Allow us to restore your vintage mechanical timepiece with the devoted care and professional service every family heirloom timepiece deserves. We are not a production mechanical watch repair facility. We are a specialized shop, unhurried and uncompromising in our approach taken to repair and restore your early American and Swiss pocket or wrist watch. We provide pocket and wristwatch cleaning, restoration, overhaul and consultation.
It's becoming somewhat difficult to find a local watchmaker these days, we know. We hear it all the time. One that specializes in the old mechanical watches from the hay day of Swiss and American watch manufacturing is getting even harder. This by the way, is our specialty.
As a former Watchmakers Guild official, and out of respect for your local American Watchmaker, should you be in need of an antique watch repair service, check your local yellow pages first, and pursue his services first. If you run out of luck there, feel free to contact me. I'd like to gain you as a life long customer as I have so many families who know and respect what their mechanical watch needs and deserves.
Rogin Starweld Laser Welder:
If the exterior of your watches case and case back have clearly worn after many years of faithful use, we do have some options relating to it's restoration that I'd like to detail.
There isn't a long-term durable approach to re-plating any such watch case with a standard yellow gold color. This improper approach that some use to re-plate an item with a gold color is an electro-chemical process and simply isn't durable enough for standard use. It'll look good for a few weeks and then it begins to look worn and quite ugly. I don't offer this yellow gold plating service as it can cause more harm than help.
The only long term durable approach to re-plating any base metal case (brass foundation) is through rhodium plating. This procedure results in a beautiful appearance with the watch cases final color and sheen being similar to silver, white gold or platinum and not yellow-gold in color. This process requires hand preparation, double copper plating and then a double rhodium plating. To restore your case to look new again begins at $200. This accounts for the extremely high price of rhodium ($1650 /oz.) and the many hours of labor involved.
Please examine the before and after photos and expect your worn case to turn out as beautiful as this one did. Normally, most of the rhodium plating case restorations that I do are for families that have a WWII serviceman's wrist watch made by Elgin, Hamilton and Waltham yet many other watches will benefit from this case restoration process. Send along a detailed description of your watch and a digital photo if possible and I'll be glad to determine suitability and an estimated cost of this spectacular case restoration service.
POCKETWATCHES: The pocket watches that I will consider for restoration are the factories of : Ball, Columbus Watch Company, Elgin, Hamilton, Hampden, E. Howard, Howard Watch Co., Illinois, Peoria Watch co., Rockford, Seth Thomas, South Bend, United States Watch Co., U.S. Watch Co., and Waltham.
Other watches we would be interested in repairing:
Wichita Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Illinois Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Cornell Watch Co Manhatten Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Fitchburg Watch bo. American Repeating Watch Co. Ingersol U.S. Watch Co. B.D. Bingham South Bend Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Western Watch Co. |
New York Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Jacob Custer Thomas Harland Luther Goddard Warren Manufacturing Co. W.E. Harper E.F. Bowman D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Washington Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd |
Waterbury National Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. American Waltham Seth Thomas Watch do. Ball Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Appleton, Tracy & Co. Appleton watch Co. Trenton Watch do. George Reed American Waltham Watch Co. Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Lancaster Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Potter Albert Watch Co. |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Normandie Wig Wag Ebel Lancel Cartier Mars Fontainemelon Mido Hilton Audemars Piguet Ekegren Kent Gruen Cornavin Benson Movado Bulova Rockford Juvenia Louis Longines Goering Eberhard Patek Philippe Hy. Moser & Cie Germinal Hermes Harwood Monte Hydepark Zodiac Crown Clebar Sigma Rapid Wyler Monarch Mt. Vernon Guinand Harvard Doxa Emerson Chopard Winton Titus Condal Cortebert Elgin Excelsior Provita Harvel Huguenin Golay Driva Rulon Ogival Butex Lyceum Geneve Rotary Lorton Bovet Breguet Ollendorff Universal Grana Corum Duodial |
Levrette LeCoultre Eloga Trebex Tourneau Lip Concord Ball Arsa Nivada Ace Acro Hever Evans Warwick Kurth Aramis Marlys Beltone Opel Americus Alsta South Bend Framont Rima Turler Wittnauer Lucerne Daynite Pronto Perfine Arctus Hallmark Jules Jurgensen Revue P. Garnier Louvig Carlton Verno Tiffany Asprey Orator Angelus Univer Invicta Baume & Mercier Eterna Weldon J.E. Watch Co. Dunhill Semca Haste Wakmann Henda Breitling National Enicar Omega Westend Lucien Piccard Kelbert Cawford Weltall Friedli Alpina Lusina Phillepe Watch Co. Sheffield |
Frodsham Perpetual Watch Co. Faith Olma Audax Rembrant Leonidas Orvin Alavente Hebdomas P. Buhre Continental Jardur Lavina Certina Agassiz Smith Patria Timecraft WhiteStar Orfina Girard-Perregaux Berg Helbros Dugena Newmark Felca Shield Garland Lang Uhr Gallet Gubelin Imperial Ofair Watex Roamer Benrus Electra Ulysse Nardin Illinois Dome Rado Favre Leuba Aristo Admes Croton Glycine PiagetPreesent Rolex Glashutte Tornex-Rayville Borel Boucheron LePhare Montbrilliant Niton Central Lemania Vacheron Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Vulcain Moriva International Avalon Parker Unitas Yale |
Boulevard Minerva Zenith Regina Urania Nicewatch Co. A. Lange & Sohne Alpha Mar Nicolet Hafis Rocail Hamilton Tavannes Ultimor Mappin Autdrist Alton Kord Pabro Stowa Bucherer Rolls Baylor Kelton Roxy Altus LIbela Laco Didisheim Hampden Van Cleef & Arpels Octo Blancpain Seth Thomas Olympia Fairfax Standard Delbana Mimo Nicolet Watch Cyma Sperina Coronet Harman Kingston Kelek Seeland Zentra Record Arbi Welsbro Eska Tissot Exactus Jaeger Helvetia Schultz Bueche-Girod Buren Ardath Touchon Hayden Frey Charles Nicolet |
Models of watches that we repair:
Kenilworth Gallahad Valiant Black Star Dewitt Windsor Ericsson Emerson Secometer Sedgman Wellington Courier Cullen Commander Glendale Pierre Brooke Pacermatic Derby Tuxedo Windsor Cadet Piccadilly Landon Veri-thin Manhattan Paxton Barry Aqua Lung Tyron Vardon Meadowbrook Sheryll Grover Coburn Aqualine Gilvert Pimlico Cameron Whitford Edgewood Whitney Byrd First Mate Ristflo Langley Cordell Attache Commodore Airflight Hartman Crusade Medalist Wembley Senator Halesworth B Alan Prescott Bostonian Annapolis Dixon Foster Streamlined stanley Futura Steeldon Chatham Major Champion Norfolk Colby Cedercrest Chevy Chase Milton Wayne Carlyle Tildon Garfield Talbot Ardsley Top Time Stafford Keith Drexel Gyromatic Ward Monaco ipso-vox Orson Stanford direct read Chanticleer Edgemere Wilson Chatham Seville Sheldon Dawson Yorktown Brent Lindsay Yorktown Tempus Cambridge Frontenac Gilman Fulton Drummond Jason Bianca Carlisle Doublet Sutton Hastings Grafic Deluxe Thornton Caroline Dyson |
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