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Repair of old clocks east of Tours
Does your clock need servicing or restoration?
the old watchmaking workshop repairs your clocks from the movement to the cash register,
passing through the hands and the dial or the gilded bronzes.
Revision or restoration?
Revision
Votre pendule s’est arrêtée, un peu sans raison apparente, alors qu’elle a toujours fonctionné. Elle a surement besoin d’une révision.
Your clock has stopped, somewhat for no apparent reason, even though it has always worked. It definitely needs an overhaul. It is therefore necessary to disassemble the movement, clean it and remove all wear from the wheels. Yes because it is metal and like any usual mechanism after a while it wears out and wear creates play. We will have to correct them, redo the adjustments and the meshing between the wheels so that everything is fluid and well adjusted. Then reassemble everything, synchronize the ringtone, make the adjustment and return it to its owner. For all floor or fireplace clocks, the watchmaker delivers and installs the clocks to their owner. He ensures that it is properly balanced in its final location. You benefit from a 2-year guarantee for all revisions carried out by the workshop.
Restoration
Votre pendule n’a pas fonctionné depuis longtemps, elle n’a pas toujours été bien stockée. Vous avez des pièces endommagées. Votre pendule aura besoin d’une restauration.
Your clock has not worked for a long time, it has not always been properly stored. You have damaged parts. Your pendulum will need restoration. A restoration goes further than an overhaul. Restoring a clock involves restoring its original appearance and functionality. This involves repairing a broken tooth, remaking a balance wheel or even resuming old restorations that are not working. To do this, the watchmaker will work the material using files, saws, drills, etc. and also industrial tools such as the Schaublin 70 lathe and column drill. You benefit from a 2-year guarantee for all restorations carried out by the workshop.
Troubleshooting
Vous avez déménagé récemment, ou vous avez déplacé votre pendule et depuis elle ne fonctionne plus.
You recently moved, or you moved your clock and since then it no longer works. Marion Rousselot comes to your home and intervenes on site. Do not hesitate to contact the watchmaker to ask all your questions and arrange an appointment to restart your clock. All repairs do not generate any guarantee of operation by the workshop, but the watchmaker will always be available to help you restart your pendulum or clock.
Each quote made for the repair of your pendulum is personalized and free.
Clock repairs are guaranteed for 2 years.
Restoration of dials, hands
and clock cases
A clock is a whole composed by multiple craftsmen. This principle is the basis of Marion Rousselot's vision: having a global approach . The workshop takes care of all stages of restoring the movement but also the accessories for your pendulum.
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Restoration of dials
of pendulums
. Clock dials are made of enamel or gilded or silvered brass. Enamel dials may be chipped, damaged, or have old restorations that have yellowed. All these defects can disappear and become invisible during restoration. The enamel dials are entrusted to enamel or ceramic restorers. The gilded bronze dials are cleaned, restored, protected and the Roman numerals restored if necessary. These dials are taken care of by Marion Rousselot.
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Needle Restoration
of pendulums
. In some clocks the hands are missing, they may be broken. A clock can also have mismatched hands, one does not look like the other, or they are not the same style as the clock. Often this is due to improper handling or an old repair. The watchmaker uses his knowledge and documentation to offer a hand, or a pair of hands, that corresponds to the style of the clock. Then the watchmaker makes the part that will hold the hand on the clock movement.
Restoration of cases
of pendulums
. A pendulum case is generally made of wood, gilded or patinated bronze, varnished brass or marble. The pendulum cases are made only of one or the other material, or with marble and gilded bronze for example depending on the assemblies. The workshop takes care of cleaning and protecting gilded or patinated bronze cases, varnished brass, etc., everything related to metal. Pendulum cases in marquetry, Boulle marquetry, carved wood or painted wood are entrusted to a cabinetmaker if necessary. Marble or stone pendulum cases can be cleaned by the watchmaker or entrusted to marble restorers if necessary.
Restoration of clock glass
. A clock has glass on its front and rear bezel but it can also have a glass cage like travel clocks. If the glass of a clock is broken, whether it is curved, beveled, flat, square, rectangular or rounded, Marion Rousselot will entrust the restoration of the glass to a competent restorer.
Restoration of the painting of the clocks
. There are clocks with painted dials, painted cases but also painted marble etc. Marion Rousselot collaborates with painting restorers who work on all media, wood, brass, stone, etc.
"My passion is dedicated to restoring or
to keep each pendulum moving"
Restoration and transmission of watchmaking heritage
Marion Rousselot works to promote, safeguard and transmit heritage . May the watchmaking heritage be a heritage respected, embellished, stabilized and transmitted to future generations in the most respectful way possible.
It is therefore quite natural that Marion Rousselot opened up to the world of heritage restoration.
Watchmaker sensitive to conservation and ethics ICOM
The ICOM (International Council of Museums) ethics is a so-called “museum” ethic governed by fairly strict rules regarding the treatment of metal and objects. Restoration-Conservation according to ICOM is focused on respecting materials, for their cleaning, their treatment, their repair, in a neutral and non-invasive way for the objects. An ethics based on the idea of reversibility for the transmission of objects as close as possible to their original state with the least possible modification of the original elements.
Historical and scientific analysis of watchmaking heritage
It is also an ethics focused on documentation and the scientific study of objects and their repair. Marion Rousselot documents and studies the clocks entrusted to her to cultivate this global approach to the object.
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