15-Year-Old Found This (Really Nice) Watch at a Flea Market

Hey Marshall, Maximilian here, Thank you so much for doing this restoration for me. It a dream come true to get my watch restored by a legend like you :) Its really nice of you to send me a watchmaking starter box. I will enjoy it while thinking about this fantastic adventure. So thank you so much for that, its very generous of you :) Thank you all for all for the very nice comments. Its almost overwhelming. I am glad you all like the watch, i love it myself and will wear it with great pleasure now it have been serviced. It will put a smile on my face when i check the time :) Thank you so much Marshall! The best regards from Denmark🇩🇰

Marshall, just confirming your "suspicion" that people who don't care about watches find this interesting. I am a video producer, and have no desire to buy expensive watches (or any non digital watch truthfully), yet I am addicted to your content, your ability to calmly walk through the process and provide a friendly space. I put your videos up while editing my videos as a calm way to drudge through hours of interviews. Thank you for keeping this hobby alive and available for those of us who are curious but have no interest in doing it ourselves.

That is probably one of the ‘prettier’ movements I’ve seen on this channel in some time. What a find!

As always. Shout out to the radium girls. Brave workers who gave too much.

The moment you opened the watch up knocked my socks off. What a gorgeous movement

I also live in Denmark & this is also one of my favourite hobbies. My best find was a vintage Oris Worldtimer. Found it in an old barn converted into a thrift market. I bought it for 50kr (7 USD). It's amazing how many watches are discarded in these places! Great find by young Maximilian.

Thank you for inviting us into your workshop, and thank you Maximilian for sending the watch

I don't know the first thing about watches, and I don't know how I found this, but this might be some of the most interesting content I've seen in a very long time. The way this man describes the process and the respect for the owners and the watches and the stories behind everything, is truly next level. I can't stop watching these videos. Bravo Marshall. We share a 1st name so that doesn't hurt either :)

Hi Marshall, just want to share my journey in watch making. Your videos has been an inspiration for me to fix my mom's wedding watch. I've been years ago decided to restore it but nobody in my country wanted to take on a watch as vintage and as small as my mom's 60s Seiko. Watching your videos, I finally got that push to try it myself. So i bought a skmei and 2 fngeen automatic watches to sacrifice as my test/training units. I broke one, got a slip of hand while trying to remove the case, ruined the hairspring assembly. The second one, a fngeen runs a bit weird, as the second hand sweeps irregularly. Got that one technically free, the seller just refund me without wanting the watch back. Its $15. So I disassembled it, reassembled it, does it several times and it wont work right until I found that a jewel has tiny crack on it. I harvest one from the ruined movement and it runs considerably smoother with +7 seconds a day. Then, I moved to my mom's watch. Its really just needed a service, its handwound only, so the mechanical side of thing is relatively much simpler but with much smaller parts. I needed a much better digital microscope for it. I really just disassembled it, clean it with ultrasonic cleaner and pegwood, and relubricate it. It runs now, and seeing my mom's adoring face seeing her watch returned to a working state makes me feel great, and I really just sacrificed a $15 watch to do it. Thank you for the videos, its a wealth of knowledge for an enthusiast like me and as I sees it now, for younger generations as well. I love these videos you made and the passion you've channelled through it. Thank you sir.

Grandparents are one of life's greatest blessings and gifts, Maximilian. Take advantage of each and every opportunity to spend time with them, and to learn from them. I'm in my early 50s, and I still try and endeavor to be more like my grandparents each day. Cool watch, BTW!

Was lying in bed, sicker than a dog with covid, when your vid posted. Now I have something to distract me as I cough up my kidneys. Lol. Thanks Marshal.

K, let's set up a fund to get this kid one of your kits! NEVERMIND! As I was typing this you said you're sending him a kit. 🤣 Good on ya! Love it!

Just a tip about the ultrasonic cleaner, for those who might be novices with them. You can put your parts in a container or ziplock bag and the action will still work on the parts. So you can have the cleaner filled with regular water, and put your specific cleaners in your container with the parts. Allows your cleaner to go further, don't need to change water, and means your parts are nicely contained. Glass works best but plastic is ok.

Sharing a skill with anyone who is curious, especially a young person, is something I encourage anyone to do should the opportunity arise. I am a telephone cable splicer and was working on a noisy line in a city housing project once and one kid in particular took an interest in what I was doing. I let him see the microfische plat that showed the "map" of the cable I was working on, I brought down the corroded splice module to show him what was causing the noise, I showed him how my meter worked. Who knows where something like this can lead? Maybe the kid will be an engineer someday. Always share what you know!

I really enjoy people being experts in their fields and doing it well. Watchwork, lawn work, restorations, coding, professional cleaners, mechanics, carpenters, blacksmiths, farriers, hoof trimmers, electricians, plumbers, builders ... it doesn't matter what the profession or hobby, only that it is done and done well. And those that spend the time and effort to record, edit, and share their work so we all can increase our knowledge on what it takes and even pick up things that might be important one day are a gold mine of dad/grandpa energy that is sorely missing in this day and age.

Thanks for doing this watch for your young fan. Like you say, got to inspire the younger generation for watchmaker’s career. I’m sure it something his family will always remember.

Thats a nice story, very happy that maximilian gets to watch you work on his watch. I am also from Denmark, so nice to hear a fellow young watch enthusiast being so exited :) God fornøjelse med uret Maximilian :)

Probably one of the best vintage watch restorations I’ve ever seen, I love the look.

It's so cool, that you will send a starter kit to this Maximillian. Good on you!

You did it again Guru! No bling bling, no excess, just pure elegance and respect for beauty.