Arlex Jewelry, Watches & Clocks

Arlex Jewelry, Watches & Clocks has been a fixture of the Lake Avenue shopping strip in downtown Lake Worth Beach for close to 40 years, and its own website makes clear this is a specialty shop built around genuine craft rather than a general gift-and-jewelry counter. The business employs a certified watchmaker on staff, a detail that matters a great deal to anyone who owns a mechanical or automatic timepiece and needs actual repair work rather than a battery swap. Alongside repair services, the shop sells fine jewelry (earrings, necklaces, pendants, bracelets, rings, brooches, and pearls), a range of watches from wrist and pocket styles to watch bands and mechanical movements, and an unusually deep selection of clocks, including wall clocks, grandfather clocks, cuckoo clocks, carriage clocks, and mantel clocks.

That clock specialty is genuinely distinctive. Very few independent retailers anywhere still carry grandfather and cuckoo clocks as a core part of their business, since the market for large mechanical clocks has shrunk considerably as more households have moved away from that style of home decor. A shop willing to maintain that inventory and the repair expertise to service it is catering to a specific, often older or more traditionally minded customer base, as well as to anyone restoring or furnishing a historic Florida home in a style where a grandfather clock still makes sense.

On the jewelry and watch side, Arlex carries recognizable luxury names including Rolex, Omega, Cartier, David Yurman, and Tiffany & Co., which signals a shop dealing in a mix of new and pre-owned fine pieces rather than costume jewelry. Combined with porcelain figurines and wall plates as part of the broader collectibles offering, the shop’s inventory spans a wide range of price points and occasions, from an engagement ring purchase to a small gift, all under one roof.

Posted hours run Monday through Saturday from 10 in the morning to 6 in the evening, a full six-day retail schedule that reflects a business with enough staff and stability to keep consistent hours, unlike many of the smaller antique and gift shops nearby that run more limited weekly schedules. That consistency, paired with nearly four decades in business at the same general Lake Avenue location, makes Arlex one of the more established and reliable specialty retailers in downtown Lake Worth Beach.

For residents and visitors alike, Arlex fills a role none of the antique shops or general gift stores on the block can: a jeweler and watchmaker capable of both selling fine pieces and servicing them afterward. Anyone in the market for a repair on an old family clock, a watch that needs a certified hand, or a genuine piece of fine jewelry has a long-established, independently run option right on Lake Avenue rather than needing to travel to a mall jeweler elsewhere in the county.