Solid Gold Elgin Pocket Watch from 1887 Early Look for Patrons!
Added 2025-01-26 05:27:30 +0000 UTCHey All,
Enjoy this early, commercial free look at the nearly final cut (just missing the final shot!) of the next video going up on the channel. This one is for an extended family member, and it's an extremely nice Elgin pocket watch from 1887 with a solid gold case emblazoned with elk on many of its surfaces. It also has an amazing movement with a balance wheel forward design, just my style!
I'm trying out a relatively new feature here on Patreon where I can upload this directly to Patreon rather than upload to YouTube and then post it over here, if there's any issues I can go back to the other way no problem
Enjoy!
Marshall
Comments
At this point in time better quality and precision than Rolex and others. Beautiful piece.
Brian Sturgill
2025-03-25 17:54:04 +0000 UTCHey 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!
Jesster
2025-03-21 17:22:25 +0000 UTCFor me, at 43:35 the Patreon video halts. The YouTube video keeps going. It may just be me.
Brian M Patten
2025-01-31 02:08:03 +0000 UTCVery, 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. 😁
Michael Bertelson
2025-01-29 12:56:20 +0000 UTCFun! I love pocket watches. What a great journey.
Bryan Lovejoy
2025-01-29 00:15:57 +0000 UTCMet 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!
Greg Bolby
2025-01-28 04:06:43 +0000 UTCJust getting started on my watch repair journey and love the videos. Wish there was a better way to watch them cause this app sucks.
Jayeh
2025-01-28 01:48:29 +0000 UTCCasting the video to my TV on this app doesn't work well. Not a fan.
Robert Brown
2025-01-28 00:37:37 +0000 UTCWatching your videos makes me look forward to getting home and sitting at my watch workbench. Great video, Marshall!
Brett Combs
2025-01-27 21:13:29 +0000 UTCVery very nice!
Dave E
2025-01-27 09:36:45 +0000 UTCCouple 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.
2025-01-27 02:19:57 +0000 UTCOoh, a full-plate movement! I've ruined at least one of these...
Robert A.
2025-01-27 02:16:30 +0000 UTCI’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?
Warren Wigutow
2025-01-26 20:56:00 +0000 UTCThis 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!
Matthew Tye
2025-01-26 16:54:08 +0000 UTCWhat a beautiful piece. Nice job!
Ken Macauley
2025-01-26 15:09:51 +0000 UTCVery nice!!
Josh Easter
2025-01-26 10:20:16 +0000 UTCI 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
Alex C
2025-01-26 06:16:23 +0000 UTCThat 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
John Branderhorst
2025-01-26 05:52:03 +0000 UTC
