Full service
from $420
Complete strip-down, ultrasonic cleaning, new mainspring and gaskets, oiling, timing on six positions.
A watch salon and an open repair bench in the Old Quarter. The caliber on the podium keeps the time on your own machine — nothing on this page is a video.
You leave the watch, we take it apart on the bench, photograph the movement and send a written estimate. Work starts only after you reply.
Complete strip-down, ultrasonic cleaning, new mainspring and gaskets, oiling, timing on six positions.
Acrylic, mineral or sapphire, pressed and re-sealed. Obsolete shapes are cut to a template of your own glass.
Hand refinishing that keeps the original bevels: brushed surfaces re-grained, polished flanks re-cut.
Movement, case and dial checked against reference plates. You get a signed one-page report.
Quartz movements: cell, gaskets and a pressure test, so the back is never closed on a dead seal.
Dry and wet test to 10 bar with a printed curve. Free of charge with any service booked afterwards.
Spring bars, quick-release ends, bracelet links and a micro-adjust set while you wait at the counter.
Dial refinishing, re-lumed hands, machined replacement parts for calibers with no stock left anywhere.
Our house piece on the valuation turntable. Pick a case finish and turn it yourself — the same way we show a watch across the counter.
Meridian & Sons opened on Lantern Row in 1889 as a clock shop for the harbour offices. The counter has moved twice; the bench never left the same room. Today the salon and the workshop share one floor, so the person who opens your watch is the person who hands it back.
We keep a parts library of about eleven thousand components, most of them for calibers nobody stocks any more. When a part simply does not exist, we cut it — that is what the lathe in the window is for.
Everything that leaves the bench goes out on a timing certificate: six positions, before and after, printed and signed.
My grandmother's 1951 calendar watch had been in a drawer for twenty years. They sent photographs of every stage, told me which parts were beyond saving, and it now keeps four seconds a day.
I dive twice a month, so the pressure test mattered more than the polish. They found a flattened gasket that two other shops had closed the case on, and printed the curve to prove it.
The crystal for my grandfather's pocket watch has not been made since the sixties. They cut one from blank stock in nine days and refused to charge me for the template.
The bench faces the street, so you can watch the work from the pavement. Drop-offs are taken until half an hour before closing.
| Monday | By appointment |
| Tuesday – Friday | 10:00 – 18:30 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Sunday | Closed |
A booking holds a slot at the bench, not a price. Nothing is charged until you have read the estimate.
If yours is not here, call the bench. Somebody who works on watches will pick up.
Four to six weeks for a movement we hold parts for. Cleaning and reassembly take a few days; the rest is the watch sitting on the timing machine so we can see how it behaves after settling. If a part has to be machined, we tell you before the clock starts.
Yes. Battery and gasket changes are same-day, and we pressure-test every case we close. We also service quartz chronograph movements, although parts for the cheapest modules are often more expensive than the module itself — we will say so plainly.
Mechanical work does not; over-polishing does. That is why case refinishing is a separate, opt-in service and why we never touch a dial without asking. Original parts we replace are returned to you in a labelled bag.
Usually. We keep about eleven thousand parts in the library and cut acrylic and mineral blanks in the workshop when the catalogue is empty. Shaped sapphire has to be ordered and takes three to four weeks.