video. Great job!!! Thanks!!!

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks Joel!

[@sharfansha7604]

very useful tips thank you MR.Dimitiry

[@Michael.Chapman]

Great to watch! I have some Hamilton 992B Railroad Watches from the latter 1950s. When someone has lever set the time at some point, they have bent slightly sideways the ultra-fine steel tip of the minute hand. Would you attempt the same technique, but just pressing the tip sideways? On one of these watches, the watchmaker has seemingly “repaired” the bent tip by carefully clipping the bent end off. This now means the minute hand looks strange because it can no longer reach the dial’s minute calibration marks… so am looking for a replacement.

[@dr-evil]

Eerst wat ik dacht. Hey dat is een Vlaming. I managed to repair my child's cheap watch with your video. She had dropped it and the hour hand was rubbing against the seconds hand. I did however just smack the hand down a bit. It seems sufficient Thanks a lot!

[@gloriouspurpose3139]

Thank you,sir!! Helps a lot

[@iperrealista]

I make the same thing in other way, but your work is very appreciable, nice

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks iperrealista!

[@RocketSailing]

Like the fixing video. 😊👍

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks!

[@johnjenin3279]

Thank you very much on the tutorial.

[@therealwatchdoctor]

With pleasure John, thanks for your comment!

[@howardmintz7635]

Learned a lot. Would like video on how to straighten a watch handed that has a twist in it.

[@Watcheyes]

Thank you! Good instruction. I recently bent the regulator curb pin (to the balance spring), it was hell I can tell you! 😀

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thank you! "I recently bent the regulator curb pin (to the balance spring)", i can believe that! :-)

[@ManuelLopez-kx5gb]

Hola buenos días, un video explicativo fantástico. Lo que ha faltado ver es como colocar las manecillas en el dial. Gracias, un cordial saludo

[@therealwatchdoctor]

¡Gracias!

[@curiousassortment]

Nice video. I'd like to know - are there ever companies that purposely make the watch hands bent? When we see it, does it usually mean the customer or watchmaker bent them to make an adjustment. Thanks.

[@haping1]

Dank je voor de video. Een goede hulp om e.e.a. zelf te proberen. Ik heb een DW horloge van m'n dochter waarbij het glas vervangen moet worden. Lastig om te achterhalen of het glas er zo uitgedrukt kan worden en het nieuwe er weer in of dat dat op een andere manier moet...

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Fijn om te horen haping1, DW horloges zijn meestal wel voorzien van een plastieken spanring waardoor het glas er uitgedrukt moet kunnen worden. (wel niet met blote vingers :-) )

[@haping1]

@@therealwatchdoctor Ik ga het gewoon proberen. Heb je een link voor het bestellen van horloge glazen? Ik kwam niet verder dan eBay, esslinger en crystaltimes.... de laatste 2 zit je met invoerrechten. Groet, Hans Peter

[@MrTchou]

Nice work, are there any risks of damaging the lume while doing this ?

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Thanks! With older hands (whose lumen already crumbles when you look at it) this may be a problem yes, but with new/recent lumens I haven't had any problems with this yet.

[@Aikidobear129]

If the mechanism was loose and away from the face what would you do?

[@roryonabike5863]

The tweezer that you used to hold the hands isn't in the tool list. Could I ask what it is? 2A? F?

[@bangy55]

I forgot to say, I didn't know about the first position for removing the stem. Is that just for quartz watches? I know some ETA mechanical watches such as the 2824-2 must be in the setting position or you will end up with a jammed keyless work. Also, some Seikos must be in the winding position or you will jam the keyless works. I guess only experience can solve this problem.

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Usually, you can easily see the difference because when the 'dot' on the setting lever is visible or not. If this dot is visible, it is in the correct position to remove the winding/hand-setting stem. I can't just say the difference between all the calibers.

[@rajdattani1507]

Would you be able to help me with an issue I’m having plz? I have a Michael Kors watch where the hands have fallen off but I can’t remove the dial. It’s a fixed bezel so I can’t access it from the front. It’s a MK3709 I would be grateful if you could look into this and tell me if the dial can be removed from the inside. Many thanks.

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Hello, Unfortunately, these are timepieces that are not really made to be repaired, but it's possible, the glass must be removed under air pressure via the crown tube.

[@mikeeagletube]

interessante video, ik ga het zelf ook eens proberen...

[@therealwatchdoctor]

Bedankt Mikey! Fijn om te horen. Ik weet dat het niet de meest 'flitsende' video is (want ik moet vaak zoeken naar de juiste woorden in het Engels), maar als je er toch iets van hebt opgestoken, en de video niet te langdradig/saai is dan ben ik al blij :-). Het kan alleen nog maar beteren zou ik zeggen in mijn volgende video's ;-)

[@mikeeagletube]

@@therealwatchdoctor er zijn al genoeg flitsende video's, ik vind het prettig dat iemand de tijd neemt iets uit te leggen en alle stappen laat zien. Ga zo verder zou ik zeggen 👍Fijn weekend!

[@JonnaX]

nice video - learning a lot. maybe ad some soft background music might be good idea

[@therealwatchdoctor]

The sound of silence and a little bit of ASMR, the majority of my subscribers prefer this I think. Of course not easy to do good for everyone

[@MrTchou]

@@therealwatchdoctor also music can upset youtube bots and might end up with copyright claims…

[@steveblake8766]

#109 Thumbs uP

[@TuanBui-mx8nx]

You said no editing but you cut out how you placed the hands back on. Thanks for wasting 18 mins of my life. Now I gotta find a real video on it.