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Stereo Watch and Shoe Repair Data

Open a watch case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal it, or remove worn soles or heels, cut and glue replacements and stitch and finish the edges of a shoe: small-repair bench work is close-range, two-handed and full of small parts that the hands themselves hide. This page covers the stereo and container side of watch repair robot training data and stereo shoe repair video for the two catalog rows that name this work: what a calibrated stereo pair adds, what MCAP is according to its own documentation, and what the site does not state. We run custom small-repair data collection fast and on demand against a spec you write, as an egocentric cobbler and watchmaker dataset delivered as MCAP, as custom collection at scale through a network of thousands of capture providers, for a consistent, recurring data flow to labs.
Catalog rows
Two, in Repair Shop: Watch repair (Hard) and Shoe repair (Hard)
Status
Both Available on request, as the catalog lists it
Container
MCAP (.mcap), open source
License
Perpetual, buyer-owned

Why stereo and MCAP here

What do a stereo pair and an MCAP file add to watch and shoe repair video?

01

Depth at close range

The site states that a stereo pair at human-eye spacing makes depth recoverable from every frame pair, so the part, the tool and both hands sit in one frame. The site gives no depth accuracy figure for bench repair and states no working distance.

02

Several streams in one container

MCAP stores multiple channels of timestamped, pre-serialized data, so a stereo pair, hand pose and IMU can share one file on one log-time axis. Which streams go in the file is set in the skill spec.

Definition

What is stereo watch and shoe repair data?

It is first-person video of a person doing hands-on repair work at a bench, recorded with two calibrated cameras, with hand pose and sensor streams alongside. People reach it through several phrasings: watch repair robot training data, stereo shoe repair video, an egocentric cobbler and watchmaker dataset, or custom small-repair data collection at scale. Stereo describes the capture, and MCAP describes the container. They are separate choices.

Catalog rows

Which catalog rows does this page rely on, and what is their status?

Two, listed in lib/commercial-catalog-data.ts under the Repair Shop environment, in the Repair Services sector. "Watch repair" reads "Open the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal" and is rated Hard. "Shoe repair" reads "Remove worn soles or heels, cut and glue replacements and stitch and finish edges" and is rated Hard. Both list "Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig" as the capture setup. The first table below reproduces them with the catalog wording.

Difference

How is this different from the egocentric watch and shoe pages and the stereo leathercraft, jewelry and bicycle repair pages?

This page is the stereo and MCAP treatment of both rows together. The egocentric watch and small mechanism repair page covers the Watch repair row, and the egocentric shoe repair page covers the Shoe repair row, each as first-person video that is not stereo as its subject. Their capture setup is the same head-mounted phone or multiview rig.

The stereo leathercraft page covers four Leathercraft Workshop rows, all Hard and Available on request. The stereo jewelry and metalsmithing page covers five Jewelry & Metalsmithing Studio rows, all Available on request. The stereo bicycle and appliance repair page covers two other Repair Shop rows, Bicycle repair and Appliance repair, both Available on request. This page is stereo capture of watch repair and shoe repair, the other two rows of that same Repair Shop environment. The second table below sets the pages side by side.

Capture setup

What capture setup do the rows list, and where does stereo come in?

The catalog lists "Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig" for both rows. The site does not state a stereo pair for either of them. Stereo applies only through the site’s general stereo offer: a stereo pair is a capture choice agreed in the skill spec and confirmed on a Spec Pilot. Camera count, resolution and frame rate for repair work are Not stated.

Watch repair

What does stereo capture add to watch repair?

The Watch repair row names three steps: open the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal. It is rated Hard. The row says "the battery or movement parts", so a spec can choose battery replacement, movement-part replacement or both. The site does not state which one a collection covers, how many parts are replaced in an episode or what counts as a finished repair.

The phrase "under magnification" appears in the row as part of the task. The site does not state a magnified camera view, a macro lens or any close-range capture setting for repair, so this page claims none. In stereo, the case, the part and the hands on it are recorded in the same frame pair, and a wrist-mounted camera is available alongside the head camera for close-range detail. How depth behaves at the close range of a bench is Not stated, so a spec that relies on it should say so and confirm it on a Spec Pilot. Watch types, movements, calibres and part sizes are Not stated.

Shoe repair

What does stereo capture add to shoe repair?

The Shoe repair row names five operations: removing worn soles or heels, cutting replacements, gluing replacements, stitching and finishing edges. It is rated Hard. Other footwear jobs, such as cleaning, dyeing or resizing, are Not stated, so none is claimed.

These are different hand sequences on a single work piece. Both hands hold, guide and press the shoe while a replacement is cut, fitted and stitched, and a calibrated pair records how the hands, the tool and the piece sit relative to each other. Action segments can separate removing, cutting, gluing, stitching and finishing when the spec names them. Shoe types, materials, adhesives and tools are Not stated, and so is how long a job takes. This page gives no adhesive or tool-use instruction.

People and privacy

What does the site say about customers, bystanders, consent and privacy?

The site states a consent chain for contributors. Every contributor signs a written release, each delivered episode links to it through consent artefact IDs, and a break at any of the six checkpoints discards the footage. An undocumented bystander is a stated reject criterion. For every delivered episode the site states that faces, plates and screens are detected and irreversibly blurred at ingest, that a reviewer confirms the result before anything ships, and that footage that cannot be de-identified is discarded. The anonymization record ships with the data.

The site states no rule for a shop customer who is nearby or for a customer item brought in for repair, so how people who are present are handled is settled in the spec. This page describes capturing repair work, not customers. This is not legal advice, and the executed agreement controls.

MCAP

What is MCAP, per its own documentation?

MCAP is an open source container file format for multimodal log data, supporting multiple channels of timestamped pre-serialized data. It is serialization-agnostic, so messages can be Protobuf, DDS (CDR), ROS, JSON and more. Its design is row-oriented and append-only, it stores schemas alongside the data, and it offers an optional index plus optional LZ4 or Zstandard chunk compression.

Failure modes

What goes wrong when you record small-repair work in stereo, and what does QA reject?

Hand occlusion by the part, the tool or the work piece is the first risk, under the visibility flag above. Small parts that leave the view are the second, and how often that happens is Not stated. Calibration is measured at the start and end of every session under a 0.28 px RMS gate, and an episode is rejected for a sync breach beyond the ceiling for more than three consecutive frames, for the manipulated object out of frame for more than 15 percent of the episode, for more than 35 percent of depth pixels in the manipulation region being invalid, for an undocumented bystander or for a mismatch against the named skill spec.

A reject log ships with every batch, and rejected items are recaptured at the provider’s cost.

Scale

How do off-the-shelf coverage and custom collection combine for small-repair work?

The October 2026 off-the-shelf catalog lists ~324,800 hours across 18 datasets, of which stereo is ~64,800 hours across 9 datasets. None of them names watch repair or shoe repair, so for stereo capture of these tasks this is custom collection, not an off-the-shelf purchase.

It is custom collection at scale through a network of thousands of capture providers, for a consistent, recurring data flow to labs. Where coverage is deep, the median time from signed spec to first validated batch is a median of 48 hours; where it is thin, turnaround runs three to four weeks. The site does not say which applies to these rows, and both are Available on request, so the timeline is quoted against your spec. Collections are billed per validated hour, and rejected episodes and recaptures are never billed.

Ordering

How do you order a stereo watch and shoe repair dataset?

Most programs begin with a Spec Pilot, a small first batch that proves the spec and accept criteria on real footage before you scale.

At a glance

What you get.

Catalog rows
Two rows in Repair Shop (appliance, bicycle, shoe, watch, furniture), Repair Services sector: "Watch repair" (Hard) and "Shoe repair" (Hard)
Watch repair row
"Open the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal."
Shoe repair row
"Remove worn soles or heels, cut and glue replacements and stitch and finish edges."
Status
Both rows Available on request
Catalog capture setup
Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig on both rows. The site states no stereo pair for these rows, so a stereo pair is agreed in the skill spec through the general stereo offer
Stereo head rig (06)
Dual fisheye, 1080p per eye, 62 mm baseline, per-unit calibration, 9-axis IMU, hand-tracking output; shipped as MCAP
License
Perpetual, irrevocable, buyer-owned, non-exclusive by default

Every collection runs through the same seven-stage end-to-end custom collection pipeline. End-to-end custom data collection is a managed service that takes an AI data need from problem to owned dataset in a single accountable pipeline.

Catalog rows

Which catalog rows cover watch repair and shoe repair, and what is their status?

The two Repair Shop rows from lib/commercial-catalog-data.ts, reproduced as the catalog states them. Both list Phone (head-mounted) / multiview rig as capture setup.
Task (as listed)Description (as listed)SkillStatus
Watch repairOpen the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal.HardAvailable on request
Shoe repairRemove worn soles or heels, cut and glue replacements and stitch and finish edges.HardAvailable on request

Compared pages

How does this page differ from the egocentric watch and shoe pages and the stereo leathercraft, jewelry and bicycle repair pages?

Each page and what it covers. Statuses are as the site lists them; none of these pages is claimed to hold delivered hours here.
PageWhat it coversRow status as listedRelation to this page
This page: stereo watch and shoe repair dataTwo Repair Shop rows: Watch repair (case, battery or movement parts under magnification, reseal) and Shoe repair (soles or heels, replacements, stitching, edges)Both Available on requestStereo pair and MCAP delivery for both rows
Egocentric watch and small mechanism repair dataThe Watch repair rowAvailable on requestNot stereo as its subject; the first-person page for the watch row
Egocentric shoe repair video dataThe Shoe repair rowAvailable on requestNot stereo as its subject; the first-person page for the shoe row
Stereo leathercraft dataFour Leathercraft Workshop rows: hand-stitching leather goods, leather bag and wallet making, leather tooling and saddleryAll four Available on requestAnother stereo page for bench craft; a different environment and rows, not repair
Stereo jewelry and metalsmithing dataFive Jewelry & Metalsmithing Studio rows: engraving, gem setting, polishing, soldering and wire wrappingAll five Available on requestAnother stereo page for small bench work; a different environment and rows, not watch or shoe repair
Stereo bicycle and appliance repair dataTwo other Repair Shop rows: Bicycle repair and Appliance repairBoth Available on requestThe sibling stereo page for the same environment; different rows
Egocentric stereo data in MCAPThe stereo and MCAP hub across tasksNot applicableGeneral stereo and MCAP treatment; not specific to repair work

Example footage

What does egocentric stereo capture look like?

One real clip already published on this site, shown as a format and rig example: a head-mounted stereo capture with hands in frame. It does not show watch repair or shoe repair.

egocentric_stereo_sample.mp4 · head-mounted stereo · hands in frame · 1920 × 1080 web preview · rig example, not a repair clip

No watch or shoe repair clip is published on the site, so this is labelled as a format and rig example. Request a sample to see delivered files. See stereo sample page, stereo + wrist-cam example videos, request an egocentric data sample.

FAQ

Watch repair robot training data, answered.

What is stereo watch and shoe repair data?
First-person video from two calibrated cameras of a person repairing a watch (opening the case, replacing the battery or movement parts under magnification, resealing) or a shoe (removing worn soles or heels, cutting and gluing replacements, stitching and finishing edges), with depth and hand pose alongside.
Which catalog rows cover it, and what is their status?
Two rows under Repair Shop: "Watch repair" (Hard), described as "Open the case, replace the battery or movement parts under magnification and reseal", and "Shoe repair" (Hard), described as "Remove worn soles or heels, cut and glue replacements and stitch and finish edges". Both are Available on request. This page claims no delivered hours.
Is stereo already captured on these rows?
Not stated. The catalog lists a head-mounted phone with a multiview rig for both rows. A stereo pair is agreed in the skill spec through the general stereo offer and confirmed on a Spec Pilot.
Is there an off-the-shelf watch or shoe repair dataset?
No listed dataset names these tasks, so stereo capture of them is custom collection, at scale through a network of thousands of capture providers, for a consistent, recurring data flow to labs.
Does the data include customers, or give repair or safety guidance?
The site states no rule for a shop customer. Faces, plates and screens are irreversibly blurred at ingest and a reviewer confirms the result. This page gives no repair, battery, adhesive or tool-safety instructions.
Can it be delivered as MCAP, and what is in the file?
Yes. Firsthand offers MCAP delivery. Topic names, message schemas and rates are Not stated on the site and are agreed in the skill spec.

Sources

Where is MCAP documented?

Request a custom watch and shoe repair dataset delivered as MCAP.

Tell us the jobs and where each starts and ends, whether an episode covers one step, one job or a whole repair, what counts as the object and as finished, the setting and lighting, the privacy rule for the shop and for anyone in frame, the streams you want in the file and whether MCAP sits beside RLDS, LeRobot or WebDataset. We will quote reach, timeline and price against a written spec, with a first validated batch proven on a Spec Pilot.