Movement.
Memory.
Made right.
A working watchmaker's bench on Hatton Garden. Vintage service, sympathetic restoration, and a small, carefully kept stock of pre-owned Swiss watches. By appointment, or simply walk in.
Bench-Trained · Est. 2003
Four tiers.
One bench.
Every watch that comes in is logged, photographed and quoted before any work begins. Nothing is touched until you've seen the quote. Nothing leaves the bench until it keeps time to within a few seconds a day.
Service
Full mechanical service. Movement stripped, cleaned, lubricated and regulated to chronometer tolerance. Returned with a two-year guarantee.
Repair
Diagnostics and repair across automatic, manual and quartz. Crowns, stems, hands, crystals, mainsprings — replaced or hand-fabricated where parts are no longer made.
Restoration
Heirloom restoration for watches with history. Dials retouched, cases sympathetically refinished, lost parts rebuilt by hand. Photographed at every stage.
Valuation
Independent written valuations for insurance, probate and sale. Fully documented, signed and dated. Recognised by all major UK insurers.
A small stock,
carefully kept.
Every pre-owned watch we sell has been through our own bench. Serviced, regulated, photographed and guaranteed for twelve months. Box, papers and provenance noted on every card.
Omega Seamaster 300
Rolex Datejust 36
Tudor Black Bay 58
Omega Speedmaster Pro
Rolex Explorer
Tudor Pelagos 39
The bench,
not the boutique.
BHI Member
Members of the British Horological Institute. Every bench-trained watchmaker on the team carries the BHI mark of competence.
Thirty Years at the Bench
Three decades servicing Swiss mechanical movements — Omega, Rolex, Tudor, Cartier, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre and the rest.
Brand Certified
Trained to factory specification for the major Swiss houses. Genuine parts wherever available, hand-fabricated where they are not.
Established 2003
Quietly on Hatton Garden for over twenty years. The same workshop, the same hands, the same standards.
"A watch isn't a possession.
It's a thing your grandfather wore."
Edward trained in Switzerland in the early 1990s and opened the Hatton Garden bench in 2003. Three decades on, he still strips every movement personally. The youngest watchmaker on the team has eleven years at the bench. There are no juniors. There is no production line. There is the bench.
I inherited my grandfather's 1962 Omega Constellation in a shoebox of bits. Mainspring rebuilt it over four months — dial retouched, case sympathetically polished, movement running like the day it left Bienne. It's on my wrist as I write this.
Walk in,
or call ahead.
The workshop is open Tuesday to Saturday. Drop in with a watch — we'll log it, look it over, and quote the work at the bench while you wait. No appointment necessary, though we appreciate a call for restorations and valuations.
42 Hatton Garden
London EC1N 8EB