No we are sad and upset people would destroy valuable old pocket watches and yes I HAVE bought many to re-unite with the works being sold, the very ones from these cases! We just wish you'd stick to old jewelry - yeah think of all the old chains from the 1980's and the age of Disco!
@@robbylock1741 Please give me a way to sell the pocket watch cases I often come across for more than melt and I'd be absolutely happy to avoid melting them If no one wants them, I melt them
@@colejosephalexanderkashay683 on the same site you find the cases you can find running un-cased watch works, unite the two and sell them together as a complete pocket watch.
@@robbylock1741the thing is that requires me to figure out case sizes, find correct mechanisms, try to get a deal on them, hope they work as described, and wait for the right person to come along. I can have a 7 day turnaround from placing an eBay order to having cash in hand from my refiner.
@@colejosephalexanderkashay683 okay so buy cases with a large amount of brass wear-through and leave ones in good condition to the rest of us, who are willing to learn case sizes (not hard) and how to find works to install (also not hard)! Yeah, yeah, I know you really don't care and this is just all smoke and mirrors, as long as you get gold to sell, but thanks for at least pretending you do.
To all the history buffs giving him a hard time for doing what he wants with his watches, where we're you guys when they were for sale on ebay? Why did non of you spend the money to save these watches. I assume you have the internet, you're using it to virtue signal, I assume you can figure out how to use ebay, so why don't you put your money where your mouth is and start saving those watches? Nah? Just want to put someone down that is actually going to get that gold back into circulation rather then sitting in a drawer attached to a broken watch part.
Uh I HAVE bought many cases and pocket watch movements from eBay and re-cased the movements. The movements are being sold after being removed from 14K gold (not filled) cases by people that see the value of the metal and not the value of the watch as a whole. A recent purchased movement is a beautiful 1887 Elgin G. M. Wheeler movement. These were Rail Road grade movements of very high value even in 1887!
Do you know the weight of the cases when you started? You ended up getting an ounce out of those filled cases. BTW, the 25 year cases will obviously have more gold. Thanks for this information!
We should be melting down and reusing things rather then digging for more. Plenty of metal sitting around doing nothing that can be melted down and reused. Possessions are expendable.
@@JR-pj8pz What's stupid is having 100'000s unused vehicles rust and millions in gold tucked away in draws that can be melted down and re-purposed rather then mining more and more. Why people out so much sentimental value on old crap that can be given a new life and made useful again is beyond me.
It's not fair data he collect of gold of well pocket watch but he should have like a to restore it the other of something is it could pick it back again because the are still pieces and other Stephen parts that are needed that up some people that want to return it back and to see if they're functionable but the question is that what I saw this video right now well I'm kind of very disappointed anyway he have gold or pocket watch but he's not restoring but he is like a well not showing there of well since it is not but someday that if he could restore that the original pocket watch and a fungible or the cases right there that it could be functionable that people would love it and like it have a pocket watch that added to bring it back to life
You prob spent more for the watches than the gold was worth ? Shame to destroy history for some gold the watches where prob worth way more than the gold ever would
Most definitely It was a losing proposition, unfortunately it just seems like majority of people don’t save family heirlooms anymore because eBay is flooded with these for scrap. I do at least save the ones in near perfect condition though.
@@mattt6511 yeah greedy people that don't realize that watches sold as a whole on the collector's market will bring them a higher price! Even "parts" watches as many of these are just in need of servicing and not "broken" as the seller assumes. Stupid people do stupid things
@@robbylock1741 i apologize as I didn’t mean to upset this many people it definitely isn’t out of greed because any refiner will tell you it’s about a 30 percent loss I just do it as a hobby. There are major company’s that do this to thousands of pounds of scrap antique gold daily
I have nothing against scrapping worn out cases. But good cases are worth more than their gold value, so if you are scrapping those you are losing money. A clean case with $35 worth of gold might be worth $100 to a watch enthusiast. What is up with "stainless steel?" Not all steel is stainless, certainly not these parts. Those circular springs you removed are lift springs for the covers of hunting case watches. You also neglected to remove the watch sleeves. Educate yourself
Greed. Plain and simple. That's like melting down Roman coins or Celtic religious medallions. For what, a few scraps of gold. The watch cases are worth much more intact. Hope your happy destroying something that will never be made again.
I’m weeping, this is just criminal.
Too all the haters I just purchased 5 more pounds of these so there are literally thousands for sale If you’re so worried about them buy them
No we are sad and upset people would destroy valuable old pocket watches and yes I HAVE bought many to re-unite with the works being sold, the very ones from these cases! We just wish you'd stick to old jewelry - yeah think of all the old chains from the 1980's and the age of Disco!
@@robbylock1741 Please give me a way to sell the pocket watch cases I often come across for more than melt and I'd be absolutely happy to avoid melting them
If no one wants them, I melt them
@@colejosephalexanderkashay683 on the same site you find the cases you can find running un-cased watch works, unite the two and sell them together as a complete pocket watch.
@@robbylock1741the thing is that requires me to figure out case sizes, find correct mechanisms, try to get a deal on them, hope they work as described, and wait for the right person to come along.
I can have a 7 day turnaround from placing an eBay order to having cash in hand from my refiner.
@@colejosephalexanderkashay683 okay so buy cases with a large amount of brass wear-through and leave ones in good condition to the rest of us, who are willing to learn case sizes (not hard) and how to find works to install (also not hard)! Yeah, yeah, I know you really don't care and this is just all smoke and mirrors, as long as you get gold to sell, but thanks for at least pretending you do.
To all the history buffs giving him a hard time for doing what he wants with his watches, where we're you guys when they were for sale on ebay? Why did non of you spend the money to save these watches. I assume you have the internet, you're using it to virtue signal, I assume you can figure out how to use ebay, so why don't you put your money where your mouth is and start saving those watches? Nah? Just want to put someone down that is actually going to get that gold back into circulation rather then sitting in a drawer attached to a broken watch part.
Uh I HAVE bought many cases and pocket watch movements from eBay and re-cased the movements. The movements are being sold after being removed from 14K gold (not filled) cases by people that see the value of the metal and not the value of the watch as a whole. A recent purchased movement is a beautiful 1887 Elgin G. M. Wheeler movement. These were Rail Road grade movements of very high value even in 1887!
WOW, you destroyed a LOT of nice cases for no real reason at all. the historic beauty that you destroyed can never be replaced. nice job.
They were sold as scrap and damaged and unfortunately people do this every day
@@mattt6511 You're right it IS a shame people do that - just so sad
Do you know the weight of the cases when you started? You ended up getting an ounce out of those filled cases. BTW, the 25 year cases will obviously have more gold. Thanks for this information!
You’re destroying some nice pieces of history in those watch cases
He is then turning it into new history to be had. It's the cycle of everything.
You should try Gold panning instead of scrapping history
We should be melting down and reusing things rather then digging for more. Plenty of metal sitting around doing nothing that can be melted down and reused. Possessions are expendable.
@@1Psalmaday thats stupid.
@@JR-pj8pz What's stupid is having 100'000s unused vehicles rust and millions in gold tucked away in draws that can be melted down and re-purposed rather then mining more and more. Why people out so much sentimental value on old crap that can be given a new life and made useful again is beyond me.
How much you spend? Average per gram of watch
It's not fair data he collect of gold of well pocket watch but he should have like a to restore it the other of something is it could pick it back again because the are still pieces and other Stephen parts that are needed that up some people that want to return it back and to see if they're functionable but the question is that what I saw this video right now well I'm kind of very disappointed anyway he have gold or pocket watch but he's not restoring but he is like a well not showing there of well since it is not but someday that if he could restore that the original pocket watch and a fungible or the cases right there that it could be functionable that people would love it and like it have a pocket watch that added to bring it back to life
So much history gone. Sad.
You prob spent more for the watches than the gold was worth ? Shame to destroy history for some gold the watches where prob worth way more than the gold ever would
Most definitely It was a losing proposition, unfortunately it just seems like majority of people don’t save family heirlooms anymore because eBay is flooded with these for scrap. I do at least save the ones in near perfect condition though.
I strongly agree
@@mattt6511 yeah greedy people that don't realize that watches sold as a whole on the collector's market will bring them a higher price! Even "parts" watches as many of these are just in need of servicing and not "broken" as the seller assumes. Stupid people do stupid things
@@robbylock1741 i apologize as I didn’t mean to upset this many people it definitely isn’t out of greed because any refiner will tell you it’s about a 30 percent loss I just do it as a hobby. There are major company’s that do this to thousands of pounds of scrap antique gold daily
I have nothing against scrapping worn out cases. But good cases are worth more than their gold value, so if you are scrapping those you are losing money. A clean case with $35 worth of gold might be worth $100 to a watch enthusiast. What is up with "stainless steel?" Not all steel is stainless, certainly not these parts. Those circular springs you removed are lift springs for the covers of hunting case watches. You also neglected to remove the watch sleeves. Educate yourself
Greed. Plain and simple. That's like melting down Roman coins or Celtic religious medallions. For what, a few scraps of gold. The watch cases are worth much more intact. Hope your happy destroying something that will never be made again.
It was quite enjoyable thanks
not the same at all. This is just scrap; the cases are all shot
Nice one