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:
Mosart Watch Co. Waterbury Illinois Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. W.E. Harper Benedict & Burham Western Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. George Reed Cornell Watch Co South Bend Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. |
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin New York Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Trenton Watch do. Hampden Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. American Waltham Nashua Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Adams & Perry Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Bannatyne Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Fitchburg Watch bo. Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. |
Jacob Custer Hamilton Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Luther Goddard Independent Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Cheshire Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Ingersol Thomas Harland Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Charles Fasoltd National 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:
Haste Ebel Westend Mimo Ball Nicewatch Co. Berg Admes Tiffany Hallmark Montbrilliant Aristo Timecraft Cortebert Perpetual Watch Co. Eterna Universal Borel Boucheron Shield Schultz Lyceum Rocail Lavina Levrette Lucerne Zentra Smith Breguet Benrus Weldon Unitas Audemars Piguet Phillepe Watch Co. Moriva Olma Dugena Guinand Warwick Didisheim Doxa Evans Longines Americus Wig Wag Watex International Tavannes Arsa Zenith Pabro Titus Harvard Hafis Nivada Coronet Zodiac Alpha Benson Sheffield Cartier Harwood Touchon Minerva Driva Hilton Marlys Imperial Ultimor |
Carlton Octo Hamilton Roxy Aramis Monarch Emerson P. Buhre Hampden Revue Continental Rotary Kelton Leonidas Turler Autdrist Kingston Lang Uhr Altus Garland Ogival Corum Buren Ofair Glycine Tornex-Rayville Breitling Nicolet Watch Mar Nicolet Gallet Certina Olympia Cornavin Rapid Verno Van Cleef & Arpels Welsbro Frey Orvin Sigma Bulova Weltall Germinal Mappin Alton Seth Thomas J.E. Watch Co. Girard-Perregaux Ace Acro Patek Philippe Orator Mt. Vernon Croton Bucherer Baylor Audax Chopard Concord Condal Angelus Louvig Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Rockford Alsta Lusina LePhare Butex |
Lancel Arctus Patria Clebar Hydepark Jules Jurgensen Dome Crown Rolls Newmark Opel Jaeger Provita Hayden Wakmann Cyma Semca Gubelin Rulon Wittnauer PiagetPreesent Beltone Alpina Fontainemelon Omega Lucien Piccard Jardur Helbros LeCoultre Parker Juvenia Central Goering Rima Harman Grana Hebdomas Felca Wyler Eska Record Lorton Kelbert Trebex Invicta Duodial Ulysse Nardin Vacheron Arbi Friedli Cawford Dunhill Niton Winton Favre Leuba Ekegren Stowa Ollendorff Henda Golay Perfine Fairfax Yale Orfina Regina Gruen |
Kent A. Lange & Sohne Ardath Univer Mido Baume & Mercier Normandie Geneve Kord WhiteStar Harvel Tourneau Tissot Bueche-Girod Alavente Glashutte Hever Eloga Standard Faith Excelsior Electra Laco Eberhard Urania Lip Rembrant Hermes Agassiz Charles Nicolet South Bend Seeland Daynite Kurth National Elgin Exactus Asprey Roamer LIbela Movado Mars Avalon Bovet Framont Sperina P. Garnier Kelek Illinois Louis Blancpain Hy. Moser & Cie Enicar Vulcain Rolex Frodsham Delbana Pronto Rado Huguenin Helvetia Lemania Boulevard Monte |
Models of watches that we repair:
Sky Chief Medford Derby Secometer Sedgman Commodore Ashley Longacre Hudson Dixon Sea Scape Webster Carlyle Seaview Sea Scout Sea Skip Brockton Langley Brent Reagan Ensign Argyle Steeldon Barbizon Clark Thincraft Major Airman Prescott Brooke Stormking The Athelete Otis Myron Sentinal Dewitt Cabot Conway Beau Royal Fleetwood Arnold Halesworth B Sea Hawk Milton Farrell Blair Carl Morton Orson Russell B.W. Raymond Langford Ericsson Emerson Trent Cordell Stuart Warwick Huntley Sea-cap Morley Sea Ranger Top Gun Ryan Raleigh Bagley Spur Keith The Chief's Eternamatic Foster Robert Roberta Monaco Ramsey Kevin Todd Winthrop Bentley Barton West Point Bailey Cranston Lyndon Captain Rice Carlton Brandon Edgemere Golden Tempus II Portia Wilkinson Tiger & Lady Malcom Blackstone Contour Baxter Kensignton Cadet Courtney Oakley Linden Hall Quadron Grant Gladstone Alan Veri-thin Kinematic Kirby Piccadilly Adrian Fulton Hartman Vernon Dexter Baronet Beau Brummel Taylor |
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Milburn The Governor Putnam Drexel Streamlined Perry Newton Commander Raymon Thinline Gold knight Minu-stop Ascot Sir Echo Lord Lancaster Vernon Secron Cedercrest Chevy Chase Black knight Prentice Coronado Randolph Kenilworth Gallahad Norman Cyril Staunton Dunhan Donald Majesty Haddon Ristflo Attache Dartmouth Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Sheryll Rodney Medalist Wembley Senator Clinton Trooper Grenadier Black Star Yeoman Mount Vernon Barry Bostonian Heyward Boulton Austin Cedric Trudy Spur Harris Midas Dawson New Yorker Chronomatic top hat Neil Flint Ridge Frontenac Hayden Champion Chieftan Khyber Larchmont Landon Piping Rock Rolland Fischer stanley Maxine Langdon Ansley Allison Darrell Meadowbrook Andrews Culver Franklion Bryn Mawr Gardner Spencer Chesterfield Lance Yorktown Custer Accumatic Benton Colby Craig Chadwick Gilvert Brewster Wilson Chief Courier Oval Bowman Guardsman Lindsay William Osler Elliot Emery Sea Cliff Powell Tyron Vardon Gilman Radburn ipso-vox Boyd Drake Whitney Glenn Curtis |
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