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Solid Gold Elgin Pocket Watch from 1887 Early Look for Patrons!

🕑 Added 2025-01-26 05:27:30 +0000 UTC

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Brian Sturgill

At this point in time better quality and precision than Rolex and others. Beautiful piece.

Jesster

Hey Marshall, I messaged you about reviving a really interesting watch that my father left me when he passed away. I'd really like to talk to you about it when you have time. Thank you!

Brian M Patten

For me, at 43:35 the Patreon video halts. The YouTube video keeps going. It may just be me.

Michael Bertelson

Very, very cool movement. Nice work. I actually use round toothpicks for wiping out the jewel holes...any small holes for that matter. The other thing I have is a borescope that I connect to my cell phone. I clamp the camera end in a horizontal position and now I can see between the plates when I'm trying to align posts & jewels. I 3D printed a clamp setup from an .stl file I found on line and use an old Joby mini-tripod to hold my cell phone. You can find a borescope on Amazon for about $20. It's very tricky on smaller movements though. Not what I bought the scope for but it comes in handy. 😁

Bryan Lovejoy

Fun! I love pocket watches. What a great journey.

Greg Bolby

Met you once at a magic the gathering Grand Prix YEARS ago in Denver, had no idea you did watches until like 6 months ago. Been watching a lot of your videos and am diving in head first into watch making! Got a bunch of tools in the mail and a vintage Hamilton a-577 coming. Gonna leave that in the box for a bit and work on a cheap pocket watch and an st36 movement. But hopefully in two to three weeks I’ll get into the Hamilton and see what happens!! After I got a seiko 5 sports GMT I was hooked on mechanical watches! Thanks for the videos and inspiration to try my hand at this!

Jayeh

Just getting started on my watch repair journey and love the videos. Wish there was a better way to watch them cause this app sucks.

Robert Brown

Casting the video to my TV on this app doesn't work well. Not a fan.

Brett Combs

Watching your videos makes me look forward to getting home and sitting at my watch workbench. Great video, Marshall!

Dave E

Very very nice!

Robert A.

Couple quibbles: all railroad-grade watches are lever-set, but not all lever-set watches are railroad grade. I have some size 0s watches that are lever-set, and they are way too small to be considered railroad grade. Also, railroad watches were required to be open face with arabic numerals. So I'd guess that this watch movement is railroad grade but with the roman numeral face and hunter case, it probably wasn't used as a railroad watch... And, the inner dust cover is also present in a lot of open-face watches; the hunter case refers specifically to the cover over the face (and the winding stem at 3).

Robert A.

Ooh, a full-plate movement! I've ruined at least one of these...

Warren Wigutow

I’d love to know what a 19th century watchmaker’s tool kit would look like compared to what you have at your disposal. Is that something you might talk about in a future episode?

Matthew Tye

This is such a gorgeous movement! And I am still amazed that watchmakers in the 19th century could make such incredible precision parts by hand. Thanks for another wonderful video!

Ken Macauley

What a beautiful piece. Nice job!

Josh Easter

Very nice!!

Alex C

I feel for you so much. Working on my step-dad's great grandfathers Elgin, it had the same layout. It took me so incredibly long to get all the pivots to line up with the plate and the fork to slide into the slot for the balance

John Branderhorst

That is a gorgeous piece. Special looking case. I love working on pocket watches. I have a dozen of them in different stages of reassembly. It was you that gave me the confidence to take up this hobby. Thank you