Antique Watch & Clock Repair and Restoration, Robert Loomes MBHI FRSA

 High Grade Watch Repair & Clock Repair since 1966

01780 481319 or 020 7477 2224

Stamford, Harrogate and London
 
Antique clock repairers and clock restorers,
also painted and brass clock dial restorers.
 
Watch repair on all types and makes of mechanical watch.
 
We offer a personal, qualified, experienced, insured and secure service.
 
Antique clock restoration and clock repair is guaranteed for twelve months.
Watch repairs and watch restoration is guaranteed for twelve months.
 
 
We have a staff of five clock restorers, two painted dial restorers and two watch repairers, making us one of the largest private firms in the country and with a combined experience of well over 200 years. Details on the Staff page.
 
ROBERT LOOMES is a registered professional Member of the British Horological Institute (no. 16510) and the British Watch and Clockmakers Guild. He writes the "Diary of a clock repairer" for Clocks Magazine, typical entries on the Diary page.
Robert is a Liveryman of the Clockmakers Company and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
 

STAMFORD
(Rutland, East Leicestershire, South Nottinghamshire, South Lincolnshire and East Cambridgeshire)
01780 481319
3 St Leonards St. Stamford, Lincolnshire PE9 2HU
(Open Mon-Fri 9.00 - 5.00, Sat 10.00-4.00)
 
NORTH / CENTRAL LONDON
68 Hatton Garden EC1N 8JY
(strictly by appointment)
0207 4772224
 
 Robert will visit customers for clock repair in North and Central London.
(South of the Thames we recommend Anthony Gray, FRSA MBHI, an excellent clock repairer based in Kent but who also regularly works in London.)
 
last checked 25th June 2008

House Visits for Clock Repair
We can help with moving and setting up your longcase clock. We travel up and down the A1M between Harrogate and Central London most weeks.
 
Around Harrogate we are happy to call to collect or deliver clocks for repair or restoration between Pateley Bridge, Knaresborough, Wetherby and Boston Spa,.
 
Around Stamford, we call between Peterborough, Bourne, Grantham, Rutland including Oakham and Uppingham . We cover North East Cambridgeshire including Cambridge, Huntingdon, St Neots, St Ives and Huntingdon. , South Nottinghamshire, including Nottingham and Melton Mowbray
 
In London We can collect and deliver clocks for repair or restoration through Golders Green, Finchley, Hampstead and Highgate, Camden, Islington, Westminster, City, etc... Simply, N, NW and C postcodes..
 
Stamford is a superb old market town, the half way point between the London and Harrogate; our workshops there take up three floors of one of the town's many former coaching inns, "the Olive Branch" built in 1666.
 
Our Hatton Garden workshop is open for collection and delivery Mon-Fri, again, fully secured and insured. Clocks are usually taken back to Stamford for any work required.
 
We can help with care of antique longcase clocks (or grandfather clocks), bracket clocks, carriage clocks, striking and repeating carriage clocks, French mantle clocks, single, double and tripple fusee clocks, and of course, lantern clocks.
 
EXHIBITIONS
 
"Time and Place" An exhibition by the Antiquarian Horological Society at the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, ran from 25th November 2006 to 15th April 2007. Covers English Country (not London) Clocks 1600-1840. It was pleasing to note that 5 of the 68 clocks chosen for this pivotal exhibition had been through our workshops!
"BHI 150th". This is the Horological Institute's 150th year and the Institute is planning a huge show this summer between the 7th and 15th of June 2008. We will be exhibiting there and hope to see you too - lectures, auctions, unveiling of the three pendulum Project 150 clock, the BHI tourbillon watch goes on sale, stonking raffle with prizes from Rolex, Mont Blanc and others...
 
Robert should be around for most of it. John and Wayne will certainly be exhibiting their skills there over the three days
 

 
              VACANCY
 
We are recruiting for an experienced watchmaker to join us in Stamford. You should have at least two years' bench experience, be happy to turn and fit staffs and stems if needed and have a fair understanding of the trade (including the Swiss watch parts supply situation). An outstanding opportunity for development.
Salaried, in pleasant working conditions. We encourage further qualification and CPD, and offer 28 days holiday and a pension scheme. Alas, EU citizens only for now.