Students at the watchmaking school perform maintenance and repairs on customers’ watches as part of their curriculum. Our service times are longer compared to industry stores.
We can only accept a limited number of timepieces each academic year, and these quotas fill up quickly once we start accepting them. First-year students maintain mechanical wall clocks (pendulum or weight-driven clocks). Second-year students work on pocket watches, and third-year students focus on wristwatches. Unfortunately, our curriculum does not cover the repair of cuckoo clocks or American pocket watches.
Due to parts availability, we cannot accept all watch brands. Micromechanics students also manufacture parts as part of their customer work.
Academic Year 2025-2026
We will begin accepting customer work for the 2025-2026 academic year:
September 1st, 2025: wristwatches and pocket watches
November 3rd, 2025: wall clocks
Maximum of 1 watch or clock/customer. Watches and clocks will accepted until the quotas are filled.
The quota for wall clocks has been filled.
Customer work drop-off and pick-up only on Mondays from 9:00 to 16:00. Exact drop-off and pick-up dates can be found on the Contact Us page.
All watches and clocks must be picked up from our office (Vanha maantie 11) We do not offer home delivery and do not recommend mailing clocks or watches.
Repair price list
A repair and cost estimate is always made for the watches and clocks, which are approved by the customer.
If the estimate is not accepted and no repair is made, we will charge 20 € for the estimate.
The prices are starting prices and include basic maintenance, traction springs, movement adjustment, test run.
Other possibly necessary parts are added to the total cost.
You can pay with credit-, Visa-, MasterCard or Visa Electron -cards or MobilePay. We do not accept cash.
For student works we also do:
- Battery replacement for watches with water resistance up to 5 ATM (50 m).
- Manufacturing of wall clock spring barrels, gears and other parts – ask more!
For student works following are not suitable: 400-day clock, cuckoo clock, shield clock, clocks originated from the U.S. and Russia, key-wound pocket watch, pendant watch, mechanical alarm clock, small size wristwatch.
Due to the availability of spare parts we do not accepts specific brands such as Rolex, Breitling, Cartier, IWC, Panerai etc.
Yearly process for repair work
- Wall clocks are accepted in October-November.
- Repair and cost estimates are made in October-January. The student informs the customer of the price estimate.
- In January, the wall clocks will be repaired.
- During the practical training periods, repairing will halt, and continue after the practical training period has ended. (February-March).
- In May, the first batch of watches will be repaired.
- In June-August, the school is on summer vacation.
- In autumn, the repair of the clocks continues.
- There is a further practical training period in September and the repair of watches will be halted.
- There may be changes or delays in the schedule.
- Finished work is immediately notified to the customer.
- The reception of wristwatches starts at the end of August.
- Reception will continue as long as there is a need for watches.
- Repair and cost estimates will be made as soon as possible. The student informs the customer of the price estimate.
- Wristwatches are accepted for work according to the suitability of the mechanism and the availability of spare parts.
- During the training contract periods, work does not progress, repair continues after the training contract period (January-February).
- In June-August, the school is on summer vacation.
- There may be changes or delays in the schedule.
- Finished work is immediately notified to the customer.
- The reception of wristwatches starts at the end of August.
- The reception will continue as long as there is a need for pocket watches.
- Repair and cost estimates will be made as soon as possible. The student informs the customer of the price estimate.
- Pocket watches are accepted for work according to the suitability of the mechanism and the availability of spare parts.
- During the training contract periods, work does not progress, repair continues after the training contract period (January-February).
- In June-August, the school is on summer vacation.
- There may be changes or delays in the schedule.
- Finished work is immediately notified to the customer.