Is this 1971 Timex Sprite Serviceable? 

Good clear explanations and visuals. These Timex watches have served millions of people over the years, helping their wearers do one thing: keeping track of time for their daily lives, and doing it well. Good to see them getting respect and refurbishing!

I guess is the first Timex video well explained I found in years.

I like your metaphors… House, cowboy hat. 😁 Great job!

Thank you for this video extremely informative very interesting and i enjoyed watching

Thanks to you, another watch that was in a bin is now working like a charm. After watching your video, I remembered a watch I just received that wasn’t working. With a little bit of time and some oil it’s now running like a top. Thank you.

Thank you for the video. A while back I got a bunch of watches as a lot. It included several Timexes which bummed me out because I thought the movements were riveted and unrepairable. After watching your video I will try restoring a Marlin . Looking forward to more videos !

Прекрасное видео часы тимехс всегда отличались интересными инженерными решениями иногда спорными но всегда оригинальными

For most of us who were kids during the 70's, this was our first watch. I had the black faced version, a kind of military style. It stopped working decades ago, but I never threw it out. So maybe I'll try and service it.

Superb Work Done By You......👌

This is a great video. I have many Timex and have had good success with cleaning the movement mostly intact but i have some with broken mainsprings, etc, that i have never been able to fix because nobody has put together anything like this video. I'll be sharing this with my Timex friends and giving it another shot at taking one apart.

Excellent video. I've been battling with an M25 for a while but haven't managed to align all the pivots. Your vid has persuaded me to have another crack at it!

Thanks a lot for this video, extremely helpful. Just spent a couple hours attempting a M32 rebuild but unfortunately failed for now. All of the gears and barrel seeded easily but man seeding this balance and pallet lever is damn impossible. I thought I finally had it, taped it, and went for the flip, but it seemed the pallet lever fell off during the process. Welp, hope to have time tomorrow to try again... let me know if you have any tips on seeding the balance/pallet lever - the slightest contact seems to knock them off for me. Thanks again for the video.

Awesome video with great explanations and well edited. I have a no date automatic version you got me thinking I should order a few more tools and try to service. Given a thorough service as you demonstrated, do you have a suggested interval or is it just when they start running poorly?

Love that " Cafeteria Clock" dial.

I just clean mine really good with ammonia lighter fluid water and alcohol then oil. Great video. Have you tried a m22 movement?

This movement is different. I am just a layperson who likes to watch watchmaker content, but as I can remember, I've never seen a movement like that. It's very interesting. I like to see different things in this hobby. Have you ever seen those ikepods watches? They are very unique.

I never serviced these Timex movements (that i personnaly called "Mickey-mouse" because of the apparent barrel and balance "ears"), thinking they were unserviceable... Next time i see one, i'll work on it ! After all, they're all-metal... Unfortunately, there's another timex movement with an oval bridge that seems to be much worse in terms of quality (if i remember, they have plastic parts). I don't think they deserve servicing.

A second a day seems a little unbelievable for an unjeweled watch. I havent even seen high grade railroad watches do that. Every mechanical timex I seen done around a minute a day when worn.

Nice job, but did you read the service manual from Timex? It actually says to wash the unit in naptha, let it dry, then oil the pivots. lol

Imagine a cheap movement achieving 1 second/day accuracy? Amazing

How do you remember where everything goes when you're reassembling the mvt?

They say to dip it in lighter fluid

If it ain't broke don't fix it.