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:
W.E. Harper Hamilton Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. American Waltham Fitchburg Watch bo. George Reed Bannatyne Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Thomas Harland Adams & Perry Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Warren Manufacturing Co. Jacob Custer Ingersol Illinois Watch Co. |
B.D. Bingham Newark Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Nashua Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Trenton Watch do. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. National Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Hampden Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Watch Co. E.F. Bowman |
James & Henry Pitkin Waterbury J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Otay Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Luther Goddard Cornell Watch Co Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Western Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Appleton watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Cheshire 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:
Lucerne Laco Favre Leuba Yale Beltone Rockford Winton Pronto Didisheim Crown Golay Haste Timecraft Excelsior Regina Tavannes Eterna Weltall Stowa Monarch Felca Bucherer Coronet Blancpain Cortebert Verno Aramis Audemars Piguet Ofair Imperial Wittnauer Evans Omega Rolex Kelton Hilton Ogival Clebar Glashutte Normandie Arctus Niton Boulevard Exactus Minerva Revue Eberhard Hafis Gallet Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Ball Doxa Sheffield Geneve Rulon Avalon Lyceum Kelbert Ulysse Nardin Kurth Warwick Schultz Lancel Breitling Newmark Rapid Welsbro Tourneau |
Framont Kelek Goering Ebel Driva Americus Universal Zenith Ollendorff Tissot Hydepark Ardath Shield Kingston Moriva Olympia Glycine Hever Audax A. Lange & Sohne Croton Westend Daynite Guinand Patek Philippe Gruen Benrus Mt. Vernon Hayden Agassiz Angelus Juvenia Hermes Ace Acro Arbi Friedli Gubelin Lip Lemania Cawford Provita Louvig Duodial Jaeger Eska LIbela Mimo Cyma Rocail Illinois National Rotary Marlys Kord Sperina Lang Uhr Faith Helvetia Helbros Bueche-Girod Fairfax Harvard Jules Jurgensen Opel Condal Van Cleef & Arpels P. Garnier |
Elgin Dugena Turler Alavente Pabro Berg Mappin Lavina Unitas Orvin Borel Boucheron LePhare Girard-Perregaux Autdrist Frodsham Frey Aristo Hy. Moser & Cie Octo Mars Huguenin Hamilton Seth Thomas Orator Nivada Seeland Cornavin Hampden Arsa Admes Continental Trebex Montbrilliant Emerson Bulova Titus Bovet Semca Baume & Mercier Chopard Olma Alton Enicar Kent Benson Electra South Bend Alpha Henda Butex Corum Breguet Harman Longines Orfina Roamer Zentra Altus Rado P. Buhre Mido LeCoultre Weldon Monte Zodiac Hallmark |
Lucien Piccard Eloga Phillepe Watch Co. Roxy Alsta Rolls J.E. Watch Co. Charles Nicolet Rima Delbana Leonidas Asprey Central Louis Wyler Perpetual Watch Co. Lusina Sigma Vulcain Rembrant Alpina Harwood Ekegren Dunhill Touchon Vacheron Buren Urania Dome International Perfine Grana Wakmann Lorton Nicolet Watch Mar Nicolet Harvel Ultimor Carlton Germinal Standard Movado Baylor Univer WhiteStar Invicta PiagetPreesent Tornex-Rayville Smith Watex Record Certina Tiffany Patria Garland Cartier Concord Levrette Fontainemelon Nicewatch Co. Jardur Wig Wag Parker Hebdomas |
Models of watches that we repair:
Midas Thor Dickens Varsity Adjutant Trent Sentinal Parker B Meadowbrook Wilshire Chesterfield Enditcott Portia Larchmont Seabrook Dyson Orson Radburn Donald Dante Adonis Ardmore Norton Carteret Bianca Kirk Scout President Antique Black Star Attache Dorsey Crispin Sea mate Brent Streamlined Thornton Surf Dodson Taylor Talbot direct read Peyton Veri-thin B.W. Raymond Sea-glo Reardon Curvex Milton Lowell Gilvert Brandon Hayden Valiant Kinematic Kirby Oval Errol Gladstone Aqua Lung Frontenac Sea Breeze Amherst Major Carlisle Richmond Commodore Keane Consul Blackstone Whitford Flight II Livingston Heyward Marshall Precision Sutton Aldrich Powell Edgewater Prentice Whitney Lambert Culver Sidney Brewster Golden Tempus Casino Beldon Gold knight Yeoman Eternamatic Jolly Roger Baton Tempus Foster Courtney Futura Airman Dixon Whitman Murray Pacermatic Golden Tempus II Steeldon Baron Contour Gardner Captain Rice Beau Royal Blade Cross country Aviator |
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