Wowowowowowo what a stunning video….. thank you to you and to Peter to explain to us the working behind this lovely machine.. we need to visit this place pleeeease i would really love to go and visit him….. pleeeaseeeeee thank you very much ! All the best
Incredible! Thankfully, there are people that care about the past as much as the present. These tools being restored and there for all the world to see is wonderful! Thank you for this video!
I really appreciate your cooperation with Mr. Speak-Marin. His project "Naked Watchmaker" already fascinates me, and your videos with him are the audiovisual icing on the cake with the usual great production value!
What a gift to the world demonstrating the history of an era of amazing tool and watchmaking masters. Such and outstanding presentation and we are all indebted to the work of Andre.
I'm a machinist by trade and a hobbyist watchmaker. The tools and "machines" here are truly amazing. Pocket watches in most instances were the most expensive and technologically advanced devices a person could own. They could cost nearly a years wages. They were cared for and repaired when necessary because accurate time keeping was so important to daily life. This is why one can, with relative ease, acquire a fully functional pocket watch that is over 200 years old. Getting to see these tools makes me appreciate my hobby even more. I'm very grateful to Andre for his passion and hard work invested in these historic machines and tools. Thank you for sharing this with us.
A bundle of thanks to everyone involved in making this video, and Mr André Léchot specifically for having such an amazing collection and restoring it all by himself. Collections like these deserve to be preserved and made available for future generations, along with helpful videos like this, to showcase the human ingenuity, passion and brilliant craftsmanship. It is more pertinent now, when our attention spans are decreasing and main sources of human attention are getting restricted to rather silly and uninvolved avenues.
Thank You Andre for taking the time to save these machines , seeing the workmanship that goes into designing and making of these machines which are not only functional but beautiful is humbling. Thank you Peter for the explanations and the presentation and most of all Mads..you have done it again...a brilliant edition that looks at another aspect of the world of watches...
Marc, this video demonstrates that you really know your core audience. Utterly fascinating, I wish it was twice as long with close ups and demonstrations!
Beautifull. This is the reason I work as a toolmaker, this appreciation, and value that I have admired in past generation machinery. Buil for a specification not for a price. Unfortunately, most companies are now driven by accountants and they have little care about engineering finesse. All they see is profit margins and now pride in quality.
Really a great video. Congratulations to M. Léchot for his incredible collection and to Mr. Speake-Marin for the passionate and clear explanation. Thank you theWatchesTV for the nth excellent proposal. Keep on this way.
This is breath taking !!! I wish in the near future , Mr Speake Marin will use these babies to produce timepieces again !! that would be like the cherry on top , in watchmaking !!
Traditional watchmaking is in so many ways more interesting than the end product it self. Most of these tools were designed and executed with amazing care and craftsmanship to serve a single purpose. I heard about this collection a few months ago. It is a private exhibition but Peter can arrange public showings on a very small scale. I'd rather see this than the patek museum. Someone should do a beautiful coffee table size book on these with a short synopsis about them. Thank you for sharing this. I would love to see a part 2, part 3 or more. Viva watchmaking!
Go back for 4 hours and I'd pay for that on DVD. This was wonderful, my dream exactly if I won the lottery. I knew what every one of these tools were and how they were used- except for 1- the balance clamping rest for removing balance screws. Even the bow mill I knew. He picked the most common tools that many know...I would love to see him go through the whole collection for 4 hours 🥰 Thank you so much for making this, it brought me such joy to know someone else cared about these as much as me. Is his collection viewable by appointment?
Marc, Peter & Andre, thank you all for this wonderful "look back in time". As mentioned by other posters if it was longer I would still be watching. It is so fantastic to see the tools restored, and working, and have Peter explain what they were used for. Fascinating stuff!
Thank you for this marvelous video! It is more than amazing the amount of craftsmanship and passion that were invested in these incredible pieces of handcrafted masterpieces. The fact remains that Swiss and German artisans are the best in the world in fine machinery design, creation, and maintenance. No other people can come close to their precision and workmanship in what I often term "The Culture of Quality". These are crafts passed down from father to son that can never be duplicated elsewhere.
I build tools like this for a company that produces medical products. The mechanisms seem to inspire the people who use them. The end result is everyone is rewarded. I encourage all engineers to design and build in this manner. Clever and artistic.
The matchless ingenuity of the Western World and in particular the engineering achievements of European watchmakers and machinists never cease to amaze me. I am very delighted by this video!
Ahhh great to see you again Marc Andre! Been away from RU-vid but glad I am back for another extraordinary video from my favourite timepiece connoisseur! Always a pleasure Marc, cheers from Kevin, Louisiana, USA
Wow, one of the best videos so far. Just one minus, it was too short. I would have liked it to be longer, much longer. Are you gonna make a second video covering more tools in more depth ? That would be awesome. As I'm new to the watch repair, I like the old tools and the work they could do. Modern machines are great, but they miss on the personal level of care when it comes to making a watch. Thank you for another great video.
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful lifetime of restoration Andra LeShone (sorry about your name spelling sir) you are a very passionate man, you have spent these 40 years doing a job that is priceless. We are in the Untied States and while we have been at this for 15 years to your 40 years we are proud to be made aware of you. Thanks to the expert standing with you Peter who explains these tools well and to TheWatches.tv crew for finding you. While we have many of these machines and tools like you, we just want to share that we to this day utilize many of them daily as well as we restore them along the way add new ones too often (addiction we think). Anyways Mr. LeShone (sorry again for the spelling) we honor your efforts and thank you so much for allowing the outside world in to see your wonderful work and collection.
Thank you so much for this super appreciated comment and very happy to have brought this to your attention. And also truly happy to heat that you do the same!!! All the very best
Marc and Peter: Having just got in watch repairing after retiring for work. The tools used in watch making are fascinating, and this collection is beautiful. Thank you Peter for explaining the use of some of the tools. Thanks to the collector for sharing his passion and to you Marc for another great video. Keep up the excellent work you do on TheWatchesTV.
Thank you for this video. As a watchmaker it was both educational and enlightening. Peter was an excellent guide and as mentioned, these are true antiques that while still functional, don’t really exist in modern watchmaking.
What a fantastic collection! In must have been an amazing amount of time to restore all this beautiful machines to this condition. On some of them I am working nearly every day, and dispite the fact that some of them are over hundred years old, their accuracy is still absolutley top. Many people who visit my workshop are thinking that I just collect them because they are beautiful to look at, but they are still great to work with!
Very educational video and great content as always. The owner really should consider setting up a museum to publicly display and share these amazing pieces.
I would have loved to see more of this collection. Oddly I found this video whilst searching for instructions on a Vintage watch tool I just purchased. I restore vintage watches and get vintage tools as part of lot purchases. Amazing video thanks you.
Many thanks for preparing this great program that teaches the history of birth of watchmaking tools, when i wear a watch I give a lot of appreciation much more than just enjoy it, my special thanks to the collector and restorer of those tools " le Monsieu Andre Lechot " merci merci merci bien, je t' apprecie beaucoup. it will be nice if the producer of this program to give him enough time to express himself, he deserve to speak into the microphone even with his french, sadly it wasn't.
I'm sure everyone agrees that's why own a nice time piece is so mesmerizing if you appreciate, what is a behind the final product, very interesting video, thanks guys
C'est incroyable cette collection. Certainement il a fallu des années pour la constituer et comment aller jetter certains de ces outillages ! Bravo pour les avoir récupéré c'est digne d'un musée. 🤩😍
Steffen Pahlow, a retired watchmaker from Bad Nauheim in Germany, has a good collection himself and he uses them all the time. He both restores antique timepieces and makes new ones.
Absolutely fascinating! I find that last tool with the balance wheel particularly incredible. Next episode: Tools that makes watch making tools. Perhaps?
An exceptional video. I'm not a tech geek per se, but Mr Speake Marin must've felt like a kid in a candy shop ;-) My favorite was the tool for pocket watch bows!
A fantastic video, thank you Marc.why did Peter only wear one glove? He put his fingerprints all over the brass work! I'm sure the owner was delighted.
What a fantastic collection and video, thanks Peter for your detailed explanations. This collection needs to be preserved for posterity in a public museum, not least as a monument to this man's dedication in preserving these treasures. If ever you are in Waterford go to the new Irish Museum of Time where fantastic private collections of watches and clocks (mainly) are preserved and presented beautifully. How wonderful it would be to actually see these machines in operation. Just a comment on the wheels with fancy serpentine spokes. When wheels are cast it is well known that the spokes often crack as a result of contraction during the cooling process if they are strictly radial---the serpentine shape provides more flexibility and partly at least alleviates the problem. So as well as decorative, the shape may have a very practical function if the wheels were cast. You will find this technique used on cast wheels on even very humble farm machinery.
Amazing BRAVO 👏👏👏❤️💯🙏 I Love this mashines to ,first tool in my collection is taping device from my grandpa ❤️💯🙏 Work of Art and rocket science for today China's mashines...i will try to save every mashines and old tool that i find in future 💯🙏❤️😎
I could watch this kind of video all day long. Then tomorrow I'd like to see them in use with some very good in focus close-ups, because I have a lot of stuff like many of these things, but am not really sure what they all do. Save the watches and tools from the ones' that believe themselves to be (steam punk "artists"), put an end to the senseless, narcissistic destruction of these true works of art.
