New movement for a Lorus

[Forest Cobbler]

I'd be interested to know how much those of you who do movement replacements on site, would charge for doing a Lorus watch with a VX32E movement.

 

I'm not confident with doing movement replacements myself at the moment so generally send everything to Jevon & Stanley, who are great, but it does mean we have to add special delivery postage both ways on to the bill. Which often pushes the price too far beyond what the customer is prepared to pay.

 

I'm thinking that it might be worth getting some training and doing at least some basic replacements here.

 

Thanks, Valerie

[Michael]

Should be pretty straight forward.

I would charge £20 which is minimum I would charge for a movement change.

[HarryHeffernan]

I normally charge around £30 - £45

[Forest Cobbler]

In that case the £45 that I have quoted for a new movement fitted, VAT and postage both ways is not too bad then. Interesting.

[Mike at Vauxhall]

While I may charge £15/20 for a very basic pc21 or 2035 movement in a cheap watch, I normally aim at a £40/£50 price for most other watches that I do in house, this is nearly irregardless of the cost price of the movement. The fact is most watches are repaired for sentimental, or aesthetic, reasons and not economic ones

[Mike at Vauxhall]

Thinking about it, will probably introduce a minimum £25, some of the cheap watches can be a bit nightmare, due to low quality of build and material.

[Lee]

Pm’d you Valerie.