Links
Links to Other Horological Sites of Interest
Repairers
www.pocketwatchrepair.com
Renaissance Watch Repair:
Specializing in the repair, restoration and preservation of
fine vintage timepieces.
www.nevadawatchrepair.com
Nevada Watch Repair: Modern, Antique, and Vintage
watches professionally serviced in Carson City, Nevada. One year
guarantee on all work. Accepting mail orders.
www.pocketwatchsite.com
Pocket Watch Site: Specializing
in American pocket watch sales, repairs, and a ton of
information!
Watch Material Dealers - U.S.
www.mccawcompany.com
The William S. McCaw Co.: The Wm. S. McCaw Co. is a
full service Material House since 1913. We have an extensive inventory
of watch parts including all major brands, batteries, movements, tools
related to the jewelry and horological industries and much more. Our
excellent crystal fitting service is used by customers across the United
States. We welcome orders via web, email, fax and phone. Phone
1-800-537-0343. Fax 1-800-245-6481.
www.twincitysupply.net
Twin City Supply, Inc.: A 4th generation
family owned business located in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
We can trace our roots back to the 1920's. Our phone lines
are open Monday-Friday, 8:00 am until 5:00 pm, Central time.
We carry findings, solder, Energizer watch batteries; all
sorts of watch material, new and old. Watch material and
crystals for Seiko, Pulsar, Citizen, Bulova, and many hard to
find or discontinued brands such as Rolex, Omega, Elgin,
Hamilton, Gruen, Longines, Waltham, other Swiss brands,
pocket watches, etc.. In fact, we are still going thru many
boxes that were stored in three trailers in the back lot from
the move 13 years ago! We stock extensive inventories from:
A*F, Acon, Arbe, Bergeon, Bestfit, Casio, Citizen, Eurotool,
Energizer, Grobet, Horotec, GemOro, Gilden, JSP, L & R,
Newall, PePe, Seiko, Timex, WatchBand Headquarters, and Zenith.
Many, many items are available that re not listed on the new web
site; please email or call with your requests. Telephone 800-328-6009
or e-mail
Twincitysupply@msn.com
www.primrosesupplies.com
Primrose Supplies: Primrose Supplies, located in
Salt Lake City, is a full service watch materials, tools and supply
house. On our site you will find a representation of what we have
to offer. If you don't see what you're looking for, just call us.
We can help.
www.julesborel.com
Jules Borel and Co.: Borel is a watch
material dealer located in Kansas City, MO. The
Borel web site is certainly one of the best for
identifying vintage parts and for interchange
information if one understands how the search function
works.
www.startimesupply.com
Star Time Supply: Star Time Supply is one of the
larger supply houses in the U.S.A and has an extensive website. They
ship orders same day as late as 3 p.m. CST and are based out of Houston,
Texas. Star Time is popular with many of us watchmakers, because they
often carry’s items that other material suppliers don't have. Star Time
offers 3 % discount on web orders, or you can place orders by fax
or phone. Telephone 1-800-927-7664 or 713-270-9935. Fax 713-270-9936.
English and Spanish are spoken.
www.ofrei.com
Otto Frei: Frei is a watch material
dealer in Oakland CA. Frei has a very well
illustrated web site, which can provide learning
opportunities for beginners.
www.casker.com
CasKer Co.: CasKer is one of the
largest watch material dealers in the U.S. with a large web
site which features access to material often difficult
to obtain because of manufacturers restrictive practices.
Need a Patek Philip crown? CasKer has it for only $250--solid gold of course.
Watch Material Dealers - International
http://www.ernst-westphal.de
Ernst Westphal: Westphal is a source in
Germany for vintage Swiss parts. The web site is in German
and English, but they are also able to communicate in
French, and Spanish as well.
www.cousinsuk.com.
Cousins U.K.: One of the U.K.'s largest watch material
suppliers. The Cousins web site has hundreds of technical documents online,
including many factory produced illustrated parts lists.
http://nwcsupplies.com
Northern Watch & Clock Supplies:
Located in County Down, Northern Ireland, NWC has millions of parts and
is an excellent source for vintage material not found elsewhere.
Used Watch Movements, Watch Material and Tools
www.dashto.com
Dashto Horological Services: Dashto is an
excellent source for used watch movements, vintage
Swiss, Japanese and American watch parts, as well as
used watchmaker's tools.
www.vintagewatchmarket.com
Vintage Watch Market: For vintage
and obsolete new old stock tools and Swiss material
(chronograph, dials, hands, cases, movement parts, pivot
caps, pendant bushes, and much more). If you do not find
what you are looking for listed on their website, contact
them.They have thousands of unlisted items, and
requests are welcomed.
www.obsoletewatchandclockparts.com
ObsoleteWatchandClockparts.com: A
good selection of new old stock, hard to find, or obsolete
watch parts.
www.daveswatchparts.com
Dave's Watch Parts and Tools
Vintage/Antique watch repair tools, factory material,
crystals, pocket watch case and chain parts.
www.watchrepairinfo.com
A frequently updated page with resources such as:
suppliers of parts (American pocket watches, Swiss pocket
watches, wristwatch parts); suppliers of crystals;
technical manuals; dial refinishers; etc.
Horological Associations
www.bhi.co.uk
British Horological Institute
www.nawcc.org
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors
News and Discussion Groups
www.timezone.com
Time Zone
watchmakingblog.com
Tick Talk —
Let’s talk about things that tick. And the things that
make me tick. It’s not always about watches, but I am a
watchmaker so lots of it centers around watches and
watchmaking.