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The Time Care
South Delhi · Delhi-NCR

Watch and antique clock repair in Delhi, fifty years at the bench.

A working Delhi bench, not a collection counter. Every repair is quoted before it is started — and for an antique clock that should not travel, we bring the tools to you.

Your time, right now We are open Mon – Sun, 09:00 – 18:00
A Swiss lever escapement in motion The escape wheel, pallet fork and balance wheel of a mechanical watch, animated at eighteen thousand beats per hour — the mechanism that divides a mainspring's power into even seconds.
Swiss lever escapement 18,000 vph · five beats to the second
What we do

Nine things we do, and do properly.

A battery takes minutes. A longcase movement can take weeks. Both get the same bench and the same attention.

A decorated Swiss watch movement seen from the bridge side: barrel bridge and train bridge with Cotes de Geneve, ratchet and crown wheels, the balance under its cock with the regulator index, and ruby jewels in brass chatons.
Inside the case

What you are actually handing over.

A mechanical watch is a power source, a gear train and a governor, built to tolerances measured in hundredths of a millimetre. Dried oil in any one of these places wears metal that cannot be un-worn.

1Crown & stem
Winds the mainspring and sets the hands. The commonest route for water to get in.
2Mainspring barrel
Stores the power. A tired or set mainspring is why a watch stops early.
3Gear train
Steps that power down through four wheels into an even, usable rate.
4Escapement
Releases the train one beat at a time. This is the ticking you can hear.
5Balance wheel
Oscillates against a hairspring and decides whether the watch keeps time.
6Jewel bearings
Synthetic ruby. They cut friction where a steel pivot would grind itself away.
How a repair runs

From your wrist to the bench and back.

Five steps, and you know the price before step four.

  1. 01

    You get in touch

    Call, WhatsApp a photo, or bring the piece to the workshop. For a large clock, we arrange a visit.

  2. 02

    We look properly

    The movement is opened and inspected. Guessing from the outside is how good timepieces get ruined.

  3. 03

    You get a price

    A written estimate covering parts and labour, with a realistic timeframe. Free, and never binding.

  4. 04

    The work is done

    Cleaning, lubrication, part-making or restoration — by hand, at the bench, using the right materials.

  5. 05

    It is timed, then returned

    We run it and regulate it before it goes back to you, so it leaves keeping time, not just ticking.

The specialism

An antique clock is a document, not just a machine.

Brass goes green, steel pits, and somebody in 1960 fitted the wrong bush. Restoring a clock properly means reversing that without erasing the evidence of its life. We use traditional techniques and traditional materials, so the clock keeps its authenticity — and its value.

Longcase and grandfather · Mantel and bracket · Cuckoo · Wall regulators

Antique clock restoration
Repairing an antique clock is not only about the mechanism. It is about keeping a piece of history running for the next generation.
Before you move it

A longcase clock does not travel like furniture.

Most of the damage we repair on grandfather clocks did not happen while they were running. It happened in the back of a vehicle. Here is what a proper move actually involves, so you can see why we would rather bring the bench to the clock than have the clock come to us.

  1. 1

    The pendulum comes out first

    It is steadied, then unhooked from the suspension spring. That spring is a thin strip of steel, and it bends if the bob is left swinging.

  2. 2

    The weights come down and get labelled

    They are wound low, lifted off and marked. Weights are rarely identical, and the strike train will not run correctly if they go back swapped.

  3. 3

    The hood lifts, the movement is freed

    The hood generally slides forward off the trunk. With it clear, the movement lifts from the seatboard and travels on its own.

  4. 4

    The case travels upright, never flat

    Empty, the case is light but awkward, and the glass and cresting are the first things to break. Two people, upright, and never laid flat in a car boot.

Beyond the NCR

The bench is in Delhi. The work comes from all over India.

Delhi-NCR we cover in person, and for an antique clock we come to the house. Everywhere else in the country, the piece travels to us instead. Send a photograph first and we will tell you whether it is worth the journey before you arrange anything.

Reviews

We would rather you read the reviews on Google.

Anyone can write glowing quotes on their own website. Ours are on our Google Business Profile, where we cannot edit them and neither can anyone else. Read what people actually said, then decide.

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Tell us what has stopped.

A photo on WhatsApp is usually enough for us to tell you what is likely wrong and what it will cost. Open Mon – Sun, 09:00 – 18:00.