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:
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Jacob Custer Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Benedict & Burham Thomas Harland E. Howard and Co. Aurora Watch Co. Waterbury George Reed Rockford Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Lancaster Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Hamilton Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Ingersol |
New England Watch Co., U.S. Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt E.F. Bowman American Waltham Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. National Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. B.D. Bingham W.E. Harper Auburndale Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Columbus Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Ball Watch Co. |
American Waltham Seth Thomas Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Luther Goddard Adams & Perry Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Wichita Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. 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:
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Stowa Geneve Friedli Wyler Urania Lemania Chopard Harman Gallet Rockford Alavente Roamer Bueche-Girod Continental Hayden Semca Frodsham Cortebert Ultimor Baylor Frey Mimo Watex Cornavin Doxa Kelton Leonidas Butex Touchon Kingston Boulevard Hebdomas Goering WhiteStar Ekegren Regina Longines Huguenin Sheffield Ball Avalon Seeland Lucien Piccard Nivada Fontainemelon Guinand Parker Hafis Eska Alpina Louis Monarch Admes Juvenia Rulon Garland Trebex Jules Jurgensen Invicta Favre Leuba Verno Audemars Piguet Orator Nicolet Watch Vulcain Orfina Ulysse Nardin Tiffany |
Baume & Mercier Opel Univer Zodiac Orvin Standard Ofair Framont Henda Lorton Provita Glycine Breitling Wig Wag Perfine Moriva Electra Levrette Dunhill Tornex-Rayville Mappin Gruen Lucerne Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Rapid Girard-Perregaux Newmark Evans Patria Zentra Yale Cyma Alsta Berg Cartier Buren Arctus Germinal Turler Ollendorff Agassiz Jaeger Rolls LePhare Hampden Cawford Bucherer Zenith Niton Jardur Angelus PiagetPreesent Louvig P. Garnier Elgin Duodial Americus Sperina Mar Nicolet Benrus Wittnauer LIbela Driva Seth Thomas Movado Helbros A. Lange & Sohne |
Normandie Arsa Kelek Fairfax Charles Nicolet Van Cleef & Arpels Olma Kord Patek Philippe Wakmann Hermes Timecraft Autdrist Eterna Felca Ebel Eloga Hy. Moser & Cie Alton Enicar Asprey Dugena Hilton Mars Exactus Vacheron Rado P. Buhre Hamilton Pronto Schultz Faith Condal Rotary Imperial Shield Blancpain Tourneau Grana Breguet Didisheim Lip Monte South Bend Lyceum Corum Kent Olympia Emerson Concord Dome Delbana Ogival Alpha Daynite Lavina Mt. Vernon Helvetia International Phillepe Watch Co. Borel Boucheron Kurth Rembrant Warwick Arbi Eberhard |
Excelsior Harvel Omega Lang Uhr Illinois Crown Ardath Roxy Sigma Harwood Titus Certina Tissot Record Carlton Ace Acro Gubelin Audax Altus Montbrilliant Bovet Weltall Bulova J.E. Watch Co. Glashutte Rocail Westend Minerva Hydepark Winton Lancel Hever Rolex Universal Golay Croton Perpetual Watch Co. Pabro Lusina Weldon Harvard Unitas Smith Beltone Rima Clebar Welsbro Marlys Aramis National Aristo Nicewatch Co. Mido Octo Kelbert LeCoultre Tavannes Laco Haste Benson Hallmark Central Coronet Revue |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Lance Piccadilly Bostonian Jeffrey Otis Norman Edgemere Stadium Sea Scout Sea Skip Keith Gary Lakehurst Gardner Peyton Champion Baton Thinline Paige Winthrop Radburn Courier Guardsman Meadowbrook Amherst Greenwich Blade Gilvert Sawyer Thin-o-matic Masterpiece The Athelete Langley Linwood Seville Sheldon Maxine Vincent B.W. Raymond Consul Newlin Kenilworth Gallahad Lord Lancaster Lambert Black knight Flint Ridge Eternamatic New Yorker Crusade Ardmore Monaco Croydon Norfolk Avigo Seaview Attache Norton stanley The Chief's Wakefield Rutgers Oakmont Jolly Roger Whitford Aldrich Cranston Andover Paxton Longacre Flight II Futura Conway Fleetwood Dennis Clinton Sea-crest Glendon Arlington Raymon Deauville Grover Kinematic Kirby Bailey Derby Adjutant Gulfport Tildon Dodson Rolland Fischer Sentinal Oakley Aviator Carlton Barry Chatham Holden Wilshire Jason Nelson Secron Andrews Bowman Dartmouth Donavan Annapolis Malcom Whitney Webster Reardon Prentice Lincrest Streamlined Vernon Commander |
Hastings Chieftan Colby Crispin Ristflo Pimlico Bianca Contour Cyril Lyndon Boulton Alan Baronet Beau Brummel President Antique Brockton Ramsey Cavalier Trooper Kensignton Byrd Cameron Cambridge Flight I Nightingale Lee Austin Aqualine Dwight Raleigh Scout Ardsley Curvex Ensign Gilman Wilkinson Dorsey Lyle B Sheryll Sir Echo Chadwick Enditcott Essex Collegian Bagley Chanticleer Sea mate Mayfield Romanesquen Ross Yorktown Sea-glo Senator Aqua Lung Merritt Blackstone Dawson Portia Black Star Berkshire Secometer Sedgman Tyron Vardon Mount Vernon Dyson Spencer Majesty Barton Dexter Cullen Sea Scape Dixon Turner Blair Oval Precision First Mate Sea guard Langdon Dewitt Airflight Glendale Brooke Montclair Piping Rock Ryan Murray Golden Tempus Harris Courtney Linden Hall Ashley Wellington Sea Breeze Franklion Myron Maritza Gordon Marquis strap Chatham Mate Carlisle Drake Culver Calvin Ansley Khyber Sherwood Ascot Chapman Prescott Wilson Bradford |
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