Dive Watches: The Helium Escape Valve

Cameron Weiss, master watchmaker and founder of family-owned Weiss Watch Company, dives into watchmaking in this new series.

What is a helium escape valve and why would a watchmaker put one on a watch? Cameron will walk you through the reasons for the creation of the helium escape valve for watchmaking and why it may be necessary for a certain divers.

[tveksam]

I have been an amateur watchmaker for a couple of years now. So glad to I found this channel. Thanks for sharing!

[nothingtosee]

Tons of crappy videos about watches on youtube .Bad audio, bad pictures, fuzzy explanations . This is not one of them . This one is concise, with a peaceful and accurate speech and choice of simple words . It is cinematic with the 2:39 ratio , some nice macro shots and warm colorgrading, clear audio and appropriate music . Watches deserve those . I would add a second camera on the side for close up shot of the talent 's face with shallow depth of field to flatter the overall interview . Nice job .

[oldschoolgamer]

Thank you very much for this, from another watch loving Weiss

[samnova]

Thank for input on this type of dive watch. My 200mm dive watch is all I need.

[johanvandersandt]

Quite a clever bit of engineering indeed!

[Elder-Pinto]

my father was welder underwater special projects he went over the hole world ... he always said i destroyd many watches lol.. he did some dangerous stuff !!

[AdreamX]

Helium escape valve can also be usefull for space walks, avoids building up pressure pushing out the cristal glass in the space vacuum. For diving its only usefull in commercial diving in diving- bells, maybe only 300people on this planet are certified for this very expensive sort of diving where they spend 2weeks to decompress in a pressure chamber.

[timgroot]

cool vid, but I had to speed up the playback for it to sound right.

[jeffforbess]

It’s my least favorite thing about my sea master. It’s loosened and fogged my watch in the shower before. I’ve even considered locktite

[occamsrazor]

I thought this was a watch channel not a storytime on saturation diving 🤦