Before You Buy

Thank you very much for shopping with us. Before you buy our services, please check with our LATEST NEWS section for the latest updates and important information we want to keep you updated.

For specifications of our timepieces, please follow through the PRODUCTS page.

For 1024 x 768 detailed pictures of our timepieces, please refer to our WALLPAPERS section.

Ordering Procedure

After you decide which model you want to purchase the overhaul/restoration service, please send an email to George at wm9support3@gmail.com to make a reservation.

Upon receiving your email, George will put you on the waiting list, reserve the parts needed to service the watch, find out the best possible date we can take your order and reply you with the date. We will then send you the link to access to your check out page to make the order on the scheduled date. After payment is confirmed, our shipping staff will email you an order confirmation with the estimated delivery time of your order in 24 hours.

We apologize for these extra methods in taking your order. Since July 2007, we are experiencing very high demand volume. Waiting list on some models is lengthened to more than 30 days. We do not want you to wait longer than the time we promised you. Making reservation for you prior of ordering helps us process your order more efficiently and sometimes it makes delivery prior than the estimated delivery date possible.

Below are some issues we would like you to be acknowledged

Accuracy Issue

Extra Links

Office Hour

Close-Up Pictures

Box Set

Gold Print On the Green Sticker

Appendix - Quartz vs. Mechanical

Accuracy Issue

Each timepiece we sold had gone through a vast time consuming tuning process on its movement to insure its accuracy for the long run by our watchmakers. Mechanical movement, like a car engine, needs to be run in for the first 1,000 mile; a brand new mechanical movement needs to be run in for the first 8 weeks on an everyday wearing basis. Upon receiving the timepiece you purchased and starting wear it on your wrist, please bear it in mind the little work horse may run 5 to 10seconds fast per day. The movement will gradually settle in to +8/-5 seconds per day within 8 weeks. This is because the rubies (jewels) inside the movement, which act as lubrication oil bearing mechanism, bear the maximum load of 2 to 5 different types of lubrication oil for lasting the movement to keep beating for the following decade. This rule also applies to every authentic grand makes of classic mechanical timepieces and clocks you could purchase from an authorized retailer or jeweler. We won't take returns for accuracy issue because each movement is tuned to its best accuracy performance fresh out of our watchmakers' hands.

*+8/-5 seconds per day is C.O.S.C. standard. Rolex standard is +5/-3 seconds per day after 5 weeks settle in period.

Extra Links

If you happened to have enormous big wrist, please do remember to send us an email to request extra links at wm9support3@gmail.com after you placed an order. Normally 2 extra links would be more than sufficient for sports models with oyster band, 3 extra links would be more than sufficient for dress watch models with presidential band and jubilee band. We will combine shipping the timepiece along with the extra links to you. After you receive the watch, it is very easy to adjust the length of the band by a 2mm screw because our bands are linked with screws like the originals, not pins.

Office Hour

Our support team staffs work from Monday through Friday, Mountain Time (GMT -7) Your email will be replied within 24 hours or sooner during the week days. Please allow 48 hours for our support team to reply your email during the weekend.

Close-Up Pictures

Every timepiece we carry has detailed close-up pictures available for you to view on every angle at our WALLPAPERS sections.

Box Set

We do not provide or sell the wooden aftermarket box set because of its inferior quality.

Appendix - Quartz vs. Mechanical

The first thing to know about watches is that all of them -- fancy or plain, expensive or cheap -- fall into one of two categories: quartz or mechanical.

There are two major differences between them. A quartz watch uses as its regulator-the device responsible for keeping time-a tiny tuning-fork-shaped piece of quartz (which is how quartz watches got their name).

A mechanical watch uses as its regulator a tiny wheel called a balance wheel and a spring called a balance spring or hairspring. A quartz watch is powered by electricity. A mechanical watch is powered by a mainspring.

Quartz watches are by their very nature more accurate than mechanical ones. That's because a quartz crystal is a better regulator than a balance wheel. Quartz crystals and mechanical balance wheels both measure time in the same way - by oscillating, or vibrating, at a constant rate.

A quartz crystal oscillates faster (32,768 times a "second") than a balance wheel (28,800 times an "hour" in most mechanical watches). The oscillations of quartz movements aren't just faster, they're also steadier. Both factors contribute to quartz's superiority as a timekeeper. The result: A high-quality mechanical movement will gain or lose perhaps five or 10 minutes a month. On the other hand, an average-quality quartz watch will gain or lose no more than 10 seconds a month, which in mechanical movement standards, will quality for the movement for the Poincon de Geneve Certification Seal, the highest quality standard a Geneva watch manufacture could receive.

Generally speaking only movements ranging in the highest standard section the Grand Complication Turbulon category receive the honor bestow.

Incidentally, one quick way to tell a quartz watch from a mechanical one is to observe the seconds hand at it turns. If it moves in one-second jumps, the watch is quartz. If it moves smoothly, it's mechanical.

So why quartz watches cost cheaper than mechanical watches? Production Volume! In 1960s, the Japanese watch & clock manufacturer, Seiko, first invented the quartz movement. Its accuracy and practice soon phase out almost the entire watchmaking industry of Switzerland. Besides that, technology revolution in manufacturing industry soon makes manufacturing quartz movement much easier and cheaper in cost than manufacturing mechanical movements.

Nowadays, the cost of a mid-level quality quartz movement is only about $1 or $2 because the manufacturing process is automated and no more craftsmanship is involved. However, to manufacture mechanical watches can never be automated because watchmaker's attention while assembling total of 140 ~ 250 different metal parts into a complete watch movement is still the key in making a mechanical watch. It's still impossible to mass production fine mechanical movements. This is where the value of a fine Swiss mechanical watch lays, soul of craftsmanship.