Why we are different

• We are a specialist watch retailer - We don't operate like a traditional jewellery shop and sell exclusively online from our website. As watch enthusiasts and specialists, we prefer to spend our time sourcing and restoring watches and offering them for sale at attractive prices. The website is our showroom and we are able to deliver a watch anywhere in the UK within 2 days of ordering using Royal Mail's safe and reliable Special Delivery service. We can also ship overseas by international courier.
• We honestly describe our watches. All known faults are declared along with any significant cosmetic flaws including scratches, blemishes and dial deterioration.
• We fully inspect, service and sometimes completely rebuild the watches we sell. 90% of our servicing and restoration work is done in house with only some of the more specialist work like dial restoration going to our trusted partners in the trade.
• We respond quickly and fully to your enquiry. Most emails are answered within hours, some within minutes of being sent.
• We only ever use pictures of the actual watch for sale with no photoshop trickery. We don't believe in using pictures with whited out backgrounds because it creates an artifical environment in which the true condition of a watch is masked. Our pictures are real as they come out of the camera.
• Every watch we sell is in stock, ready to ship and out stock system is LIVE and fully up to date.

About Robin

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.