The Repair Before & After Spotlight Series
My Jewelry Repair aims to provide our customers with the highest caliber of jewelry and watch repair all from the comfort of their home. The Before & After Series spotlights some of the best work our Master Craftsmen have done!
An Unexpected Heirloom: Complete Vintage Omega Watch Restoration
There are some orders that are made with us that gets to the point where the customer sends in their jewelry or watch piece, and it sits safely in our facility. Steps are made in the order process, however, that’s where the journey of the repair process ends because these customers actually forget that their jewelry or watch piece was sent in to us.
This before & after actually spotlights one of these cases. We always follow up multiple times through phone and email when an order sits in our facility as described. In the end, we do want to get your precious items back to you safely and restored. That’s not -exactly- what happened with this watch.
This Vintage Omega Watch timepiece was sent to us back in 2018, with the order note saying that it was bought in Austria about twenty years ago and that its “batteries last only three weeks and die.” After a certain amount of time, we tried contacting the owner through multiple ways. After many call attempts, emails, and a physical letter sent to his home, we finally got a response.
Unfortunately, we found out that the owner had passed away through the daughter that had luckily found the letter. An unexpected heirloom had come her way, and she decided to continue with the restoration process.
For this complete watch timepiece restoration, we had to:
- Perform a free professional evaluation after noting what the customer requested for the repair
- Note that although we are an online jewelry and watch repair company, we can only provide evaluations when our skilled craftsmen can physically assess them in person at our secure facility
- Source out a specialty and vintage watch quartz movement
- Perform a quartz movement replacement for its internal mechanism clean & overhaul
- Provide a clean & polishing for all its external parts
- Send over the dial to Kirk Rich Dial Co. for its professional dial refinishing
And voila! This Vintage Omega Quartz Timepiece was professionally restored back to properly functioning condition.
We make sure that our Certified Watchmakers at our Watch Repair Service Center have the proper certifications before working on your precious timepieces. Our Team of experienced Watchmakers have many Watch Repair Certifications, some of the major ones including:
In the case that you have a sentimental or heirloom timepiece that needs a restoration such as this one, send it our way. We may feature your repair in our Before & After series for its next spotlight!
And if you would like to take a look at the entire restoration process for this particular watch, take a look at our YouTube feature below! We showcase its disassembly, complete dial restoration by Kirk Rich Dial Co., and the reassembly with its replacement parts.
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I am fascinated with the whole process, such precision and care. Your company has taken the questions completely out of what to expect when a repair is done. I really enjoyed your video and have decided to send you a few heirlooms I have inherited and would love to wear. I’m thrilled to have come across your video…because I would much rather have my grandmother’s one of a kind watch, than a new one. Thank you for sharing this video, very interesting and informative. I feel like this is my lucky day…kudos to you! Barbara Moon
Thank you so much for your heartfelt feedback. We’re genuinely pleased to hear that our video resonated with you. Our primary aim has always been to ensure clarity and precision in our repair process, and your words confirm that we are on the right path. We deeply appreciate the sentiment and history behind heirloom pieces, and we’d be honored should you decide to trust us with your grandmother’s unique watch in the future. Knowing that you’re considering our services for such treasured items is the highest compliment we could receive. We hope to have the opportunity to serve you and help preserve the legacy of your cherished heirlooms.
-My Jewelry Repair Team
I have such a watch. What is the cost to bring the watch back to life?