diff --git a/circus/arbiter.py b/circus/arbiter.py
index be7ffbf92..554e0bb09 100644
--- a/circus/arbiter.py
+++ b/circus/arbiter.py
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def reload_from_config(self, config_file=None, inside_circusd=False):
         if added_sn or deleted_sn:
             # make sure all existing watchers get the new sockets in
             # their attributes and get the old removed
-            # XXX: is this necessary? self.sockets is an mutable
+            # XXX: is this necessary? self.sockets is a mutable
             # object
             for watcher in self.iter_watchers():
                 # XXX: What happens as initalize is called on a
@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ def reload_from_config(self, config_file=None, inside_circusd=False):
                 changed_wn.add(n)
                 deleted_wn.add(n)
                 added_wn.add(n)
+            else:
+                # reload hooks of unchanged watcher
+                w.reload_hooks()
 
         # delete watchers
         for n in deleted_wn:
@@ -417,6 +420,9 @@ def reload_from_config(self, config_file=None, inside_circusd=False):
             yield self.start_watcher(w)
             self.watchers.append(w)
             self._watchers_names[w.name.lower()] = w
+            # when the watcher was changed reload it's hooks
+            if n in changed_wn:
+                w.reload_hooks()
 
     @classmethod
     def load_from_config(cls, config_file, loop=None):
diff --git a/circus/watcher.py b/circus/watcher.py
index 1a76faf0a..0000e3c3f 100755
--- a/circus/watcher.py
+++ b/circus/watcher.py
@@ -388,6 +388,11 @@ def _resolve_hooks(self, hooks):
         for name, (callable_or_name, ignore_failure) in hooks.items():
             self._resolve_hook(name, callable_or_name, ignore_failure)
 
+    def reload_hooks(self, ignore_failure=False):
+        for hook_name, func in self.hooks.items():
+            hook = func.__module__ + ':' + func.__name__
+            self._resolve_hook(hook_name, hook, ignore_failure, reload_module=True)
+
     @property
     def pending_socket_event(self):
         return self.on_demand and not self.arbiter.socket_event