At Your Service

Practical guidance for keeping a luxury timepiece in fine condition — covering cleaning, servicing, restoration, and the people behind CALIBRE's workshop coverage.

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Caring For Your Timepiece

This section gathers CALIBRE's articles on watch maintenance and ownership, from everyday cleaning habits to understanding what happens during a professional service. Guidance draws on pieces such as "10 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Timepiece," which addresses cleaning, water resistance, storage, heat, shocks, chemicals, magnets, crystal care, and keeping a movement running.

Related articles explain why regular servicing matters and walk through how a service is carried out, alongside notes on engraving, restoration, and resealing for watches that need more involved attention.

Topics Covered

Servicing Explained

Articles on why to service a watch and how the process works, covering routine checks through to more thorough overhauls.

Cleaning & Maintenance

Tips drawn from "10 Tips For Taking Care Of Your Timepiece," including advice on water resistance, storage, and avoiding shocks or chemicals.

Engraving, Restoration & Resealing

Coverage of finishing touches and restorative work that can extend a timepiece's life and personalise it further.

Manchester Service Centre

An article introducing the Manchester Service Centre and the craftsmanship involved in watch servicing.

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Ownership Beyond The First Purchase

CALIBRE has also covered the pre-owned and trade-in service, exploring how collectors might part-exchange or acquire watches beyond a first purchase. As with all editorial content here, these pieces reflect coverage published at the time and should be read as background rather than a current offer.

For readers exploring where to have a watch cared for, the retail partners linked from the CALIBRE homepage — including Watches of Switzerland, Mappin & Webb, Goldsmiths, Watches of Switzerland USA, and Mayors — provide further routes into service and ownership questions.

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