Thanx for doing these video's. You are an excellent teacher. You go slow and discuss the fine details. I also appreciate that you reply to comments. I am just starting out. You are right, that sure is a fine looking watch.
Thanks for this video, I’m waiting on a DIY watch club pack which will be my first step into tinkering from battery/strap/bezel changes. Seeing the process in this way has encouraged me 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hello! 11:14 nice finger prints! otherwise i like the plastic bag (i use only one layer of the bag. i cut it) method instead of the plastic shield for removing hands. with the same tools as yours. prevent the hands from jumping up and hitting each others too hard. as well as providing a dial protection. you also can use one plastic bag layer to put over the case back to protect it when tightening or undoing it. the thickness is just right and it makes the teeth fit snug. no ripage. same with the knife for pressed down back. BUT you made me learn something with the rodico for installing hands. that's actually what we should do as it will not hurt them like tweezers can. even plastic tweezers.
Yeah the finger prints are from the factory, I assume and mention. I still think I’d prefer to use the Bergeon dial protector than a plastic bag, since plastic bags are quite thin. Rodico is an essential for any watch work.
@@WatchComplications i use rodico to clean or pick up tiny parts but i never thought about using it for installing hands too. that baffles me in fact XD. i see so many people using tweezers that it felt natural to go that way. i'm a self taught, so i learn everyday.
Nice video. Thanks for sharing. The new dial makes it more legible. I like that. I really like this dial. clean classic design. This watch is definitely on my next watch to buy list. 😏
I'd be furious if I paid and waited for a dail to come in only for it to be defective and tattered! Between the scratches on the front and the fingerprints on the back it clearly, shows that that company has serious quality control issues. Great explanation and directions on the swamp. You're a better man than me when it comes to letting things slide.. I understand too that you said that it's not visible to the necked eye. But you know as well as I do that forever in your mind's eye you'll be seeing that scratch. I don't own the watch and it's embedded forever in my mind along with those pesky fingerprints. Lol
Well the watch began as a broken review sample for me so it's sort of a "project" watch of sorts, and I love the design. The dial imperfections are quite minor and since it was a spare dial, I'm ok with it. I'm really just waiting for the next model. I haven't seen the dial side imperfections on any other pictures I've seen and my other dial is fine. It could have picked them up in shipping. As for the finger prints...at least they're on the back and not visible, haha, but yeah not sure if that's from the dial manufacturer or during assembly, but certainly needs addressed.
I should also add that I didn't pay for it or wait for it. It was a left over dial that was sent to me as a surprise/kind gesture since I like to tinker.
But he got all of it for free. Also this watch was a reviewers sample so it might have been opened by other reviewers which could explain the fingerprints
I have some old inexpensive wind up watches that i would like to change the dials of to some after market ones off other watches. My watch has a dial size of 30.7mm. Do you know what size dial i can't away with ? meaning is there an allowance of size the new dial should be within ?
that depends more on the case. usually there’s a little tolerance on either side, but it’d be a millimeter or less total spread. for example 30.2 to 31.2, but many times it’s smaller than that, like 0.3 on either side. You’d want to measure the dial opening size and max size on the inside ledge of the case with some calipers to be sure.
You swapped dials very neatly. I'm trying to swap a movement and keep the old dial on a Timex Expedition. I can't figure out how to locate a source to swap the movement. Timex won't do it. Any suggestions? Thanks.
no don’t do that. the most primitive thing to do would be to use what are called dial dots, which are essentially a small dot that’s a double sided sticker. the best way to do it is to reset the dial feet. I have a couple videos on all that.
you can remove hands with a flat edge, but the odds of damage to the hands or dial is much greater. Hand removal tools have a curve underneath, and then using a protector around the dial helps decrease odds of damage. Using a single tool on one side, be it a flathead or curved tool is also a bad idea. You need equal pressure on both sides of the hands to remove them cleanly and with the least stress on the parts.
Interesting video. This is something I've been wanting to try. Probably a stupid question, but are there different sizes of watch dials (that's to say if a company offers a 38mm version and a 42mm version, could those be swapped or are there different sizes to all watch dials)?
Yeah there is almost an endless variety of dial sizes though there are some fairly common standard sizes. You are also thinking diameter of the watch, 38 or 42mm, when the dials are smaller...such as 28.5mm or 34.5mm or any number of possibilities. If you have two watches that have a case diameter difference of 38 and 42mm, then the dials are also going to be different sizes.
Hello. I have a vintage omega 165.001, solid 18k Gold. I want to swap to a dial with better condition. Do I need to find one with the same reference or just with the same caliber is enough?
I think just the same caliber would be enough. the dimensions and dial feet locations would be the same, usually. Unless they changed something about the caliber from one time to another without changing the caliber number.
Hey man, just curious to know as I love exposed skeleton watches, is there any possibility to delete the dial of a mechanical watch( with no date function or chronograph) and still use it as a timepiece without the dial
Great video! I have a question if I have a Automatic watch and I have a Quartz watch but there both the same size and the dials are the same size can I swap dials? Not the mechanisms just the Top dial face?
depends on the exact movements in question, but probably not. They’d have different stems, different stem heights, and likely different dial feet locations. And the movement holders would need to be different as well. If you want more insight, look at my Monty Python series where I swap a quartz movement with a mechanical one.
Well the "University of Horology" is more of an idea/t-shirt usage joke, not a real place. Though Horology programs and such are out there. The date is 1657 (not 1637), which was when watches made a mechanical leap forward with the addition of the balance spring.
