Cheap quartz rep repair in UK? (with story!)

[Arthur1]

Strange request this but does anyone know of a watchsmith within the UK that would be willing to get my first ever rep up and running again?

It is a mid-size Tag Heuer SEL/Link, chrome plated quartz, that I got (bought by my Dad no less) in Niagara-on-the-lake in '95 when we were on holiday. I think the shop was called Real Fakes Genuine Imitations (great name eh).

The watch was my daily beater for my uni years and often got admired in a trashy sort of way. However it stopped working in '02 and I tried some watchsmith DIY on it after drunken reading of some watch forums. I thought I could easily swap the movement for another. Well low and behold I don't think I'll be taking George Clooney's offer of an Omega watch apprenticeship any time soon - I killed the existing watch movement, broke the dial feet and bent the hands! Recently I have been looking at it in amongst my POs and SuperOceans and wishing that it could tick along side these new pretenders as the genesis of the hobby that keeps me glued to the forum.

Anyway I recently got in a batch of other watches an Accurist tag homage that looks just the right size to swap the movement into the Tag case and hopefully will allow the dial to be stuck onto.

Not wanting to risk any highstreet replica wrath I was hoping to source some kind UK based individual to resurrect my original rep from the watch graveyard.

Any help kindly appreciated.

[PeteM]

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