Maybe the watch that used to keep you on schedule was a special gift or a valuable family heirloom, or maybe you’re just attached to the same, inexpensive contraption you’ve had for years. Our ratings of area watch repair shops will help to get it back to keeping you on time.

Read our article and findings (available exclusively to CHECKBOOK subscribers)

Back to Puget Sound Consumers' CHECKBOOK Table of Contents.

Sample Subscriber Comments/Reviews About Watch Repair Shops

CHECKBOOK provides subscriber comments on their experiences with the firms they use. Please remember that individual subscriber comments are informal. Subscriber comments may give you insight into the types of features and problems that exist in a service field, but are not the best basis for selecting or rejecting a specific firm. To assess the quality of a firm's performance, we recommend that you give more weight to the percentages of favorable ratings. Those percentages are generally based on much larger numbers of consumers' ratings (the number of consumer ratings is noted above).

As You Can See Below, Some Watch Repair Shops Get High Praise from Their Customers. Some Others Don't. So Choose Carefully.
Here Are a Few Samples of the Thousands of Comments CHECKBOOK Has Collected on Hundreds of Different Watch Repair Shops.

• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: $ 10.00 to change the battery in a auto key device - put battery in..........
• Subscriber from KIRKLAND, WA wrote Another Shop: Excellent quality, quick and low cost watch repair. Fast, effective assessment of problem. Honest recommendations...........
• Subscriber from COVINGTON, WA wrote Another Shop: Old country trade skills, not real talkative but if asked questions explains appropriately. If down..........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: Highly recommended........
• Subscriber from NEWCASTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: Excellent service and staff........
• Subscriber from MUKILTEO, WA wrote Another Shop: Clearly the best watch repair business I have ever patronized. Great service plus reasonable fees!.......
• Subscriber from NEWCASTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: I have used this facility on 3 occasions for watch repair and battery replacements, and..........
• Subscriber from LYNNWOOD, WA wrote Another Shop: new battery.......
• Subscriber from BOTHELL, WA wrote Another Shop: My work was a warranty repair, so there was no cost involved, but the staff..........
• Subscriber from AUBURN, WA wrote Another Shop: Old family business, lovely folks and reasonable........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: I have a very old Rolex that I mistakenly took to the local Rolex "expert"..........
• Subscriber from COVINGTON, WA wrote Another Shop: Does his trade well, but is much more costly than most jewelers........
• Subscriber from SAMMAMISH, WA wrote Another Shop: I used them for watch battery replacement. My battery cost me more than the watch..........
• Subscriber from SHORELINE, WA wrote Another Shop: Excellent quality of service.......
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: They have repaired a lot of my watches; wouldn't go any place else.......
• Subscriber from BURIEN, WA wrote Another Shop: Very helpful for battery replacement and general repairs.......
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: The repair took 6 weeks, which in my estimation is way too long........
• Subscriber from SEATTLE, WA wrote Another Shop: Based on one visit, for battery replacement........
• Subscriber from REDMOND, WA wrote Another Shop: I am a watch collector, so this is important to me........
• Subscriber from REDMOND, WA wrote Another Shop: The gentleman's name is Rob...and I've never met a repairer who is more competent, prompt,..........
• Subscriber from COVINGTON, WA wrote Another Shop: Appeared to be expensive.......