The watch lab

[tobster]

Morning,

Has anyone used The Watch Lab ? I'm looking at getting a Tag serviced and noticed they have a lab at Lakeside in Essex.

Just wanted to know if anyone had used them before I trust them with my watch.

Thanks

Toby

[rickf_uk]

I've just sent one of babies off to be serviced by them. They seem a really professional company and have given me a very good, no pressure, level of service. Apparently its was set up by a watchmaker and rolex expert up in Preston and has grown from there. In fact as the watch I put in was a bit out of the ordinary the head man gave me a call to get its history and have a chat about it.

The only real downside to them is the cost. A service for decent automatic watch is around £495 but that is for a complete strip and rebuild and the watch then has a 12 month guarantee.

If the Essex shop is anything like the Manchester one don't be put off by the range of cheap fashion watches they sell. Talk to one of the guys, most of the local lads are genuine watch enthusiasts.

[tobster]

Cheers for for that Rick. I'm hoping that a service will be cheaper than the price Tag quoted to me as the last service they did they didn't get the main timing hand to sit exactly on dead centre.

I'll pop into Lakeside and have a chat.

[Alex L]

As an alternative I can thoroughly recommend these guys, also in Essex.

They have serviced both mine and my parents Omegas and Tags and I will be taking my Rolex there when it's due a service.

http://www.swisstimeservices.com/about.html

Edited by Alex L on Thursday 19th April 08:59

[tobster]

Cheers Alex , they're even closer to me.