New Complication on this LeCoultre Watch Restoration !!!
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- Опубликовано: 9 дек 2022
- I always wanted to restore a vintage Jaeger LeCoultre power reserve watch. I managed to find this watch at auction. In this video we will discover how this complication is working on this inhouse caliber 481 from Jaeger LeCoultre. Hope you will enjoy the restoration of this vintage watch.
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Love the history of vintage watches. They tell not only time but a story.
so true
I just truly love the level of craftsmanship that goes into these vintage watches. To make something like these watches without the machinery of today is unthinkable to me. I can't comprehend it.
The beauty of manual craftsmanship
Very beautiful & unique movement. Why we like vintage watches? Because they remind us of a time when nice things and feelings were not disposable.
So true
Why am I so into Vintage watches? I see the beauty and craftsmanship that went into these pieces. The look and feel cannot be replicated. So many companies have lost touch with their products for money where Vintage manufacturers were about making pieces that could be handed down for generations not just tossed in the trash
This is the beauty of a product that was manufactured with another goal in mind than profit and being disposable
I love time and how humans have captured it. Antique watches still retain their connection with the stars and solar time. I love their complications and the exquisite craftsmanship used to produce them.
So true 👍
I love vintage watches because the manufacturers back then put alot of care in their products.
For sure they did
Thanks for the videos FWC. I love these vintage watches because they show what people were capable of before fancy computers and 3D printing etc.
Well said!
Assemling is like meditation, no thoughts only focus. Best.
Thank you
I love vintage watches because each has its own history, which we can only imagine now. Some watchmakers would scribe the date and other information into the case back, so sometimes we can have a glimpse into its service history. But when we repair them after sitting in a drawer for many years, they begin a new life!
True that new watches don't have the history
Being vintage myself, I just have to love vintage watches. ;)
hahaha 👍
Good job as usual and the reason why I like mechanical watches is precisely because they are mechanical.
No batteries needed and they are beautiful.
Thank you for these recordings.
Thanks for the comment
What a beautiful watch! The decoration is freaking amazing! Vintage watches are so charismatic!
You said it. This is why I love working on vintage watches
You repair the most lovely watches, the LeCoutre is beautiful.
Thanks David. They are great pieces
I like vintage watches because they are ia testimony that incredible things were made decades ago, that human taste changes through the years, and that with care things can last.
Well said
Fantastic Watch and nice job. Vintage Watches are Art and construction that we still enjoy in new watches.
Thank you
I learn more and more from you every video, I love working on vintage watches mainly because of the quality and craftsmanship way back then
Yes it was another era.
The blue strap on the watch looked great!!! loved it!!!
I think so too!
Once again. An amazing display. the explanations of the disassemble and subsequent re-build are such a pleasure to listen too. It's one of the reasons I enjoy the hobby of watch repair. Thank you.
Glad you like it Ross
I always love to watch restoration of vintage watches...this reminds me of the engineers from the past.
For sure there is evidence from the great engineirng from the past
I love the way there is no room for ego when working on a vintage watch. You either do it right or not at all.
You always improve on things but at the end when you put it on the timegrapher it doesn't lie
I love vintage watches because they are beautiful. I am a machinist by trade. I know how hard it is to make small parts, and make them identical. With a little basic maintenance, something 70+ years old can keep perfect time. It's just a testament to great engineering and craftsmanship.
Yes they are!
i think i love vintages watches so much because i too, am vintage 😂
Hahaha
I appreciate your explanation of the intricacies of how this watch works. Great job!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Another well done and very informative video. I love vintage watches, I started wearing a watch in 1955, a Christmas present from my Mom and Father. I am 72 years old now and always have a watch on my hand. All my watches are manual or automatic. For a short time I had several quartz, however, only have manual now. I feel manual watches have a life, to listen to the ticking and see the movement is a joy to me. Lately I have been wearing a old Citizen automatic I purchased in 1970while in the Air Force. Thank you!
Mechanical watches are very special. Nice to enjoy a nice citizen
This is another classy vintage watch that achieved a great result after your restoration. I like these vintage watches because they are so unique in their style and also inside in the movement such as with this bumper.
Vintage automatic watches with bumper are great
Beautiful watch. Really interesting solutions to the functions of the mechanisms. That’s another thing I enjoy about vintage watches. Great job 🍷🍷.
The diversity on the calibers is great. Makes it more fun
This watch has one beautiful movement. So different from what I'm used to seeing. Another great video.
It really is!
Beautiful watch you have just restored. Vintage watches for the price look so much more expensive compared to new releases for similar money. Thanks fir sharing.
Thanks for watching!
Is this one of the most Beautiful watches I have seen in my Life? Mais oui, bien sûr! But one doesn’t realize this, until you unearth its Beauty, mon Ami. Another amazing job. Merci Beaucoup once again.
Thank you for your support👍
I like vintage watches for their ingenious solutions and variety of movements. I would like to enjoy that beautiful longines in my collection. Happy X-mas
Thanks for the support and good luck
Very unique and beautiful movement. Vintage watches are also very unique from each other unlike the modern ones which are very similar, in my point of view. That is one of the reasons I like vintage watches so much.
For sure they have character
Perfect lovely vintage condition with a rare power reserve feature. Keep well from New Zealand 🇳🇿
Thank you Bruce
I love what I know now are vintage watches since I was a child. My grandad used to service his own watches and I sat for hours in amazement watching him take them apart and put them back together again. I about to start my own journey in learning servicing vintage watches and I take great inspiration from your channel, it definately gives me the confidence to start off myself. I would love to win the watch!! Beautiful!!🤞
Thank you so much for sharing this great story. Good luck for the giveaway
I like the face and style of that Le Coutre.
It is a nice one
Thanks for posting… you are the busiest guy online I think😊👍
That balance shock spring is just like my WW2 Cyma manual wind. Interesting design.
Hahaha fo sure it takes a lot of my time. This is what you call a passion
That is a very unusual movement. Definitely very well made. The finishing on the movement is outstanding considering it's not something that is on display. Great video, thanks 👍
Glad you like it!
Hello, first time to see a power reserve complication, quite simple , or JJL make it simple, very nice calibre, still saying that you are lucky, and glad that you are sharing this with us! thank you
It is a nice complication and I love JLC calibers. Happy to share it with you
Watch movement I find to be so beautiful. I love seeing these restorations. Truly inspiring. So old, but with such attention to detail. I love them. Thank you for the videos. Please keep them coming.
They will be coming don't worry
Great video! love the diversity of watches you have on your channel. I lookforward to your uploads they give me inspiration to continue on my watchmaking journey. Thank you!
Thank you so much for your support. It keeps me motivated to post more
Just discovered your channel... I liked the voice over and the rithm of your video. I like vintage watches because they show me what amazing things were done before computers and robots, where the focus was in the quality and people were proud of their work.
Thanks for your support Mario
What a lovely watch and movement, enjoy that beauty my friend
Thank you
Another beautiful watch and video documentary to match!
Many thanks!
I love how all gears come alive to with it's own beating heart. Tictoc
The beauty of the gear train
Love vintage watches for the patina on the dials.
For sure this is unique
Beautiful watch. I recently purchased an Alarm Vintage watch that I will try to give new life to. Vintage watches are beautiful and were designed to run for several lifetimes if serviced.
I serviced a Vulcain Cricket which is an alarm watch on the channel. They are great fun
The unessential elegance of LeCoultre is delightful
Thanks Ian
Great looking watch and great work. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you! Cheers!
I have been following your channel for a few months now and I continue to admire and love their engineering, many of whom are over 60 years old wristwatches are almost 100 years old pocket watches, how something so small became so accurate. Also knowing that all of them already have a history and that despite all those years they continue to function. Just like you, all those who dedicate themselves to this work, my most absolute respect.
Thanks for your support 🙏
I love the clank of the bumpers on my Omegas from the 1950s.
Bumper watches are so special
Beautiful work and watch. Thank you
Thank you! Cheers!
For me watches are time keeping tools, yes, but vintage watches are time machines. I love seeing how different manufacturers came up with slightly (and sometimes very) different solutions to common problems. For instance this is the first video I saw of a disassemble of a hammer type automatic movement! Really cool. Merci!
I love a good old bumper movement
@@FrenchWatchCollector Thanks for taking the time to talk about it in detail!
Just discovered your chanel. Love the way vintage watches were build. So much detail! Just started a few years ago serviceing vintage watches and your chanel will help me for sure. Merci.
Glad I can help and thank you for your support
Lovely LC and amazing result! Very nice video as usual 👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you very much!
stunning little watch, thnx 4 sharing!
My pleasure
I love how the engineering on this watch is so completely different but functions in the same way as other designs. The finishes were incredible, even the barrel top, wow! Beautiful
The diversity of vintage watches is great
Intresting chanel. I enjoy vintage watches as they have history behind them. Also if wearer self services own watches, it gives even deeper meaning of wearing them.
Thank you so much. You are so right about the self service
Lovely job again. Well done sir.
Glad you enjoyed it
Another beautiful watch for your collection. The shock spring system is very "user friendly".
You ask us to tell why we love vintage watches. I thought about it and I think what I like best is working on an intricate machine that was made to work on and last many lifetimes. Things are so disposable these days.
I like the shock setting too. Nice to maintain
Thank you for another great video. My bloodpressure goes down when watching your videos. I have never seen the inside of a power reserve, either. Quite simple, far simpler than I imagined. I once owned a LeCoultre Memovox with a very similar case as this one. Same lugs and shape. It was also made in the Usa.
Jaeger watches are great. Glad you enjoyed the video
I love these vintage watches! What else combines micro engineering, history, and art all on one tiny machine on your wrist??
They are a great piece of engineering
I love the spring system in the rotor. Thats what I love most from mechanical watches, they show the ingenuity of the watchmakers on designing different mechanisms to get all the different complications
Many different solution for the same purpose. That's what is nice with vintage watches
Great video, and nice to see something new (for me) in a watch - even if I'm just fascinated by it all. No watch repairing-gene in me. 😉
But old, good-looking masterpieces that just work - what's not to like? And the stories they tell are a nice bonus! 😁
Cool, thanks
Beautiful watch. I love the bumper movement. Considering how tiny those jewels are. Don't think i could ever have the dexterity to remove them for cleaning. Already struggling with putting back in the balance wheels. 😊Amazing job. Thank you for sharing.
I am sure you can do it. Practice help a lot.
Thanks for this video, FWC. It was very helpful. I had one of these in dire need of a service, and it was my first.
Btw, according to the website, Life on the Wrist:
"VXN indicates that the movement of the watch was imported to the USA market. To avoid high import taxes and duties on watches, Swiss brands for a period of time imported just the movements to the USA. LeCoultre’s brand was managed by the Longines-Wittnauer group in the USA and VXN was the import code used on LeCoultre movements. There is a misconception that VXN meant that Vacheron Constantin imported the movement because Vacheron Constantin watches used the same import code during this time. All this really means is that the US importing company used the stamp code for both brands".
Something interesting I also found out about the signed crowns on these watches. The models made for the European market that read _Jaeger Lecoultre_ on the dial have the "JL" signed crown. The ones just marked _Lecoultre_ for the US market used the "LeC" crown. It can be tough and expensive to find the appropriate signed crowns for these watches either way.
Thank you so much for the information
What a nice video and what a nice movement so well finished, I do really love this kind of video, that shows the whole process or servicing!
Why I do love vintage watches?
Well I am relatively new to this world, is 2 years that I fell in love for these horological machines. Since then started learning and discovering always something new and interesting.
But the reason that connect me particurally too vintage watches is not only the beauty but also the sentimental attachment to them.
My grand father was a collector of many things from coins to letters and among these objects pocket watches he had a collection of a dozen of pocket watches and he also had a couple of wrist watches, that were more practical tools than collectables.
Two watches in particular are Longines, one of the 1964 caliber L 341 and one of the 1976 caliber 6312. I love them and take care of them, it is because of those two watches I started my passion for vintage watches and now a days my favourite brand is Longines.
Nice story Lucas. Take care of your Longines
mechanical watches are soo fascinating, and closer to life than computers because they are analogue; just like life.
A beating heart
Wow! Magnificent movement!
Many thanks!
I started liking vintage watches just after my father passed away and I inherited his watch, that also used to be my granpa's: a Cyma from 60's, simple but beautifuk. After this, vintage has grown on me, and by today, I'm only interested in them, and none on new models.
Nice story and a good choice with watches
Bravo pour la vidéo, la JLC est vraiment incroyable, particulièrement les décorations horlogères, merci pour les explications !
La longines est incroyable aussi ! Merci pour toutes les vidéos que tu réalises, j’adore les montres “vintage” et j’apprends beaucoup à travers tes vidéos sur elles ! Continues comme ça !
Merci Nathan. Tu suis la chaîne en français?
Je regarde les vidéos en anglais, cela permet de faire travailler un peu la langue 😃
@@nathangiguet3849 cela permet de joindre l'utile à l'agréable.
A really good choice to service this very exceptional movement! That’s what I like about vintage watches: it reminds us and shows us how inventive and what variety watchmakers were giving us in the past! And we can admire it long after they are gone…it’s like a time travel. ❤ 👍👏🏻
Couldn't agree more!
Nice movement and nice video of it ;) Fun to se some rearer movement. Thank you.
Glad you liked it!
Great video as always! I love bumper movements! The main reason why I love vintage watches is that each sign or nick that they have tells a story! I heredited a tiny square omega from my grand parents and it's fascinating imagining how many situations that watch has been in!
Vintage watches tell stories. This is why they are so special
Amazing work!
Thank you
Very elegant watch and movement. Looks like JLC was able to make certain complex parts look simpler than they actually are. Reducing something so complicated to a simpler version may be one of the hardest things to do. Excellent video. Thanks.
Thank you very much!
👍very nice watch
Succes
Thank you 👍
Stunning watch, I love watching vintage watch repairs as it always reminds me of the skills of the people that made them, and obviously your skill repairing them.
Thank you
Me gustan lo relojes vintages por la magia del movimiento mecánico, la ingenieria y la belleza de los relojes. I like vintage watches because of the magic of the mechanical movement, the engineering and the beauty of the watches.
Thanks Victor
Beautiful watch, they really don't make it like this any more!
For sure vintage are special
Another great restoration.
I love the detail of the finishes on these vintage watches. ❤❤❤
Glad you like them!
beautyfull watch, great job
Thank you
Super work
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice Video for me, this vintage is diferent from other and you do the best.. i like
Thanks Rudy
The three letters are export codes to identify manufacturer. Watches shipped to USA I believe were required to have this identification. Also two of my favorite complications. Bumper auto and power reserve. My favorites!!
Love the bumper complication too
My favorite and most scary moment of servicing a watch is removing the case back. Sometimes it just a wow look how beautiful or wow look at all the issues. Lol
hahaha. Lot of troubles under a case back
Nice Watch :)
Thanks!
Letters Code on the balance cock are usually for export movements. This code is probably the code for LeCoultre in America. Loving the videos :)
Yes somebody else told me it was imported to the USA by vacheron. This is the code
Stunning watch. Great choice of strap too! Excellent restoration of a classic. Always good to work on a new movement and I like that you keep in the odd error too!
I like to be honest on my mistakes so everybody can learn
I love the way the jewel is held in place on the balance wheel I have never seen that mechanism before. A very nice vintage watch and a great job of servicing. Cheers French.
Yes it is a very unique caliber for many reasons
It was interesting when you pulled off the caseback that one of the springs for the bumper was attached to the rotor! Don’t think I’ve seen that before
Yes one is on the rotor and the other one one the main plate.
Great video on a truly beautiful watch: thank you so much. I am not sure about the new strap, but that is neither here nor there ...
Thanks for watching!
Wau what a beautiful movement. Have you noticed the American mountains just like the French once are always more complicated and in effect more beautiful to look at? When it comes to Swiss movements, they are generally more robust and practical with the watchmaker servicing and reassessing in mind. An Onega wau yes lovely to look at or a Rolex yes but These watches that are different from the norm are really realt nice time piece.
For sure you can see some patterns in mouvements depending on where they come from.
Great watch I own the Master Marine
Nice one as well
Congratulations on the FIFA world cup qualifying!
Thanks!
I have been fascinated by watches since I saw my cousin disassemble a pocket watch when I was six. Unfortunately he was nine and boy did he catch a good whooping for that stunt. Just think, a spring turns a wheel which turns a wheel which turns a wheel to push a lever to osculate another wheel attached to a xtra small spring. Unbelievable.
It is the magic of mechanical systems
Très bon vidéo.
Merci
Very interesting and unusual movement. I like it very much. Hmm, but the strap lugs... they are kind a odd shape 🤔
Yes they had some strange or different lugs in the past
The springs are really special. I wonder if I can replace a boring spring with such a beautiful elegant spring?
That will be a lot of machining and time to redo a spring like the yoke spring on this model
4:10 first time i can see such a nice power indicator
(but finally easy ... unless for realignment maybe ...)
15:30 "I" like vintage watches from your channel ... because "You" know how to restore them ...🤣
(i have a longines conquest calendar {steel ?} from the 50th probably .. from my grand grand father (i never met him) ... still working but not yet restored, i'm in france)
True that is not so complicated. The magic is on the part next to the barrel assembly with a wheel at 90 deg. This part is beautiful and well engineered
@@FrenchWatchCollector
8:00 still figuring out how it works : it's a reduction system for the power indicator ? (which is on the other side ...)
it looks like some kind of "differential" between the "barrel wheel" and the "ratchet wheel" (see 7:13): is some way counts the turn difference between the two ?
at first i was thinking its easy to get a power indicator ... but that's not so obvious, since both are always turning ...
@@SQueme Yes the part is to transmit the info from the barrel to the power indicator. It can slide as well like the clutch when it is at full power indication
I love the fact you will leave an error in your video like not getting the mainspring in right at first so I won't feel worse if I were to do similar.
If we all share our mistakes it will help other people to get better too
Superbe !... Et quelques belles originalités dans ce mouvement. J'aimerais connaître les hommes et les machines qui élaborent ces mécanismes délicats, c'est passionnant, voire envoûtant...
Je suis tout à fait d'accord