Steve’s grandfather started work in Witney in 1910 and set up his own shop – a business which was carried on by Steve’s father. After gaining first class qualifications from a British Horological Institute college course in 1973, Steve began making and repairing clocks and watches himself.
He regularly services clocks that his grandfather and father worked on, continuing 100 years of family craftsmanship and customer service.
FRED FLETCHER
Fred Fletcher started repairing clocks and watches when he was still at school and started his apprenticeship at White’s watch repairers on Batt Hill, Witney in 1910. He returned to the trade after serving in the army in the First World War and eventually started his own clock and watch repair business in The Crofts. He was still repairing clocks when he died in 1982. (Watch and Clockmakers rarely fully retire!)
JOHN FLETCHER
Like his father before him, John Fletcher started repairing watches while he was still at school and, after national service, joined the family business. He became one of the area’s main trade watch repairers, working for a number of Oxford jeweller’s shops. He carried on repairing watches until his untimely death in 2007.
STEVE FLETCHER
Steve Fletcher is a third generation horologist and the resident clock and watch expert on on BBC’s The Repair Shop.
After gaining first class qualifications from a British Horological Institute college course in 1973, Steve began making and repairing clocks and watches himself.
He regularly services clocks that his father and grandfather worked on, continuing 100 years of family craftsmanship and customer service.
FRED FLETCHER (JUNIOR)
In 2020 Fred joined us as an apprentice Clockmaker after attending a Science and engineering college. Fred, is a passionate carriage clock enthusiast with the steady hands and excellent eyes needed to work on these small and intricate clocks.
His love of understanding complex mechanisms and the special skills required for repairing mechanical miniaturisation enable him to produce excellent restorations.