This WW2 Watch Hasn't Ticked in 80 Years... Watch What Happens Next

⌚ WW2 MILITARY WATCH RESTORED — SANFORD AS1123 NICKEL & CHROME PLATING FULL RESTORATION This Sanford AS1123 military watch was found locked away in an old wooden box — untouched since World War 2. Green corrosion covering every surface. Crystal completely fogged. Crown seized solid. Movement completely dead. Silent for 80 years. In this video watch the complete restoration journey — from corroded WW2 relic to stunning nickel and chrome plated military timepiece — ticking perfectly again. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌚ WHAT YOU WILL SEE IN THIS VIDEO ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Discovery of 80 year old WW2 military watch ✅ Complete case disassembly ✅ AS1123 movement full disassembly ✅ Ultrasonic cleaning of all parts ✅ Case preparation and polishing ✅ Professional nickel plating process ✅ Mirror chrome plating process ✅ Military dial restoration and preservation ✅ Complete AS1123 movement service ✅ New mainspring installation ✅ Escapement service and regulation ✅ Hand installation and timing ✅ Period correct crystal installation ✅ Military NATO strap fitting ✅ Final reveal — stunning transformation ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏱️ VIDEO CHAPTERS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 — Discovery Of The WW2 Watch 01:00 — First Examination And Assessment 01:40 — Complete Disassembly 02:30 — Ultrasonic Cleaning Process 03:00 — Nickel Plating Process Begins 03:45 — Chrome Plating Dramatic Reveal 04:30 — Military Dial Restoration 05:00 — AS1123 Movement Service 06:00 — Complete Reassembly 06:45 — First Tick After 80 Years 07:00 — Timing And Regulation 07:30 — Final Reveal And Beauty Shots 08:00 — Before And After Comparison ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔧 RESTORATION DETAILS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Watch Model : Sanford AS1123 Movement : AS1123 Manual Wind Era : World War 2 Military Case Material : Base Metal Plating Done : Nickel Undercoat Mirror Chrome Dial : Original Military Arabic Numerals Preserved Crystal : Period Correct Acrylic Strap : Military Olive NATO Canvas Condition Before : Severely Corroded Movement Completely Dead Condition After : Perfect Chrome Case Running Accurate ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚙️ TOOLS AND MATERIALS USED ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Watchmaker Screwdrivers Set ✅ Precision Tweezers ✅ Ultrasonic Cleaning Machine ✅ Stereo Microscope ✅ Timing Machine ✅ Crystal Press ✅ Mainspring Winder ✅ Nickel Sulfamate Plating Bath ✅ Chrome Plating Electrolytic Tank ✅ Multiple Watch Oils (5 Types) ✅ Polishing Compounds ✅ Period Correct NOS Parts ✅ Military NATO Strap ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 ABOUT THIS WATCH ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ The Sanford AS1123 is a rare World War 2 era military timepiece. The AS1123 movement was used in various military issue watches during the 1940s. Known for reliability and accuracy under battlefield conditions. This particular example had been stored and forgotten for approximately 80 years before this restoration. The nickel and chrome plating process used on this restoration matches the original military specification finish that these watches would have had when new in the 1940s. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUPPORT THE CHANNEL ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ If you enjoyed this restoration please: 👍 LIKE this video 🔔 SUBSCRIBE for more restorations 💬 COMMENT your thoughts below 📤 SHARE with fellow watch lovers Every like and subscription helps bring more restoration videos like this one. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📱 FOLLOW FOR MORE ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ New restoration videos every week Watches — Clocks — Vintage Timepieces Military Watches — Pocket Watches Chrome and Nickel Plating Restorations ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚠️ DISCLAIMER ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ All restoration work shown in this video is performed by trained professionals. Chemical plating processes involve hazardous materials. Always follow proper safety procedures when performing electroplating work. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🕯️ DEDICATED TO ALL WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR 2 THEIR TIME WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ watch restoration, WW2 military watch, Sanford AS1123, AS1123 movement, chrome plating watch, nickel plating watch, military watch restoration, vintage watch restoration, watch restoration ASMR, satisfying restoration, WW2 watch, antique watch restoration, chrome plating, nickel plating, electroplating, watch repair, movement service, watchmaking, vintage military watch, old watch restoration, forgotten watch, corroded watch restoration, watch transformation, before and after watch, ASMR watch repair, military timepiece, WW2 timepiece, watchmaker, horology, watch cleaning, ultrasonic cleaning watch, watch movement,