Restoring a Vintage Junghans Watch - What Could Go Wrong? 

This is wonderful and I hope you feel I did this watch justice. Its a lovely watch with a very loud tick! (which is reassuring although in the middle of the night its amplified) Your father had very good taste. Hopefully I can get this jewel repaired on the Omega to see that one running again.

Thanks Chris, I didnt think this was my best work! make do and mend rather than find new and replace.. Made for some entertainment though. Thanks for watching I always appreciate your feedback.

Thank you very much!

Thank you. You should own a Junghans being so close!

Sorry to hear this. I threw away a Casio digital I wore in my early teens. This was in 2016 months before I got into watches and it might sound silly as its a tiny kids digital watch but I really, really regretted binning it. Hopefully your Junghans will turn up. If you dont recall throwing it away it could be at the bottom of a draw or in a box in the attic. Give it some thought as sometimes out of the blue a memory flashback may lead you to its location.

Thanks Endy this is a lovely watch and I was pleased to see it run again. Nice simple movement with just one gotcha, that being a left handed screw thread on the ratchet wheel!

Thanks for watching!

Haha thats typical, I had thought about re-luming but in one sense I like things original but also this has been done well. Okay it does not glow anymore but its how Bills father would have remembered it. To put this also in perspective Bill is now 80 so this Junghans has some very old memories attached to it now.

Thank you for your comment and tips. I think we just find out own feel on how to do things and run with it although I’m not against change but sometimes that requires learning how to do something again. I am pleased you enjoy my channel so thank you for taking the time to write. Sorry for delay on a reply .

Yes its practice and taking photos along the way so you have a record if you cant remember where the parts went. Thanks for watching this episode.

I’ve enjoyed my first Junghans repair! More in the future hopefully

Thanks, well now you know a tweed watch will go well with a cream or brown dial vintage watch.

I didnt know you were watching as you were messaging me at the same time mate. It was the only time I had this week to premier it. I plan to premier all my restoration views so viewers can join in the chat if they want to.

Thank you Sonny. They are always full of struggles but I keep learning along the way

@@MyRetroWatches The struggle and learning are my favorite part. im a tool guy so my favorite part is the repair. then the reward of a working watch !!!!!

Thats always great to hear. I hope you are enjoying the hobby.

Thank you

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Hello, that's fantastic to hear. I know I have converted many guys in this hobby but its still always pleasing to here. Marshall does some great work and man did his channel blow up in a big way. I am waiting for my turn!........ (tumble weed)

Thank you for your insight. I will take a look at the regulation pins but it will be hard for me to see and I am hesitant of an adjustment in case it goes badly wrong. I have found on the watches I review these two positions are highly stressful and show on the timegrapher, I also think it depends on the position of the balance to the crown too. Gravity and wear all must play a part. I am happy with what I have accomplished with this one, it seems to run well and keep good enough time but there is still always that nagging in my head to solve that deviation!

@@MyRetroWatches I would leave it this time as it should improve over the next few weeks as the oil gets into all the little places where it should be and the amplitude picks up a bit. With it not being your watch and sentimental to its owner it's not worth the risk.

I have not really read books, I am more of a doer rather than translate what I read into practice. I do have one book though which is good but very details and advanced in places.The Watch Repairer's Manual Fried, Henry B

Nice pun and thanks for the sub!!

I have some but never got into them . I would now be lost without my pair, it’s looks a snooker player and his Que loose that and you may as well give up!

Yes I did notice how bad the screw heads were and just hoped no one thought it was my skill marking them up like that. Hands are just right really but its still a shame the movement under the barrel has 23 scratched into it.

I am not sure what you mean by secure. Screws are just hand tightened, you dont what to be locking the threads with anything nor do you want to over tighten. If a watch is serviced regular then screws should not really come too lose to be a problem depending on what the owner has put it through. The longer you leave them just expansion / contraction will effect there torque. In my opinion anyway.

Your welcome and thanks for watching

Thank you very much!

I would have no idea

Thank you.

Thank you very much. Clearly you enjoyed that one !

I’d like to do a course but it’s finding the time to do it.

Glad you enjoyed it. Have no fear, did you not notice the big magnet on the top of my roll top desk at the start of the video :-)

We all live and learn by that mistake!

Haha I hope I never need a rewind

Thank you kindly! Pleased you enjoyed this episode.

Thanks. The jewels were just nuts. I was actually talking to a professional on Friday and saying to him that the setting did not have a lip for the jewel to rest in place so it just slid around. He was also quite taken back by it. I could probably regulate a bit more out of the deviation but I don’t use watches to the second. If they are still within a minute at the end of the day for me is good enough . I have considered Patreon or membership but I just see it as begging. Asking you all for money so I can make content. It then means I have to give you all something more to justify the income. It takes so long just to make a video like this so making some exclusive content each month would be so much more work. All I want is more subscribers and 1000s more views. It’s views that pay. 1,000,000 views on a video could give you £2000+ in revenue, it’s why I don’t understand massive channels on the platform like car channels I enjoy asking for money all the time. They take it in as it is . I don’t think the typical viewer has any idea how much money can be made on this platform with success.

You make a good point there, I was not looking so long term with the screw other than to find something that would work! pleased you like my work on the channel and find the group useful. Always nice to get feedback.

Thank you for this detailed reply. I will revisit the barrel bridge to see if that is the case. Sometimes the camera angles can be deceptive. I would certainly like to improve the positional error and improve my skills in the process. Thank you .

I would not know anything. I can only date this watch because of the owners father.

They won’t be lumed. Keeping it as original as it came into me

I would have to check as I didn’t notice to be honest. Thanks

Thank you.

Buy a watch something simple like a dress watch with no day or date complications. 15 jewels or more make things a bit easier. Good magnification that you can make your hands free, be it a visor or some loupes with a head band. Then some tools. Drivers, tweezers and a movement holder to start with.

The balance jewel? Not sure but I would not think it would show a deviation like that one the graph.

Yes it was and its a shame. I need to spend more time learning how to diagnose that positional error to try to correct it. Watch is 70-80 years old so I can expect it not to be perfect.

Sometimes, not always.

No one is forcing you to watch my videos.

I didnt do it on this, hard to explain but this was not intended to be a full length video but that changed when I got stuck on the Omega.

@@MyRetroWatches Hi Mike, But full lengths are always great from you!

That’s fair enough

Thank you

Yes thats exactly right and why I broke the screw I think, a moment of lapse of concentration and its all over!

@@MyRetroWatches How would you know?? Neither screw looked like it had any identification on the top! ...those are the things that terrify me...especially on a client's watch...

hahahaha, perspiration !

Wrist watches, pocket watches and clocks are perfectly safe when it comes to radiation. The radiation is so microscopic that it is almost non existing. You receive more radiation from just walking on the streets. Have a good day mate.:-)

@@willyvonbusche729 Thank you!!!!

@@excdracmagyarszarnyak2398 My pleasure mate.

They are fine just leave undisturbed . It’s only ingesting the radium that could cause some adverse effects. I keep radium dials in that box while working on them so if any particles fall off I’m not mixing it. I use finger cots and always then dispose of them after contact . I am a bit more cautious than many but I think it comes from having prostate cancer last year.

@@MyRetroWatches Quite understandable mate. Keep up the good work. Wish you all the best.

Thank you Ross

He is. I have never professed to be more than a hobbyist

@MyRetroWatches Appreciate that , wondered if you maybe picked up some tips if you watch the videos ?

Thanks. I figured this is how Bills father had the watch so why mess with it. Had the lume been missing I may have considered but then what remained could well be radium and I dont fancy scratching that off even if the risk is small. I have already had one dance with cancer.

It could well be something like this. Service marks in the caseback is one thing but vandalising a movement like this is, at least in todays world frowned upon.

I have a guy who might be able to fix that. he is in the uk. my email is in the video description so please send me a message and I will pass on his details.

@@MyRetroWatches thanks I will

This is how we always break them sadly. Most movements they are marked on the screw head with 3 slots so you know but I guess back then and being German they thought to try to catch us out!

I have to agree on the trap! I got away with it this time luckily.

@@MyRetroWatches The next watchmaker repairing that watch does not fall to the same trap, thanks to Seiko! 😇

thank you.

fair enough but I think it works.

why certainly sir.

I have seen the riveted and friction fit wheels there are (typically) special tools for that job....

Which I don't have it took literally hours to try and slide the rest in under the plate had to walk away a couple of times but hurray for microscopes

?this was not meant or be a video I was actually filming it to be a fast forward 3 minute video to be played in the Omega video but now that is delayed for some time and because this had some interesting issues I decided to post in long form. Watch was cleaned but I didn’t film that bit.

Sorry Jeff. It was very last minute. I needed to post a video as the algorithm has not been kind and this was the only time this week I have to dedicate to a premier.

@MyRetroWatches no problem I still found it. It's extremely great to see some seiko screws fit other brands of watch. I have a Glashutte GUB 70.1 that I did the exact same thing to and can't find a replacement at the moment. Mine is in the main plate instead of the barrel arbor. If I can remove it from the main plate I'm going to try several other screws. I don't know why I didn't think of trying other screws from other types of watches. I do it with car parts all the time. Never figured it would work with other watches. My stinkin thinkin I guess. Lol

I just didn’t film it on this one. It was not originally going to be a full length video .

@@MyRetroWatches I kept thinking I was missing something!

I’ve not been at my bench as much as I’d like too more recently .