My name is Cees (“case”) de Groot and this site is where I’m planning to keep track of what I do around watch and clock repair, plus the tooling I’m building up around it, stuff for sale, etcetera.

“Grotius curavit” is Latin. Well, probably. My Latin is rusty, it’s been a few decades. “Grotius” is the latinization of my family name (viz. Hugo Grotius, the 17th century lawyer and statesman, not family, I think), and “curavit” roughly translates as “fixed it” (took care of it, etc, etc). Also, the domain was available.

The site will probably be more of a personal diary/log than something that is primarily aimed at sharing, and please take everything here with a healthy dose of critical thinking. I’m not really qualified in either watch, clock or toolmaking, it is strictly a hobby, and while I have some experience in the field (in the ’90s, I worked a lot on cameras and especially old shutters - different, but not that different), I have never attended WOSTEP or similar institutions of higher horology.

Oh, before I forget: I’m happy to part with most of the watches and clocks I’ll present here. Just ping me :)

For getting around, there is a sitemap.