The £20 Watch Repair Challenge!

In this video I take on The £20 Watch Repair Challenge — restoring a broken vintage watch without spending another penny. The watch in question is a vintage Dore 21 Jewel Pointer Date, bought for just £20 in rough condition. The challenge is simple: can I bring this watch back to life using only my watchmaking skills, tools, and whatever parts are already available to me… without buying anything else? From diagnosing faults and dismantling the movement, to cleaning, repairing and reassembling the watch, this restoration pushes budget watchmaking to the limit. Will the movement run again, or was this £20 vintage watch beyond saving? If you enjoy vintage watch restoration, horology, mechanical watch repair, and seeing old watches brought back to life, you’re in the right place. Subscribe for more vintage watch restorations, Seiko repairs, Citizen projects, and classic mechanical watch content. Support My Retro Watches on Patreon, helps me to bring you more content and in return receive members only content and updates.   / myretrowatches   Want to buy a watch? or one of my T-Shirt designs? https://www.time-tees.com/ My tool affiliate links page. I earn a small commission for every qualifying sale. All tools are hand picked by myself. http://myretrowatches.com/tool-sale-l... My Second Channel:    / @mywatchreviews   My website: http://myretrowatches.com/ My Facebook Group - Retro & Vintage Watches & Restorations. In here you will find a very large friendly community where no question is too silly and you will find no watch snobbery. Stuck on a WATCH REPAIR? join and get answers from the watchmaking collective.   / retro.vintage.watches.restorations   My Facebook Page   / my.retro.watches   My Instagram:   / myretrowatches   Email. [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- About me: My name is Mike and I am a hobbyist watchmaker. I am completely self-taught in watch repair and restoration. My channel is all about my journey of hobbyist of watchmaking. I have watch repair tutorials, watch restorations and watch repair videos. Some of my content you can easily follow along to if you are working on the same watch movement. My main focus is to document my journey and inspire more people into this wonderful hobby and demonstrate that this hobby can be very rewarding. I do not profess to be a professional watchmaker and in my videos, I show all my mistakes, mishaps, highs and lows and keep everything as honest as possible. It is easy to edit all the mistakes out and make my videos look perfect but I believe that keeping it real reflects the true reality of this hobby. So, what are you waiting for? please check out my watch repair and restoration videos, get inspired and start your own watchmaking journey. #WatchRepair #VintageWatch #WatchRestoration #Horology #MechanicalWatch #VintageWatches #BudgetWatch #Watchmaker #PointerDate #DoreWatch #RestorationChallenge #Watchmaking