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Old 17 September 2018, 04:58 AM   #1
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Good Rolex watchmaker in Massachusetts or RI

Hello,

Could someone please suggest a good Rolex watchmaker in Massachusetts or RI?

Thanks,
Craig
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Old 23 October 2018, 05:44 AM   #2
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Hello,

Could someone please suggest a good Rolex watchmaker in Massachusetts or RI?

Thanks,
Craig
The Urban Gentry on YouTube seemed to really like Saltzmans in Rhode Island. I live in Ohio and have no personal knowledge of this firm's workmanship.
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Old 12 February 2019, 03:10 AM   #3
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I love that youtube channel. He does a great job. The governor. :-)
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Old 25 February 2019, 04:24 AM   #4
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Check out Moritz Elsaesser at Mainly Watches, Inc. in Holloston, MA. CW21 and does excellent work!
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Old 25 February 2019, 06:14 AM   #5
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Cool - I'm not too far from Holliston actually. I looked at his website. It looks like he makes moonphase: https://www.mainlywatches.com/moon-phase-display.html
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Old 1 March 2019, 05:48 AM   #6
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His website is brand new, back when I lived in MA he had business through word of mouth. He always has amazing Rolex & Omegas is his shop he has serviced for other clients, has all the parts accounts, and worked on some really old Omega/UG’s my dad had in our safe deposit box, some of which he milled parts for by hand that weren’t available. Always fun talking watches with your local watchmaker!
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Old 1 March 2019, 10:43 AM   #7
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Sounds interesting! Good to know there's a good watch maker so close! Will def have to stop in and have a chat.
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Old 4 March 2019, 10:19 AM   #8
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I stopped by last week. The operation is out of his home. Although he kept saying "we" so he may have more than one maker working with him. He didn't seem too inclined to converse and kind of gave me the impression to "shoo" "shoo", I'm busy. :-)

It's certainly not a store where you can buy watches from or browse. Seems like it's strictly business. If you have a watch for him to fix, send it to him and he'll fix it. He opened the door and had a loupe attached to his head, so he was clearly in the middle of a job. I would have liked to learn more about the operation, but he was clearly in the middle of something.
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Old 4 March 2019, 10:22 AM   #9
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What type of work on what type of watch is the first question...
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Not sure. You'd have to call him and ask. I saw he had a huge Patek Philippe poster in his shop. Maybe he works on high end watches? Not sure if he exclusively works on high end watches. Only had a 2 minute conversation with him. I got the impression he knows what he's doing.
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Old 26 October 2019, 08:39 AM   #11
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Check out Moritz Elsaesser at Mainly Watches, Inc. in Holloston, MA. CW21 and does excellent work!

Just reviewing this older post.... What is "CW21"? Is that a certification?
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Old 26 October 2019, 08:50 AM   #12
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Moritz Elsaesser, owner of Mainly Watches, a specialty repair shop for complicated Swiss and German timepieces, is one of the watchmakers on this year’s jury. Growing up in Germany, he immigrated to the United States in 1986. He attended the Bulova School of Watchmaking in Queens, NY – leaving the corporate real estate world to do so – a few years later upon realizing, “That nobody was available to service my extensive watch collection.” This was, after all, the era of the so-called quartz crisis. “After graduating from there I went to [premier watchmaking school] WOSTEP in Neuchâtel, Switzerland and had the great fortune to become a student of the great Antoine Simonin, who is also on the jury.” Elsaesser, who founded Mainly Watches, Inc. in 1999 as a repair shop for highly complicated timepieces, was the recipient of the 2005 Henry B. Fried award given by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors for excellence in the field of watchmaking.
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