Kings Road Clock Repair Shop for Atmos and Longcase: Gutlin

At the far western end of the Kings Road, where Chelsea turns into Fulham, a 19th-century shopfront is filled with longcase clocks in mahogany, walnut and oak. Gutlin Clocks & Antiques, at 606 Kings Road, London SW6 2DX, is a dealer first, but the father-and-son team behind it also runs a repair workshop for other people's clocks. That combination is the reason to bring a clock here: the same hands that restore the showroom stock take in your French mantel clock or family grandfather clock.

The proprietors are John and Mark Coxhead, a father and son who turned a shared passion for collecting clocks into the business. Their own account says they have been selling and restoring clocks for 18 years and selling online for 11, specialising in 18th and 19th-century French mantel clocks and longcase clocks. Because they always have a large amount of stock in the showroom, they see a wide cross-section of antique movements, restoring their own showroom clocks alongside customers' pieces.

The firm says it restores clocks for the British Home Office and for the Royal Lifeguards at Hyde Park, and that it has sold clocks to members of the British Royal Family. The business is registered at Companies House as Gutlin Clocks & Antiques LLP, incorporated in October 2020 at the same Kings Road address. In October 2026 the online shop was still adding stock, including a Hunt & Roskell retailed repeater carriage clock and a carriage clock by Margain.

The repair site lists the range plainly: longcase clocks, bracket clocks, musical clocks, French mantel clocks, cartel clocks, spring clocks, Vienna wall clocks, skeleton clocks, English dial clocks, fusee clocks, longcase regulators and barographs. Barometers are restored too. The work runs from a straightforward clean and service to a full reconstruction, including re-gilding metal, polishing wooden cases and restoring dials, so a tired bracket clock can leave with its case and dial attended to as well as its movement.

On carriage clocks, the showroom's own stock is a guide to the standards applied. Gutlin states that all the carriage clocks it sells keep their original platform escapements rather than modern replacements, and its range runs from simple timepieces to repeaters. That matters if you own a French carriage clock and want the escapement repaired rather than swapped. For Regency drop-dial clocks and English station wall clocks, which the shop also stocks, the fusee and dial work is routine bench business here.

Browsing the stock while a clock is assessed is half the pleasure of the visit. The shop's catalogue is sorted the way a collector thinks: Atmos clocks, barometers and barographs, carriage clocks, mantel clocks, Boulle clocks, clock sets, four-glass clocks, silver clocks, skeleton clocks, bracket clocks, grandfather and grandmother clocks, wall clocks and Swedish clocks. Seeing restored examples of your own type of clock on the floor is a quick way to judge what a finished job from this bench looks like.

Gutlin runs a separate website for Atmos clocks, the Jaeger-LeCoultre clocks that wind themselves from tiny changes in air temperature, and it is one of the few London shops to publish a flat price: a full Atmos service is £275. The Atmos site explains the clock's history, from the original idea by the Neuchâtel-born engineer Jean-Léon Reutter to the Atmos Classique and Atmos Classique Transparente, and gives owners guidance on starting the clock after a move.

If your Atmos has stopped after being carried across a room or shipped from abroad, that guidance is worth reading before you assume the movement is faulty, because the torsion pendulum has to be locked and levelled correctly. If it still refuses to run, the £275 service is a known figure to plan around, which is rare in a trade where most repairers quote only after the clock is opened.

For everything apart from the Atmos service, the workshop gives a free quotation when you bring the clock into the shop, and work is carried out within an agreed timescale and price range. Every repair is backed by a full 12-month guarantee, and customers' clocks are fully insured while in Gutlin's keeping. If carrying the clock in is not practical, the team will visit your home or office by arrangement, which is the sensible route for a longcase that would need its weights, pendulum and hood taken off before it could travel.

For collection and delivery, the repair site recommends Mr John Davis, an independent mover experienced in stripping down and handling antique longcase and mantel clocks. His published charges are £20 to £30 each way within local London and £50 each way from Surrey. The site also notes that antique clocks, even when running, need cleaning and servicing every 10 years to avoid wear.

The nearest stations are Imperial Wharf on the Overground and Fulham Broadway on the District line, each roughly a 10 to 12-minute walk, and several buses run along the Kings Road. This end of the street has been an antiques and design quarter for decades. Lots Road Auctions, a short walk south, holds regular sales of antique furniture and clocks, and Chelsea Harbour, with its design showrooms and marina, is close by. Ask Karpo in the Karpo APP for a lunch spot near Imperial Wharf if you are dropping off a clock and staying in the area.

Gutlin Clocks & Antiques, 606 Kings Road, London SW6 2DX. Email mark@gutlin.com. Repair website: antiqueclockrepair.co.uk. Atmos website: atmoscentre.co.uk. Full Atmos service £275. Free quotations in the shop, home or office visits by arrangement, 12-month guarantee on repairs and full insurance while clocks are held. No regular opening hours are published on either website, and repairs are arranged by phone or email. Nearest stations: Imperial Wharf on the Overground and Fulham Broadway on the District line, with buses along the Kings Road.