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Brass wheels and steel springs of a watch movement in close-up, warm light
+42 s/day
as it came in · 28,800 beats an hour

Time, serviced.

Stripped to 132 parts. Cleaned, oiled, regulated to two seconds a day.Mechanical watch servicing on a bench with a loupe and a timing machine. Six weeks, a two-year guarantee, and nothing replaced that can be made to run.

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01 · The service

One hundred and thirty-two parts, in order.

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parts on the bench · in the tray they came out of
BarrelThird wheelEscapeBalance
StripEvery part, one tray
CleanUltrasonic · four baths
OilFive oils · by the jewel
RegulateSix positions · timing machine
TimeTen days on the bench
Strip. Every part into the tray it came out of.A hundred and thirty-two, if it's a standard automatic. Screws by size, bridges by order, springs in a lidded pot because springs leave. Nothing goes in a bag.
A watch movement lying open on a dark bench with tweezers beside it
02 · The bench

What a service actually is.

132

parts in a standard automatic. Every one out, every one back, in the order it came.

6 wk

from the day it arrives. Two of those are on the timing machine, being watched.

±2 s

a day, in six positions, when it leaves. The rate card comes with it.

2 yr

guarantee on the work. If it drifts, it comes back and we look, no charge.

Hands holding an open watch movement over a dark bench

Time, serviced.

A watch that's been running for eight years on oil that dried out five years ago is a watch that's wearing itself out. The service isn't a repair. It's the thing that means you won't need one.

Services

Three things we do.

A full service, a restoration for the ones that have been in a drawer, and a regulation for the ones that just need bringing back to time.

Full service · 6 weeks · most movementsServiceStrip, clean, oil, regulate, time. New gaskets, the case cleaned.

The one most watches need every five to seven years. Price depends on the movement, and we tell you before we open it.

From £340
Restoration · 3 to 6 monthsRestoreFor the watch that stopped in 1987 and stayed stopped

Service plus whatever it takes: parts made, dials cleaned, hands re-blued. Photographed at every stage, estimated at each.

Estimated after inspection
Regulation · 10 daysRegulateFor a serviced watch that's drifted

Demagnetise, check the amplitude, adjust the rate in six positions, ten days on the machine. If it needs more than that, we'll say.

£90
Process

Six weeks, on the bench.

A watch arrives, gets a number, and goes through five stages. Here's what each one takes.

The plates and wheels of a watch movement in close-up
Wk 1
Inspect and estimateCase off, movement out, a look at the amplitude and the state of the oils. A written estimate before anything's touched.
Wk 2
Strip and cleanEvery part out, in order, into the tray. Four ultrasonic baths. Pivots polished if they need it.
Wk 3
Reassemble and oilFive different oils, each to its jewel, in quantities you'd need the loupe to see. Too much is worse than none.
Wk 4
RegulateOn the timing machine in six positions until the rate is inside two seconds. Then the case goes back on and we do it again.
Wk 5–6
Time itTen days running on the bench, checked morning and night, before it goes back in its box with the rate card.
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Tell us the make, the calibre if you know it, and what it's doing. We'll send a padded box and a label. It comes back six weeks later with a rate card and a note about what we found.

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