Vintage Breitling Chronograph Restoration: Converting Scam to Success 

Beautiful work, well done.

Well done. An excellent display of your skill. A wonderful demonstration of system and a good visual commentary. Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you

Beautiful watch!

Es ist der Wahnsinn, die Uhr sieht, vor allem nach der Wiederherstellung wunderschön aus!

This was a fabulous restore. I envy the person who is privileged to wear it!

Very nicely done! I love that dial .. it’s beautiful

dieses Video ist wie Meditation. Danke !

Nice work. I’m enjoying your content. If I might make only one suggestion,sacrifice a little more B Dip in the container you clean the jewels in and clean the balance and pallet fork along with them. This will allow the parts to soak longer and give access for some extra agitation and cleaning, and you won’t be contaminating the whole bottle of B Dip 🍷🍷

Lovely watch just the way it is. Absolutely beautiful!

All those parts on the right spot. Great work!

Your presentation and painstaking watch restoration is outstanding, and I commend you (as does my young watchmaker daughter) for your diligence. ❤ Alas, it can be so easy to be scammed by unscrupulous people on that website, but you beat them by restoring an outstanding beautiful chronometer whose dial is to weep for. ...I have the 'emergency' version of this watch: twice during my naval career and recently beam out Mayday via satellite to save my life yet again. I have a special place for this fine chronometer you saved, and I wish you good tidings and many blessings - Wendi UK 🌻🌻🌻

Great job...

My first good watch was a Breitling Super Avenger, so I always have a soft spot for the brand. Great video

Great job. What a beautiful watch.

Props 👏

Amazing to watch.

Talk about luck!!!! I was going through my brain meat on how to get that out, then it moved, I was relieved for you lol. Great video. Super complicated

Der näschte Marshall hier. Sieht richtig gut aus.

what a beautful watch

Did you rebuild that cleaning machine and connect to the Pi? It's one of the coolest things I've seen! Wow!

Nice job, have an old Titus I haven't dared to start on yet, so many screws and springs, but I'll get around to it 😅. Didn't see you dip the escape wheel in epilame only the pallet fork. I was thought to do that as well to make sure the oil stays in place. Would also recommend you to get an "auto" oiler for the jewels, it makes oiling so much easier and you allways get the same amount of oil😊

Your skills are amazing

Tolle Arbeit. Sehr schöne Aufnahmen vom Venus 175, habe ich so noch nicht gesehen (Unterschiede zum ST1901). Macht Spass, hoffe, da kommt noch mehr.

Have you tried getting/fitting new pusher caps? I've never seen them worn through. Nice work restoring the watch, it was a great video to watch 👍

Perfect job on this one too. You are amazing precize. I posted another comment before and don't see it anymore. Do you care to share your python script for the watchcleaning machine? And what kind of controller do you use? Keep up the good work. Love all your videos. Perfectly detailed also.

Some are n/g on e bay and some are jems . I got a watch for parts not running over wound . Turned out it was magnetized also over wound . Needs a new glass .

What an absolutely beautiful watch

A suggestion to you, instead of just providing subtitle text, do actual voice over. Doesn’t need to be live, can be voiceover after the fact. Great video, and a beautiful watch.

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Hello, are you restoring a Grovana brand watch which dates from the early 70s, the hour and minute hands turn but not the date. I found this watch, thank you

Watching a Master working in its art is always MESMERIZING!!!! But IMHHO, I don't believe this watch was sold under dubious circumstances. If you buy something like this from ebay, you need to know in advance that 99.9 % of the time you are dealing with people that have no idea of what they are talking about, specially regarding watches. What I think the ebay seller wanted to say was that the balance was good, and for him/her, that is "running" condition. I have found many instances like this, specially when buying Chronographs. So you need to understand that this people do not have the knowledge of how to say or tell things in the same fashion that an individual like you or me could say, using the correct nomenclature or jargon. The only issues this movement had was that broken screw head, and incredibly dirty with dried oil. But asides of that, the movement was very good, and it came to full life under your expert hands!!!! And its a beautiful example of the Venus caliber 175. I have the Tri-Compas one, model 809 with the 24-hr dial, and is running beautifully too!!! Thanks for your show of Master Expertise!!!

I think the word you were looking for was fragile, for the hair spring and pallet fork, sensible would be wearing the right pair of shoes. Good videos though, I subscribed and gave you a thumbs up.

Word appreciate if you could talk through it, not everybody got time to read subtitles and watching at the same time...

how do you know it wasn't running when it went into the post?

Disregard the comment I made below as it was premature, +1 second per day is a great result. My comments about the description and asking if it was a scam, still stand.

Well, at least you can use ST19 parts if any here are missing or broken…

What was the scam? If it runs for a few seconds it runs does it not?

Your heart is bleeding? Have you had that looked at ? Sounds serious ! Better get Dr Frankenstein 🇨🇦🤣

scammed is double m. but yes you should of claimed your money back

Gentleman's wristwatch

I dont think it was a scam as it was kind of working, just not very good