How a watch works (1949) | Hamilton Watch 

Pypamid LOL right?

Who's voice is this tho?

This voice has also announced pretty much every single superhero

This voice also did a superb video on differentials. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yYAw79386WI.html Does anyone know what public information series these are from, or if he did any others?

Actually, they may not be the same person. But I'd still be interested if there are any more videos like this.

There's another one on how car differentials work, which is exactly the same style as this one and its brilliant as well

@@Aramis7 link

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yYAw79386WI.html

@Jake who cares about aumtomatic thas shi8t, you knopw why they appeared. it was an error of rolex... thye made a water resustant, so htey hade to screw the winding system, thta created a problem, youy want to wind the watch you have to unscrew, so thye created that shit, automatic ny the way the system was not rolex patent.

@jake none automatic, it is just "self-winding" movement, you dont need to wound your watch morning, just wore it and it will restore its power by itself.

I addition to modern videos, they add annoying music.

Some things just cannot be improved upon. Just as my Dad's old railroad watch still keeps perfect time, despite its last servicing being in the late 1950's.

Exactly -- 70 years old ad, and still better than all the others. The slick modern videos even get the basic physics wrong.

That's because back then they didn't want a ignorant society and wasn't afraid to share the knowledge.

@@spvillano I'm a watchmaker, I don't believe you. Lubrication will be gummed up and cause a time loss.

Same here. It's very classy on their part.

Basically, the emphasis was that Hamiltons are fine watches.

@@modernvintagelifestyles But not entirely. It seems now an equivalent rolex commercial would teach nothing - promote no overall quality standard - but just simply imply things with buzz words and name drops. Quality is art. Intelligence is quality.

A slow step by step brogressive approach of the subject? I'm not sure how, but old videos do seems to convey techincal concepts in a very effective way.

ehh yes but also a slippery slope bc socially, the old times were NOT gold for anyone who wasn't a straight white man

hello

@@andrewahn2536 ​ @Andrew Ahn you must be about eleven years old because that statement is absolute bullshit, it was way better in the 50s for just about everybody, yeah there were racists and sexists, but there always has been rotten people in all areas of life. Doesn't mean everyone who wasn't a straight white male had it way worse then as they do now. It was good and bad in different ways for everyone regardless of who you were, what really mattered back then as it still does today is how much money you had and the connections you had in life. Back then you could get away with so much more than in todays world as technology wasn't tracking your every move as is the case nowadays. you could actually earn a decent wage back then and afford a house a nice car and a pretty good middle class lifestyle on a single parent income, nowadays both parents have to work, just to barely get by, crime was way lower in the 50s as compared to now, not saying there wasn't hardships but comparatively is was much easier to make ends meet, the cost of living was so much lower and inflation hadn't gone rampant. the government left you alone for the most part, there was more social cohesion, and way way way less corruption back then as compared to now. YOu could literally live off of minimum wage with no high school diploma, now everyone needs at least a bachelors degree just to be able to compete in today's market, with so much power in the hands of so few people it's way harder to come up and start your own business nowadays. The only regular ordinary people that strike it rich like the gold miners, oil millionaires, actors, musicians, painters and inventors of brand new technology like the telegraph, radio, television and patent millionaires are Instagram, RU-vidrs and TikTokers and other social media influencers, people who become living billboards and sign their life away for just a few million then become broke themselves in a matter of years until they themselves are no longer the new fad and become ancient history, or they do something socially unacceptable and become cancelled and have their lives completely overnight due to one single screw up that in the old days either no one who know, care, and could be forgiven if it wasn't too bad of a stain on their public image. The people who work 9-5s are getting screwed over more and more everyday, just trying to make ends meet and then you've got 16 year old influencers who will make more in a single week than they will over their entire lives, yeah it was hard for some minorities back then and was very hard during the Great Depression but when the war ended and everyone returned home it was the great single creation of wealth and middle class in history, the baby boomers had literally everything handed to them growing up and could actually pull themselves up by their bootstraps but nowadays that's pretty much a dream just to be able to live a nice quiet and easy life they did. They had it all and left Gen X, Millennials and Gen Z with pretty much no future whatsoever, it is definitely way harder nowadays to be able to accomplish what they could with ease, whether you were white, black, hispanic, latino, asian, mexican, orange, purple, blue, a man, woman, a duck, a ferret, a clown, a bulldog, hearing impaired, blind, a foreigner in a strange land, an Iguanadon, an eskimo, a member of the Sammi tribe native to northern Finland, a Yeti, native to the Tibetan Slopes, Sasquatch Sasquatch Sasquatch, native to the Cascadian mountain range, Chupacabra, native to Latin American countries especially around drug fuled economies of Bolivia, Ecuador and Columbia, hangs out around the Sinaloa cartel, catching cartel members and dragging them off into the woods sucking their blood and leaving just their dried up husks left for the maggots and rats to eat, then they died because Chupacabra only leaves a highly toxic poison in their bodies that will annihilate any other animal which dare consume anything after it, Dinosaurs did ok back in the 50s especially the dreaded T-rex but Brontosaurus was removed from being a real species of DInosaur just like Pluto being relegated to just a sub-planetary body or the politically incorrect term a "dwarf planet" which doesn't sound very nice at all i mean wtf people come on now don't have to call the guy a dwarf now, he knows he's little.

@@andrewahn2536 ​ @Andrew Ahn So there's a long list of characters that didn't have it so bad as you say in the 1950s, it wasn't perfect, but under the Kennedy presidency things were looking pretty good even though they had the very close threat of nuclear annihilation looming over during the Cuban Missile Crisis, thankfully cooler heads prevailed and we got out of that mess without the entire world blowing up and with all of us with it leaving only cockroaches left to devour our dead bodies and civilization. Yeah this has turned into a huge rant but I'm really just practicing my horrible 2 wpm typing speed in order to get ready for typing an entire essay on the enlightenment values of the 18th century which lead to the development of electric devices and the changing world of the 18th to 19th but much much more drastically seen between the 19th to 20th century with the advent of electricity being way more common in households, the telegraph, telephone, wireless communication and radio broadcasts, television, film and photography, computers, steam then gasoline and deiseal powered transportation, various more methods of annihilating your fellow man, such as machine guns, bombs and flamethrowers, the airplane, Zeppelin, rail and cruise line industries then on up to jet powered aircraft and finally rockets and space travel and harnessing not just molecular energy but finally the realization of atomic energy along with all of the various medical inventions of the last 2-300 years that led to the sky rocketing population growths we saw even with all of the mass destruction of human life during the first and second world wars along with all of the unnecessary state sponsored murders of the 20th century by the likes of Pol Pot in Cambodia extinguishing all of the intellectuals and high members of society whether they were communist or not, Stalin and his great purges like the Holodomor in Ukraine and purging the military and the death quotas established by him all across the Soviet Union and Mao with his "Great Leap Forward" which estimates about 90 Million dead and about 250 million people altogether being lead to death by war, starvation and communism during the 20th century So yeah, many, many people died and didn't matter who or what you were, outside of America and western Europe after the wars it was a pretty terrible time to be alive as a straight white man, as you were very very likely to be shipped off to war or a gulag or a prison cell in the middle of nowhere for the rest of your life and no-one or nothing knew where you'd end up or if you'd ever see your family alive. America was about the only place where you didn't have to worry about men in the night coming to get you and your family and hauling you all off into some dreaded place never to be seen or heard from again. I'm guessing all of maybe 2 to 3 people on planet earth will ever read this comment in it's entirety and make it through to these words as I type hear, hear hear! Thank you for watching this trainwreck of a comment and stick to it to the end. I wish you the best of luck and do a bit of studying and reading on how life really was in the past instead of mindlessly repeating the nonsensical bullshit you hear on TV or social media having to do with how unfair life was for "minorities" or whatever dumb shit you infested your brain with to even think then type out that nonsense about the patriarchy and how bad it was for everyone. Remember it was Europeans the world has to thank for giving us all the luxuries of modern life, not people in Ghana, not Uzbekistan not Japan or the Koreas or the Chinese or Micronesians or anyone in the Middle East that went around the world spreading knowledge, yes they did do some evil things such as slavery (which literally ALL other groups of people participated in) and ripped natural resources from the earth and yet the Europeans built the modern world gave us all the modern conveniences we all take for granted nowadays. It WAS the English to be the first group of people to outlaw slavery, just think of how strange and out of the blue it was for an all powerful group of people to go around the world and telling all other groups of people to stop enslaving each other and even going to war with other groups forcing them to stop trade humans as mere commodities, it was unprecedented, never before had anyone said put an end to stealing other people's lives, it was unheard of and now 200 years later it's illegal in almost all parts of the world aside from select African and Middle East countries. That is really, truly an amazing feat done by "evil colonizers" no one in history ever did that and even my Irish ancestors were enslaved by the English for far longer than they did to anyone else but we forgave them and were granted our independence in 1922. The Europeans weren't perfect by no means and had hands as dirty as the rest of the world but at least we got the modern world where you can even express yourself and people were given the ability to protest and not be shot to death immediately like the Tiananmen Square Massacre shooting young students and bringing in the tanks to put down the protests. Yeah the American government di the trail of tears, Ruby Ridge, WACO Texas incident, sent spies and CIA agents into Latin American countries and Iran to overthrow their leaders, terrible terrible stuff yeah, but with the bad there is much good and the fact remains people are willing to risk their and their family's lives to come to Europe or America in order to start a new life and make it here where home is too dangerous to live with bombs being dropped and machine guns bursting through the night and tropical diseases devouring your entire family so they get on homemade rafts or fly to Mexico then walk up the Rio Grande just to be able to come here to America to live

@@andrewahn2536 Get out of here with your racist fantasies. Straight white men are some of the most hardworking men throughout history, and both their efforts and suffering is being erased by ignorant racists like you. Straight white men are also the most accepting, fair, welcoming and tolerant people you can find. You only hear about their intolerance because they actually let other people in, unlike the rest of the world, and because there's a disgusting modern movement that is trying to paint a false and vile picture of the past in their frankly religious drive to erase white history and actual truth in exchange for your racist ignorant nonsense. The old times where gold for everyone thanks to straight white men, and to this day everyone is still flocking to the straight white man. And what do they get in return? Straight white men are the only race and group you're allowed to discriminate against, despite the simple fact that we where never as discriminatory as everyone else in the past... Learn some history and stop spreading your racist propaganda.

Watch Geek *_I watched this vid because of you man. ‘Preciate it. Once I watch it about 5 more times, then I’ll grasp the understanding of a mechanical watch._*

Made me buy another one just so can appreciate the engineering.

Back then you would make no money from clickbait. There were smart Americans back then, Not anymore.

The Jam Handy Organization was very good at what they did.

This was from the era when a vehicle’s owner manual explained how to service the vehicle. A lot has changed since then a most of it isn’t for the better.

@@Bob_Smith19now the owners manuals tell you not to drink the contents of the battery and to call the dealer for everything

Yeah but what about a naked woman?

+Porter Carr Never lose sight of the important things in life :D

every 8th grader should get an old watch and screw driver and take it apart one of the great inventions

@@paulwilson3434 you used to be able to get clock kits as toys - big sets of gears and springs that you had to put together to make a working clock. My brother got one when he was little and it is really cool. They weren't super accurate, but they illustrated very well how a clock works

It took you a few hundred videos

Most watches use quartz mechanism these days.

@@afridmohammad9229 Most is not all. There are still plenty of mechanical movements available. Just look at Seiko’s offerings. And they are just one company.

How's it going? I'm just about to start in the hobby.

And Chinese clones for $60. Apparently they do not oil them though to save time so they only last a couple of years,

I just travelled from 2021 back to the 40s then forward to 2017 reading your comment

Amazingly (good) battery operated watches still kinda work the same way. They just swapped out the main spring for a 32,768 hertz oscillating crystal and a tiny 14 bit shift register. Since 32,768 is equal to 2 to the 15th power, 32,768 hertz will pulse out the 14 bit shift register every second and send mechanical power to the hair spring. Still amazing and cool, just different physics. :)

Nope - watches of that size came about in the late 19th century.

Wearing my Patek Philippe to pick up dog shit proudly... jk I have the same Seiko lol

@@TRUYORK718 I dream to own a Patek Philippe. It's beyond me to afford it, but hey, it's free to dream.

I dream but enjoy a lot of the reality o my seiko 5

I am 19 and my dad has gifted me his seiko 5 which he was gifted by my grandfather and i am wearing it proudly.

@@TRUYORK718 I see what you did... Patek is dog shit.

That's what my car has today and I think it's plenty enough. They're different horsepower though, I'll admit that.