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:
Hampden Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Wichita Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd American Repeating Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Benedict & Burham Lancaster Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. W.E. Harper Appleton watch Co. Luther Goddard Hamilton Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. |
Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Jacob Custer Thomas Harland Trenton Watch do. Bannatyne Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Newark Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Ingersol Nashua Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Auburndale Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. American Waltham Washington Watch Co. George Reed |
Freeport Watch Co. Western Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Cheshire Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Columbus Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt South Bend Watch Co. Waterbury Ball Watch Co. National Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co E.F. Bowman James & Henry Pitkin U.S. Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Nicewatch Co. Urania Van Cleef & Arpels PiagetPreesent Haste Winton Framont Rolls Cyma Glycine Jules Jurgensen Monte Louvig Illinois Glashutte Asprey Lucerne Didisheim Chopard Driva Gubelin Germinal Buren Smith Mappin Minerva Baylor Daynite Ogival Jaeger Kent Cartier Cortebert Guinand Alpina Seth Thomas Louis Condal Central Breguet Breitling Charles Nicolet Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Harvel Titus Weltall Lip Universal Bueche-Girod Friedli Hy. Moser & Cie Harwood Pabro Imperial Alsta Enicar Harvard Huguenin Lusina Turler Invicta Audemars Piguet Hampden Girard-Perregaux Patek Philippe Tissot Regina Doxa |
Lyceum Dugena Rapid Orfina Jardur Helvetia Altus Shield Bucherer Hilton Hafis Eterna Yale Standard Electra Tavannes Tiffany Cawford Aramis Zentra Evans Provita Grana Lucien Piccard Felca Welsbro Geneve Zodiac Arbi P. Garnier Schultz Sperina Faith Angelus Niton Rockford Opel Clebar Emerson Gallet Nivada Bulova Vulcain Hebdomas Kurth Lavina Borel Boucheron Beltone Frey South Bend Gruen Americus Benson Ebel Marlys Parker Certina Ollendorff Longines Garland Stowa Croton Olma Berg Ace Acro Bovet Watex |
Nicolet Watch Rembrant LePhare Ofair Admes Alton Wittnauer Laco Kord Normandie Lorton Exactus Excelsior Westend Montbrilliant Mt. Vernon Octo Monarch Tourneau Harman Corum Mido Lemania Butex Mars Weldon Elgin Orvin Movado Helbros Avalon Rocail Juvenia Roxy Arsa Rado Eska Revue Concord Lang Uhr Perpetual Watch Co. Leonidas Wig Wag J.E. Watch Co. Newmark Mar Nicolet Unitas A. Lange & Sohne Ekegren Hever Verno Orator Fairfax Sheffield Continental Fontainemelon Hamilton Perfine LIbela Mimo Agassiz Alpha Roamer Rima National Levrette |
Sigma Dome Ulysse Nardin Phillepe Watch Co. Audax Benrus Frodsham Coronet Lancel Dunhill Hydepark Seeland International Ball Warwick Delbana Vacheron Tornex-Rayville Hallmark Boulevard Goering Kelek Touchon Hermes Kelbert Blancpain Baume & Mercier Kelton Eberhard Duodial Arctus Henda Wakmann Crown Hayden Semca Eloga Ardath Zenith Alavente Pronto Moriva Univer Trebex Patria Rulon Timecraft Omega Rotary Cornavin Carlton Favre Leuba Olympia Wyler Rolex P. Buhre Kingston Ultimor WhiteStar Autdrist Golay Aristo Record LeCoultre |
Models of watches that we repair:
Warwick Ashley ipso-vox Sentinal Curvex Heyward Brooke Benton Dyson Keith Taylor Turner Dunhan Tyron Vardon Touraine Senator Briarcliffe Whitehall Valiant Tildon Norman Essex Sloane Lester Casino Lee Chapman Grover Cordell Commodore Tuxedo Sea guard Scout Pimlico Holden Norman Lyle B Scott Pinehurst Oakley Sidney Grenadier Eternamatic Carlisle Lambert Wesleyan Austin Blade Lance Sea Hawk Sinclair Sea Breeze Edgemere Cadet Flight I Black Star Oxford Milburn Judson Windsor Raleigh Dodson Livingston Tempus Commander Newlin Brock First Mate Minu-stop Viscount Major Morley Airflight Russell Perry Paxton Hastings Bradford Reagan Sea Rover Culver Clearview Glendale Montclair Beau Royal Chadwick Rodney Arlington Brent Errol Todd Portia Norton Baronet Beau Brummel Milton Whitman Mason Larchmont Ericsson Emerson Trent Edgewood Boone Yorktown Pierre Diamond Halesworth B Cyril Chieftan Romanesquen Ross Chesterfield Flint Ridge |
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