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Watchmaker making sure 

his dying art won’t be lost 

The city’s heritage 

clocktowers are an 

iconic part of its history, 

but what happens when 

fewer watchmakers 

are training to repair 

them? Reporter Dylan 

Smits spoke to Geoff 

Butler who still has a 

passion for the delicate 

process of restoring old 

timepieces 

GEOFF BUTLER has tinkered 

with watches and clocks since he 

was 15, finding enjoyment in finetuning 

the intricate parts which 

help people make sense of time. 

Now 62, the watchmaker and 

his team played a large role in 

restoring the Moorhouse Ave 

railway station clock, frozen in 

time after the September 2010 

earthquake. 

The clock was installed at Riverside 

Market when it opened in 

2019 and remains a central feature 

of the food precinct. 

“It was nice to see the parts reused 

and placed in an iconic place 

in town,” Butler said. 

Getting the Arts Centre clocktower 

ticking again in 2018 was 

another proud moment. 

The clock was completely 

dismantled, serviced and rebuilt, 

which required high level watchmaking 

skills. 

TIMEKEEPERS: Geoff and Michelle Butler own Ilam Watchmakers, servicing and repair 

clocks and watches. Geoff was last month recognised for his nearly 50 years of service to 

watchmaking with a trade certified master tradesperson certificate from the Jewellery 

Industry Registration Board. 

“Especially after the earthquakes, 

I think it became really 

important. It’ll be great to keep 

these old timepieces going as long 

as possible, until parts run out or 

they can’t be repaired.” 

Butler was last month 

recognised for his nearly 50 

years of service to watchmaking 

with a trade certified master 

tradesperson certificate from the 

Jewellery Industry Registration 

Board. 

He and wife Michelle own 

Ilam Watchmakers, servicing 

and repairing anything from 

old family heirlooms to heritage 

building clocks. 

Some clocks and watches can 

take up to 10 hours to service. 

“Some of the clocks we repair 

can be 100, 200 years old. There’s 

a lot of sentimental value in them 

for families. They want help to 

FINE-TUNE: Butler working on 

the escapement mechanism 

of a French carriage clock. 

preserve them so they can give 

them to the next generation,” 

Butler said. 

Watchmakers in modern 

times mostly repair and restore, 

rather than create, as most clocks 

and watches are now made in 

factories. 

The artform dates back to the 

14th century in Europe with the 

first mechanical clocks, mostly 

mounted on churches. 

Clocks and watches became 

more accurate from the 17th 

century onwards after the 

invention of the pendulum clock 

by Dutch polymath Christiaan 

Huygens in 1656. 

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Preserving heritage one tick at a time 

• From page 1 

Today, Butler says the number 

of watchmakers in New Zealand 

has dwindled from about 650 

over the past four decades to 

about 100 today. 

“It is a bit of a shame to see. 

Even those who are left are getting 

older and retiring.” 

In the future, the Butlers 

expect their industry to 

keep shrinking with fewer 

watchmakers, but demand for 

services to stay the same. 

“There will be longer wait 

times, but people are happy to 

wait,” Michelle Butler said. 

This means business for the 

Butlers and the other remaining 

watchmakers is likely to remain 

steady. 

One of the biggest changes 

in watchmaking has been the 

ever-increasing range of watches 

to repair. 

“A lot of battery watches 

come through but there’s still a 

lot of mechanical, old antique 

watches that we do. Every watch 

is different. There’s many more 

parts which are getting harder 

to source and you need the right 

kinds of expertise to repair those 

parts,” Butler said. 

Although his business has 

weathered the storm of technological 

changes, Butler has 

embraced repairing modern 

watches and clocks. 

“When Apple watches 

became a thing, we were a little 

HISTORY: Butler and his team of watchmakers helped restore the Moorhouse Ave railway 

station clock (pictured right in 1960), which stopped after the September 2010 earthquake. 

The restored clock was installed at Riverside Market when it opened in 2019. 

concerned, but no it didn’t end 

up affecting us.” 

The couple do their part to 

keep the industry alive, having 

trained up several apprentices 

since the business opened in 

2001. The industry maximum is 

only two apprentices at a time. 

“It’s four years, 8000 hours. 

It’s not a short process for each 

apprentice,” Michelle said. 

Since opening, Ilam 

Watchmakers has grown to 17 

staff, with five fully-qualified 

watchmakers working alongside 

Butler. 

The business services clocks 

sent in to the shop, but Butler 

often does home visits to service 

large grandfather clocks. 

“I think it’s surprising. It’s 

amazing. We never dreamed we 

would get this far,” Michelle said. 

The couple’s team is crossgenerational 

with the youngest 

being 19 and the oldest 71, 

part of why they consider the 

watchmaking team to be their 

extended family. 

A tip for maintaining clocks 

Butler has learned over the years 

is to regularly oil the mechanical 

parts. 

To keep nice, old clocks in 

good condition, they need to be 

serviced regularly to stop wear 

and tear. 

“If parts have been hard to 

source and we’ve had to modify 

something to fit it, you see the 

end result of it working, there’s 

huge satisfaction,” Butler said. 

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A RANGI Ruru footballer has 

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moment, so it’s pretty cool, and 

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40g basil leaves 

25g parmesan, finely grated, plus a 

little extra to serve 

About 100ml of olive oil, plus 

extra for making toasts 

Method 

• Bring a deep pan of water to 

the boil, then drop in the broad 

beans and let them cook for 5-6 

minutes until almost tender. 

Scoop the beans from the water 

with a draining spoon and drop 

them into cold water. 

• If you wish, pop the broad 

beans from their papery shells by 

squeezing between thumb and 

forefinger. 

• Slice the leeks into thick 

rounds, then wash very 

thoroughly in deep cold water. 

Thinly slice the spring onions. 

Warm a couple of tablespoons of 

olive oil over a moderate heat in 

a deep saucepan, then stir in the 

leeks and spring onions. Place 

a piece of baking parchment or 

greaseproof paper over the leeks, 

then cover with a lid. This will 

allow them to soften and steam 

without colour. 

• Let the leeks and onions 

cook for about 10 minutes, 

checking them every now and 

again to make sure they are not 

browning. Slice the courgettes 

into small, thick pieces. Remove 

the lid and parchment from the 

pan, then stir in the courgettes, 

broad beans and the peas and 

continue cooking. Pour in the 

vegetable stock and bring to the 

boil. 

• Rinse the jarred beans and 

add them to the soup, stirring 

gently. (They are tender and easy 

to break up.) Season generously 

with salt and black pepper. Let 

the soup simmer gently while 

you make the croutes. 

• First, make the pesto: peel 

the garlic clove and pound it 

with a little sea salt. Add the 

pine kernels and continue until 

you have coarse paste, then 

introduce the basil leaves and 

mash everything to a thick green 

mixture, introducing a little of 

the olive oil if it becomes stiff. 

Stir in the grated parmesan, then 

the remaining olive oil to make a 

spreadable paste. 

• Get an overhead (oven) 

grill hot. Slice the baguette into 

rounds, about 2cm thick. Place 

them on a grill pan or baking 

sheet and toast under the grill 

until golden. Turn them over and 

toast the other side, then remove 

from the grill and trickle with 

the olive oil. Spread generously 

with the paste. 

• Ladle the soup into bowls 

and float the basil croutes on top. 

Pass a dish of extra parmesan 

around as you serve. 

Asparagus, melted cheese 

Any soft, creamy-textured 

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suited to melting under a hot 

grill. It is a good idea to protect 

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foil before you put them under 

the grill, to keep them sweet and 

juicy. 

Ingredients 

Serves 2 

Ready in 20 minutes 

12 thick and juicy asparagus 

spears 

A little melted butter 

2 goat’s milk cheeses, about 120g 

each 

Method 

• Put a deep pan of water on to 

boil and salt it lightly. Trim the 

ends of the asparagus. When the 

water is boiling drop in the spears 

and cook for about 7 minutes, 

depending on their thickness. The 

spears should be cooked until they 

will bend slightly when pulled 

from the water. 

• Warm an overhead (oven) 

grill. Remove the asparagus from 

the water with kitchen tongs 

(draining them in a colander will 

damage the delicate tips) and lay 

them side by side on a grill pan. 

Brush lightly with butter. 

• Slice the cheeses in half 

horizontally and place them on 

top of the spears. Cook under the 

heated grill for a few minutes until 

the cheese melts. 

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E C L 

P I O 

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words of three or more letters, 

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MARTYR, mat, may, ram, rat, ray, tar, tarry, tram, 

word. tray, try, yam. 

Good 13 Very Good 17 Excellent 22 

25 26 

27 28 

29 30 

31 32 

33 34 

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22. Thrash (4) 

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28. Hold in custody (6) 

31. Christian hermit (7) 

32. Having a streak of luck (2,1,4) 

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34. Mountain range (Spanish) (6) 

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29. Rudder (4) 

30. Defeat (4) 

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Outrage, 12. Heroic, 15. 

Scribe, 16. Cahoots, 17. 

Peek, 18. Mere, 19. Martini, 

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Meander, 27. Answer, 28. 

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