I own an Ed Koehn pocket watch repeater that needs to be serviced. Can anyone recommend a reputable service center for me to use?

Vance Brawley

In our IHC185 Members Business Directory, you will find several watchmakers to choose from.

Since I see you are a "registered guest" on our site, you may want to consider joining and becoming a member which gives you access to all our forums both public and private and allows you to buy and sell in our auctions and marts. The dues are $12 per year.

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regards,
bb

Thanks for the reply. I have now joined. How do I know which repair companies service Ed Koehn repeaters?

Very good !!

I believe Chris Abell in Tyler, Texas services the repeater movements for one. Perhaps others will speak up ??

regards,
bb

The more complicated the movement, the better Chris likes them. Definitely contact Chris Abell.

Welcome to the club!

Regards! Mark

According to a PM from Mr Brawley, Chris Abell no longer works on the complicated repeater movements.

Anyone with another recommended repairman for these complicated watches, please post here.

regards,
bb

Really? News to me! Thanks, Buster.

Regards! Mark

Robert, welcome to the club! Your repeater has three features which all beg for your patience with it's maintenance and good repair.

A. Replacement movement parts are non-existent. These days (even with more "common" watches of that period) we are best off finding another "parts movement" to hunt down the needed replacement parts.

B. Because of A. the repair would be likely be quite expensive and the watch parts are so FRAGILE that the "permanence" of the repair would be very limited.

C. The value of repeaters are very unpredictable. That suggests that the watch be carefully stored "as-is" as a collectible but non-working example of that technology.

I believe Chris would offer you the same advice even if he did have time to work on it.

HI Buster / Mark,
I work on my own repeaters as a hobby but it no longer practical to do customers repeaters as I am far to committed on other work to tie up the hours/days needed. Often custom parts are needed resulting in escalating repair cost/time that are impossible to estimate at the outset. I of course continue to work on many other types of wrist and pocket watches.

Thanks for the clarification, Chris.

Regard! Mark

Robert do you have any pictures of the movement you can post,

I have an Ed. Koehn minute repeater. It's fine now, but it wasn't one of my smarter buys. I bought it an an Antiquorom auction. It took three watchmakers and a fair amount of money to restore it to GRO and good condition, but it's quite nice now.

The back.

The movement.

Ethan nice watch i like the repeaters i see yours is jeweled through to the hammers a mark of a good repeater.