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Restoring a Subscriber Vintage Tudor Oyster Royal Watch
Restoring a Subscriber Vintage Tudor Oyster Royal Watch !!!
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“French Watch Collector”
In this video I will restore this Tudor Oyster Royal 7903 Vintage Watch from a subscriber. This Tudor has a beautiful Rolex case and crown but it is in pieces with some broken parts and some mistakes done on the caliber. I will try to put back this Tudor watch back together and restore it…
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This is a compliment not only to Monsieur Le French Watch Collector, but also to YouTube itself.
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It’s great, and amazing to me, to be able to watch the video on my TV📺, and connect my iPhone📲 to the video to add comments like this one.
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Well done to you both!
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I also make sure to double check my Subscriptions and Likes: I’ve noticed on some other YouTube channels, my Subscription being UNSUBSCRIBED for no reason, and for channels I KNOW I’ve subscribed to! What’s up with that, YouTube?
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Anyway, Salut🫡 👋🏽.
Thank you for sharing this great job on a rather dilapidated watch with us. I just love how you re-lumed the hands in particular: 👍👌👏!
Yes Perfect and All Blacks through to the RWC final Perfect
Another beautiful rebuild of a wonderful watch
Nice vintage tudor oyster royal watch an oyster is a sea creature. Nice watch
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A very enjoyable video. I recently went a bit mad on eBay and acquired two vintage Tudor watches, an Oyster manual wind from around 1952 and an automatic Oyster Prince from 1959. I really like all arabic numerals, as in this example, as opposed to bars or dots.
Great result. Again.👍🙂 And great improvements on your first videos, techniques too. Vintage Tudors were always a good option and tbh I preferred many of their designs to Rolex.
Regarding the lume. I'd be very careful with any vintage watch pre 1965-70, the vast majority of 50's watches used radium. Tritium is more a 1960's on trend. Tritium doesn't go nearly so dark as old radium, or at least in watches I've seen. I've a geiger counter which helps. Radium gives off strong results, vintage tritium almost nothing. I'm no watchmaker, but I have relumed a few watch dials/hands(mostly old trench watches) and if I have to remove old lume I do it under mineral oil to eliminate dust flying around.
Another trick I found to colour the new lume is rather than add colour in the mix which is the way most do it, but I found reduced the glow(and I wanted the glow😁), I tried something different. I apply the new lume and when it's dry apply dilute washes of good quality watercolour with a small brush. gives a lot more control with the colour and takes very little away from the glow. I've a couple of trench watches that now glow like torches throughout the night, like they did when new, minus the mutation problem. I'm mutated enough. 😄
Well done sir! 👏 i have my dads small rose oysterdate in a gold case, and these are a joy on the wrist. Replacing a jewel is extremely difficult despite the ease you showed in doing so, boss level tweezer skills! Love your work.❤
Thank you for another great video of a really nice classic Tudor Oyster Royal. Great to see it back to spec and running perfectly. Can't beat those ETA movements either. Kudos to your excellent work and vids ..
Why the fake vitage look with Coffee😒
FWC is the Batman of watch repair. Nobody knows who he is, but he's out there somewhere always ready to help citizens in trouble. Great video.
A lume shot would be cool, nice save.
I actually like the classic Tudor more than most of their modern creations which are more-less Rolex-alike (yes, I know they try stuff Rolex never did, e.g. FXD, but still)… and for a dressier/ every day watch like that one, the classic logo with the rose just looks BLOODY AWESOME!
It's nice to know that even if we try and royally mess it up, The French Watch Collector is still able to bring it back! Beautiful work. I was reading in a Rolex service manual (3135), and noticed it prescribes a pre-wash once the dial and automatic works are removed – to run the still-assembled caliber through the cleaning machine before disassembling the rest of the caliber. Do you ever follow this type of procedure? I don't think I've seen anyone on youtube doing that.
1:30 when you took out the balance I wanted to cry 😮💨 Fine job at the end!
Great video!
Well what I know, is Rolex didn't build there movements in house until the 60s and 70s so it doesn't surprise me to see a ETA mouvement inside a Tudor. You mustn't forget ETA is an up range company.
Thank you for another great video as always very entertaining,this one is a cautionary tale for all amateur tinkerers out there .