FIXING TIME - WE CAN MAKE IT WORK!

IF I were to say ‘Watches and Clocks Are Us’ I would not be far wrong, but that doesn’t quite cover all we can do. We also have extensive experience repairing or restoring pocket watches, which do seem to be enjoying a bit of a revival lately from what we have seen. Word has it that this renewed liking for pocket watches may be linked to the popularity of the TV series Peaky Blinders. Who knows if this is true, but we have seen an in flux of customers wanting us to restore their family heirloom pocket watches for 18th, 21st, Graduations, Wed ding celebrations etc.

Back in 2018 in the UK, we accepted a most challenging job! Our cus tomer’s father had gener ously passed on to him his own father’s pocket watch a very nice 18 Carat Gold Chronograph. It was a piece to treasure, and our customer had been thrilled to receive it. Except, on his route home, with said pocket watch in his motorbike top box, the top box parted company with the bike and was crushed by another passing vehicle. Remarkably the watch was not totally destroyed, but was in very poor shape outwardly and inwardly. Our customer never confessed as to what had happened to his father, but he retained all the parts he could retrieve for many years until he found FixingTime and brought it to us. The watch was in pieces, in wardly the list of needs was exten sive, but doable. Outwardly the dial was badly damaged and the case was badly dented and mis­shapen.

I am glad to say we were able to re turn the watch to its for mer glory, and our customer could hardly believe what we achieved..

Before setting up our watch and clock workshop in Valle del Sol, Alicante we operated our UK business ­ FIXING TIME in Prescot, Lancashire, which was the epicentre of watchmaking in the UK in the 1800s. Prescot pocket watches were renowned at that time as the finest in the world. FIXINGTIME has restored many hundreds of pocket watches over the past 45 years, in UK and internationally. We have a vast and unrivalled collection of spare parts, which we brought with us when we relocated to Costa Blanca nearly three years ago, and if necessary, we can manufacture parts utilising the machinery we also transported.

We thrive on repairing all manner of clocks and pocket watches and watches. They do not have to be antique, you just need to love them enough to want them working once again. Modern quartz watches need regular servicing just like your car, and its important to remove the batteries when they run out of life otherwise they will leak and damage the inside of the watch.