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Restoration of a Strange WWII Pocket Watch with the
Restoration of a Strange WWII Pocket Watch with the Handmade Leather Strap Still Intact
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“Wristwatch Revival”
Marshall restores another vintage watch, this time it’s a strange pocket watch from World War II. This watch was taken off the …
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Hello Marshall.wondering if you can recommend a movement vise for a ships clock movement. It's about 1/2" larger than the one in your wonderful kit. My heart leaped at removing the hands and finding a loose rod under the clock's face which amounted to a connection between two piece crown stem( preventing winding).
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Looks like that leather strap would make a great airtag case
Maybe ask Adam savage for a New leather strap as a Restauration project :))
This looks very much like a WWI timepiece. People fashioned ways of attaching their pocket watches to their wrist because it was difficult to keep pulling the watch out of their pocket. But by WWII regular wristwatches were very common. So I think this one was a WWI watch, which fits with the age of the movement..
28:35 I cheated on that one. I have a wristwatch of a similar vintage that has the same tiny protected setting pin. Actually need to get it looked at. >_>
Is this not pin set?
My partner heard the opening of this video from my iPad and exclaimed “Oh my goodness is that Marshall” because she knows how much I love your content and I’ve been waiting for a new one bless her 😂😂
I imagine you know by this time but the piece on top of the barrel wheel is a screw, which you can loosen by turning it left using the holes inside. As for the crown wheel it was just stuck on and could have been easy removed after loosening the screw. The center wheel is actually three parts: One is the cannon pinion, the other is the wheel itself and the third one is the post which holds the cannon pinion and the minutes hand.
I hope my comment is of help and sorry for my bad english (I'm from Germany)
This is the ancestor of the trench watch, it’s from World War I definitely not World War II
The watch subplot really added a neat element to Pulp Fiction. Marcelus was even raped and Zed and the Pawn Shop man brutally killed because of that uncomfortable lump of metal. I changed to Neff watches and never looked back!
Normally the dials are copper not brass. And yes they are counter enamelled to reduce warping. Still an amazing piece of work and so precise..
This is rather disturbing video. A watch from a dead soldier or a dead woman. I understand that it was a common practice in war but i really feel sad for those people. I wish you had kept the story to your self.
I have the ladies equivalent of that watch , it was my grandmother's, it has the inner case back but also a front case that has a viewing window, to save opening it , it is also completely engraved with a delicate pattern, sadly I believe the hair spring is gone and missing a hand and the glass has been replaced by someone years ago with plastic which has yellowed. It is such a shame I would love to get it restored some how , I don't know if it's something you might be able to do , maybe the cost might prevent it , or even if it is something you would be interested in doing even, the dial is mother of pearl I believe, watching you work on this watch , I was shouting at the screen when you mentioned setting the hands , as I guessed it looked the same mechanism as my watch and I knew about the "nail" pusher on the case side as mine has the same feature. Let me know if it is viable , biggest issue is I'm in the UK , great content though Marshall as ever.
I have an late 1890s 18s Phenix pocket watch with a similar movement. As for the gear above the barrel, the two holes on top of the gear are what you insert a special tool or if you have a pair of tweezers that are strong enough, it's actually a cap screw that once removed allows you to remove the gear. That watch is also a pin set style watch. If you look just off on the side of the movement you will see piece of rounded metal that has a notch cut out of one end that can slide in and out of the movement, that is the pin set. And pressing it and turning the crown is what you do to set the time.
neats foot oil for the leather
with its age, i'm surprised it not a world war 1 watch.
A cell phone, computer or a Casio digital watch..😋👍
I have to disagree with you about this not being military related. This is a rather typical conversion done by soldiers during world war one. We can imagine what it saw and how it ended up in the States.
Amazing 🎉 great job
Skilful and fascinating as usual Marshall. Thank you.
Hey Marshall, I've seen barrel bridges like that before. Normally there are screws that hold the ratchet wheel onto the arbor. Once you take them out, the whole thing comes apart.
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Great restoration and video!
FWIW, I would have soaked the strap in Lexol while working on the watch. I would not have repaired the damage to the leather but it would have cleaned and preserved what is left without damaging the leather.
Woow, very good job, thank you
Beautiful restoration!
How often do you have to refer back to the disassembly part of your videos during reassemlby?
I love art. What you do is art.