"Armstrong & Co is a specialist vintage watch retailer trading exclusively online. We don't have have expensive high street premises or sales staff which enables us to spend our time sourcing and restoring the best watches, and offering them for sale at attractive prices."
Our website is our shop window for Armstrong & Co Ltd, a company owned and run by Robin Armstrong and wife Linda. It was established in 2003 and builds on the excellent reputation for trading high quality second hand watches gained on Madaboutwatches.co.uk which was established in 2000, and one of the first established internet sites trading secondhand watches. In 2010 we formed the limited company Armstrong & Co Ltd and continued to strengthen our market position as one of the foremost specialists in trading vintage Omega watches.
We are based nr Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK and we are not a traditional jeweller. We sell watches online using our website as our showroom, including an in-house service facility for Omega vintage watches. Since 2003 we have sold more than a £1M worth of watches to customers all over the world and have built an enviable reputation for quality and customer service.
Robin is the Managing Director of Armstrong&Co Ltd and started Madaboutwatches.co.uk with father Rod trading watches online when there were less than a handful of similar sites on the internet.
Robin started his obsession with watches back in 2000 when he bought his first prestige watch, an Omega Speedmaster automatic.
"More purchases soon followed and it became quickly apparent that if I was to avoid financial ruin I would need to sell watches in order to raise the money to sustain the habit. Madaboutwatches.co.uk was hence born at a time when there were less than a handful of sites trading secondhand watches. There are now hundreds. In a few years we had grown large enough to establish a formal business and created the spin off site www.poshtime.com."
In October 2009 Robin his 19 year career as an Incorporated Engineer in the water industry to concentrate on this business full time and works hands on in buying, selling, restoration, repair and servicing of watches as well as continuing to handle web development.
As well as being in to watches, Robin is an acclaimed musician/ producer of modern progressive rock music and has released 5 albums under the 'Cosmograf' moniker.