Trust The Repairmen

Time for precise repair here
Looking for someone to repair your mechanical watch? Make sure the person is well qualified, warns Mr Willie Quek, who owns The Watch Specialist’s Clinic. “You wouldn’t want to be paying money to damage your watch,” he adds. After all, a mechanical watch is made of many tiny gears and cogs, which makes it easy for repairs to go wrong. But you can trust Mr Quek, a veteran watchmaker who spent his childhood years in his father’s watch shop and has been tinkering with watches for 38 years.


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This Home-Based Handyman Can
When Mr B. Thiru’s fridge broke down a few years ago, the servicemen told him it couldn’t be fixed and promptly charged $30 just for that diagnosis. Undaunted, Mr Thiru decided to repair the fridge himself. Working with a friend, he managed to bring it back to life. If you get caught in the same frustrating situation of having to pay for unhelpful service, give Mr Thiru a ring. The retired public officer repairs electrical appliances and computers from his home in Little India – a hobby he now enjoys full-time. When he was younger, Mr Thiru studied radio and TV electronics at a vocational institute. Now, the Internet is his classroom. To hone his skills and keep up with the latest appliances from his customers, he goes online to look up circuit diagrams.

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Traditional carpentry is in
If you own antique wood furniture, you might worry that there are fewer and fewer carpenters in Singapore who can restore such antiques. Aware of this shortage, family business Wah King Furniture Making has no intention to stop providing their furniture restoration services.


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Charges: Depends on the piece; for example, a full restoration of a six-seater dining table costs $350 to $380 |

The doctor is in
In this digital era, it’s increasingly difficult to find people who can repair your old film camera. But at Camera Hospital, owner Steven Lee has been fixing film cameras for the past 35 years. In fact, he discovered his knack for it after successfully resuscitating his own. An avid collector of cameras too, Mr Lee has amassed thousands of them, so you can expect your broken camera to be handled with expert care by a fellow camera-lover.


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Charges: Depends on the type of repair; for example, general cleaning of the amera of the camera costs $120 to $150 |
- POSTED ON
May 16, 2014
- TEXT BY
Yvette Kan
- PHOTOS BY
Norman Ng
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