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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Waterbury Manhatten Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Melrose Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Benedict & Burham Nashua Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Rockford Watch Co. George Reed New York Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Thomas Harland Charles Fasoltd |
J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. U.S Watch Co. National Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Herman Vod der Heydt Seth Thomas Watch do. Luther Goddard Aurora Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Wichita Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. |
W.E. Harper D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Independent Watch Co. American Waltham Lancaster Watch Co. Jacob Custer Appleton watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Otay Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Ingersol U.S. Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Repeating 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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Rotary Provita Parker Daynite Lang Uhr Rockford Aristo Watex Mappin Alavente Newmark Rulon Friedli Perpetual Watch Co. Welsbro Condal Nicolet Watch Cyma Yale Harvard Central Helbros Roxy Hallmark Boulevard Trebex Henda Lavina Admes Mido National Universal Normandie Continental Cartier Croton Winton Longines Haste Golay Turler Angelus Sigma Evans Imperial Lyceum Alsta Hilton Americus Minerva Baume & Mercier Lucerne PiagetPreesent Fontainemelon Regina Rima Monarch Goering Butex A. Lange & Sohne Gallet Rolex Grana Garland Perfine Record Dunhill Cornavin |
Kingston Berg Concord Gruen Ace Acro Duodial Nicewatch Co. Westend Eska Louvig Orator Elgin Van Cleef & Arpels Ardath Kent Jardur Rapid Frey Hayden Omega Buren Electra Harwood Fairfax Levrette Geneve Orfina Germinal Hermes Asprey Corum Harvel Bovet LeCoultre Certina Eloga Tissot Breguet Alpha Mt. Vernon Kurth Altus Tourneau Exactus Benson Eterna Autdrist Lancel Standard Beltone Dome Juvenia Ollendorff LIbela Clebar Verno Jaeger Mars Borel Boucheron Movado Huguenin Alpina Coronet Zentra Hy. Moser & Cie Arsa Leonidas |
Eberhard Emerson Kelek Guinand Bueche-Girod Touchon Ulysse Nardin Orvin Montbrilliant Laco Glashutte Phillepe Watch Co. Doxa Hydepark Hever Felca Agassiz Avalon Arbi Schultz Univer Louis P. Garnier Aramis Charles Nicolet Warwick Gubelin Favre Leuba J.E. Watch Co. Audemars Piguet Bulova Enicar Glycine Invicta Kelbert Lucien Piccard Pabro Timecraft Hafis South Bend Sperina Weltall Alton Wyler Wig Wag Driva Kord Girard-Perregaux Weldon Framont Tavannes Octo Kelton Hamilton Carlton Rolls Breitling Audax Illinois Ebel Mimo International Faith Ball Vulcain Semca |
Cawford Vacheron Seth Thomas Wittnauer Crown Lip Olympia Lusina Shield Tiffany Ekegren Mar Nicolet Smith Rocail Niton Lorton Patek Philippe Helvetia Rembrant Cortebert Stowa Sheffield Roamer Patria Wakmann Arctus Seeland Opel Ogival WhiteStar Delbana Urania Tornex-Rayville Bucherer Monte Moriva Hampden Dugena Rado Ofair Jules Jurgensen Ultimor Nivada Pronto Baylor Marlys Zenith Uhrenfabrik Glashutte P. Buhre Unitas Excelsior Chopard Zodiac Revue Olma Didisheim Titus Hebdomas Harman Blancpain Benrus Lemania Frodsham LePhare |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Varsity Trudy Spur Arlington Hawthorne Norfolk Morley Vincent Samson Merritt Caroline Webster Maxine Dixon Neil Jeffrey Spur Surf Seaview Benton Minu-stop Wilkinson Oval Drummond Grafic Deluxe Carlton Mason Chief Ascot Guardsman Lee Wilshire Gramercy Wellington Diamond Yorktown Gulfport Chesterfield Prescott Gold knight Sawyer Taylor Beldon Bartley Gyromatic Ensign Sir Echo Whitman Eric Boatswain Raleigh Aviator Carl Citadel Gilvert Transcontinental A B Staunton Ardsley Myron Trooper Calvin Touraine Paxton Sky Chief Cambridge Edgewater Hudson Thor Lance Wilson Sea-glo Spencer Kevin Oxford Sea Breeze Ward William Osler Paige Flight I Adjutant Maritza Newton Dunhan Bradford ipso-vox Tempus Bentley Norde Cedric Lindsay Whitehall Clyde Chatham Talbot Thinline Aqua Lung Sea mate Reagan Flint Ridge Elliot Emery Dorsey Cross country Chadwick Thornton First Mate Eaton Holden West Point Perry Russell Kirk Seville Sheldon Boone |
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