Atelier Zeitglas Hofmann (Schaffhausen)

REVISION & REPAIR VINTAGE CLOCKS

Your watch is always there for you. Give something back to yours to make your relationship last. Abrasion and wear take their toll on the fine components of the movement over time. An overhaul every five to six years ensures that your watch will continue to function properly. It is carefully disassembled, cleaned and reassembled. And even in the case of a repair, the service in our workshop goes beyond the usual. Thanks to a large stock and materials from the past, we can replace corresponding movement parts immediately.

OUR SERVICES

• Professional disassembly, cleaning and assembly
• Repair of worn parts
  • Removal of rust
  • Roughening of worn out pivots
  • Renewal of polishes on steel components
• Replacement of defective components
• Elaborate fine adjustment (gear setting)
• Refreshing of cases and metal bracelets
• Assortment of new leather watch bands

RESTAURATION

Whether you want to restore a noble collector's item or grandfather's wristwatch. Every watch has a story. And a soul. All the more valuable to bring them back to life and bring out the lost luster. Zeitglas does this with passion and respect to unique pieces.

As watch experts, we are very familiar with the mechanics of antique watches. So we are able to rebuild even worn out or destroyed components true to the original. And we do this directly in our own workshop with specialized machinery.

OUR SERVICES

• Optical and technical refurbishment
• Restoration of dials
• Material application on cases
• Goldsmith work
• Reconstruction of movement components
• Various decorations
  • Perlage
  • engravings
  • Sunbursts and Geneva stripes
  • Sandblasting
  • Black polishing
• Galvanic coatings on cases and movement parts

and a lot of experience, we also have the technical "savoir faire" and the necessary routine.

OUR SERVICES

• Professional disassembly, cleaning and assembly
• Measurement of the expansion of the pressure can
• Replacement of defective components
• Replacement of broken glass panes
• Brightening of housing parts with strong patina
• Providing transport boxes for safe shipment