Chronograph servicing recommendations
Discussion
Hi, my first post on the watch forum here, so here goes.
I'm lucky enough to have a couple of nice watches, a reissue black face, 3 subdial Tag Heuer Monaco (black croc strap, Tag deployment fastner) and a blue Breitling Navitimer, which is a more recent, used Ebay purchase, but in need of a service, and I presently dislike the clasp/buckle arrangement, which has done its best to wear out the genuine Breitling strap in quite short order when wearing the watch every day.
So, a couple of questions...
I have a Breitling deployment buckle and replica strap for the correct 22mm case fitting, but when I put it on, I can't get the clasp to latch properly. When I get the watch serviced, it would be good to meet whoever does the job, and hope that they can sort the strap issue for me.
So, who would anyone on here recommend? I have used a couple of different servicing vendors in the past for the Monaco, but I haven't really been impressed with the service I have had from them, and each time has been the thick end of £500. Goldsmiths did the first one, replacing the strap, and crystal, but the mechanism failed only a couple of weeks later, so the watch went back to them to be repaired foc. Genuine straps are expensive rubbish, I have had 2 new ones on the Monaco, but all have been outlasted by a £30 replica strap. The second service was done by The Watch Lab, who again replaced the cyrstal, as I requested, but they also changed the crown for a Heuer one, and rather over polished the watch, neither of these things I requested, and again charged me £500 or thereabouts...
Are there any cheaper options out there to get my Breitling serviced?
I contacted Terry at TCA Watch Repairs in Loughborough the other day, but he only accepts watches that have been posted or couriered to him (apparently its something to do with his third party insurance), as I'm not at all keen to entrust the watch to the vaguries of the Post Office, so I offered to deliver it to him in person, but he can't accept that, so it looks like a deal breaker... Hmm.
I'm lucky enough to have a couple of nice watches, a reissue black face, 3 subdial Tag Heuer Monaco (black croc strap, Tag deployment fastner) and a blue Breitling Navitimer, which is a more recent, used Ebay purchase, but in need of a service, and I presently dislike the clasp/buckle arrangement, which has done its best to wear out the genuine Breitling strap in quite short order when wearing the watch every day.
So, a couple of questions...
I have a Breitling deployment buckle and replica strap for the correct 22mm case fitting, but when I put it on, I can't get the clasp to latch properly. When I get the watch serviced, it would be good to meet whoever does the job, and hope that they can sort the strap issue for me.
So, who would anyone on here recommend? I have used a couple of different servicing vendors in the past for the Monaco, but I haven't really been impressed with the service I have had from them, and each time has been the thick end of £500. Goldsmiths did the first one, replacing the strap, and crystal, but the mechanism failed only a couple of weeks later, so the watch went back to them to be repaired foc. Genuine straps are expensive rubbish, I have had 2 new ones on the Monaco, but all have been outlasted by a £30 replica strap. The second service was done by The Watch Lab, who again replaced the cyrstal, as I requested, but they also changed the crown for a Heuer one, and rather over polished the watch, neither of these things I requested, and again charged me £500 or thereabouts...
Are there any cheaper options out there to get my Breitling serviced?
I contacted Terry at TCA Watch Repairs in Loughborough the other day, but he only accepts watches that have been posted or couriered to him (apparently its something to do with his third party insurance), as I'm not at all keen to entrust the watch to the vaguries of the Post Office, so I offered to deliver it to him in person, but he can't accept that, so it looks like a deal breaker... Hmm.
Try here http://www.watchservices.co.uk/blog/home-page/cont...
Did a great job on my wife's Breitling Colt and a friends Omega.
Personal delivery not a problem either.
Did a great job on my wife's Breitling Colt and a friends Omega.
Personal delivery not a problem either.
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