ON TIME WATCH & CLOCK REPAIR
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CERTIFIED WATCHMAKER AND CLOCKMAKER. WE CURRENTLY WORK EXCLUSIVELY ON GRANDFATHER CLOCKS (FLOOR CLOCKS) BY APPOINTMENT. WE ARE NOW SEMI-RETIRED AND HAVE CLOSED OUR STORE FRONT AS OF APRIL 2016 AND WORK BY APPOINTMENT TO PICK UP, SERVICE, DELIVER & SET UP GRANDFATHER CLOCKS. IN BUSINESS SINCE 1992. MEMBER OF NAWCC. MEMBER OF AWI.
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GRAND FATHER AND FLOOR CLOCK REPAIR BY APPOINTMENT.
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I found her to be abrasive and curt, as if she were a high school principal and I was a ninth grader with saggy jeans sent to her office. I'm in the military and walked in in uniform, which usually affords me some benefit of the doubt, but I was clearly just and quot;someone who wants somethingand quot; to her. I clarified that I didn't necessarily need the exact type of crystal that was originally on the watch, just one that fit correctly (they explained that it was a magnifying crystal), and to get it operational again. At this point her unsmiling tone was merely businesslike and detached, until I filled out the repair ticket. When I left a section blank, she snapped and quot;I need your home address.and quot; This was a stunning invasion of privacy to me, but rather than argue, I provided an and quot;addressand quot; to her, thinking no harm no foul if they fix the watch (it wasn't mine, I was doing this for my stepson, and I just wanted to leave it and go).
I asked if it was their policy to call the customer when it was ready, or do I have to call them? She said they would call when it was ready, and handed me a claim check, like what's done at the dry cleaners.
Two weeks later I received the call informing me it was ready. I went down the next afternoon, walked in, announced that I was there to pick up my watch, and gave my last name. I was then asked if I had the claim check, and when I gave the WRONG answer (I didn't have it), THAT is when Mrs. Watch-Repair went from irritable to full-on condescending, patronizing and downright bitchy. and quot;Well THAT'S WHY we give it to you, so you can give it BACK to us!and quot; She continued with her snarling inquistion: and quot;Did we call you?and quot; and quot;What COLOR was the ticket, white or yellow?!and quot; I answered her questions. She then hissed, and quot;There's no yellow envelope with that name!and quot;. There were maybe 10 or 11 watches total in the box. and quot;Oh, here it is.and quot; The watch was too big to fit in the precious yellow envelope, so it had been put in a ziploc, explaining (I suppose) her vicious tone and petty frustration. Not one word escaped her lips (such as and quot;thankand quot; and and quot;youand quot;) as I paid and walked out, nor did I say anything either, just glad to be leaving forever.
When I got to the freeway, I noticed the watch crystal had been replaced, but the watch wasn't working, meaning they replaced the crystal without bothering to look and see if it was ticking. I won't be going back.
"Since I just discovered this review from 4 years ago while updating our business information I obviously don't have all the details I would need to respond in full so I can only say I am truly sorry for your experience. We take a lot of pride in our work and we both try to treat every person the way we would want to be treated. I don't recall ever having an experience such as this with any customer that I have ever come in contact with. I am former Air Force myself and would not treat a fellow Military person or any person with such disrespect whether they were in or out of uniform. As to the ticket issue we had to be very careful that the person that picked up an item was the person that it belonged to as we had exes in the past try to pick up items that do not belong to them. Believe me the fallout from giving the item to the wrong person is not something you would want to deal with again. The reason that I would have asked whether the stub was white or yellow was because a white tag was for a day job and yellow was for more detailed and time consuming work. The day work was a smaller amount of watches to look through so we try to start there first if we don't have the ticket but know the color. There was no way that this customer could have known how many boxes we had to look through as we had them stored during the day in a 5 shelf bookcase next to the work bench facing away from the service counter. There were usually as many as 15 boxes of completed and in process watch repair work. Knowing what color the stub was (when it had been misplaced or lost) can save as much as 1/2 an hour of search time which can be very frustrating for customers that can't afford to wait that long. Sorry if this made you feel like you were being questioned unfairly but I do explain why I need to know the color when such a situation occurs. As to the issue of the watch not working: If this was an automatic watch or a mechanical watch and it had been ready for a length of time it would not have been running at the time it was picked up (but in that case we would have normally wound it to make sure it was running). In any case we always backed our work and the customer would have definitely been welcome to return it for review and/or repair with no questions asked."
picked the clock up and it was ready and waiting, clean
overall it was a very good experience
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