Roy Hancocks CMBHI

Roy Hancocks has been in the watch trade since 1948 and during that distinguished carer he has dealt with a variety of high grade watches such as Rolex, longines, Omega, jaeger-Le-Coultre and many other high grade brands. We also specialise in Mechanical Clocks ranging from Grandfather, Wall and mantel clocks as well as Sports Stadium clocks and are serviced by our own in house clock specialists.  The clock at the entrance of the station in the Jewellery Quarter in the style of an old-fashioned steam train was provided by our company.

The Company has traded within the jewellery quarter for the past 55years and carries the following brands: Tag Heuer, Longines, Maurice-Lacroix, Oris, Tissot, Rotary, Citizen as well as our own Brand. Our showroom also carries a wide range of mechanical and quartz Wall and Mantel clocks by leading manufacturers plus traditional Black Forest Cuckoo clocks along with

We also support local manufactures within the quarter ranging from Silversmiths, Precious stone suppliers, Goldsmiths and many others.

Bespoke Jewellery:- We provide a selection of stones for you to view ranging from flawless certificated Diamonds, Coloured stones of all shapes and sizes, select a range of jewellery designs for to view in platinum, 18ct yellow/ white or 9ct gold and even turn your sketch into the finished piece.

Our in house Service centre

All watch and clock services are done by our own in-house qualified staff.

We provided a fast and efficient service centre for all makes of watches, specialising in Rolex both New and pre-owned (subject to parts being available), also Pressure testing and battery fitting for divers watches, plus fitting for standard watches while you wait. The clock service centre also provides a collection and delivery service in the Birmingham area for customers who’s clocks are too big to bring into our showroom.

All mechanical systems do need servicing at regular interval’s in-order for them to give good time keeping and our service centre provides this in house.

The Automatic Movement is a mechanical movement comprising of over 70 components, it operates by means of an oscillating weight, which “rotates” backwards and forwards with the motion of the wrist. This action energises the mainspring and keeps the watch going.  As this is purely a mechanical motion and therefore subject to certain outside influences such as temperature and the mount of movement that the watch experiences, the time keeping is not as accurate as that of quartz.  In fact depending upon the calibre of the movement, most Swiss suppliers quote an average timekeeping tolerance of between –5 to +20 seconds per day.

The motions of daily life are sufficient in themselves to wind up an automatic watch.  However, there are times when we are (motion non-active,) i.e working on the computer, sat down resting, or the watch is not worn for over a day, it will stop however it can be re-started by winding ( approx 30/40 times ) this will start the watch and give it some reserve power.