Build Your Own Watch from Parts on Ebay or Parts Suppliers! 

One good tip for first timers is before putting the hour hand on, set the time on the watch just until the date changes. That way the hour hand goes on at 12 just as the date would change making the date change more accurate.

Wow that's pure genius love the watch great job you make it look so easy. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻

Nice Job and clear explanation how to. Thank you!

This is really cool. Thank you for taking the time to show us.

I will always give thumbs up for videos like this,nice watch👊🏼💪🏼

This is a great video! Please make more videos like this where you just build your own custom watches of different styles

Love that seamaster style dial

Thank you so much for this lesson!

Hi, Excellent video, perfect for a beginner like me. Thanks

Just the video I needed. Thank you. Was wondering if I should trim extra dial feet off - now I know that is correct. Nice to know I can remove the day or date rings if the the dial has no window.

Great video , very helpful. Thanks

This is the best video I have seen today about this. Thank you very much. Looking forward to building my own Seiko. Do you recommend to put sealing grease?

I love your video's, you should make a video where u case a pocket watch movement in to a wristwatch case!

Wow so impressive. Ive always loved/collected watches but and my next big step is to order the necessary tools to build my first watch. Do you have any recommendations for a watch kit? Like a pre made toolbox. Also, do you sell watches? To see a watch built, then own it, would be very cool.

Awesome watch! Thanks for sharing. Can you please tell us what's the criteria you use to choose the different parts?

Nice video, thanks👍

Great video!

Thank you for the video please make more watches and make more videos

Loved the video , i am new to your channel and watch "crafting" so i have to ask where do i find the tools you used 😁

Love it, I'm going to start making my watches, very descriptive... how'd you make the stckers?

Very good Thank so Much

i am now more intrigued more than ever. been doing alot of research and might start building one for myself. will check out your site. any advice?

You are so professional while working on watches. I inherited a Rolex from a dear friend. We were both in the service, me Marine and he was a Vietnam vet and was my hero. I got to take care of him the last 3 years. I got stage 4 tonsil cancer and he saved my life, I helped him back. I inherited his Rolex 16234 36 mm cream stick dial, white gold bezel. It means the world to me. I beat the cancer with my support staff. I'm blessed. I think you could help me. I want to take his 16234 and have you make a stament piece with US Marine colors and use the white gold bezel. Is this something you could do? I look forward to see many more of your videos. I have two other if it turns out good. Thanks for being a true watch professional. My great grandfather was a master watch builder and was Hamilton watch company General manager for years and years. I have watches in my blood. Lol. Neal Lee Apollo Beach Florida. Thanks

Love it I make try my own

I take a pin and push it down in the second hand just a little and it will fit to the movement easier.

Thanks!

I'm thinking about doing a build with cheap ali expres parts, but I have a question. The spacer ring between the movement and the dial, the spacer between the movement and the case and the case clips (the ones you fold in the vid) are they included, or do you need to buy them seperately?

thank you so much for this nice video. From your personal experience, is it possible for a NH35 case to fit a Miyota 8200 movement? Has it ever happened to you? thank you

I have been using NH35/36 for my builds.

Great video sub today question how do you remove extra feet on dial just starting out my self practicing thank you for everything

I miss the part where you print the decal and put it onto the dial. The red second hand would have been fit better. Nice video, though.

Hi Pete Great Video!! I¨m triying to build my watcg. Purchase a 8215 movement, came with a plastic fiting ring but no calendar ring.. what you recomend buy a metal date spacer?

Hi Peter; Love the video by the way. It helped me sort out some things I want to do. You also showed me where to get parts. At the beginning of the video I noticed that the dial was blank, and then when your watch was finished the dial had an Italia sticker on the dial, which I thought set the watch off beautifully. When I’m building my watches, I want to add that touch also, Only with different logos. Where can I acquire stickers small enough for dials?

Where can I find good quality gaskets/o rings for water resistance?

Hey! I was wondering if you could make a nike triax as I am trying to. I just started getting into watches and I’m pretty lost on how to build one and ontop of that, what specific parts are needed. I recently came across a seller selling parts on eBay for cheap considering a triax goes for a couple thousand. Please reply that would help.

After watching this video, I fell in love with the charm of homemade watches. Then, I started uploading videos of people making their own watches to RU-vid, and on November 11th, I will publish videos of people who assemble their own watches.

At 14:43 what device are you using for the beat count? Is it a device we can purchase and use with our PC’s?!! Please tell us more!

I always wondered what happened to Elwood Blues

Dont forget to mount the hour hand so it properly clicks over the date.

I used to feel the exact way that you do concerning building Rolex lookalike watches. I believe you said: “It’s just wrong” You know what’s “wrong”? The fact that Rolex is registered as a not for profit organization. They obviously do that in order to avoid paying their fair share of taxes. When I think of nonprofit organizations I think of churches, Salvation Army etc… Not high end luxury watch companies. To me, that’s “wrong”. Great video, you’re very talented! I’d be proud to wear a watch that looks like that. I am curious as to why you didn’t go with the reliable workhorse movement in the Seiko NH 36a?

need some help with selecting the right dial. watch cases recommend the dial size is 38.5~39.0mm. does it have to either be a 38.5mm dial or 39mm dial. or! lol. any thing between a 38.5~39.0mm dial? thanks. im new to this

What would be the cost to have you go through one of those movements for me before I build one?

What's the simplest way to know which case to get for the movement piece?

Amazing video! I am just wondering if I wanted to make a Day-Date 128348RBR Homage but I want to make it my own since I want to do rubies instead of diamonds. but I can have that done by my jeweller. I am just a bit confused on how I could find a watch case that looks like the day-date and also have the flat surface for the jeweller to add the rubies. Is there any way you could possibly help in my venture? I am looking to also get a champagne dial but with no markings since I want to add my own logo and name on the watch. Please let me know if you can help keep up the great videos

Maybe you can help: When opening my watch to replace the battery I discovered that a very small metal part (L shaped, that's the part that makes the contact between the battery and the watch) broke. DO YOU KNOW THIS PART NAME? Thanks

I've got a couple of expensive swiss watches but I've also been so surprised at finding a company called steeldive that do homages a I've bought a few of there watches and for the money they're awesome and I found myself asking the question how do the big swiss brands make a watch and claim it cost X amount ten times more than a steeldive , it's madness , it's made me think that I'll never spend hard earned cash on a swiss watch when I can easy get a cheap watch that's got all the top specs and a reliable engine in the NH 35/6 and looks good .

How do you know which case fits the dial?

Can you please update your website with the list and links to parts?

Don't you create a fake dead movement on the crown when removing the day ring? I am not a watchmaker but can't it accidentally break the watch when changing the day when the hands are at vulnerable position (during the day change)? I know this watch was for yourself but if someone who didn't know it had the day ring removed, turned it in wrong direction wondering what it does breaking the watch.

Great vid. I've done something very similar, with very similar part. I did however screw the movement into the movement holder. On the miyota there are 2 screw holes so I used screws with a very wide head to secure it. Perhaps This was not necessary?

Can I seek your advice on how to center the dial nicely in the case?

Hey, the link to the parts list is not working. Somewhere i can find it?

I can't a dial with a slot cut out for the day. Any ideas?

Does the movement fit any size of diameter?

6:57 the dial has a magic logo!

how did you make the logo?

Gday Pete, the link above for the parts you used for this build is broken. Can you re post it? Many Thanks Roger, Melb Australia

I already do it made about Six so far and they look good cost about £100 for all parts case movement dial strap hands and logo if you want one made a GMT Pepsi mod NH34 movement Mercedes hands oyster case black dial green lume indences I love it I made it about 3 month ago and not lost any time at all

Do most 2824 movement's come with the date spacing ring?

URL for parts is broken

Hey Peter, do you have a good recommendation for a better replacement for a DG2813? I notice that the current DG2813 i have has a weird thing happening. When you give it a flick to get the weight to move while on my wrist, it seems like the weight is building up energy and then unwinds so to speak and you can hear it. The watch us working and keeping time. But just seems like the weight can only go in one direction and if you try to go the other it build up tension and then releases. I'm sure that isn't right, so I want a better movement like ETA, or Rhonda, but I can't seem to find a direct replacement for the dg2813. Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

did you make your own watch logo? 'RKY' saw a similar logo in the teardown video... if so would love to know how you did! Thank you for the help too

How you print the dial with Italian logo? Where we can get dial stickers ?

What is the tool called that you used to place the hands? It's like a screwdriver with a suction cap on the end?

What software are you using to tune the watch?

Is that a sticker on the dial

I purchased my parts and noticed I need a movement ring! I am looking online for one to fit an nh35, but can't find anything. Doesn't seem right.

I used to feel the same way you do concerning building watches that look like a Rolex. I believe you said: “It’s just wrong”. I no longer feel that way. You know what’s “wrong”? The fact that Rolex is registered as a non profit organization. They do that in order to not pay their fair share of taxes. When I think of nonprofit organizations I think of churches, Salvation Army etc… Not high end luxury watch companies. Great video, you are very talented!

Amazes me how inexpensively they can make those watch cases. Hardly a flat surface on them. Multi-axis CNC I suppose. Program it and start cranking them out.

Did you ever do a video on cast cases ?

What tools do I need and where to get them?

Do these cases from china have real sapphire crystals?

what gasket brand do you use

can you put here a link from watch parts please ? where we can buy parts from watch. not ebay..

need watch parts to make custom

hello, do you service watches?? is there an email or website we can look for you.? have a great day

The dial changed half way through the video because Italia wasn’t on there before

9:30 Changed the face too or did you just use a cheap italia transfer ??

Don't forget to take the blue sticker off your crown!

The link to the website parts list is down 5/17/24

your web site is not working

Wow!!

Shame..the orange hand plays wrong with the other colors.. Red woulda been better..great for the price..thinking of making a frankenwatch now!😈😈

Not a bad looking watch. But why put a cheap looking sticker on an attractive dial?

Link to parts and or other info is dead or 404

Only an odd number of olives? That's a new one on me. Superstition??

What about symbols ? I want to find small chrome colored stick on letters. An Idea to brand FLUX . when I looked All I seen was a rolex Crown. If not small sticky letters Possibly a unique symbol etc. I am not crazy about sterile Dial Watches.One would have to be a Picasso to Paint on the dial.

Great video except the cheap RKY sticker on the watch face makes it look like dollar general purchase. It went from 8 to a 1.5

I do not properly understand the pin shortening exercise. I realize that you have to, but I do not understand what is the right length or why. I am practical - 30 plus years in engineering and I have built several successful racing engines from bare cases. Nobody has satisfactorily explained to me yet what shortening the pin does or why the right length is the right length. I understand that the aim is to be able to pull out an unscrewed crown to set date and time, also that the crown should screw on without crushing the pin solid. I've just destroyed my first Chinese movement through tightening a crown with a pin that I hadn't shortened enough, and I have every chance or destroying the next one I have ordered too, because I cannot grasp what I am trying to do. To push the pin into normal running position, the crown spring has to bottom out, but then how can there be spare length left so that the pin is only spring loaded when you tighten the crown in? I don't get how there can suddenly be some spare length to wind the crown in (without crushing the pin solid) and yet still enough length to push in the pin in to the normal running position with the crown spring fully bottomed out. Probably dumb questions for some of you experts, but I am told that the mark of a true expert is an ability to explain the complex in such a way that it seems easy. Hoping someone can help and possibly save another watch movement from being speared through the heart.

How to order mod watch from you?

You didn't build a 'fake' Rolex. I've got a Citizen watch that looks like a Rolex. Is my watch fake? No, because it says "Citizen' on the dial and not Rolex. The maker is not trying to pass it off a Rolex and neither am I. A fake is something that's not made by Rolex, but it's got Rolex printed on the dial, and the seller and/or owner tries to pass it off as a genuine Rolex. What you've got there is a Rolex 'style' watch. Nothing wrong with that. BTW, nice vid, straight to the point with no padding.

i built a rolex for about 2300 with original movement.

Band has to go no good

Your hands very shaky..its kinda hard 2 watch video bc i notice that more ..

what's with that hedious sticker on the dial

Are we sure this isn't Bill Murray? Cuz it sounds like Bill Murray...

you sound just like jeff goldblum

Damn that thing looks ugly from every angle, the parts I mean. Finish on everything is bad.

Honestly, it was a decent video with some good instruction. But your negativity and constant comments about "cheap Chinese movement" and shit like "this is just a cheap Chinese knockoff" ruined the video. The seagull clones you link to on your website are good solid movements and are not knockoffs they are high quality clones because the patents for these movements expired ages ago. Also, why did you spam the tags on your page with things like "fake rolex". You were so close to having a nice video but you watchcirclejerked your way into looking pretentious.

Vostoks out of the box and standard look better. And you can get them for less than $103USD