Watch repair not chain store ones.

[Eric_Collins 11]

I'm looking to get my Genuine RAF tornado fast jet navigator Seiko watch repaired. It's loosing time badly , about 30 seconds in every minuet. I've changed the battery and still same.

 

I want this to go to a genuine watch maker and not someone like Samuaels as last time I did this they took 2 years to replace the Chronograph motors, after they fitted wrong size glass and it leaked water into the watch, I joke you not !!!!

 

Any help please, any good recommendations. I'd also don't want Mick the market man bodger as this is a £700 watch second hand.

 

Cheers Eric.

Edited May 9, 2011 by Eric_Collins

[teenyweeny 10]

my father in law restores watches and old clocks,but he lives in suffolk..might be a bit too far for you.

[Slippy 10]

Take it to H L Browns it might be an expensive shop but its a rare watch, Dont take it to parkers at hillsbro they charge to much and it could come back worsr than it went in. Mine did.

[RJRB 688]

There is a small shop/ watch repairer on Attercliffe Road,who did a good job on my watch.Can't recall the name but it's on the RH side heading away from town beyond the old Banners shop.

[Dan_Ashcroft 10]

There's places I prefer in other parts of the country, but in Sheffield Leslie Cass on Surrey Street is good for more higher-end workmanship and aren't overly expensive.

[hotrock 10]

Isn't there a Horologist just off Whites Lane Near Gleadless town end

[Eric_Collins 11]

There is a small shop/ watch repairer on Attercliffe Road,who did a good job on my watch.Can't recall the name but it's on the RH side heading away from town beyond the old Banners shop.

 

Ah I think I know the one

 

If I remember he fitted me a new glass when I first bought the watch 20 odd years ago from a army shop in Leeds.

 

I'd have thought he would have gone given last time I was there ?

[Mandem 13]

That is Dobsons, but I think they are closed now. We went last week and they were shut and there is a for sale sign above the shop.

[RJRB 688]

Ah I think I know the one

 

If I remember he fitted me a new glass when I first bought the watch 20 odd years ago from a army shop in Leeds.

 

I'd have thought he would have gone given last time I was there ?

 

Certainly there within last couple of years.

 

 

 

Sorry Mandem,shame if he has gone as he was very helpful.

Edited May 9, 2011 by RJRB
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[julado 10]

There used to be a little independent jeweller and watch repairer behind the Cathedral....not sure if he is still there.