One workshop for anyone who loves timepieces.
Learn it, find it, fix it, build it, keep its records.
Everything for the timepieces you own, want or work on. Learn about them, find the right one and the right part, fix what has stopped, build from parts, and keep each one's record. Your computer is where you research, plan and keep the record; your phone or tablet goes to the bench with you, paired with your computer over your own Wi-Fi so both stay in step. No TimeWrights account or subscription, and nothing tracked.
Release details, price and the app privacy policy will be announced here. Coming soon.
Where are you starting from?
New to this
A first mechanical watch, or a first strap or battery. Start with the easy jobs, the tools worth buying first, and the one step in each job that ruins parts.
Learn it →Collecting and buying
Looking for the right timepiece, or keeping track of the ones you own. Listings from watch shops and marketplaces in many countries, saved searches that keep looking, serial dating, a passport that goes with each timepiece when it changes hands, and an insurance schedule.
Find it →Modding and maintaining
Several timepieces, and an NH35 or two. Fit facts for the calibers researched so far, with their sources, builds tracked part by part, and a path to a first service.
Build it →Servicing and restoring
400 calibers drawn part by part, from the NH35 to vintage Omega, Rolex and Jaeger-LeCoultre, with reassembly steps and lubrication maps. Your services of each caliber kept beside it, with your photos, and records you can export.
The Movement Explorer →Five areas, one workshop
Learn it
A path from a first strap change to a first full service, the Movement Explorer, guides and a 77-term glossary.
Find it
Listings from watch shops and marketplaces in many countries, and your saved searches.
Fix it
“Why has it stopped?”, 18 jobs each with a video, and a bench log with timegrapher readings.
Build it
Builds tracked part by part, fit facts for the calibers researched so far, with sources, and marriage watches: a pocket watch movement in a wristwatch case.
Your records
Each timepiece's history, photos and papers, a passport that goes with it when it changes hands, a parts bin and a tool log.
What it promises
- On your devicesYour records stay on your computer and your phone or tablet. No TimeWrights account to make: your phone or tablet pairs with your computer directly.
- Buy it onceNo subscription and nothing to renew.
- No trackingNot in the app, and not on this site: no cookies, no analytics.
- Advice not for saleSponsors never touch the guides, the Movement Explorer, ratings or search order.
- Sourced, not guessedEach caliber names its sources: the maker's own documents wherever they exist, checked against an independent one. Its oiling says whether it follows the maker's own chart, point by point, or general practice. Any not yet checked says so, and every source is listed with where it's used.
Movements, rendered by TimeWrights
Three of the calibers in the Movement Explorer, as TimeWrights renders them.
ETA 2671A small automatic with date: 17.2 mm across, 25 jewels (ETA, technical communication CT 2671, FDE 485604 10, 24.08.2015, p. 1). 
Seiko NH36An automatic with day and date, shown from the dial side with its day disc above the date ring. The day disc is printed in English and Spanish (Time Module's NH3 series technical guide, p. 12); the Spanish abbreviations in the render are inferred. 
Seiko NH38An automatic with an open heart and no date (the NH38A and NH39A views in the NH3 series technical guide, printed p. 2, published by Time Module for Seiko Instruments).
These are TimeWrights' own 3D renders, built from the facts in the makers' published documents: the parts, their sizes and the order they go together in. They aren't photographs, and nothing in them is traced from anyone's drawings or photographs. Like every picture in TimeWrights, they're an initial guide: your own photographs are the record of your movement.
Who makes it
TimeWrights is made by TimeWrights, LLC, a Maryland limited liability company. About the company.
Questions: support@timewrights.com. Partnerships or press: partners@timewrights.com. Answers to common questions are on the support page.