R. McMahon Watchmaker's Swiss watch repair service. We have the best equipped Rolex service workshop and vintage OMEGA repair workshop in Adelaide.

Vintage OMEGA and Rolex experts.

We specialise in vintage mechanical OMEGA restoration (No Co-Axial or quartz models), all vintage Rolex and vintage Tudor.

Tonsley Innovation District.

1 Tonsley Boulevard, Tonsley SA 5042.

Free parking in car park 1, shop entrance through glass sliding door at ground level.

Accessible parking flat access to our front door from car park 1.

We are currently only taking in South Australian based watch repair and service due to workload.

By appointment only, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. 10 am to 4pm. Other times and days with advance notice.

Please book an appointment by text on 0404117186 or 0403586850.

Please email us before sending watch repairs to make sure it is a brand and type we restore. We are currently only accepting local South Australian restorations due to workload.Swiss watch experts.

We do not service clocks.

We do NOT offer watch valuations or advice on watch authentication.

We are specialising in VINTAGE OMEGA and Rolex repairs.

High grade Swiss mechanical vintage watches like Vintage Breitling, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin and JLC serviced and restored. Vintage Swiss watch shop.

Custom watch manufacture to order.

Please email to book appointment times - richard@rmcmahon.com.au

Major credit cards accepted in store.

EFT only accepted as payment for interstate mail orders.

Please contact us on info@rmcmahon.com.au for further enquiries.

International watchmaker with over 34 years experience as a qualified professional watch restorer. Trusted official restorer for JLC, Cartier, Breitling and Rolex agencies in the UK. Now based in the Tonsley Innovation District South Australia.

Expert Rolex service and restoration. The best equipped Vintage OMEGA service workshop in Adelaide. Proudly independent qualified watch restoration experts.

Our workshop.

Richard McMahon trained as a horologist first in Adelaide starting in watch repair in 1989 completing his apprenticeship in 1994. In 1994 was accepted as an Executive Member of the Horological Guild of Australasia (No. 5120). In 1995 moving to Clocks of Distinction in Sydney for 5 years. In the year 2000 moving to London and working on Bond Street as a certified contractor for Cartier and as the preferred vintage restorer referrals from Rolex St James square, specialising in restoring models Rolex were no longer servicing at the time, (Rolex Submariner 6200, 6204, 5508 and 5513. Rolex GMT 6542. Bubble back Oyster Rolex and Prince models). We were the contract official restoration workshop for JLC complications and Breitling chronographs at Somlo Antiques in Piccadilly London for rare models sent from Australia and parts of Asia boutiques.

Specialising in complicated movements, Richard is a vintage watch expert, specialising in chronographs, repeating watches and hand-makes components such as balance staffs and winding stems, which have long since gone out of production. Richard returned to his hometown of Adelaide, South Australia in 2015 and established a vintage watch restoration centre in Adelaide, Tonsley Innovation District. R. McMahon Watchmakers has quickly expanded over the interceding years and now boasts some of the most advanced watchmaking equipment in Australia. We service clients timepieces across Australia.

Not just a watch repair shop, a watch restoration centre. Vintage OMEGA service (we no longer work on Co-Axial OMEGA or quartz) and Rolex repair experts.

Richard McMahon has rare experience from his time in London as an expert consultant and preferred restorer for Vintage OMEGA and Rolex. Certified restorer of Cartier, JLC and Breitling while at Somlo antiques in Piccadilly London. He is a fully qualified watchmaker and restorer with over 34 years experience. We offer service most other workshops in Australia are unable to.

We carry one of the largest stocks of genuine Omega parts in Australia.

Our Adelaide watch restoration workshop in the Tonsley Innovation District is well equiped with international standard modern and vintage equipment to ensure the very best in Swiss vintage watch repairs.

Due to our busy workload we are mostly specialising in Vintage OMEGA and vintage Rolex watch repairs. We take on a few other quality Swiss watch brands, so please enquire by email and we will see if we are able to assist.

What clients are saying

 Service information

We give priority to vintage OMEGA and Rolex service. Our standard service time is 10 days, we will inform you after quoting about parts availability and service time. Minimum 2 months on complications like vintage minute repeaters and complicated chronographs. We do request a 50% deposit on proceeding on some types of restoration work. We are still specialising in vintage OMEGA and all Rolex. Vintage Breitling, Cartier, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin service depending on age and model, please contact us to check if we can help. We have a large stock of parts for these models, and are able to restore some early models other workshops are unable to. Our vintage watch repair workshop contains a combination of cutting-edge and traditional watchmaking equipment. We restore wristwatches to exacting standards. We do not service basic quartz or fashion watches as this is not our area of watch repair. Where possible, R. McMahon Watchmakers source original parts for the sympathetic and authentic restoration of valuable time pieces but are also able to custom-make components that have long since lapsed in production or become extinct on the market. For example, some early Rolex and Cartier parts are no longer available, as a qualified and trusted restorer will manufacture parts in my workshop here as I was trusted to do by the official service centres in London.

Expert restoration of Rolex Submariner, Rolex Sea Dweller, OMEGA Speedmaster Professional and OMEGA Seamaster in our workshop regularly.

We provide 24 month warrantee on Omega and Rolex service repairs. All other brands and types of watches 12 months warrantee is given unless stated otherwise when quoting on the watch repair.

Please note due to workload we are no longer accepting restoration outside of South Australia, R. McMahon, PO Box 2106, Morphettville 5043. Do not send to our workshop address. Please email us before sending any watch repairs.

Founder of R. McMahon Watchmakers, Richard completed a four-year apprenticeship in 1994 and is a co-author of the watchmaking industry standards of servicing for the Federal Government of Australia.

Vintage mechanical OMEGA service and restoration, Vintage Rolex service and restoration. Richard was certified by Cartier UK, JLC UK and Breitling restoration UK as an official restorer. R McMahon Watchmakers is an independent business and has no association with Rolex Australia Service or Swatch Group Omega AG.

• Rolex trained case polisher and case re-finisher.

• Flat polish and lapping of cases and bracelets.

• Chronograph, perpetual calendar, quarter and minute repeater experts.

• Custom-made balance staffs, winding stems and watch hands.

• Watch dial restoration and sympathetic patina maintenance of hands (re-lume), dial restorations a minimum of 4 months.

• Vintage watch expert, and advisor previously in London to Christies and Sotheby's.

• Vintage OMEGA and Rolex and Cartier restored expertly, discontinued parts hand made.

• Specialising in Vintage and modern Rolex, vintage OMEGA (lever escapements only, no Co-Axial escapements or quartz), vintage Tudor, Cartier and Vintage Breitling. Antique pocket watches.

• Our minimum charge on repairs is $330. Our minimum movement service charge is $625. Please see our section Service Price Guide and Information, it may answer our minimum service charges questions. We provide fixed quotes no-charge by appointment. We do not work from a fixed price list, each restoration is quoted individually. Please check with us BEFORE coming in if we can assist with your watch brand. BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.

Please contact us for VINTAGE OMEGA and Rolex restoration information on. info@rmcmahon.com.au

Fully equipped Swiss watch service workshop designed for professional VINTAGE OMEGA and Rolex repairs.

Our workshop equipment includes.

Siro tech German laser welder, for case repair and parts manufacture.

Automatic Elma cleaning machine designed for vintage watches. Certified by OMEGA.

Elma electronic water pressure tester, safe testing to protect the watch. Certified by OMEGA.

5 lathes for expert machining and milling, indexing heads for wheel cutting.

3 complete polishing machines for case restoration and 3 ultrasonic baths for cleaning.

Witschi Watch Expert 4 timing machine. Certified by OMEGA.

Flat lapping polishing equipment for first class watch case restoration. Certified by OMEGA.

Richard worked in Europe advising  independent watch manufacturers as a technical expert and helped with fine tuning of some of the products we see available today. We are not able to mention the companies due to contract agreements. In 2015, founder of R. McMahon Watchmakers, Richard McMahon has embarked on an ambitious journey: to manufacture an Australian-made timepiece in Adelaide, with a large percentage (over 80%) of custom built components. Most moving parts and casings will be hand-made on equipment in the R. McMahon in the Tonsley Innovation District, South Australia. An exclusive list of clients has been invited to collaborate on this project with our founder. Each client will inform the aesthetic outcome of their watch – the design of the dial, the watch hands and the size and shape of the case based on their own preference. Tourbillon and quarter repeater on offer. In an Australian first Richard McMahon is offering to manufacture a completely custom watch to a customer’s specification, custom complications on request, in-house enamel dial manufacture and engraving to ensure the finished product is a world-class timepiece, native to its place of manufacture in Adelaide, South Australia.

Please message for appointment times - info@rmcmahon.com.au

0404117186

0403586850 text for appointment

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By appointment only.