My watchmaker no longer wants to do routine services, he’s only interested in intractable problems everyone else has failed to resolve, or in crazy electro-mechanical movements.
That is really interesting, and the first time I have heard of a watchmaker staking out that particular territory.
My watchmaker will tell new customers that he only works on "high-end or complicated watches", but he's willing to do all types of repairs on those watches.
there’s like a whole village around him, when several clients were in the shop on a Saturday, he’d suggest we go for coffee or lunch at the corner cafe, and talk about watches, politics or whatever else.
Might this be better shared by PM?
Doesn’t mean anything, he was much cheaper than the one in the 13th arrondissement who charged my mother 300 euros for servicing my grandfather’s hand wound 1960s Omega watch which he never wore, and replaced the gold crown without giving it back.
Ouch that hurts
this lockdown is dreadful
That guy loves antique clocks and is apparently famous for fixing 17th century clocks whicu get shipped to him from other countries, and he hates vintage watches, especially when they’re bought on the internet.
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Nobody forces him to accept (and botch) a job if he hates it... I don't like clocks very much, I just don't touch them and refers clients to somebody I know who will do a good job. I'll never understand those kind of guys.
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Nobody forces him to accept (and botch) a job if he hates it... I don't like clocks very much, I just don't touch them and refers clients to somebody I know who will do a good job. I'll never understand those kind of guys.
To be fair I have no idea whether he botched the job— but to have retained the gold crown he was asked to replace because it was too small to handle easily is unacceptable.
And I certainly would not bring him any of my watches to service at his price, especially after he expressed his utter contempt for one of my favorite watches, a 1942 Royal Air Force Omega he despised because the movement inside was mass produced by the million.
Maybe that was his own acidic way of refusing business.
Just a quick update on recent changes regarding my watchmaking business.
First, a new website:
www.watch-repair-france.weebly.com
I am located in South-West France just south of Angouleme.
As ChrisN noted last year, I stopped taking on new customers because my calendar was always full. This has changed.
Brexit has forced us to make the difficult decision of no longer being able to work with our UK customers. This has created openings in our calendar and we can accept new customers from EU countries, including France of course.
Best regards,
Rob
