About us
A shop, a person,
a thousand stories.
Shyam Ka Samay is the digital home of Neelam Watch Tours, a small clock shop in Kurla, Mumbai. Vintage wall clocks, antique wall clocks and the patient work of keeping them running.
Owner • Clock Specialist • Craftsman
The man behind the clocks
At 76, Shyam Bhaiya has the kind of patience that modern life does not always leave room for. His world is made up of clocks, careful hands, conversations and objects that were built to last.
He understands that an old clock is not something you simply replace when it stops. Sometimes you listen to it, understand what it needs, and give it another chance.
A life around clocks
A clock arrives. It is opened, cleaned and understood before anything is changed. Sometimes the answer is a new movement. Sometimes it is a single part, set right. Either way it takes as long as it takes.
That is most of the day here: wall clock repair, clock restoration and the ordinary maintenance that keeps old wall clocks honest. The rest of the day is conversation.
The sound of another era
Shyam Bhaiya has a soft spot for good old Hindi songs and classic films. Perhaps that is part of why vintage clocks feel so natural in his world. Both have a way of taking us back, even when we are very much in the present.
Between the ticking of an old clock and a good old Hindi song playing somewhere in the background, Shyam Bhaiya is most at home in a world that does not rush.
Old things. New memories.
Keep appreciating the things that have character. Repair what can be repaired. Give beautiful old objects a place in new homes. And never underestimate the feeling that a familiar object can bring into a room.
Some things were made to tell time. Some were made to remember it.