HOW TO Demagnetize My Watch? Magnetism and Watches Explained! 

Thank you for your suggestion about moving the watch around. I’ve demagnetised dozens of watches without a problem, but a new Seagull st1902 would not demagnetise today using my normal action. Using your suggestion to move the watch case around solved the issue and its now demagnetised.

Thanks for this - I stuffed up my Citizen Pro-Master on one of these cheap demagnitisers following other RU-vidrs advice - Your explanation explains how they work the best and your direction of randomising the movement finally restored my Pro-Master back to life - Very grateful Thanks alot.

You have just proved how this demagnetizer should be used. You're the only person who proved his saying by testing the movement on the timegrapher and in just one continuous video filming shot with no tricks and edited frames. If that's not enough for some, let them use this demagnetizer using the other methods and good luck to them. I have tried them all with this demagnetizer and i ended up with a magnetized movement even worse than it was prior to that. Only your method worked. Thank you!

I never got these things to work untill i tried your method of randomly shifting the watch (without bracelet) ! thanks

I have one of these devices coming in about 2 days. I can't believe the luck that I found your video before I got the device.. thank you so much, your explanation makes all the sense.

I bought an auto watch a few weeks ago, It was running very well then suddenly it was gaining a couple of hours a day, I had put it on the desk next to my phone, I forgot my phone case has a strong magnet that keeps it closed! I looked through my loupe and could see the coils of the hairspring sticking together!! I just ordered the same demag machine off ebay for under £10, I'm glad I saw your vid as I read just to draw it away slowly!!

Thank you! I had never seen your technique for demagnetization before and it worked well for me. Prior to that I used the lift method and would get mixed results.

Thank you so much for this video. I was trying the method i had seen elsewhere that involved slowly pulling the watch away from the demagnetizer. It didn't work. Then i tried your "ramdomizing method" described in this video. It worked perfectly!!! Plus you saved me a ton of money as i was looking into buying the expensive Horotec demagnetizer.

This was very interesting, thank you. I collected vintage watches years ago, and it would have been an especially useful tool. Take care.

Excellent video and demonstration of the impact of magnetism on a mechanical watch. I haven’t seen your technique for demagnetising before, so that’s very good to know. I use a coil demagnetiser which also works pretty well. I routinely demagnetise my watches and find it can often be the cause of a watch’s loss of accuracy. I have used the Lepsi iPhone app to detect the degree to which a watch is magnetised, but don’t really find it that practical with just a yes or know reading. Instead, I now use a simple compass and lower the watch towards it and the degree of deflection of the compass can be an indicator of how severely the watch is magnetised. After passing the watch through my demagnetiser the compass barely deflects, if at all. My 2 year old Omega Speedy was running at +30s/d and after demagnetising it returned to its usual +2s/d. My $30 demagnetiser paid for itself a few times over for just that one watch by avoiding an unecessary service! I’m even finding now that watches that come through international courier delivery seem to be routinely strongly magnetised when they arrive and wonder if some of the screening procedures (scans) are causing this?

At 5:15, your explanation of magnetic fields is a little wrong. Your not doing anything to ‘ions’, or electrical flow as such. What you are doing is jumbling up the small ‘magnetic domains’ in the ferrous metal using a stronger alternating magnetic field. By pulling the watch away SLOWLY while still applying the AC will nullify any domain alinement present. You’ll need to do a few goes to demagnetise an item like a watch sufficiently.

Thank you so much. It pays to know how something works to actually make it work. ❤

Thank you for showing how to demagnitize. I was just leaving on the demagnitizer and not using the method of randomizing the watch like you showed.

I used this method which you presented on fathers watches, i bought device for him as birthday present :) He has colection od bretilings,omegas, some older rolex, steinharts, seikos. We together magnetized all of them and when we went to reverse procedure,magic bluebox got stroke and its broken. Great present for watch enthusiastics :)

Really good acurate, well thought through video, good you take up a little theory around magnetism, proberly the best video I've seen on youtube, regarding degausing a watch, Thank you.

Is it possible that a magnetized watch runs slow, or magnetization only makes a watch run fast?

Very useful,informative and interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the video! Should i use hack feature to stop the movement before try to demagnetize? Or is it ok to demagnetize while movement is running?

"you got to randomize those atoms" This clip is very funny.

Hello. First, Thank you for your videos which are very interesting and helpful. I hope its alright, but I have a question about magnetizm I am using an app to find if the movement is magnetizm or not. But since the phone is very sensitive, it shows results, even on the TimeGrapher Microphone, whis is o.k, as all mics have a magnet. So, how do i know if the Mic is overmagnetize? When pointing at a watch, the needle will move, but how do i know if its too high? Is there a figure or number, in Gauss, which i can consider as "ok level", and only higher numbers are to be addressed as a problem? Thank you for your help and support. Gal

Does it matter if the watch has stopped or not? I’ve read mixed views on that.

What is inside the demagnetizer? How is it actually working?

Hey! I have a question. Does demagnetize works at the digital watch like samsung watch? Because I think my watch magnetize, there are stop working.

I loved you in Schitt's Creek.

Do you need to pull out the crown and stop the watch before doing it?

Great video! My watch with a Miyota 9015 completely stops if I tighten the screws at the backside of the watch. It doesn't pinch anything and the rotor spins freely. Can this be because of magnetizing? Maybe the screws are magnetized or something..

Thank you for this video!!!!

I recently purchased one of these on Amazon, when I push the button sometimes it makes a humming noise and other times it doesn’t. does this humming sound mean it’s working ?

Is there no problum using quartz?

If I do it multiple times, will it have any effect on my watch?

Thanks for the info. Nice to see you use a 1959 Pontiac in your video. Lol

i can buy the demagnetizer but the TIME Grapher is much more expensive that my Seiko 5 Snzh55k1.

Great stuff. Followed instructions and it worked a treat on one of pieces 🫡

My demagnetizer magnetized my Vostok Amphibia like mad and now I can't seem to demagnetize it.... All my other watches didn't have any issues with the demagnetizer... anyone that can help?

Can a battery powered watch stop working if it gets magnetized?

And also, How can i tell my watch is magnetized? Can i use a regular compass?

Fun. I love this kinda stuff

Do I understand, you dont have to remove the movement from the case?

hiya! i've been doing this without getting a good result. adding it with the knowledge really make the understanding much clearer. thanks!

Very interesting. Is it ever a problem with quartz watches?

Does the movement has to be out of the case and dial, hands off???

Actually not just that Omega Seamaster model is resistant to 15K gauss but ALL non-vintage Omegas carry that much resistance due to the silicon hairspring technology.

I don’t understand so magnetized the watch with the demagnetizer ?

Prolly want to wear surgical gloves when handling a bare movement. Lint storm