A Message From My Favorite "Watchmaker" On That Other Video Platform

Finally, I got the comment I've been waiting for! A personal message from Mr. Personal-ity!

When I saw Mr. Personal-ity trolling the professional watchmakers that I follow like @natecharleswatches I invited him to come critique my work - and it worked!

I start this video with his comment, and therefore what he clearly desires the most, attention! And I follow it with my most misleading work to date: my spoof of the traditional twenty minute edited watch restoration video. If you've already seen this video I apologize, but it is my best work (or perhaps this video is: https://youtu.be/jfN4uUNKq_E) In any case, you will almost certainly enjoy watching it over and over again regardless of how many times you've already see it. It is that good.

I made this video to answer a question that I had about many of the videos that I was watching at the time in which "watchmakers" showed themselves removing and replacing the tiny screws and gears on various watch movements while jauntily telling stories in voiceovers about the owners of the watches and the history of the watch brands, often punctuated by references to their own skills, tools, love, and knowledge of watchmaking.

Doubting that those other videos were telling the whole story, and understanding that almost any skill can be faked with editing, I set out to fake it myself before I embarked on actually learning watchmaking. Is this the very misleading video that Mr. Personal-ity was referring to? I sure hope so! And if so, I am guilty as charged!

My knowledge of watchmaking has improved over the past few months, largely as a result of changing my diet of YouTube videos from watch entertainers to watchmakers. I have also made an effort to link to and discuss videos and resources for professional watchmaking and professional watch repair throughout the videos on this channel, and I will continue to do so, to help you find those same resources: i.e. real watchmakers taking the time to actually teach watchmaking.

Eventually I will attempt to do a "proper" rebuild of the same Cal 44 movement in this video, also in realtime, as I continue to document my own progress on my journey of learning watchmaking.

While I don't expect anyone to watch all 16 hours of the realtime source videos below, please click around on their timelines just to see for yourself that I literally had no idea what I was doing. And, importantly, keep the following quote from the edited version above in mind as you do that:

"I find this really relaxing and easy. Working on watches is something I do in my quiet time and as you can see it's very quick and just requires a little bit of concentration and a kind of zen attitude about it. It's not as difficult as it looks. Everything just goes back where it came from."

I encourage you to question all of the other watch restoration videos on YouTube. Are they all fake? No. But almost all of them are edited. And discovering for myself what might be hidden between those edits is what interested me in actually learning watchmaking myself and sharing my real experiences with you.

Disassembly *4.5 hours:

https://rumble.com/v3jtxqq-iwc-cal-44-disassembly-realtime-4-hours.html

Reassembly *11.5 hours:

https://rumble.com/v3juu8w-iwc-cal-44-reassembly-realtime-12-hours-1.html

My videos are for entertainment and educational purposes only. Critical / corrective comments and links to resources including other watchmaking channels are welcome.

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