This is the kind of news that stops every serious watch collector and long-time Shreveport resident in their tracks: Bayou Watch Repair has officially closed its doors for good.
If you’ve lived in the Ark-La-Tex for any length of time and owned a timepiece, chances are you walked into that small, straightforward shop in the Broadmoor Village Shopping Center and put your trust in the hands of the Knotts family.
For thirty years, Bayou Watch Repair wasn’t just a business, it was a true community institution and a rare hub for genuine, old-school expertise. That expertise came from the man at the helm, the late Miron Tyler Knotts. Miron, who sadly passed away on August 15, 2025, at the age of 72, had dedicated more than four decades of his life to the painstaking craft of watchmaking…