Restoration & maintenance

To preserve under the best conditions your precious chronometers, clocks of all origins and epochs, older watches or mechanical masterpieces such as singing birds and music boxes, they have to be completely dismounted, overhauled according to the standards of Swiss clock making practice and the spirit of their creator. An estimate is supplied for any restoration. Any restoration is guaranteed three years.

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Clockwork

The delay required for a complete overhaul of the clockwork alone varies between one and three months according to the age, the complexity and the damage the mechanism has undergone. After overhaul, the clock will be monitored and regulated every day during four weeks. It will then be returned to its home by Thierry or David Amstutz himself. Your clock will again accurately slowly mark the hours thanks to the power of its weights or springs. Price of an overhaul of the mechanism depends on its age, its complexity and damage.
Thierry and David Amstutz recommends an overhaul after :
– five years for a clock created in the 17th century
– seven years for a clock created in the 18th century
– eight years for a clock created in the 19th century
– ten years for a clock created in the 20th century
– ten years for a clock created in the 21th century

Thierry and David Amstutz restore wall or standing pendulums, springs or weights, style : Louis XIII, Louis XIV, Louis XV, Louis XVI, Directoire, Napoléon, Empire, Louis XVIII, Louis-Philippe, Morbier, Œil-de-bœuf, Montagnarde, Zénith, Le Castel, Eluxa, Azura, Palais Royal, Du Château, La Châtelaine, Sainte-Hélène, Paul Buhré, La Locloise, Coucous, Oiseaux chanteurs et boîtes à musiques, Pendules neuchâteloises, Pendules allemandes, Pendules américaines, Pendules anglaises, Pendules françaises, Pendules hollandaises, Pendules italiennes, Pendules viennoises, Pendules mystérieuses, Planétaires, etc.

Cabinet and painting

Thierry and David Amstutz his also at your disposal for restoration of the cabinet, i.e. woodwork, painting, decoration or gilding with gold leaf. The time required for a partial or complete restoration of the cabinet varies between two and six months. Price of a restoration of the decoration depends on its age, its complexity and the damage.

: Restoration of a golden brass officer’s clock with alarm and repetition of quarters with two hammers on a single stamp. The dial is signed Le Roy – Watchmaker from S. Mte. le Roi de Westphalie, in Paris. Movement is signed Le Roy, clockmaker of Madame N ° 132 – 378. Around 1810. Collection of the Museum L. Leroy.

: Restoration of a large table clock or chimney with ring, patented anchor escapement and visible, full perpetual calendar with moon phase, barometer and dual thermometer (Celsius andFahrenheit). The dial is signed Le Roy & Fils, Palais Royal, Galerie Montpensier 13 & 15, Paris 296 Regent Street, London. Movement is signed Le Roy & Fils, Paris. No. 6666. Around 1860. Collection of the Museum L. Leroy

: Restoration of the automate le Dessinateur, from Henri-Louis Jaquet-Droz, from the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel (MAH).

: Restoration of the automate l’Ecrivain, from Pierre Jaquet-Droz, from the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel (MAH).

: Reason painted on the base of a clock Pierre Jaquet-Droz, about 1765.

: Thierry Amstutz adjusts the pivot of the axis of a French clock, Louis the 15th style, created around 1760.

: Cindy Amstutz renews the clock’s feet with a golden platter.

: Grégory Amstutz, renew a mecanical bird.