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Antique Time What's New
Web Site Down Time And Server Relocation. For the past two days our web sites have been operating on a
very intermittent basis. This is due to the relocation of the servers from
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida to Tampa, Florida. This is because ValueWeb merged
with Hostway a few months ago. As of 10:00am Pacific time all of our sites
appear to be operating normally. We apologize for any delay or concerns
this may have caused our clients and customers. Phone System Down Time To Be Corrected. All VoIP phone lines are operating normally. Our Toll Free phone number is operating normally. Our
main office direct number has experienced periods of unexpected down time.
This technical problem should be corrected by Friday, February 29, 2008.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused our callers and clients. HoroFind Watch Parts and Material Locator Service. We have literally supplied hundreds of obsolete watch parts
to many collectors over the last two years via our HoroFind message board.
As of February 27, 2008 we will no longer operate our HoroFind service.
Over the next few months we will be placing any parts we have into our eBay
Store. Links to our eBay Store can be found at the top of any page in our
web site. Thanks to all those that supported HoroFind. Possible Change In Store For Our Online eStore. An UPDATE. We are now in the process of creating our new online eStore. Check back soon for additional details. Posted 2-25-08 We have been investigating other providers for our
Timebuilders Online eStore. For about the last two years we have been
using ProStores but have determined that they are no longer able to provide us
with the services that we need and our customers want. We have determined
at this point in time that Volusion might become our new host for our online
eStore. ProStores is very out-dated with their software and have not been
very willing to make upgrades that clients want. Volusion on the other
hand is up to date with the latest online solutions which provide multiple
pictures of items as well as making Google Checkout available. We will
keep you posted here! Phone System Upgrade Completed. We have completed our phone system upgrades. We have
installed VoIP service that is provided by RingCentral. You can visit
their web site at www.ringcentral.com.
We have dedicated lines for our Rolex customers, our pocket watch customers as
well as lines for our Timebuilder eBay Auctions and our Timebuilders Online
eStore. Our new phone system makes it possible to provide our customers
with up-to-date information concerning repairs and orders. We hope you
enjoy our new phone system as much as we do. Our phone contact information
can be found on our Contact Us page. Veterans Day 2007. Antique Time will be closed Monday, November 12, 2007 in observance of Veterans Day. As you know the United States Postal Service and banking institutions will also be closed. Columbus Day 2007. Antique Time will be closed Monday , October 8, 2007 in observance of Columbus Day. As you know the United States Postal Service and banking institutions will also be closed. Horologist.com Web Site Updates. For the better part of today our web site has been down. The reason for this is so that we could upgrade our navigation structure. We have placed all of our pocket watch information within the Gallery of Time section of our web site. This will make it much easier for our visitors to see all of the information in one place as it relates to pocket watches. We have also eliminated many pages that are no longer used or needed. Much of this information could already be found within our message boards so we did away with the duplication of information. During the next few weeks we will also be revising many of
the internal components of our web sites. File structures will be re-named
and organized better for use on our end. The visitor will not notice these
corrections, but they will improve the performance of our web sites. Labor Day Weekend 2007. Antique Time will be closed from Friday, August 31st. until September 4th. so that our members can spend the weekend with their families. Also many of our suppliers will also be closed for the long four day weekend. We will be shipping finished jobs today as usual. Have a great Labor Day Holiday and be safe. Computer System Upgrades We have been upgrading our main computer systems that are located in our Medford Center Shop. This turned our to be a bigger project than what was expected. We installed new 250 gigabyte hard drives and also added several powered USB ports. The new drives are manufactured by Seagate which improved our system performance and reliability. We expect that everything will be back to normal within a few
days as we expect to find a few minor bugs here and there. Phone Contact Information Has Been Updated. We have updated all of our phone contact information and have included location specific numbers for the convenience of our customers and clients. The complete listing of our numbers can be found on our Contact Us page. We have also included our Toll Free number for the exclusive use of our Rolex customers. This number is 888-ROLEX-01. It is available Monday through Friday during our normal business hours from 9AM to 5PM Pacific Time. Callers may also leave phone messages after hours and we will return your call as soon as possible. Wireless Callers. If you are with Cingular or AT&T you
can now call Antique Time free of charge from any location. Our cell phone
number is 212-933-9229. Updates To Our Rolex Reference Page. We have been making many changes to our Rolex Reference pages. We are now designing pages with information and pictures of specific Rolex watches. We have added specific pages for Vintage Rolex models, President models, Sub Mariners, Sea Dwellers and GMT Master models. We have not completed all of these yet as we still need to process photographs and write more detailed information. We are taking pictures of many different Rolex movements and working on more page designs. You are welcome to visit our Rolex Reference page to follow this work in process. Posted 4-14-07. Timebuilders Online eStore Is Now Open For Business. We are always looking for new ways to bring our products and services to the market place in order to better serve our valued clients and customers. With this in mind we have just opened our new Timebuilders Online eStore. Our new eStore is tied to our eBay Store Front. This is unique as both venues are operated and hosted by eBay. This makes it very easy for our auction customers to also visit our eStore during checkout where they have the opportunity to view and purchase other items they may be looking for. It also makes it very easy for us to upload our eStore items to our eBay Store Front. We have been adding many new items at our Timebuilders Online eStore. We are still in the learning process and it will take some time until we learn all of the features that our new eStore offers our clients and customers in bringing our products and services to the online market place. Be sure to click the links above to visit our new store today. Posted 2-11-07. Holiday Greetings From All Of Us At Antique Time. 2006
We want to thank all of our customers from our web sites and also our wonderful customers who thought enough of us to make purchases from our eBay Timebuilder Auctions. We especially want to thank our customers who live in foreign countries who trusted us to deliver our products to them. We wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and hope that peace finds you. Posted 11-08-06. Internet Explorer 7.0 and QuickBooks Pro 2003 A few months ago we received an automatic update for Internet Explorer. This was an upgrade from version 6.0. After the upgrade, we discovered that our accounting program with all customer files was no longer operational. We contacted QuickBooks and was advised that a patch would soon be released to correct the compatibility issue. After one month nothing was done to correct the problem. We were advised that the best plan of action was to purchase the newest version of QuickBooks Pro 2006. This was done and the program was updated. The next process was to transfer all of the customer data files and the item file listings. After testing, we found that everything is again operational. During the time this change and upgrade was being done there was no way to email clients with estimates and invoices. As of today we are again operational and estimates and invoices are being emailed to customers. We apologize for any delay and problems this has caused. Thank YOU! Posted 11-29-06. Web Site Updates Are Coming Soon To Horologist.com. We will soon be making our web site much more efficient. The content for the most part will remain the same, but the navigation structure is going to change. For example, in the Pocket Watch section the navigation structure will be removed for all pocket watch related information. Hyperlinks will be added to only one or two pages. Clicking on any link will take you to the described content and information. This change will make our web sites much more attractive and easier to use. It is expected that these changes will take place within the next two to three weeks as we design the new navigation structure. Posted 9-11-06.
Update To Email Service As Posted Below on 7-14-06. For the last three plus weeks, we have not been answering ANY emails at all. This is a direct result of a virus that infected our systems which arrived as an attachment. The virus that was received was called (we removed the name so not to corrupt file). This virus opens back doors to systems and also installs many popups. From what we have learned, companies that use this are located in the Ukraine, Australia, and a few others. After this gets installed on your systems, you are prompted to visit a host of web sites that claim to have removal tools designed to eliminate the virus or Trojan. For those that are uninformed, you will contact one of these companies in hopes of getting rid of the problem. You give them your credit card information, as these companies all look very legitimate. If you make the mistake of giving them your credit card information, you will soon discover that your account has been taken and your funds removed. Do NOT make this mistake. We did not as we made several searches on the web and found out how to remove this spy ware. The correct program to use, and it is FREE, is called SmitFraudFix. It is easy to use and cleans your system of this problem. Posted 9-11-06.
Antique Time Neighborhood Watch Message Board Update. For the last 4 years we have operated our ATNW message board as an "open community." We provided well over 1500 articles about watches that covered subjects from repairs to interesting horological facts and information. Everyday we logged well over 450 visitors to the message board. After giving the matter much though and consideration, the decision was made to make our community available to members only. This is known as Membership By Approval. Doing this has eliminated an undesirable element from visiting our message board. Those still interested in what we have to offer are invited to apply for membership to our community. Anyone is welcome to visit, but you must join in order to post. Updated 5-14-06. HoroFind. Watch Parts & Material Locator Service. HoroFind is a new FREE service provided by Antique Time that is designed to assist those who have been looking for watch parts and material for both vintage watches and other more recent styles of watches. HoroFind already has hundreds of part listings. It is a new service that was designed one month ago and officially went online on March 26, 2006. We also have a new web address for HoroFind. It is HoroFind Watch Parts and Material Locator Service. We hope that it will benefit many, and even if only one watch is saved because of this service, it will have been a success. 3-27-06. Holiday Greetings From All Of Us At Antique Time.
We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving and a very Merry Christmas. We want to thank all of our customers who trusted us with their watch repair needs and we would also like to thank all of our eBay customers who thought enough of our products and services that they chose to buy from our Timebuilder eBay Auctions. We want everyone to know that you are all in our prayers, and it is our sincere wish that this finds you and yours in the best of health and prosperity for the coming New Year. 11-22-05. Hurricane Katrina. Our thoughts and our prayers go out to the many who have fallen victim to hurricane Katrina. We know there are no words that can really express our heart felt feelings and that nothing anyone can say can really help in a time like this. Over the years, we have had the opportunity to repair watches and to sell watches to many customers in the affected areas. We also have many customers who have purchased items from us on eBay who reside there as well. It is our prayer that all of you are well, and that you and your loved ones are safe. 8-31-2005. Antique Time Neighborhood Watch. This is really interesting. In the early morning hours of May 31, 2005, we noticed the start of an attack on the servers that host our message board. This message board supplies support to our main web site horologist.com and our mirror site timebuilders.com. We use our message board to supply information to our customers and to our clients. In relationship to other message boards hosted by EZboard, we are really small, but none-the-less, our information and our data is important. It is not uncommon for us to use links from our web site that refers to information that is contained within our message board. As the night progressed, we noticed that at about 5:00AM, most of our postings were missing. We contacted EZboard to request a restoration of our data. This is when we got the news of the attack on their servers. We are waiting for all of this to be restored from backups, servers caches, and other data restoration procedures. We hope this can be done soon so that we can either be totally operational as it was, or get the data and replace the links as needed. Spring Buying Trip to Las Vegas and Palm Springs. We have now returned from our annual Spring Buying trip. This takes us to many different locations that include Salt Lake City, St. George, Utah. Then we head over to Las Vegas. After several days in Las Vegas, we head over into Palm Springs. This was a fantastic trip and we are glad to be back to the shop. We found many nice watches and we will be selling them on eBay in the next few weeks. We will also be posting some nice photos of our trip. As soon as we get them posted, we will put up a link here just for you. 4-11-05 We Have Upgraded To AOL Security Edition To Protect YOU. There are many things crawling around the internet. One that concerns us the most is the so called spy ware programs that get into you computers and search for information. We have now added firewalls and spy ware protection programs to make sure that your personal information stays where it belongs. Right here. So when you become one of our valued customers, you never have to worry about your personal information getting into the wrong hands. 3-2-05 February, 2005 Has Been A Very Busy Month For Us. Our first project involved the moving of our material supply department to a better location where we have better access to our inventory. We are now in the process of going through all of the old material such as crystals from the 20's, 30's and 40's. Most of these will be disposed of due to the fact there simply is no longer a call or a demand for these old plastic crystals. Most of what we will be getting rid of are the ladies crystals. If we have not needed but only a few over the past few years, there is no sense in having the tie up valuable space. Our next project involved upgrading our accounting programs again. The last update we did was back in 2002. So we have now upgraded our Quickbooks Pro accounting systems to the new 2005 versions. This was completed today, February 15, 2005. The most noticeable difference is the way Invoices, Estimates and Statements are sent to our customers. They are now sent using PDF files. The customer sees an email with the basic information so that they know who it came from. Then the customer will open the PDF file to see the actual invoice. One advantage to this is that email programs will not send our forms to spam folders as has been the case in the past. We hope this works well for our customers. Our move has delayed a few watch repairs, but we are now working day and night to get them finished, timed and packaged for delivery. We Have Finished Upgrading Our Computers And Network. On October 21st., one of our computer screens failed. This was the one that is used to communicate with our customers. We then decided to replace all 4 screens. This was done and things worked well for a few days. We finished having our cable lines installed so that we no longer needed to rely on our local phone service provider for internet access. This was a problem as our lines were taken down before we wanted them down. We were still in the process of installing the cables. Then yesterday, October 27th., our cable lines became active. The final connections were made and again we were online. It was very difficult to go for 3 days without any link to our customers and new clients. Now, everything is going well and we are again getting caught up with emails and work. Shipping of finished watches has been delayed a week due to downtime we experienced with the change over to cable. We will begin shipping next week. Thanks for your patience. October 28, 2004. Changes Have Been Made To Our Rolex Pages.... Today we started to make some upgrades to our Rolex pages. We have also been eliminating many pages that we no longer need or use. This is in order to streamline our web site and to make it faster for all of our visitors. We hope you like the new look and the design changes we have made. September 28, 2004. Our Web Site Move Is Completed.... The move to the new servers went very well. We had a few minor image problems and the links had to be repaired. This has been a month of moves. Our message board was moved to a new server as was our web site. We hope we can keeps things steady now and concentrate on the business of repairing fine watches and conducting our eBay auctions. Thanks for being patient. May 27, 2004. Our Web Site Is Moving To A New Hosting Company.... For the past 3 or 4 years our web site has been hosted by ComCity in Dublin, California. For the most part they have been good, but as of late the quality of their service has been lacking. Email seemed to be the big issue. We could receive them from customers, but all of a sudden, we could not reply from inside our own domain. ComCity seemed unwilling to fix the problem. Another issue was our web site statistics. They became non-functional and ComCity was not willing to make the investment to upgrade to the new software. So after about 5 years, we are going back to our roots. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be hosted again by ValueWeb in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We started the process today, May 18, 2004. We have made contact with Network Solutions and our new IP address has been registered and ValueWeb has assigned us to their servers. We expect that everything will be done in a few days. You might notice some slight downtime, but we think it will be very minimal. Most of the downtime will be a result of our new location and the new IP address propagating throughout the Internet. So other than a few minor glitches that will need to be corrected here and there, things will remain the same at Horologist.com, Timebuilders.com and RolexCrown.com. We look forward to many years with ValueWeb. New E-mail Address For Our eBay Auctions.... We had some minor concerns about our previous e-mail address that was used in conjunction with our eBay auctions, therefore we now have a new address for the exclusive use with our auctions. This new address is now our official e-mail address and is registered with eBay. All of our official auction e-mail will now use this new address as of May 5, 2004. The new address is TimebuilderEbay@aol.com Only official auction e-mail relating to our eBay auctions will be replied to. New Message Board Server.... We now have a new server for our message board. Ezboard made sweeping upgrades with all new servers along with moving to a new location. We expected the downtime to last only for one day. This soon ran into several days as our old server Pub73 would not redirect to the new server p200. Because of this we had to edit all of our links that made reference to our old server. Here is the new link for you to bookmark. Antique Time Neighborhood Watch. Its Been Awhile.... We have all been very busy since last Christmas. We have made a few changes and decided to liquidate many of the duplicate tools that we have had just taking up room. We have sold many of these items on eBay. We are still listing tons of tools and are now starting to get into the Levin tools. Did You Know.... You can always check out what we are going to auction by making a visit to our Antique Time Neighborhood Watch message board. Look under Auctions By Antique Time.
Merry Christmas.... We want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. To us, Christ will always be in Christmas. He has always been here for us and we will always be here for him. There are those that wish to take Christ out of everything. The sad thing is our courts agree with many of them. There is a place for those people and I hope they will enjoy it there. We respect the views of many different religious beliefs. We are a nation of many and we as a country should understand that. We should not take offense if we see a Nativity scene or a Menorah placed in a public place. We should be adult enough to accept it and to realize that we are not the only ones whose views and beliefs are important. God created all men as being equal. Why can't we practice the same and respect the beliefs of others. Again, Merry Christmas to all. God bless you. Message Board.... Today we are going to discontinue the use of our customer e-mail list and will officially begin the use of our message board. Antique Time Neighborhood Watch. We have found that we can reach more visitors and customers and those that are simply interested in watches and horology via a message board. With the message board we can post information daily so that all visitors can see it, rather than sending the same information to only those that signed up for our newsletter. Our message board community also offers the benefit of being more interactive with both customers and visitors. So click the link above and give it a try. It's New, It's Fun and It's Exciting. November 14, 2003 Advertise With Horologist.com.... Did you know that Horologist.com, Timebuilders.com, and RolexCrown.com receive over 8000 hits a day. Traffic is driven to our web site by search engines such as Google, AOL and our eBay stores. We have had many requests to place ads on our site. We have maintained the Retail Links page where ads could be placed for free. We will still keep this page as a free public service for our site visitors. We are now making available our 12 main index pages available for paid advertisements. The cost is $75.00 per month to have your banner ad placed on these pages. If you or your company is interested in advertising with us, drop us a line at TimebuilderWatch@aol.com. Payment Options.... Antique Time and our auction service, Timebuilder, accept the following payment options. We gladly accept personal checks, business checks, money orders, and if you have purchased an item from us on eBay, you are also welcome to use BidPay. SHIPPING INFORMATION UPDATE
Shipping of all repairs are done on Saturday and again on Wednesday. We ship all repairs by Priority Mail. We have found this to be the safest way to send watches. Combined with insurance you are guaranteed that your watch will arrive safe. We also take great care in packaging your watch. Certain items will be sent by Registered Mail. *************************************************** We have had many requests to keep the forest fire pictures available. Here are the links to those pages. Medford Photos Ruch Helicopter Base ********************************************************************** Click here to return to our "Contact Us" page.
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