PLATE Ø — GENERAL ARRANGEMENT
Batteries in five minutes. Bands while you wait.
Mechanical movements stripped, cleaned, and brought
back to spec at the bench in the back.
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Walk in. Hand it across the counter.
We tell you what it needs, what it costs, when it'll be ready.
No appointments. No upsells.
FROM $10
Quartz and Eco-Drive. Same-day, walk-in. Wait at the counter or grab coffee next door.
FROM $20
Sizing, link removal, leather and metal replacements, custom strap fitting. Pins, springs, deployment clasps.
QUOTED
Quartz movement swaps. Capacitor replacements for Eco-Drive. Pocket watch service. Diagnosed at the bench.
$$ — QUOTED
Swiss and Japanese, manual wind-up and automatic. Service, oiling, regulation. Bring the box, the papers, whatever you have.
$$$ — QUOTED
Antique & vintage Swiss restoration. Grandfather's Omega. Heirloom Hamilton. Done at the bench by hand, in the back of the shop.
SHELF PRICE
Timex, Skagen, straps, batteries, the small accessories. Pick up something while you're picking up your watch.
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For years the bench lived inside the Rite-Aid up at Grant Road Plaza — a small counter at the front of the drugstore where you'd drop off a battery while you grabbed shampoo. When Rite-Aid closed, the shop didn't go anywhere. It just moved around the corner into its own storefront in the same plaza, where it's been ever since.
Out front: a battery counter. A wall of bands. The Timex display case. Quick, friendly, $10 in and out.
Out back: a watchmaker's bench. Loupes, tweezers, tiny screws in dishes. Antique Swiss movements cleaned and oiled, regulated to spec, by the same hands that just swapped a CR2032 in a Casio. Both customers get the same respect.
FIG. 02-A — Plan view. Front counter / back bench. Not to scale.
Antique Swiss watch restoration is rare in the Bay Area — usually it means shipping to a service center in another state or paying an SF luxury jeweler a luxury markup.
Here it's a guy at a bench behind the battery counter, doing it by hand, for the price he thinks is fair. Direct. Honest. He'll tell you if your piece is worth the work.
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Grant Road Plaza. Around the corner from the old Rite-Aid.
Look for the yellow sign.
| MON | CLOSED |
|---|---|
| TUE | 10:00 — 19:00 |
| WED | 10:00 — 19:00 |
| THU | 10:00 — 19:00 |
| FRI | 10:00 — 19:00 |
| SAT | 10:00 — 18:00 |
| SUN | CLOSED |
⚠ LUNCH BREAK · daily 14:00 – 15:00.
The bench eats too.
FIG. 04-D — Storefront, late afternoon. Free parking out front.
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Tuesday through Saturday. Walk-ins welcome.