I'm strangely enthused by these old Timexs. Cheap and low cost but tough movements. Surprisingly accurate and they made some really lovely looking watches that just please the eye, the one shown is a great example
Actually, I bought these Timexs from an old Timex lover. He was looking for someone who wants to repair and love them. Needless to say, the blue dial one is really nice looking.
Only a few people on Earth can do this to these vintage manual Timexs. You are one of the great ones. I'm so envious! Outstanding job! Thanks for the video.
Thanks for showing me these two methods to clean these Timex watches. I have this same job with my Timex watches. I hope I can clean my watches. greetings from Chile the south the world.
I worked on an M108 movement that is very similar, and getting that bridge on and keeping it in place while putting the screws in is a literal nightmare. I can't tell you how many times I tried to put tape on it and accidentally lifted it off with the sticky tape. Nice work on that.
I don't know what's braver, completely stripping and reassembling a Timex M27, or making a video about it which is of interest to so few people. You'll never get rich like that! The workshop that employed me always refused Timex watch repairs. We told them send it back to Timex, or just buy a new one. I did strip one once just to see if I could do it. I was on it all day. I didn't get rich either!
🤣🤣🤣 That's true. I bought them from a Timexs collector who was refused to repair😥 Now. I completely understand the reason why they didn't want to work on.
Excellent video and brave of you to tackle a full traditional service on a Timex!! The only thing I will say is that the Timex mainspring is permanently coated and does not require removal or lubrication. Could have saved a step! Interesting to see a Timex mainspring though, I have never removed one
I'm diving into some I inherited from my grandfather so I have to ask: The coating doesn't degraded or gum up? Is it Teflon or some other process? Thanks for saving me A LOT of unnecessary work!
Great video! Starting to dive into my grandfathers old watches I have a couple of questions. Did you use standard oils I am assuming HP1300/ Moebius 9104 because of the lack of jewels and all the metal on metal contact; or just Moebius 8000. Thank you for making this video available!
Hello! I have the Marlin with the m27 that has a rotary telephone dial. For some reason the watch stops randomly. I tried getting it serviced but they state they can’t take it apart because it has a “sealed movement”? Watching this video makes me believe they just don’t want to work on it. You seem to be an expert with these m27 watches. Do you do repairs? I’d love to get this awesome 1974 watch ticking again that was one on my grandfathers wrist.
@@vintagewatchtinkerer thanks for replying. The watch isn’t valuable by any means, It’s actually the same movement in the video you made. I’d be happy to pay to have you look at it. Thanks!
Having a nightmare of a time assembling the day and date wheels. Had to use a back up dial plate and day wheel because I broke the cardinal rule of "If you need to apply a lot of pressure, you are doing something wrong." Anyway, can't seem to get the day wheel to slip under the tooth of the date wheel. The service manual doesn't clearly show this, and to my eyes looks like its not even necessary, from the pics in the manual, but I will go by you. Any advice?
Yeah - it's too simple so the assembly was complicated. We need to keep holding the date dial in place and place the day dial on it. Then, I gently pressed and twisted the day dial to engage the wheel with the internal jumper. The day dial has the direction. I tested the installation without the date disk. I hope this can help a bit.
Thank you for replying! It seems also that your finger placement gives the needed "lift" for the day dial to slip under the date, will have to try to duplicate it. One day I hope to be able to do a complete breakdown and reassemble, I have a "play movement" I use for my valiant but failed attempts 🤣! For now I keep the movement whole except for the external wheels, gears, etc. I pop the winding gear in the stem sandwich out for lubrication. I use 9010 on the fork and the escapement pivots, and the cups holding the balance. HP1300 is used on the rest of the drive train pivots or where anything moves slow. I moly kote the stem and the "square" hole gear and the other gears in the motion works. While Timex says the mainspring is "permanently" coated I also remember that the HMS Titanic was unsinkable. After 30 to 50 years of abuse and neglect, I put a fine line of grease across the top of the mainspring. So that's my method, as the old saying goes ask three watchmakers how to oil an movement and you will get four different answers.
Jewels wouldn't make a scrap of difference to this nightmare movement, yet they produced a 21 jewel version which was still a pin lever escapement. Crazy!
Lucky prick!!! I finally found a day date timex in a thrift store for fifty bucks ! Been looking for along time for one. Quite Happy with it. Only downside? It has a white face. Looks just like that Black one with a gold case ,looked in side for date ????? Nothing except qrr or rrq or qqr or rqq can't really remember exactly but it is those two letters.✌️
