Antique Clock Repair

[jagi00]

Can anyone recommend somewhere in CM that could repair an antique clock?

[hellodolly]

Don't know the name but they are located on Thai Pa road about 50 feet towards the river from the AIS building on the same side of the road. It is a big jewelry store specializing in watches but they say the repairmen there are really good I know the wife and I have had good work done there. They may be able to work on a big clock or at least know were.

If you can take some one to speak Thai for you.

[elektrified]

Don't know the name but they are located on Thai Pa road about 50 feet towards the river from the AIS building on the same side of the road. It is a big jewelry store specializing in watches but they say the repairmen there are really good I know the wife and I have had good work done there. They may be able to work on a big clock or at least know were.

If you can take some one to speak Thai for you.

What if he speaks Thai? Does he still need to take someone with him?

[hellodolly]

Don't know the name but they are located on Thai Pa road about 50 feet towards the river from the AIS building on the same side of the road. It is a big jewelry store specializing in watches but they say the repairmen there are really good I know the wife and I have had good work done there. They may be able to work on a big clock or at least know were.

If you can take some one to speak Thai for you.

What if he speaks Thai? Does he still need to take someone with him?

You could have point there but I was trying to cover all the basis with the i8nformation he had given.

and you?

[isanbirder]

The shop in Tha Pae Road is excellent. You don't need a translator; they're used to farangs.

It does, however, depend on what you mean by 'antique'. If you just mean 'old', like the 1940s or 50s, the shop should have no problem. Real antiques may need more specialist care.

[elektrified]

Don't know the name but they are located on Thai Pa road about 50 feet towards the river from the AIS building on the same side of the road. It is a big jewelry store specializing in watches but they say the repairmen there are really good I know the wife and I have had good work done there. They may be able to work on a big clock or at least know were.

If you can take some one to speak Thai for you.

What if he speaks Thai? Does he still need to take someone with him?

You could have point there but I was trying to cover all the basis with the i8nformation he had given.

and you?

And me what?

[elektrified]

The shop in Tha Pae Road is excellent. You don't need a translator; they're used to farangs.

It does, however, depend on what you mean by 'antique'. If you just mean 'old', like the 1940s or 50s, the shop should have no problem. Real antiques may need more specialist care.

Unless they hired someone recently (in the last 4 weeks or so), there is not a soul there who can speak a word of English. They did have a woman there for about 8 months or so who spoke a little English but she is gone. I think she has been gone over a year now. I can speak enough Thai to communicate but it gets difficult with technical terms. I think this is the case for anyone in a foreign country. Medical, legal, and technical terms are always difficult for non-natives. Even the natives will not always understand technical terminology regardless of what the language is.

They repaired and rebuilt 3 Swiss watches for me that were from the 1920's.

[hellodolly]

The shop in Tha Pae Road is excellent. You don't need a translator; they're used to farangs.

It does, however, depend on what you mean by 'antique'. If you just mean 'old', like the 1940s or 50s, the shop should have no problem. Real antiques may need more specialist care.

Unless they hired someone recently (in the last 4 weeks or so), there is not a soul there who can speak a word of English. They did have a woman there for about 8 months or so who spoke a little English but she is gone. I think she has been gone over a year now. I can speak enough Thai to communicate but it gets difficult with technical terms. I think this is the case for anyone in a foreign country. Medical, legal, and technical terms are always difficult for non-natives. Even the natives will not always understand technical terminology regardless of what the language is.

They repaired and rebuilt 3 Swiss watches for me that were from the 1920's.

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Edited February 10, 2013 by hellodolly

[jagi00]

Thanks to those who posted sensible answers, I'll visit the shop and see if they can handle it. The clock was make circa 1700.

[isanbirder]

Thanks to those who posted sensible answers, I'll visit the shop and see if they can handle it. The clock was make circa 1700.

Nice! But that means any spare parts would have to be hand-made, and I seriously wonder if the Thapae Road shop could handle that. You never know, though!

[Rasseru]

I have nothing to say against the shop on Thapae Road that has been mentioned here and spoken of highly. They have been helpful to me on more than one occasion and have always been straightforward, honest and seemingly as helpful as they could be. But I will also recommend another place, one that helped me last year by repairing for me a century old Tiffany pocket watch that the Thapae Road shop mentioned here had told me, three or four years earlier, that they could not repair, as the broken mainspring was no longer available. The shop that I am about to recommend asked me to give them a couple of weeks, to confirm with two different shops in Bangkok that one of them could make a replacement mainspring and the other could make a glass face to replace the old and cracked one. They were successful on both fronts -- at a very reasonable price too -- and my watch was repaired and returned to me a month later. Five months later it is still working fine.

The name of the shop is Changmai Rachawong Optical -- it is more obviously a glasses and contact lenses shop than a watch and clock repair shop. The address is 2-4 Rachawong Road. If you proceed east on Chang Moi Road from the moat, you will reach a big intersection that does not have lights but feels as if it should. That is the intersection with Rachawong Road. I think of it as where Warowat Market begins (I could be wrong). Chiangmai Rachawong Optical is the first shop on the east side of Rachawong Road, just to the north of Chang Moi Road. There is a man usually there, seemingly the owner, who speaks English very well; the others have never shown to me any sign that they speak English.

[hellodolly]

Thanks to those who posted sensible answers, I'll visit the shop and see if they can handle it. The clock was make circa 1700.

Indeed that6 could be a problem, I had an early 1800s tall case clock in Canada. I found a collector of watches was the only one capable of fixing it.

[jagi00]

Fortunately nothing actually broken, it just needs a bit of tweaking and a clean. Thanks for the recommendations.