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Solid Gold Elgin Pocket Watch from 1887 Early Look for Patrons! (Patreon)

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2025-01-26 05:27:30
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Hey 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

John Branderhorst

That 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

Alex C

I 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

Ken Macauley

What a beautiful piece. Nice job!

Matthew Tye

This 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!

Warren Wigutow

I’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?

Robert A.

Ooh, a full-plate movement! I've ruined at least one of these...

Robert A.

Couple 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).

Dave E

Very very nice!

Brett Combs

Watching your videos makes me look forward to getting home and sitting at my watch workbench. Great video, Marshall!

Robert Brown

Casting the video to my TV on this app doesn't work well. Not a fan.

Jayeh

Just getting started on my watch repair journey and love the videos. Wish there was a better way to watch them cause this app sucks.

Greg Bolby

Met 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!

Bryan Lovejoy

Fun! I love pocket watches. What a great journey.

Michael Bertelson

Very, 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. 😁

Brian M Patten

For me, at 43:35 the Patreon video halts. The YouTube video keeps going. It may just be me.

Jesster

Hey 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!

Brian Sturgill

At this point in time better quality and precision than Rolex and others. Beautiful piece.