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Amazing how they can produce something so complicated, pay import tax, free shipping, employees, materials etc. for that price and still make a profit. I may just buy one for the heck of it !
I've got one of these and absolutely love it. Scratches that Tourbillon itch on a peasants budget. One of the few watches I would buy again when it dies. Mine been running fine for 3 years now. For £50 you can't go wrong.
The tongue is a vital part of the regulating process 👀🤣, also the fact the watch was in the shape it was at the end is absolutely insane. Amazing what you can find online
Twas only an AliExpress watch Built with a bit of a botch But stripped to the metal And with your careful fettle It's still a bit of a hotchpotch Actually I quite like it ! Good video, thank you, and I've subscribed.
I highly doubt those screws are painted. It would be nearly impossible to actually get paint in the slot without it being too built up and causing problems. Heat treat bluing screws in bulk really isn't an expensive process
It is now a $400 watch. Great work. Apparently some Swiss watch makers put their watches together, then take them apart, clean the parts and put them together again before the watches are sold.
@@HorologyBiology The only thing I know about this is from watching these Super Fresh vids. I take your word for it! FYI, I love listening to the way you speak. If you get a chance, do another vid where you analyze some really bad restoration "fakes" etc. Your commentary was so funny, I had to play it for my wife.
I haven't been into watches since my collection was stolen in a home burglary in 2018 - 128 in all, ranging from Chinese Alphas to Breitling for Bentley. Recently, I stumbled onto one of your videos and my wallet hasn't been the same. You have brought back the love that I lost after the burglary. I want to thank you for reigniting the passion I had for watches once more. Thank you!
@@HorologyBiologyThank you for helping me find it again. It is appreciated. My wife had cancelled our home owner's insurance for a couple of months so we could bring her homeless mother down from Alaska before winter and she didn't tell me. The insurance was supposed to go back into effect on December 1. Burglary happened on November 28. A true disaster!
sorry bro, a house fire is worser, but you will recover...discover chinese or 100 yo watches quite intrigueing!! atomic clocks, outgrow rolex, go omega or jaylecoultre
This is the first video I've watched from your channel. One thing that struck me was how you say "offered" whenever you place parts into the timepiece. It's like saying time is godly and as a master in your work you're giving it the reverence and respect it deserves. Bravo! 👏
I watched this a few hours ago and I still can't figure out what I think about it. I kinda like the look but having the seconds and minutes separate seems so unbelievably wrong to me. I have been sitting here wondering if this is a complication or does that watch have two movements? Effectively, they are both doing the same thing but displaying the results differently. Also, your timograph results raise questions. What is it reading? Is it averaging the two movements? I would guess that both are working so well that the reading is accurate but what about when it needs servicing again? The sweeper could be fine while the the hour and minutes is dog crap. It's an interesting watch though. Almost makes me want to see how a maker would introduce further complications. They would have to be isolated to one movement, right? I love innovation but this feels novelty / innovation = weird
Thanks for watching. You lost me a little with the 2 movements. It’s just an extra gear train in the same movement. The regulation just needs to be completed one at a time
@@HorologyBiology I know lot's of Swiss makers make their parts in Asia and sell them as Swiss Made watches. Same as other famous brands troughout Europe.
As long as there is QC in the Chinese factory it would work. I am Swedish and know that the fishing reel brand ABU used Chinese ball bearing when moving the production to China. That only makes the 2:nd hand market for ABU reels pre 1999 high, and anyone buying a new fishing reel, goes for Japanese Shimano, still high quality.
@@freddan6fly QC and assemly of movement takes time and labor. Placing movement into the case is the easy part which is probably made in many companies together with final QC and sold as Swiss Made for example. There is nothing wrong with this. Watches are still good quality. Only minority of companies makes their watches in homeland but usually those are to expensive for most of the customers as they cost in thousands per unit.
They can make any quality you want - but no one will buy them. My friend owns Rital watches in Bulgaria, they have lots of stuff made in China [obviously]. when you get to about $500 per unit you are well past Rolex quality and edging towards Grand Seiko - the problem is with import duty and MOQ's and sales taxes you have to retail that out at $3k and no one will pay $3k for an unknown Chinese watch - they had a range that were all sapphire ceramic cases and bracelets with fantastic movement and even at €1500 [this was the EU] they could not sell them. You can go to a Chinese manufacturer with a design and a quality point and they will just make it for you - they will design the movement just for you and if you buy enough it will be $40 and it will NOT be rubbish
Im not really a fan of homage watches or the Ali Express stuff , however i have watched more videos showing how good some of the watches are from china , for 47 dollars someone has made that with a lot of intricate parts , it may be cheap parts but labour alone putting it together would make the price of the watch not worth selling as you would make a loss , sadly i guess thats the reason china can do it with their dodgy work practices. I am thinking of purchasing a couple to see whats out there , especially as some of the branded chinese manufacturers such as pagani etc.. are trying their hand at some original designs. For 70 dollars ive seen decent movements ,, sapphire glass etc.. more spec than a seiko for 3 times the price. Maybe i should stop being a snob and collect a few. As for the art of taking a watch apart and working on it and putting it back together , i bought a AAA rolex once to see what was in it in the hope of learning taking it apart and putting it back together,, lets just sa i took it apart ,,forgot what goes where , cant put it back together and so at least i have stopped one AAA rolex being on the market as that wont be working again 😂😂
I admire your Talents. I am a very old patagonian wath collector since the 50's and collaborated with many watchmakers. Almost all are dead or well into their 90's. I' wish you live in Argentina. Almost nobody is a watchmaker here anymore. Cheers from Patagonia Argentina.
Its still astounds me, and I must say kind of alarms me a little bit, that the Chinese can build something like this for this price.. Can you imagine how much it would cost if the military had to buy something like this???
For a cheap watch from a unknown micro brand, where did they get this strange movement? A movement like this needs alot of money to develop, even it is cheaply made from cheap metal.
If this watch had a small seconds movement and large hours and minutes movement then I'd be tempted, but I'm not a fan of the way around they've done things
Two mainspring barrells coupled together with an idler gear. How very Slava 24XX series of them! That said, if this movement was finished to a considerably higher standard and the price raised to $200, I think this could find a good niche in the watchmaking world.
The Slavas at least were using 2 barrels for larger power reserve and theoretically more consistent power delivery. This just seems like a whole lot more complicated with no direct technical benefit. It is eye-catching, though.
$47.00 ... $4 7 . 0 0 ... Really ?! If you needed proof of time travel to the past , there you have it ! All that and double balances and mainsprings ... and on top of that Matt , you get it to COSC spec !!! Any day now the Swiss and Germans are going to put out the Going Out of Business signs . 😉 Thanks for your labor, time and commentary Matt. Great work 👍🍻
I have an old watch kit... I wonder if I could do this. Ive owned quite a few aliexpress watches... they never last long but this looks like it makes them worthwhile!
I just bought a manual watch with strap from Temu for under €3 - it works and tells the time and looks decent enough. I don't know how they do it either.
I now do wonder if the vibrational coupling between the two running trains will indeed increase the accuracy of this watch. The fact that less energy is needed to drive either side, combined with the fact that the two mechanical oscillators are sharing the calibre body which would likely lead to the two eventually synchronising has the potential of making this guy quite accurate. Chinese watchmaking is quite fun. It is cheap, and thus attainable for most, which I think is great. All the parts may not have the finesse of a Swiss or Japanese watch, but still acceptable in quality. Nice to see this one dissected 😊
That was really quite fascinating. Having seen these double escapement watches on AliExpress and eBay I thought that maybe the second balance wheel was bogus and was probably driven, rather than driving anything. I was scratching my head as to how it could be regulated on the Timegrapher. Your method really did surprise me. To have one power reserve derived from 2 mainsprings, supplying energy to two balance wheels, one for the hours and mins while the other is for the seconds seems like a massively pointless over complication and probably one that will never catch on other than being a novelty for those of us in the know.
Pretty much bone dry like the previous AE one's I've done in the series. Maybe a little evidence of some in the mainspring barrel but nothing on the jewels.
That Ailang Double Balance is the Bee's Knees. If the finishing had been a little sharper, it might rival some of the latet out of Geneve. Remember, a Chinese Company took all the money at thelast awards period in Switzeland with that World Watch. I forget what they call it, but it is really unique. Dave Lowa
have you given the watch away? i really like this watch and would wear it daily for daily use ;) also i wanted to ask is the mechanical/tech inside the chinese watch would you say its similar to swiss made watches?
I have a similar Ailang watch in my Aliexpress cart. I like the look of the double balance, fake 'tourbillon', but I wasn't sure if it was a waste of money.
the quality of this movement is inexistent. one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. and it is filthy, covered with scratches...I must be frank: watching this isn`t a pleasant experience.
nice work!!! i love watches do, since the first time i spoted one back when i was 2 yeards old.. now aout to hit the big 4.0.... it was just love at the first sight, forever and ever and ever and ever!!! keep up the good work and these vids coming!!! thank you my MAn!!!
CNC machined parts will give good accuracy the finish of the surfaces is superficial and does not play a part in how well the watch will run. Attention to detail in assembly would be more important for the watch to work well. Polishing watch parts to a high degree takes much longer than making the parts accurate. That is why the cost is low on some watches.
So an I dependant balance for the seconds I first assumed that 1 would just be a decoration. I remeber seeing one movement in a fossil watch, no keyless works it was just the absolute minimum parts needed for a 3hz balance, mainspring and auto works with just a second hand the hour and min was a quartz... I was very confused when a friend told me he had a quartz auto and I assumed it was a spring drive..... It had a spring at least.
Great video, interesting watch. It would be really interesting to see a slow motion recording of the two balance wheels in motion, and another where one wheel is intentionally put out of sync with the other and then watch to see if they resynchronise. That two balance wheels can exhibit a resonance phenomenon whereby they keep a more stable rate paired together is of course the principle behind the FP Journe Chronometre a Resonance. Journe claimed that achieving resonance was very difficult, yet two ETA 6497 screwed down with the balances nearby on a brass plate seem to exhibit the behaviour. The theory is that the effect is due to mechanical coupling of the balances’ vibration through the plate. It would be really interesting to know if this cheap watch exhibits resonance too!!
I didn’t think about a slow no. But I believe now that one was much more out of sync as per the first timergrapher clip at the beginning as it went crazy for no reason. I think now because one was more out of sync with the other it confused the timergrapher resulting in that drastic change after a few seconds. A timergrapher can only listen to what is presented to it
FP Journe and other makers of multi escapement watches have said timegraphers are useless on them. If resonance is happening then it’ll be especially confusing for a timegrapher. The timegrapher listens for several impacts between components and assumes they happen in a specific order. Eg roller jewel hits fork, fork hits banking pin etc. Two escapements presenting those sounds simultaneously confuses them because they don’t and can’t identify which sound is which, they rely on the order of the sounds and assume what each sound is. They can’t distinguish a roller jewel hitting the fork from the fork hitting a banking pin. A slow motion would be fascinating to look for resonance. If you see resonance (synchronised balance motion), hold one balance stationary for a moment to get them out of sync and see if the system quickly establishes synchronicity again. I think there is a fair chance they will exhibit resonance.
@@HorologyBiologyI hadn’t quite reached the end of the video when I left my comment. The fact that the timegrapher gave a good trace, amplitude etc at the end suggests that they were synchronised by resonance and the noises that the timegrapher listens for were happening simultaneously in each escapement.
I've purchased several automatic watches from AE: Lige, Curren, Naviforce. Never saw this brand until I came across this video. New sub for the great content.
Fantastic job !! This kind of clock is very expensive here !! Even the ones of china !! I work with electronic devices and precision mechanics is a dream !!
I think what they tried to do is like what F.P. Journe does with the Chronomètre à Résonance. Would be interesting, if it actually has the sync-up effect, too.
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My Lesbian neighbors asked me what I wanted for my Birthday. They gave me a Rolex. I think they misunderstood when I said "I wanna watch."
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Yeah, I figured someone was bound to get triggered..🤣
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Solid results for a $47 watch! I’ve really been enjoying these new watch service videos. It’s nice to see what a great service can do.
Much appreciated! Thanks for watching
They call any open heart watch a Tourbillion.
It calls lost in translation. 😂
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This is fascinating. Cheers
Thanks for watching 👍🏻
That's a whole lot of stuff for what is basically nothing. A whole movement to run a second hand? They could have had a dual timezone or a calendar
Agreed! For the extra train inside it sure could have been utilised better
Double your pleasure!
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As an engineer, that much mechanism for $47 is a whole lot more impressive than something that's magnificent with a price to match. Much respect.
Many thanks
Amazing how they can produce something so complicated, pay import tax, free shipping, employees, materials etc. for that price and still make a profit. I may just buy one for the heck of it !
Probably very low employee wages I would think mate 😓
@@HorologyBiologythat’s the only thing that I hate about ordering from them but I still do it.
If we didn't buy one, they wouldn't be getting any wage.
Short term loss for long term progress
Yea they get paid like 10 grains of rice per hour 👍
I've got one of these and absolutely love it. Scratches that Tourbillon itch on a peasants budget. One of the few watches I would buy again when it dies. Mine been running fine for 3 years now. For £50 you can't go wrong.
Cheers for sharing 👍🏽
The tongue is a vital part of the regulating process 👀🤣, also the fact the watch was in the shape it was at the end is absolutely insane. Amazing what you can find online
😅😅😅😅 well spotted
Twas only an AliExpress watch
Built with a bit of a botch
But stripped to the metal
And with your careful fettle
It's still a bit of a hotchpotch
Actually I quite like it !
Good video, thank you, and I've subscribed.
😅👏🏻 well done
Makes you think how much BS there is in other watch maker pricing
Some yes but certainly not all 👍🏻
If Rolex and other brands didn’t charge so much, how would their CEO’s buy private jets?😂
I highly doubt those screws are painted. It would be nearly impossible to actually get paint in the slot without it being too built up and causing problems. Heat treat bluing screws in bulk really isn't an expensive process
Good shout. You are probably right thinking about it. Thanks for watching
It is now a $400 watch. Great work. Apparently some Swiss watch makers put their watches together, then take them apart, clean the parts and put them together again before the watches are sold.
Very true regarding the movements. Thanks for watching 👍🏽
This makes me think that the name brand watch makers are making a BIG profit margin.
The quality really isn’t comparable to be fair
@@HorologyBiology The only thing I know about this is from watching these Super Fresh vids. I take your word for it! FYI, I love listening to the way you speak. If you get a chance, do another vid where you analyze some really bad restoration "fakes" etc. Your commentary was so funny, I had to play it for my wife.
They must have seen your video, the price went up $5 :)
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difficult to believe that you can buy all this technology plus the time in making and assembling & marketing for such a small amount of money
It is surprising
Barrel bridge... from China with love, at 5:58 (see that heart shaped barrel? how sweet is that?!)
🥲 Thanks for watching
I haven't been into watches since my collection was stolen in a home burglary in 2018 - 128 in all, ranging from Chinese Alphas to Breitling for Bentley. Recently, I stumbled onto one of your videos and my wallet hasn't been the same. You have brought back the love that I lost after the burglary. I want to thank you for reigniting the passion I had for watches once more. Thank you!
Aw man that sucks. Glad that you have found your passion once again 💪🏻💪🏻
@@HorologyBiologyThank you for helping me find it again. It is appreciated. My wife had cancelled our home owner's insurance for a couple of months so we could bring her homeless mother down from Alaska before winter and she didn't tell me. The insurance was supposed to go back into effect on December 1. Burglary happened on November 28. A true disaster!
wow man, i'm sorry for you, i hope you have recovered from that.. what a bad situation
sorry bro, a house fire is worser, but you will recover...discover chinese or 100 yo watches quite intrigueing!! atomic clocks, outgrow rolex, go omega or jaylecoultre
Guys,If Richard Millie deserve deserve millions then don't they deserve 47 for making this😮
Thanks for watching
I have to say that’s one pretty watch, regardless of how much it costs 👌.
31 jewles !! its super high quality!! buy 1!! or 2!! beautiful!!
Idk if its cheap.i like it and can afford it. Maybe one day i can afford better but for now.... it'll do😊
Thanks for watching
its a very wonderful watch!!❤❤
This is the first video I've watched from your channel. One thing that struck me was how you say "offered" whenever you place parts into the timepiece. It's like saying time is godly and as a master in your work you're giving it the reverence and respect it deserves. Bravo! 👏
Haha thanks very much 👍🏻 thanks for watching also
me too lol it just adds more magic
I watched this a few hours ago and I still can't figure out what I think about it. I kinda like the look but having the seconds and minutes separate seems so unbelievably wrong to me. I have been sitting here wondering if this is a complication or does that watch have two movements? Effectively, they are both doing the same thing but displaying the results differently. Also, your timograph results raise questions. What is it reading? Is it averaging the two movements? I would guess that both are working so well that the reading is accurate but what about when it needs servicing again? The sweeper could be fine while the the hour and minutes is dog crap.
It's an interesting watch though. Almost makes me want to see how a maker would introduce further complications. They would have to be isolated to one movement, right?
I love innovation but this feels novelty / innovation = weird
Thanks for watching. You lost me a little with the 2 movements. It’s just an extra gear train in the same movement. The regulation just needs to be completed one at a time
If they can make this complex mechanism for 47$...what kind of quality can they make for 1000$-1500$ per unit???
You would think
@@HorologyBiology I know lot's of Swiss makers make their parts in Asia and sell them as Swiss Made watches. Same as other famous brands troughout Europe.
As long as there is QC in the Chinese factory it would work. I am Swedish and know that the fishing reel brand ABU used Chinese ball bearing when moving the production to China. That only makes the 2:nd hand market for ABU reels pre 1999 high, and anyone buying a new fishing reel, goes for Japanese Shimano, still high quality.
@@freddan6fly QC and assemly of movement takes time and labor. Placing movement into the case is the easy part which is probably made in many companies together with final QC and sold as Swiss Made for example. There is nothing wrong with this. Watches are still good quality. Only minority of companies makes their watches in homeland but usually those are to expensive for most of the customers as they cost in thousands per unit.
They can make any quality you want - but no one will buy them. My friend owns Rital watches in Bulgaria, they have lots of stuff made in China [obviously].
when you get to about $500 per unit you are well past Rolex quality and edging towards Grand Seiko - the problem is with import duty and MOQ's and sales taxes you have to retail that out at $3k and no one will pay $3k for an unknown Chinese watch - they had a range that were all sapphire ceramic cases and bracelets with fantastic movement and even at €1500 [this was the EU] they could not sell them.
You can go to a Chinese manufacturer with a design and a quality point and they will just make it for you - they will design the movement just for you and if you buy enough it will be $40 and it will NOT be rubbish
I have a similar Ailang watch, thing has been running for over three years now. I love the design with the double balance wheels.
Thanks for sharing 👍🏻👍🏻
If that's really only $47 that's impressive....
Agreed
Im not really a fan of homage watches or the Ali Express stuff , however i have watched more videos showing how good some of the watches are from china , for 47 dollars someone has made that with a lot of intricate parts , it may be cheap parts but labour alone putting it together would make the price of the watch not worth selling as you would make a loss , sadly i guess thats the reason china can do it with their dodgy work practices.
I am thinking of purchasing a couple to see whats out there , especially as some of the branded chinese manufacturers such as pagani etc.. are trying their hand at some original designs.
For 70 dollars ive seen decent movements ,, sapphire glass etc.. more spec than a seiko for 3 times the price.
Maybe i should stop being a snob and collect a few.
As for the art of taking a watch apart and working on it and putting it back together , i bought a AAA rolex once to see what was in it in the hope of learning taking it apart and putting it back together,, lets just sa i took it apart ,,forgot what goes where , cant put it back together and so at least i have stopped one AAA rolex being on the market as that wont be working again 😂😂
😅😅 thanks for sharing
Double everthing but not the price! Amazing construction.
Thanks for watching
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I admire your Talents. I am a very old patagonian wath collector since the 50's and collaborated with many watchmakers. Almost all are dead or well into their 90's. I' wish you live in Argentina. Almost nobody is a watchmaker here anymore. Cheers from Patagonia Argentina.
Many thanks for watching and of course enjoying watches :)
@@HorologyBiology it is an honour ho our.
Its still astounds me, and I must say kind of alarms me a little bit, that the Chinese can build something like this for this price.. Can you imagine how much it would cost if the military had to buy something like this???
A lot 🤑🤑
For a cheap watch from a unknown micro brand, where did they get this strange movement? A movement like this needs alot of money to develop, even it is cheaply made from cheap metal.
Cheers for watching
Looks good for $50 imo
Hi Matt super fresh video mate
I did that Certina with your video yes it's done!
did you see Mike with Lee Mac.
haha I did yeah, I was actually having messages with him earlier this evening.
So cool that he had online video chats with Lee Mac.
It has such a cheap shine to it 😂
So much bling so much shine
@@HorologyBiology even the cheapest metal shines when chrome plated 😅
I guess it made the service a bit harder with this mirror shine.
I wore shades
@@HorologyBiology 😂😂😂😂😂
If this watch had a small seconds movement and large hours and minutes movement then I'd be tempted, but I'm not a fan of the way around they've done things
Thanks for watching
#2 is regular batons for hour, min and sec but includes a moon phase powered by 2nd flywheel.
Two mainspring barrells coupled together with an idler gear. How very Slava 24XX series of them! That said, if this movement was finished to a considerably higher standard and the price raised to $200, I think this could find a good niche in the watchmaking world.
Could be. It’s a very pointless example of something over engineered that actually doesn’t fix anything really. Saying that tho it looks pretty cool
The Slavas at least were using 2 barrels for larger power reserve and theoretically more consistent power delivery. This just seems like a whole lot more complicated with no direct technical benefit. It is eye-catching, though.
$47.00 ... $4 7 . 0 0 ... Really ?!
If you needed proof of time travel to the past , there you have it !
All that and double balances and mainsprings ... and on top of that Matt , you get it to COSC spec !!!
Any day now the Swiss and Germans are going to put out the Going Out of Business signs . 😉
Thanks for your labor, time and commentary Matt. Great work 👍🍻
COSC spec lol come on butter me some more hehe
It was more like SFSN spec
Can everyone unsubscribe so I can win the watch, thanks! 🤪
This guy 😅
I gotta start using the rodico to pick up screws instead of trying to tweeze them all the time and periodically pinging them across the room
Haha I would like human size rodico 😅
@@HorologyBiology Pick em up and de-grease them at the same time eh, double whammy
I just subscribed would love to see a vintage Timex mechanical service.
Maybe in the future
still looks more complicated than Jacobs and co
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I have an old watch kit... I wonder if I could do this. Ive owned quite a few aliexpress watches... they never last long but this looks like it makes them worthwhile!
I would say go for it if you would like to take it up as a hobby 👍🏻
Wonderful work as always, I actually quite liked that watch, looked a tad thick but actually nice to see two hair spings going like the clappers :D
Cheers Trevor 👍🏽👍🏽
Mechanical watches intrigue me. Started my interest in watches.
Welcome aboard. Might hurt the wallet. a little in the long run lol
Same here! Been about a year into it!
buy this watch!!❤❤❤ its a great start!!
I'm amazed that a nice-looking watch like this one can go for under $50.00!
Thanks for watching
Next one 2 balances - double face for 2 time zones?
5 Balances, 8 mainsprings and 3 dozen escape wheels. They must be out there lol
I guessed that one drove the minute hand and the other the hour. Close but no cigar. 😁
Haha you were nearly there
to open a
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I frigging love this series. Such a great idea. Super fresh indeed. Thanks for doing it
Welcome 👍🏻👍🏻
How much would your work shown here cost?
I was wondering how those two balancers would end up working together. Well I'm sad they don't
Well they do run independently
Ailang und sohne lol 😁
😅😅😅😅 that’s a good one
@@HorologyBiology did i deserve a sticker now hahahahaha
How on earth can they make something like that and sell it for $47?
I just bought a manual watch with strap from Temu for under €3 - it works and tells the time and looks decent enough. I don't know how they do it either.
Labor can go even less than 10 US dollars a day, that's one of the main answers how to do it
@@pihermoso11 10 dollars is what they make a month bro
Cheap labour unfortunately I assume :(
Yes, for sure, but I would think even the PARTS of the watch would cost more than 47 bucks.
I now do wonder if the vibrational coupling between the two running trains will indeed increase the accuracy of this watch.
The fact that less energy is needed to drive either side, combined with the fact that the two mechanical oscillators are sharing the calibre body which would likely lead to the two eventually synchronising has the potential of making this guy quite accurate.
Chinese watchmaking is quite fun. It is cheap, and thus attainable for most, which I think is great. All the parts may not have the finesse of a Swiss or Japanese watch, but still acceptable in quality.
Nice to see this one dissected 😊
You are more than likely correct as the second side would use nowhere near as much energy (or delayed friction) as the hour and minute train
That movement is too shiny, the bad type of shining
😂 I hear you
to design , make and sell a mechanical watch for $47 and make a profit . HOW is that done. you easy doubled it's worth just by adding lube.
lube 😂
That was really quite fascinating.
Having seen these double escapement watches on AliExpress and eBay I thought that maybe the second balance wheel
was bogus and was probably driven, rather than driving anything.
I was scratching my head as to how it could be regulated on the Timegrapher. Your method really did surprise me.
To have one power reserve derived from 2 mainsprings, supplying energy to two balance wheels, one for the hours and mins
while the other is for the seconds seems like a massively pointless over complication and probably one that will never catch on
other than being a novelty for those of us in the know.
Thanks for watching. It really is a gimmick but at least it genuinely is powered.
How is it possible to manufacture that, sell it and manage some kind of profit 😮for 47$😮
Was there any evidence that the watch had been oiled at the factory, or was it just dry-assembled?
Pretty much bone dry like the previous AE one's I've done in the series. Maybe a little evidence of some in the mainspring barrel but nothing on the jewels.
That Ailang Double Balance is the Bee's Knees. If the finishing had been a little sharper, it might rival some of the latet out of Geneve. Remember, a Chinese Company took all the money at thelast awards period in Switzeland with that World Watch. I forget what they call it, but it is really unique.
Dave Lowa
Thanks for watching Dave 👍🏽
Makes me want to buy one to see if I can get anything close to the results you did! :)
Go for it
@@HorologyBiology I did... Got myself a $9 "Winner" from AliExpress... after servicing, got it to run close to perfect. Thanks for the inspiration!
Two hearts that beat as one (hopefully).
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have you given the watch away? i really like this watch and would wear it daily for daily use ;) also i wanted to ask is the mechanical/tech inside the chinese watch would you say its similar to swiss made watches?
I gave the watch to a friend of mine. No the quality is not as good as Swiss
Looks like amazing value for little money. Good video. Thanks for sharing. John
Thanks for watching!
You did a great job on the watch. The numbers on the timegrapher look really good. Thanks for the video
Thanks Darryll 👍🏻👍🏻
That is a beautiful watch with dual balances. wow thanks for the lesson!
My pleasure!
I have a similar Ailang watch in my Aliexpress cart. I like the look of the double balance, fake 'tourbillon', but I wasn't sure if it was a waste of money.
I think it’s ok for the price. It is what it is, nothing more
Pretty advanced watch for an ali watch
Thanks for watching
Watch Speaking: Oooh, those hands so gentle. That bath and oil so refreshing.. And that Tounge!!! . If I never go back to China, I'm good!
😂😂😂 Cheers for watching
the quality of this movement is inexistent. one of the ugliest things I've ever seen. and it is filthy, covered with scratches...I must be frank: watching this isn`t a pleasant experience.
I can send you a therapy voucher 😅
If one’s good, two’s better!
3 would be a crowd tho 😅
Oh my, why not putting 3 movements together, one for every hand?
lol why not 4 👍🏽👍🏽
@@HorologyBiology
Good idea, better safe than sorry I say. 🤔
Very interesting that they're able to do all this in the budget that they have. Impressive
Agreed, thanks for watching
nice work!!! i love watches do, since the first time i spoted one back when i was 2 yeards old.. now aout to hit the big 4.0.... it was just love at the first sight, forever and ever and ever and ever!!! keep up the good work and these vids coming!!! thank you my MAn!!!
Thanks very much 👍🏽
I liked and subscribed, now I better get that watch! Haha just kidding 😄
Great content mate!
Thanks for the sub!
If I didn’t get stickers it wouldn’t be fresh! 😊
lol this guy 😂
this guy deserves more viewers love his videos
Many thanks
CNC machined parts will give good accuracy the finish of the surfaces is superficial and does
not play a part in how well the watch will run. Attention to detail in assembly would be more important for the watch to work well.
Polishing watch parts to a high degree takes much longer than making the parts accurate. That is why the cost is low on some watches.
this watch goes around 270 rmb on Chinese alibaba, 47 dollars is not a rip off if shipping was free. Anyway it's a cheap ripoff
Not exactly sure what you mean with rip off. Not sure what it is ripping off
@@HorologyBiology sometimes you would get things way expensive on aliexpress than alibaba.
So an I dependant balance for the seconds I first assumed that 1 would just be a decoration.
I remeber seeing one movement in a fossil watch, no keyless works it was just the absolute minimum parts needed for a 3hz balance, mainspring and auto works with just a second hand the hour and min was a quartz... I was very confused when a friend told me he had a quartz auto and I assumed it was a spring drive..... It had a spring at least.
Ooo that Fossil 😳
There is a terrible gaudy side of me that likes this watch.
lol embrace it haha
Well, that's an over-complicated movement, but at least there's no plastic wheels as they use at Seiko...
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Someone in the company ordered too many balancing wheels.
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Double the pleasure double the fun.
😅 thanks for watching
oh lordy. as soon as this ting is opened it looks cheap n nasty - badly finished then given an ott electroplating
11:16 for example: shiny shiny, nasty blingy. cheese n rice
15:55: those wheels look HORRID ..................... jus sayin !!
the more electoplating the better it looks 😂😂😂
Weird, but a lot of moving parts (LOL!) for $47. How can they even do that?
Nice show Mr. HB ... thx.
Many thanks for watching :)
Great video, interesting watch.
It would be really interesting to see a slow motion recording of the two balance wheels in motion, and another where one wheel is intentionally put out of sync with the other and then watch to see if they resynchronise.
That two balance wheels can exhibit a resonance phenomenon whereby they keep a more stable rate paired together is of course the principle behind the FP Journe Chronometre a Resonance.
Journe claimed that achieving resonance was very difficult, yet two ETA 6497 screwed down with the balances nearby on a brass plate seem to exhibit the behaviour. The theory is that the effect is due to mechanical coupling of the balances’ vibration through the plate.
It would be really interesting to know if this cheap watch exhibits resonance too!!
I didn’t think about a slow no.
But I believe now that one was much more out of sync as per the first timergrapher clip at the beginning as it went crazy for no reason. I think now because one was more out of sync with the other it confused the timergrapher resulting in that drastic change after a few seconds. A timergrapher can only listen to what is presented to it
FP Journe and other makers of multi escapement watches have said timegraphers are useless on them.
If resonance is happening then it’ll be especially confusing for a timegrapher.
The timegrapher listens for several impacts between components and assumes they happen in a specific order. Eg roller jewel hits fork, fork hits banking pin etc.
Two escapements presenting those sounds simultaneously confuses them because they don’t and can’t identify which sound is which, they rely on the order of the sounds and assume what each sound is.
They can’t distinguish a roller jewel hitting the fork from the fork hitting a banking pin.
A slow motion would be fascinating to look for resonance. If you see resonance (synchronised balance motion), hold one balance stationary for a moment to get them out of sync and see if the system quickly establishes synchronicity again.
I think there is a fair chance they will exhibit resonance.
@@HorologyBiologyI hadn’t quite reached the end of the video when I left my comment.
The fact that the timegrapher gave a good trace, amplitude etc at the end suggests that they were synchronised by resonance and the noises that the timegrapher listens for were happening simultaneously in each escapement.
Mr. Bartender, a double please! 🙋♂🥃🥃
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your workmanship and diligence 💯
+respect
Thank you
47 is really cheap...
Agreed
I've purchased several automatic watches from AE: Lige, Curren, Naviforce. Never saw this brand until I came across this video. New sub for the great content.
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching
I bought one one hoping, but not expecting real Tourbillon movement. Enjoy seeing what I really bought, thanks
Hope you enjoy it!
Did you get it yet and does it keep time fairly accurately?
Fantastic job !! This kind of clock is very expensive here !! Even the ones of china !! I work with electronic devices and precision mechanics is a dream !!
Many thanks for watching
A fascinating movement. Someone in their R&D went out and bought an AP to reverse engineer then.... It did grow on me too by the end of the video. 👍
Thanks for sharing! haha I kind of had the same thing.. it grew on me a little.
I think what they tried to do is like what F.P. Journe does with the Chronomètre à Résonance. Would be interesting, if it actually has the sync-up effect, too.
True, thanks for watching 👍🏽
I really need to know where you get them "things" on your fingers or what they are called. My husband needs them for my birth control.
😅 poor guy, they are really small
How much would such a service cost on average? It'd probably still be worth the price by turning a good value watch into a great running watch. .
I suppose it really depends who is doing it and what the watch means to the owner