Regulation SECRETS Every Watchmaker Should Know

In this video, I explain how to not only equalize Horizontal positions but how you can use this to bring Horizontal and Vertical Positions closer together.

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[bolgerguide]

I'm so happy you are on the internet Alex. Knowledge is priceless.

[pieterjlansbergen]

All of a sudden so many things I didn’t understand start making sense to me! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

[rossjackson]

What can I say? Phew! Took my breathe away. I didn't believe it, but here goes. Can you believe that I actually understood, probably 95% of what you said. I don't have the skill or the tools to achieve what you said to do, but understanding is a great feeling. The more in depth you have taken us, the easier to understand it is. I never thought I would be able to understand the technical skills you have explained. I read the transcript and did not understand virtually anything of what you were saying. Verbally and visually, it is so easy. Thank you Alex.

[WatchWithMike]

Wow, that was a terrific demonstration using the dry balance jewel. You are a master at explaining the subtle watchmaking techniques and concepts that make this discipline so interesting! Thanks Alex!

[MyRetroWatches]

You certainly have a great way of explaining things. Currently on the hunt for a Jacot tool.
I have a watch that runs okay (ish) in 3 positions but pendant down it slows by 10 seconds +
I’ve not been able to find the issue and have now have accepted that unless I get better at this I will not figure out the issue.

[think]

Have to add a big thank you for your time and effort with these videos. SUPER informative and helpful

[davidlowe]

Hi Alex, thank you so much for sharing your years of experience and knowledge, and make it enjoyable to watch, cheers mate. ⌚🛠🖒

[neilfrost]

Thanks Alex for your great work in presenting all this experience so clearly. Just tried to round off the ends of a balance staff with my oh so cheap Bergeon 5482. Watch running poorly DU. I used a little 9010 and my rotary tool on lowest speed. Managed to destroy the pivot in a few seconds ! Suggest you go very lightly guys and maybe hold the balance in your fingers to feel the slight pressure needed. I had the balance in a holding plate on the bench which clearly gave too much pressure. I now get to practice balance staff replacement which will no doubt improve my skills. Happy days.

[keithstarling]

very interesting, beyond my capabilities but I understand the theory. Thank you for another great video Alix.

[manuelfresco]

I just discovered your channel a few days ago I and am realy smashed how good it is. Exactly the kind of informations I was looking for before I will start to open my first (cheap and banged) watch to have a look inside. Thank you so much, you deserve a lot more follower.

[Cooodi]

You have so much good videos for us new to watch making. Its like when i get a new tool, like timegrapher i watch your videos how to get everything out of it. And it still leaves me some thing to figure out of my self. What is best part of watchmaking. 😊

[phillipmaciver]

Great mechanical logic well explained. Thank you..

[albertmeyer]

The F and F2 are fantastic! I love them both. My F has a different shutter sound. The F2 has a slight “ping” noise.

[Supercruze]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge of matchmaking Alex. . I learn something new i can put into practice with every vid.

[ODPwcca]

Your logic makes so much sense, Alex, it intuitively adds to the understanding of regulating.
Now to find the right tools in the near future :)
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom once again!

[horstb]

Thank you for sharing your valuable knowledge

[jscubax]

Thank you for sharing 🙏 I also like how you say "chaton" 🙂. I thought there was an english name for it

[normanrehme]

Another excellent video of knowledge and concepts. Thanks.

[Qwerty-cbti]

Hi again Alex. I dare to ask you another question because apparently I am not able to figure it out by myself as I do not possess the volume of expertise necessary. I am sure however that this question is an easy one for you. After an year and a half of work on a LUz Geneve selfwinding (Felsa 4007n) and thank to you I managed to make it work well. Tha last problem was poor amplitude which I only solved thank to your channel. (the other problems included broken jewel in the winding train, closing the holes for the barrel arbor, changing the barrel (broken tooth) and mainspring and using braking grease, changing the second and the third wheels due to pivot tip corrosion as a result of one night in ammonia-water solution, boiling the hairspring in lard and slightly correcting the end-curve, removing the radium from the dial and restoring it with Superluminova, restoring the inscriptions on the dial using ink and a diabetes syringe needle to draw 0, .06mm lines. After polishing all pivots using diamantine and toothpics and pegging all the jewels I obtained 290 degrees in the dialup p. and this fiigure does not change much in the vertical positions. Now, the only thing that bothers me is that when winding manually, the sliding pinion slips sporadiacally because it unmeshes from the winding pinion, although I strengthened the V-shaped spring responsible to keep the clutch meshed. Is this slippage a known problem and what would you do?

[eugenerutenberg]

Hello. I watch all of your videos and learn a lot. I have a breitling watch 1950 with as 1130 movement. I serviced it my self about a year ago, and it worked great(i have a witsh time grapher). I wind it occasionally, since i do not wear all the time. Today i noticed that the watch started to gain a lot with in the same day. a opened it, then put it on a grapher, and cant get 18000 bit, it shows 36000. Sometimes, when i adjust the bal. wheel, it get 18000 for a short wile, and a good beat err, but it jumps allover the place. I had similar with another watch and i fixed it by adjusting a hear spring within a pin, which stabilized all the parameters. What else can create 36000.? bad spring? (i put a new spring when i serviced it). Not emough pallet stones oil.? does the bal. pin needs to touch the hear spring or not? It did not effect anything ether way. Any idea? Thank you,