How To Restore Watch Hands- Made Easy

In this video, I cover polishing watch hands and how to darken brass hands to give a vintage look.

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[Trent]

Your videos are very informative. I have successfully completed my second comprehensive service on a 1960’s Helbros. I contribute my ability to do this because of your ‘watch repair course’. Thanks … keep making us ‘better watchmakers’ :)

[ElderPinto]

Watch Repair Tutorials is my favorite learning channel what i learned on this channel is gold .... grabbing the tweezers from the right hand to the left darn i learned it here haha yepp also the small things you do are so full of info

[ReviewsforNerds]

Those hands came out looking amazing! Thank you for sharing this.

[machinistmikethetinkerer]

Holee smokes! Been wrestling with rodico and toothpics with hands all this time. The alcohol and shellac trick is the bomb thanks man.
I use the same bluing stuff for guns. Good stuff.

[byrnejr]

Thanks you are a wealth of information appreciate you brother

[amandagelien]

The cool thing is using De solved shellack for purposes especially roller jewels & escapement jewels thanks for tip Alex

[itzhaccroitoru]

Hi Alex, Brilliant and very well explained.Itzhac

[steinskotmyr]

Super interesting as always. I am doing some gunsmith work also so I know the Brass Black well. There is an Aluminium Black as well. The traditionally gun bluing liquid is great for steel hands as well, the best is the pen applicator, much like a normal permanent marker.

[MrWillis]

Hi Alex, I have a 1968 or so Gold Omega with gold coloured hands I'm guessing they are gold plated as they are now patchy. How would you recomend addressing that? Do i just need to pay someone to re-plate them?

[brianwohlleben]

Great tips! Can you use the wax on blued hands?

[pieterjlansbergen]

Brilliant and very well explained as usual. Exactly the tip I needed as I have an old Swiss watch from the fourties’ that was recently serviced but my watchmaker couldn’t be bothered with restoring the hands even after I asked for it. They look scruffy and make the watch look bad. I will try myself but I miss the shellac and buying a bag of it for just this job seems overkill. Any suggestions as to how to secure the hands otherwise? I thought of nail enamel which is rather easy to find and dissolves in acetone. What are your thoughts? /P

[MrJosiahCochran]

I got some Polinum and the cotton buffs that you link on your website. I’ve found the cotton buffs, which are made of stacks of cotton fabric, throw off a ton of fibers and the polinum throws some bits off when applying it to the wheel. Do you have the same issue and just do polishing away from everything since it does generate a lot of fibers? Am I using too high a speed? Should I try wool buffs instead? Is there some process you use on a new wheel to free all the loose fibers before using it? The polinum wheel combo does polish really well and im using a $12 battery powered rotary tool from amazon, but just wondering how to reduce mess