Restoration of a $100,000 Rolex GMT From 1958! 

I’m 72 and I love his channel. I had nimble fingers and good eyes back in the day. I loved doing fine work. I get a lot of enjoyment watching him service watches. Helps a lot to divert my attention away from the news these days.

What a lovely way to connect with your son. Nice comment.

Take the steak out of the fridge 30 mins before cooking, and pat the surface dry with a paper towel. Season generously with salt right before you’re ready to put it in the pan. Heat a skillet/pan over SUPER high heat until it starts to smoke. Add the steak, and begin to cook by flipping every 30 seconds. Continue to flip until the steak is 20-30 degrees from your preferred doneness (see doneness chart above). Add the butter, garlic and herbs to the pan. Gently tilting the pan to one side, use a long handled large spoon to baste the foaming butter over the steak. Remember to continue to flip it, otherwise it may overcook on one side. Once your steak hits desired internal temperature, remove it from the pan then rest for 10 minutes before enjoying.

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Same here.. hahahahha

me too , amazing

50:26 his eyelash just ruined the value 😢

yeah, me too, but this was fantastic!

Me too!

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"time" he he

You should try watching how they restore painting also very amazing to watch

Came here to say the same thing

You too?

Same

Same

Same!

Great story!!! God Bless your dad. ☺️☺️☺️

@@butcho7492thank you

Since he films as he goes, he can always go back and check how it took it apart.

Recording the disassembly helps

Especially important to make a video because he often has to take a break to find rare replacement parts. But still I say, WOW!

This guy is a pro who has serviced and repaired many rolex watches so at this point he's probably reassembling these from memory.

no@@maggs131

missed a beautiful opportunity to say "makes the world tick"

It's crazy seeing some of these watches. Like ones made early 1900s and Pocket watches from even earlier than 1900. All those tiny components and the people who machined them so long ago and how small and precise they could be without modern cncs

If you have that healthy obsession with specialised tools that so many of us mechanics/engineers/engin-nerds have, watchmaking will definitely scratch that itch too. 👍

@@woodworkingandepoxy643 Yeah, it really racks the brain to think of how they managed it at all, let alone how some companies did it so well. No CNCs, no CAD... just manual drafting and machining on such a small scale... maybe it was kind of like today's "litho lottery" and "binning" of CPUs? - maybe they manufactured a whole lot of stock, looked at the wheels and other parts under a microcscope, and only selected the closest-to-perfect parts for signature watches, consigning the rest to third parties... ?

@@Dee_Just_Dee maybe!

it's exactly that !

Reminded me of Bob Ross too

Along with the Vice Grip Garage dude. Creators that can just talk calmly and normally while explaining things coherently are SO important.

Except Bob Ross doesn't pretend to speak in real time.

@@theharvestfloor1 yes...thus my use of the term 'modern'. Broadcast technology has changed in recent times, did you hear about this service called RU-vid? It's really neat.

I saw "1958" and IMMEDIATELY knew, "oh this thing about to be worth some MONEY" Like, go put a down payment on a new Porsche kind of money

I didn't check that until you mentioned it, and you're right I was so immersed in the repair "time flew by" lol, pun intended.

Thought I was 5 mins in, actually 45 mins in…..

Yeah I was hitting my bong and had this playing and just got immersed as soon as he took the back off the watch and seeing all the tiny mechanisms

@@PRYRAthe weed be making time super fast or slow no in between

Yeah, it's a hell of a thing. He's on the level where he just recognizes things so naturally... but he still mostly explains things out every time for the newbies... hell of a thing.

That's so sweet!

I bet some nurses working in old peoples homes would steal old watches & jewellery from the elderly patients…It’s known to happen

@@cherrylow9818 oh absolutely, things get "gone" all the time. The "nice" ones of these deplorable wastes of space (the best of the worst so to speak) wait till someone dies then grabs some stuff. The other pieces of excrement take what the can when they can. What makes it worse is these are older and/or otherwise impaired people so they forget or miss remember things. Between that and so many people being in and out of people's rooms it's virtually impossible to catch them. It makes you want to take them around back and... let's say "physically apply pressure" until they live in a nursing home instead of working in one. That being said, let's lighten the mood a bit with a joke I saw on Tiktok related to assisted living facilities. The worst part about them stealing from the elderly is they have really nice, if not a little unexpected, things collected over their life. One chick tried to steal a Christian ladies autographed selfie of Jesus. 🤣 Anyway, everyone have a good day and if you have someone in an assisted living center, stop by and see them! For the most part it, would mean the world to them and I promise you'll get something out of it (maybe not an autograph from the big man but something lol). There's some really awesome people locked up in there who's only crime was getting old. Plus one day it'll be you in there, blankly looking out the window if you're lucky enough to have one and karma's a bitch.

not gonna lie I've heard that this watch will lose a ton of its value because Rolex themselves did not fix everything.

​@@lornesboredThat's kind of dumb tbh. This isn't some hack job. Not to mention Rolex might ruin the value themselves by replacing stuff that doesn't need replacement or refusing to service it entirely. They have super weird policies on vintage watches.

@lornesbored That's not how the vintage market works at all. Rolex would likely crater the watch's value by over-servicing the watch. The care he gave removing the bakelite bezel is exactly why a knowledgeable watchmaker is the person to do this. Rolex would've been happy to pop in an aluminum or cerachrom "service" bezel and that, in fact, would've ruined the watches value.

@@lornesboreddefinitely not true

Both are nasty.

Ironic question and sorry if it seems heartless but did your dad have cancer? Couldnt help but ask since the watch is radioactive lol.

What ever happened to your Dad's watch, did you keep it?

My brother has it. :) @@TruthIsTheNewHate84

Loctite will make plexiglass crack. ( just a fun fact).

challenge accepted!

Usually for acrylic ammonia based cleaners make them look cloudy and dingy whereas isopropyl alcohol causes the cracking

No Nuerosergeons have even more skill and more to worry about…..

Hardly

No, this it watchmaking. It's a great hobby to get into. I love it

Except neurosurgery has much more serious implications and can kill someone if it’s messed up

Patient would’ve been dead 2 minutes in

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I was thinking the same thing. Today this wouldn’t be that impressive. But in the 1950’s before computers even? It’s hard to believe they could produce such devices at all back then.

yeah i watch a few lockpicking folks on tiktok theyre cool as hell!

@@Theantmang the scene changed a little since I started 4 years ago. Locknoob and Fishpicks are still my favourite for beginner tips. Bosnian Bill was still active but he retired. That guy was a legend. LPL didn't start his own brand of lock tools yet and would still tackle challenge locks from viewers. LPL was the gateway for many people, with his interesting videos, soothing voice and confident demeanor. His videos were much shorter, but he was to locks what Marshall is to watches.

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Indeed, the level of decoration on even the smallest bridges. Àll handwork in a watch that wasn't out of reach of the common man.

Well, don’t send it back. Tell the owner you lost it. That’s just me, I guess.

Wait is this Marshall from MTG? Sounds just like him...

Not just the 50s, check out the pocket watches that were made back in the 1800s.

I think you have some poor ideas about the history of manufacturing and engineering.

Came here to say that I love this idea and would absolutely purchase such a s kit because although having a curated list of tools is nice, having some guidance on using that tool kit on a particular watch by following your video would be amazing! The watch itself doesn't have to be anything fancy, there are plenty of automatic movements that go between $80-150 and I think those would be great to have alongside these tool kits.

This is a great idea!

Not to steal from Marshall's thunder, loving what he's doing but... Rotate Watches does something like this. Basic tools, an inexpensive movement, and access to a video how-to once you've purchased the kit. Just a little fyi...

Excellent idea! I would be really interested in this.

Heck yeah, I'd be interested in a product like that myself

Bakelite is not that radioactive, especially when it is used in small quantities and is almost a century old.

​@@ruskibruski I assume you're referring to radium, not bakelite. Depending on the quantities, radium luminous paint can be quite radioactive, and I wouldn't feel comfortable wearing it on my wrist. Although the measured 6.5 µSv/h is relatively low for radium paint, wearing it every day would result in a dose of 56.94 mSv, whereas the average annual dose in the US is 6.2 mSv. This is a rough estimate and there is more to take in to account (shielding by the metal case, wearing-duration, etc.). I would only consider wearing something like that for short durations and if I'm absolutely certain there is no way for the material to be incorporated.

@@xuNsh1ne Not sure how good of a shielding job that broken down crystal we saw at the start did. The metal back should do a good job of protecting you from alpha and beta radiation, but even the gamma radiation alone would be high over time. The thing I believe is more scary than the actual radiation within the watch is the fact that radium decays into radon gas with a halftime of a few days, which may leak from the watch and cause ingestion via breathing. This would mean the rest of the decay chain happens inside your body with no shielding.