I received the cheapest Amazon Mechanical Watch! Can the Sewor run better after a Watch Service?

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Horology Biology takes on a watch service restoration challenge. The cheapest mechanical watch on Amazon. Can I make it run better than it did out of the box?
The Sewor Skeleton Mechanical watch is available on Amazon for a mere €29,99. Is this a lot of watch for your money or totally not fresh?
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00:00 Intro
00:43 Pre Timergrapher and strip down
08:28 Pre-cleaning // Pegging the jewels
09:09 Basket prep & Cleaning
09:23 The Rebuild
23:03 Pallet fork oiling
23:58 Hands refitting
25:30 Casing up the watch
26:12 Caseback press
26:58 Strap refitting
27:31 Timergrapher Results
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@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

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@MrYorkiepudd 11 месяцев назад

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@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands 11 месяцев назад

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@doriangasseling 11 месяцев назад

@@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands he said once the channel hits 10,000 subs. So I imagine he'll do a video then!

@junkyardog6621 10 месяцев назад

I would wear it with pride, while creating a youtube channel that I can share with others about the amazing hobby of watches. There is truly not much like a finely made watch! Only thing that comes close to that highly precision parts is space venture. The International Space Staion is perfect to every single degree. Zero room for error

@shukeelc5177 10 месяцев назад

Done. Liked and subscribed 🎉

@VHMMP 11 месяцев назад

I'm just amazed that so much engineering design and manufacture has gone into such a cheap watch.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

You have a fair point there Peter 💪

@kevinhtlee 11 месяцев назад

I'm more amazed they put so much into it and named it the Sewor.

@h.rutten2187 11 месяцев назад

It’s amazing what Chinese slave labor can produce at such a price.

@emanuelroth7960 11 месяцев назад

@@h.rutten2187nailed it. Absolute truth.

@w19ely85 11 месяцев назад

Looks like a terrible clone of a Seagull ST5 movement so I'm going to guess that the watch has pretty much zero "Engineering and design"

@thelifeemery 11 месяцев назад

This looks like a great practice piece for someone trying to get into watch maintenance. You'll get €29,99 value out of it if you can spend a day or two taking it apart and cleaning it and doing a rebuild on a watch you don't really care about.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Excellent point. 👏🏻👏🏻

@EnJeiBee 11 месяцев назад

My thoughts exactly!

@slacko1971 11 месяцев назад

My only thought on that is it is such poor quality that it would probably be harder to work on and require greater skill.

@cyberbillp 10 месяцев назад

That's exactly what I did!

@jakekaywell5972 5 месяцев назад

The movement inside appears to be a skeletonized Chinese Standard Movement (also referred to the Tongji or SZ-1). It was developed in the during the Fourth Five-Year Plan in the late 1960s in order to provide every citizen of the People's Republic of China with an affordable, reasonably good quality, 17 jewel, manual-wind, steel-cased watch. Pretty much like the Indian HMT or Soviet Pobeda/ZiM in philosophy. They were made across multiple factories and its design was very much based upon the Enicar AR1010. Makes sense, given the PRC's long-standing relationship with Enicar watches. While earlier ones were much better finished, modern ones have dispensed with any of that. The Tongji lives on today in only the least expensive new watches, as this demonstrates. For $30 new, one can hardly complain about its crude finishing.

@HorologyBiology 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing that. Very interesting to know 👍 Thanks for watching

@kaustavkundu6426 3 месяца назад

I feel the parts in the hmt 0231 movement are of better quality.

@ronniedale6040 9 месяцев назад

This watch is rather amazing when you think about it. Not the product itself but the factory making these must be a marvel of either efficiency or poverty to put this together for $30 and still turn some profit.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

I actually read in the some of the comments that people had found them even cheaper 😶 Thanks for watching 👍

@ammoalamo6485 9 месяцев назад

Worker poverty wins hands down whenever a product sells cheap but hand fitting of parts is involved. I wonder if the factory even provides them with magnification and proper lighting, since workers are expendable.

@flowmeful 3 месяца назад

I have a variant of this watch, bought it of Aliexpress many years ago just for fun (think i payed 10 dollar for it). Its still working quite well till this day.

@HorologyBiology 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing!

@bandwagon240 11 месяцев назад

As a Hot Wheels and Matchbox fan, I think the internals are made of zinc. It just has that chassis of a Hot Wheels car look about it.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

haha I was thinking this and was actually going to say the same thing on the recording. The material really does remind me of the old cars when I was a kid

@shinymew2887 8 месяцев назад

Love the sewer watch. Perfect for dumpster diving.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

😅 So harsh lolol

@steveforbes6303 9 месяцев назад

It would cost more to service it than the watch is worth. 😂

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Absolutely! Thanks for watching 👍

@Shadydudetc 3 месяца назад

Most would it cost to service? @@HorologyBiology

@kentyler3962 10 месяцев назад

Sewer is an appropriate name for it.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

🤣

@valengreymoon5623 11 месяцев назад

If nothing else, it's good for beginning watchmakers to practice on, without spending a lot.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

You are totally right! The fundamentals of the mechanics are the same as any handwinder 👍🏼

@LSniumUwU 2 месяца назад

Perfect watch to learn on getting into watch making, if you break something, it wasn’t ever worth anything in the first place.

@HorologyBiology 2 месяца назад

Exactly that 👍🏻

@Rod-bp8ow 10 месяцев назад

"The details of mechanism speaks its character, it is defying, it is also impeccable great, it cannot be measured, for it is genuinely crafted"

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻

@bougieproletariat 9 месяцев назад

I've gotten a cheap skeleton watch from Amazon it cost me $40, I've had it for 3 years wear it on occasion it keeps time good over a weekend still runs strong love the aesthetics, don't understand why most automatic watches cover the movement with simple boring looking dial covers.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍🏻 it’s a variant like many things in life. Some have an exposed movement and some don’t.

@unknownalien5424 9 месяцев назад

HMT watches from India are quite good standard mechanical watch in low prices. If possible get your hands on one of them. It would be a delight to watch you review it.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. I have seen the HMT watches and there are many around. I have personally never had one in. I think mainly because the watches are very affordable most people would never bother with the cost of a service on one.

@mercster 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting to see someone treat a very cheap watch with care. Despite the comparatively shoddy materials and craftsmanship, it is still a wonder of modern human engineering that would have amazed people not too long ago. :-) And it didn't melt under light! Anyway, thanks for the video.

@mercster 11 месяцев назад

Is it perhaps a zinc alloy of some sort? I am not a materials expert, but I know many inexpensive lightweight cases are made of a zinc alloy, so maybe this movement is similar. EDIT: Come to think of it, I have no idea what good movements are usually made out of. I assume stainless steel, but I could be wrong.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Yeah I'm really not sure. whatever it was it wasn't brass.

@colindonoghue6120 8 месяцев назад

The metal that this watch is most likely made of is a Chinesium alloy.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Definitely low grade

@glockman9c 11 месяцев назад

Amazes me that someone can make this, assemble it, sell it, ship it, and make money on it at $29.99.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

This can fall under many categories though ;)

@jondavidg3155 9 месяцев назад

everyone avoids discussing showing two things. 1, how to orient the mainspring. 2, how to safely get the end of the spring in the winder. Please do a dedicated how to on this

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

My latest video shows a spring being placed into a mainspring winder if that's what you are referring to 👍

@jondavidg3155 9 месяцев назад

@@HorologyBiology it is, and I've struggled to get the orientation correct before, turning it backwards and even inside out. The only to snap the tail off at the last wind. I'm scared to use them now

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

@@jondavidg3155 Maybe I will do a quick demo video for the channel with close ups. Good shout

@nickjohnson217 11 месяцев назад

Super fresh vid mate, you doubled the value of the watch with just the moebius oils you used. 🤣👍🙏

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Haha cheers Nick 💪🏻 you have a point 🤣

@carlbenner4466 7 месяцев назад

Love these cheap watch services videos

@HorologyBiology 7 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍

@nathanmoak1515 11 месяцев назад

i got my first mechanical watch when i was in 7th grade in 1963. it was a 17 jewel and cost $6.95! i had it for 6 years and it kept perfect time. i never had it serviced.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

The question is do you still have it. My first watch was a Timex hand winder when I was a boy. I have no idea what happened to it in the end :(

@MrBlueBurd0451 8 месяцев назад

The material's finish appears to be the characteristic 'overchrome' look of polished ZAMAK, an extremely cheap but remarkably durable and easy to work/cast zinc alloy.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for the input and thanks for watching 👍

@valley_robot 11 месяцев назад

I have had one of these for about 5 years , it kept time just fine , I ended up giving it away to a friend , it was a slightly different case on mine , but the same movement , I paid 12.00 from Ali express for it

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

You bargain hunter you .. 👍👍

@FPS_Wingo 9 месяцев назад

That metal looks like what would be left after tossing beer cans into a campfire and letting them melt

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

🤣🤣

@lenorevanalstine1219 9 месяцев назад

iv seen this alloy before in cheap crappy tools its definatly chinesium

@paulsteele6120 11 месяцев назад

Sewor__How apt!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

😅 gets me every time

@weerobot 3 месяца назад

For The Money it's a Miracle...

@HorologyBiology 3 месяца назад

👍🏻😊

@EricAndonian 11 месяцев назад

This is SO great; thank you! I constantly see these popping up in Amazon searches, etc. and I always wondered what they're made of/how they're built. Excellent video!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Glad I could help!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@kermitaner 11 месяцев назад

that was the first movement i successfully took apart ( and reassembled :- ) seems to be the 2650s movement. i was getting a 270 amplitude, accuracy changes a lot with amplitude, when low it gets a lot faster, but when regulary wound its about +- 15 sec a day - not too bad. its a pocket watch , i keep it running, because i want to see how long it works after that first service

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

It will probably out live you, and to be honest it should. Sound like you did a cracking job 💪

@tomaszdabrowski8591 10 месяцев назад

The movement you are working with here is Tongji: "Chinese Stsndard Movement" as they proudly like to call it.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for that and thanks for watching 👍

@thomasmacdonald4097 11 месяцев назад

That was an entertaining exercise. Reminds me of my old timexs that continue to run 50 years later. There are some videos elsewhere of people attempting to service them. Actually very interesting to see the engineering involved in cutting costs and minimizing components.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

If it's something that can be restored then I'm all for it 💪

@flipperdk123 8 месяцев назад

€500 service on a €30 watch. Nice 🙂

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

😅 Thanks for watching

@laughingsharpie 9 месяцев назад

Just found your channel and I'm very impressed! Good stuff!

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Welcome aboard and thank you very much 🙏🏼

@wanbawmcgraw3045 11 месяцев назад

I think this movement is made out of that new chinesium 2.0 with extra special invisible oil. The fact you got this watch for less than 43,000 is amazing.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

😂😂 Chinesium 2.0

@brettster3331 11 месяцев назад

Great Video, I an so impressed that you could take this apart and put it back together, I have quite a few of this quality watch and most are a few years old, some with multiple working inner dials, all are still working and keeping ok time.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it, thank you so much 😊

@xnewguyx2738 10 месяцев назад

I like that you completely reassembled the watch before putting it back on the time graph.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Once before and then once afterwards 💪🏻💪🏻 Thanks for watching

@CataVlad21 11 месяцев назад

That was pretty cool to watch! Great idea doing this kind of a video! Thank you and best of luck growing the channel! I'll keep an eye on your awesome work as well! 🙂

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much :) Glad you enjoyed it.

@HumanBeanbag 6 месяцев назад

I just want a mechanical watch that I can own and admire and tell my wife all about while she's texting with her boyfriend.

@HorologyBiology 6 месяцев назад

😅😅 wtf

@josephaziz785 8 месяцев назад

It's not bad. I may buy one. Great show--thank you--very fine servicing.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍

@j81851 11 месяцев назад

Love it love your manner, personality and how careful and "technical" (a very positive attribute incidentally). I subbed on the first time and first video. I love how honest you are, but it's "fresh" to see a pro like you give a watch like this a fighting chance! I found it down right heart warming you were frank about the watch but also seemed to be rooting for it just a bit. I love to follow folks that are honest about what is but can also be optimistic about how a proper service and careful reassembly has real possibilities to help this watch be a little better. As a wannabe I can certainly watch and enjoy your videos as well as learn so much! Kudos and thanks!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Oh wow, thank you very much. Such a nice comment to make. I like to be objective but informative at the same time so others can benefit regardless of the type of watch I'm dealing with. Thanks again

@Sort1908 8 месяцев назад

Very interesting, good to know it’s not just a throw away, just shows that even at that cheap of a price you can get a decent watch

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Thank you very much for the tip 🙌 and thanks for watching

@GreatStar6 8 месяцев назад

I own this watch and yes the "leather band" started to peel away and felt like plastic underneath. I loved this video. Always been fascinated by mechanical watches. Thank you sir!

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing and thanks for watching 😊

@GreatStar6 8 месяцев назад

@@HorologyBiology I can share pics of the watch after normal use if you would like.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Feel free to email 👍🏼

@markcoffman494 9 месяцев назад

Fellow watchmaker here…worked on a few of these AND THEY ARE NOT FUN! you make this look easy!

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. You’ve worked on a few 😳 this was my first and probably the last one. I just cannot see anyone sending one in

@norvillesdingus3917 8 месяцев назад

Thank you for reviewing this! I absolutely love mechanical watches and just found those watches on Amazon. I, of course, would rather buy something of better quality, but family comes first. I'm hoping a cheap watch will satisfy enough until I have the money saved for a nice watch. An added bonus here is after I get a nice watch I could tear the cheap one apart without worrying about ruining something nice.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. You could buy a nice Seiko watch for not a crazy amount of money.

@fransb8543 10 месяцев назад

Fun to see what goes inside these amazon specials. Indeed, impressive to see given its price but you can see where the money was saved. As someone who enjoys watches for the fine art of them (that would be most of us here I reckon), this wouldn't be my kind of thing. But it's cool to see you work on it anyway, and your camera work is top notch, beautiful microscope shots.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for the comment, super appreciated. Thanks for watching 👍

@tonycollard4185 11 месяцев назад

Loved the video! True to your name, you inspected the biology of the horology. Brilliant idea to do this, being different. Great sense of humour!! Keep up the good work!!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

That's very kind to say thank you :)

@MikeIncline-xr9nz 8 месяцев назад

I’m going to buy this watch because if your video it looks good, great video! I enjoyed it, this is obviously not a throw away watch

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Well it's not a bank breaker so if you like it ,why not

@ggj666 11 месяцев назад

For someone like me who finds a old Land rover delicate to work on, to see your gently approach is amazing

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

haha thanks for that. And to think I seriously lack in patience haha

@MitchRiedstra 11 месяцев назад

Most of these inexpensive movements are assembled without any lubrication, or completely soaked in it. It seems there's no in-between. Very cool to see, thanks for the video!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

You are correct. Thanks for stopping by 😊

@cyberbillp 10 месяцев назад

This is exactly what I needed to get started. After finding your video, I bought one of these (pocket watch version) and spent this afternoon following along and doing the tear down. I'm finding that tools are everything. My $20 microscope sucks. My copy of this movement is gold anodized, and it's got lots of oil. I'm getting oil on everything. Tomorrow I'll try reassembly. :-) Thanks, this is very educational.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

You’re very welcome. It's always nice to read comments like this where someone has made the step to have a go themselves. Tools are important of course but everyones microscope budgets are different. Try also using a loupe. It can help you also. Thanks for watching and I'm glad you found it beneficial 👍

@cyberbillp 10 месяцев назад

@@HorologyBiology Update: Success! It runs! Thanks again!

@billrowan1957 9 месяцев назад

Wow,i really just watched this whole video with absolutely no intention on doing so. 🤙

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

🤣 watch videos can get you like that. Many thanks for watching 👍🏻

@indramatic 11 месяцев назад

AN old school Chinese Standard Movement aka Tongji which is itself a close copy of Swiss Enicar caliber from the late 50's. Jewels are thin because those were first synthetic rubies. China had produced more than a million of them but then quartz became ultracheap and more accurate so what you've got there is an NOS movement from the early 70's which may explain the rust and evaporated oil.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

The train lay out is similar but to be fair most vintage pieces have a very similar train lay out 👍

@robinsattahip2376 8 месяцев назад

Thank you, that was interesting.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it

@adadadatt 10 месяцев назад

Glad I found this channel. I havent liked a lot of other watch repair channels

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Welcome aboard!

@LambentOrt 9 месяцев назад

I have a watch with a similar movement. Bought it second hand for a song. I'm actually surprised that it works ok. But it's nothing special. Just a fun watch to wear when nothing special is happening. 😅

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Wear it and enjoy it. Thanks for watching 👍

@JigglePhysics 10 месяцев назад

thank you for making this kind of content, it's really entertaining and interesting!

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoy it!

@chancevonfreund9145 11 месяцев назад

I bought a similar one from Amazon 10 years ago for fun! And the darn thing still works fantastic if i dont forget to wind it. Cheers🍻

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Good to know!💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

@Addictedtocollecting01 11 месяцев назад

This was great! You definitely left that watch feeling 'super fresh.'

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@monkeymanstones1 9 месяцев назад

Oh thank goodness for this video! I bought a model with the same movement (but screw on case back) because Amazon had it for just $5.00 and I thought "Worst case, you can just use screws and parts from it for other watches. I wound it once a day for 5 days and on the last, fully wound it was completely locked up. I went through it and saw the fork the crown stem moves wasn't fully engaging the levers it was supposed to. So I put it away and just left it for the last 2 years Then your video showed in suggested videos and I watched it... Sure enough oiling it almost immediately had it run. Thank you!

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

😅 Your very welcome, glad it can be of some use to you. Now that’s gotta be worth a sub and a like 😉

@josephaziz785 9 месяцев назад

Crazy guy. Well done!

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

💪🏻

@hemantsoni3688 3 месяца назад

We call this movement CH96 in India, available around for ₹ 300 -400 Cheap finished but work good ❤

@HorologyBiology 3 месяца назад

Thanks for sharing

@TheSamosaCritic 3 месяца назад

Achha hua HMT ka movement nahi daala 😂😂😂😂 Wo to 100 Rs main mil jata hai.

@darrenfry4695 11 месяцев назад

This was so good to watch , very suprised how good this watch was for the money. For a beater watch its perfect, you break it you bin it and get another lol id rather this than some battery operated watch put it that way.thanks for sharing .

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@Papsmeartopreventcancer 9 месяцев назад

The watch says Thank you very much!!!

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 🙌🏼🙌🏼

@Gamersquadtttta 9 месяцев назад

Looks good! I’m not gonna lie I buy homages and even a rep. I’m not rich and will never be. I wear watches for me. No one around me cares about my watches. Just me. Lol when I look at my wrist it gives good feels.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

I'm not a fan of reps because I think for the price you pay for some of the so called good ones you could get a really nice Seiko which is logically a really great watch. Thanks for watching :)

@iroau 3 месяца назад

Thanks for the video

@HorologyBiology 3 месяца назад

No problem!

@Happy_Porg 10 месяцев назад

Had this exact watch in 18k gold tone… wore it to work every day while I kept my omega in the save. Served me for 4 years before it broke so 30$ well spent ❤

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

That’s definitely value for money then. Maybe it was one of the higher grade movements (they did different quality variants of the same cal) Thanks for watching 👍🏻

@charles-titi8493 10 месяцев назад

What is the point of having an omega in a safe ahah funny to spend 'well $30 but to waste thousands !

@shino346 9 месяцев назад

love watching these vids

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@boblee8069 9 месяцев назад

What an awesome video

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thanks very much 👍🏻👍🏻

@TheGeekazoid 11 месяцев назад

I'm a car mechanic by profession... seeing you delicately handle these parts is entertaining to watch... I can only image the destruction there would be if actually undertook this process of servicing a mechanical watch lol.... I'm used to dealing with rusty stuck on bolts that require the heave-ho and a strong hands... I might just try it on a cheap movement just to see how I get on i have always been interested in watchmaking but never took the plunge yet...

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

You should. With your work background you might find it easier than you think 💪🏻

@squidben5780 9 месяцев назад

Nice dismental !! and cleaning great video

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! 👍🏻 thanks for watching

@swapshop864 10 месяцев назад

The care and attention you put into watches is amazing. I'd love for you to work on mine.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Feel free to email me, contact info is in the about section page of the channel. 👍

@rodrfil 9 месяцев назад

Quel travail ! Magnifique 😊

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much 👍

@Tuchibaluchi1900 11 месяцев назад

Just subbed. Would like to say that this video was really interesting. I mostly service antique pocket watches so i dont have much experience with the newer stuff.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the sub! This is actually the newest watch I have ever worked on 😂

@potassiumcyanide3857 9 месяцев назад

Still more serviceable than swatch system 51

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

🤣🤣 you’re totally right of course 💪🏻

@adriancox-thesantjordigolf3646 9 месяцев назад

Nice presentation

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@WristwatchMedic1953 11 месяцев назад

Great video. I was afraid something was going to break. You get what you pay for is right. Thanks for the video

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

haha me too. It have been over for sure if something did.

@davidmartineziii7343 9 месяцев назад

Years ago my very first automatic mechanical watch was very similar to this one, also purchased on Amazon for about the same price. With it being my very first automatic skeleton watch it was just thrilled that I had one at that price point. I did have slight concerns with it at the time since I was finishing my MM in keyboard performance and would wonder how much that would affect its performance. I found that it would lose about 5 minutes a day, and I didn't really mind it. Like you said, ""you get what you pay for,"" but I have since then moved on to better slightly more expensive skeleton watches that work and look much better. Thank you for your content! 😀 It brought me back a little bit.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Many thanks for watching. Great that a similar watch started you on your skeleton watch journey 👍

@darylcav6285 11 месяцев назад

Looks like it was finished with 80 grit sandpaper

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

That's harsh! At least 120 😅

@kevinhtlee 11 месяцев назад

Made from recycled tin cans.

@HayesTech 11 месяцев назад

I don't have the ability or know how to take watches apart, so I could never have an opinion on that. But I've purchased a couple for reviewing and after 2 to 3 years all 3 are still working just fine. They are not the same quality as a $300.00 and up watch but you are correct, there are shortcuts taken that can be noticed.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for the comment. That's good to know that they do last a while at least 👍🏼

@rangolizard2006 6 месяцев назад

you know what would be fun? is to replace all the jewels and refinish all the pieces with a pearlage pattern, you gotta admit it would make a cool video

@HorologyBiology 6 месяцев назад

True but ehhhh no thanks😅

@noobfl 10 месяцев назад

thats a Tongji -Movement - the chinese Standartmovement, made from different companies in various degree of finishing and skeletonisazion. Its a tried and proved movement through the history.. basic, but reliable.. like the Vostok movement or the classic Seiko 5 movement.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info and for watching 👍

@deanP. 11 месяцев назад

Very interesting. Thanks for doing this video.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@qjc21 11 месяцев назад

Good narrative work there buddy.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thank you kindly 🙌🏻🙌🏻

@Rob954ever 11 месяцев назад

1st time viewer. Great video. You gained another subscriber! 😉👍🏼

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Awesome! Thank you! Glad you found it informative 😊

@danielcarter305 8 месяцев назад

I would buy it and wear it, but I definitely wouldn't be trying to show it off to anyone. Once it stops keeping decent time, I'd probably just toss it.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Should last a fair while after servicing. I doubt out of the box tho

@davidsherrick898 11 месяцев назад

I had two Sewors' they both ran fast, but never broke after 4 years. Yes it lasted that long, I have no idea about its accuracy but I sold them since I have much better watches.. I was in my poor stage in life back then. I took apart a Paulareis.. couldn't get back together so I trashed it. But great job and video!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Many thanks for watching 💪🏼

@delxinogaming6046 11 месяцев назад

Great watch to learn on. Automatic watches have been around for a hundred years, not surprised we can make it cheaply its just metal.

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching 😀

@khronosbest9448 11 месяцев назад

Ther were moments when you applied some force to remove a screw , i could almost feel the metal snap. Ill be honest i was frightened 😮Getting the uptick on the amplitude, that was good. An experiment accomplished ! Bravo 👏🍻

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

🤣 I hear you on that one. Some tense times with a couple of screws.

@moto_rad 10 месяцев назад

I have a $25 mechanical pocket watch off amazon. Really, keeps time ok and has ran for 2 weeks now. The first day it ran VERY fast, now it seems ok

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Good shout. Thanks for watching as well 👍

@moto_rad 10 месяцев назад

@@HorologyBiology any reason it would run insanely fast on the first wind?

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

@@moto_rad I really wouldn't know. Usually this is when they are magnetised, but the issue would continue.

@donrogan2812 11 месяцев назад

Been looking forward to this!!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Cheers Don 👍🏼

@KeithJBrett 9 месяцев назад

“Sewor” (Sewer) pretty much sums up the quality of this watch. Nice dis/reassembly though.

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

😅 Thank for watching and liking Keith, appreciated 👍

@kybravo3744 8 месяцев назад

Always wanted to do this as a hobby

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Never to late to start. Go for it 👍

@mannye 9 месяцев назад

This is actually the perfect watch for a beginning watchmaker to practice on. Buy 10 of them for the price of one "real" watch and go to town. As a consumer watch, it's not that great a value IMO. Yeah it's only about 30 bucks, but to run OK it needs a $300 service...

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

Definitely a great practise watch for new people as the principals of the watch mechanics are the same as most. Thanks for watching

@cbs77 10 месяцев назад

The finishing of this watch is as fine as I could do in 5th grade iron working class at school.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

🤣🤣 killed it

@microwave221 10 месяцев назад

Bought the same movement a decade ago for $20 at a street fair, just in a skeletonized pocketwatch. Sat at times, but was used like a regular clock at work or on a nightstand for years. Never adjusted it, but it probably lost about 30s a day or so. Lost amplitude to the point of stalling maybe a year ago, decided to finally do a dirty job on it last night, only cleaned the removable jewels, then lubricated the rest using a filed needle and the thinnest oil l own. I don't have watch tools, or even other watches, so l don't mind potentially ruining what's left of it in an experiment. Hell, the crown and ratchet wheels are drilled far enough off axis that they very nearly lose engagement at points, so it's only a matter of time until the teeth wear enough that they do.

@HorologyBiology 10 месяцев назад

Congrats on having a go with it and also being creative with what you had 💪🏻💪🏻

@jerrygaguru 8 месяцев назад

I bought that watch keep time so bad I returned after few days. I would love to get the one you just rebuilt. Great job. I’ve been trying to find a reasonable priced version of that watch they’re either really cheap or really expensive and nothing in the middle..

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

Many thanks for watching. I do think there are some mid range skeleton watches out there so you should be good.

@jerrygaguru 8 месяцев назад

@@HorologyBiology been looking for 20 years no luck so far.

@HorologyBiology 8 месяцев назад

It’s just this I was referring to www.cousinsuk.com/product/glass-dial-hand-watch-cleaning-pen-bergeon-swiss

@geoffquickfall 11 месяцев назад

Remember, the cost is relative to the labour costs as well as the fit and finish. Some of these factories employ cheap young labour for assembly of machine pressed parts. If you were to pay your staff standard Swiss watch manufacturing wages then the cost of that Chinesium watch would be much, much greater!

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

That's a given for sure. I certainly wouldn't advise anyone to purchase one of these watches with the intention of having it serviced. That would definitely be foolish.

@chillausmc 9 месяцев назад

OK, first time viewer and now ima have watch all of your videos. This one took me by suprise as to how cheap the watch was. Pump out thousands of these movements and you can afford to put them in a cheap case with meerkat strap

@HorologyBiology 9 месяцев назад

😅😅 Thanks for watching and supporting the channel. Appreciated 👍

@Tomijee 11 месяцев назад

Great watch for training how to strip down and rebuild automatic watch

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

Many thanks for watching 👍🏻

@adawg3032 11 месяцев назад

Actually this movement is more reliable long term than you would expect. I have a cheap pocketwatch from amazon with the same movement, and it has been running strong for 2 and a half years of daily use. I havent opened it yet but at some point i need to work on it because as of now it is running a bit fast

@HorologyBiology 11 месяцев назад

That's great to hear. After a service it will run a lot longer for sure 👍