A tarnished pocket watch was painstakingly restored. Now it's priceless.
In the last week however, after rethinking and having it professionally restored, the relic has become a beautiful, shiny, ticking timepiece sitting under a glass dome on my desk. It turns out Harry’s watch was a piece of family history that I didn’t understand or appreciate until its recent rebirth.Tarnished, cracked and with dials broken, the pocket watch had probably stopped ticking 80 years ago when Harry Sturgess last used it.
Located in NYC’s famous train station, the staff at Grand Central Watch take apart each timepiece to do a complete restoration.
Some of the pieces of Harry’s watch after they were cleaned. They were then lubricated and reassembled. Steve Kivel built up this old-world-style, ultra-exclusive repair shop after he took over the business from his father, Larry, in 2008. His grandfather, Max, originally established the business as a watch-repair booth in Grand Central in 1952, which then expanded inside the terminal in the 1960s.
Besides chronicling the repairs, our book also gives the history of the watch and the folks who owned it. I learned much about Harry—a side of our family I knew nothing about—thanks to information shared from the FNB Community Bank in Vandalia, Ill. The watch, in turned out, held family secrets. The restoration cost about $2,000 for the five-day process, including the book. Grand Central also returns the watch in an heirloom-quality presentation case, so it can be handed down. Harry’s watch came back gleaming, keeping perfect time, the white porcelain face set against the black enamel Roman numerals. It was a beautiful piece of craftsmanship that now has meaning.
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