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The Clockmaker specializes in the repair and restoration of most antique and vintage clocks including: pendulum-regulated clocks which strike every hour on the hour, chiming and musical clocks, to longcase and grandfather clocks with their use of freestanding, weight-driven pendulums and even modern quartz battery-powered clocks.
The Clockmaker undertakes a lot of different restorations. And it’s not uncommon for them to be working with antique clocks that are 200 to 300 years old.
With years of ongoing wear to the timepieces – they endeavour to retain as much of the original state of our Customer’s antique clock as possible. The Clockmaker helps bring them back to functioning form, and help preserve the true historic value of the family heirloom for the next generations.
So what’s their process? For each antique clock, they perform a complete assessment to diagnose problems and provide cost-effective solutions for repair and restoration. Then, they undertake disassembly, cleaning, repair, reassembly, calibrating, recasing and test the antique clock to ensure it is fully functional before returning it to the Customer.
The Clockmaker can also convert many first generation battery clocks to newer style quartz clocks. Repairs to modern clocks are also part of the Clockmaker’s daily routine.
If you have an antique or vintage clock that needs repair or restoration, please get in touch via email.
Winter hours are in effect - please call ahead for our daily hours of operation
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Watch our highly personalized video which tells a story of John Bouwman and the clockmaking craft.
My wife and I brought in a couple of old clocks and a couple of old pocket watches that had not worked in a long time. Not knowing what to expect, John was right on with his pleasantness and with his honesty about the clocks and watches. He explained the problems right away to us on both the clocks and watches and advised that it would be too costly to repair any of them, as they were not really worth it to spend the kind of money that it would take to get the old Gilbert clock, (especially), going again, as the parts were not going to be available to get it back to new condition. Before we left, I asked if he could adjust the watch band on a new watch that I had purchased recently, he did this without hesitation and free of charge. I would not hesitate to come back and have John repair any of our other clocks or watches.
