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:
J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Ingersol Jacob Custer W.E. Harper Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham B.D. Bingham E.F. Bowman Rock Island Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Western Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Luther Goddard Hamilton Watch Co. Thomas Harland Bannatyne Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. |
Melrose Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Hampden Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Benedict & Burham James & Henry Pitkin Charles Fasoltd Columbus Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. George Reed New England Watch Co., Washington Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. |
E. Howard and Co. Freeport Watch Co. National Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Herman Vod der Heydt Independent Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Waterbury D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Ball Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Watch Co. Adams & Perry 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:
Imperial Breguet Baume & Mercier Smith Orvin Elgin Certina Rulon Rado Louis Pabro Haste Favre Leuba Monarch Goering Hayden Hy. Moser & Cie Seeland Dugena Rembrant Charles Nicolet P. Buhre Helvetia Geneve Montbrilliant Ogival Helbros Lyceum Aristo Westend Lavina Garland Laco Harvard Olma Gallet Tissot Lorton Corum Ulysse Nardin Lang Uhr South Bend Eloga Hampden Turler Jaeger Rolex Patria Ofair Urania Univer Mar Nicolet Perfine Invicta Sigma Duodial Stowa Warwick LIbela Continental Sperina Ardath Lemania Nivada P. Garnier Alton Weldon Eberhard |
Mappin PiagetPreesent Alsta Cornavin Ace Acro Gruen Minerva Rotary Lucerne Excelsior Cortebert Boulevard Driva Jules Jurgensen Buren National Kingston Grana Semca International Ultimor Mido Alpha Rockford Juvenia Framont Marlys Phillepe Watch Co. LeCoultre Friedli Van Cleef & Arpels Crown Arbi Tavannes Dunhill Breitling Kelbert Arctus Bulova Schultz Jardur Beltone Ball Opel Louvig A. Lange & Sohne Patek Philippe Alpina Vacheron Regina Blancpain Zodiac Kelton WhiteStar Baylor Harvel Evans Verno Winton Daynite Hydepark Standard Roxy Admes Trebex Ebel Glycine |
Carlton Timecraft Universal Revue Didisheim Mt. Vernon Bucherer Benson Henda Rocail Monte Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Americus Newmark Unitas Kurth Frey Dome Cartier Avalon Faith Levrette Longines Aramis Wakmann Fontainemelon Shield Germinal Leonidas Moriva Hebdomas Tiffany J.E. Watch Co. Bovet Titus Hermes Lip Harman Record Nicewatch Co. Eterna Perpetual Watch Co. Girard-Perregaux Octo Audax Seth Thomas Fairfax Touchon Rapid Agassiz Emerson Audemars Piguet Golay Sheffield Altus LePhare Enicar Butex Zentra Lancel Delbana Tourneau Asprey Condal Yale Guinand |
Gubelin Lucien Piccard Provita Kent Doxa Watex Bueche-Girod Glashutte Nicolet Watch Frodsham Benrus Eska Kelek Mars Hamilton Ekegren Parker Concord Borel Boucheron Wig Wag Angelus Alavente Berg Arsa Hafis Omega Croton Niton Tornex-Rayville Electra Olympia Vulcain Welsbro Illinois Cyma Coronet Clebar Hallmark Exactus Orfina Weltall Wyler Ollendorff Cawford Central Movado Harwood Hever Wittnauer Pronto Mimo Rolls Normandie Hilton Chopard Orator Felca Huguenin Roamer Lusina Rima Kord Zenith Autdrist |
Models of watches that we repair:
Rutgers Ryan Raymon Ristflo Murray Transcontinental A B Kenilworth Gallahad Ward Rolland Fischer Mate Lone Eagle Turner Pacermatic Howard Newton Robert Roberta Thinline Arlington Accumatic Garfield Sherwood Aviator Parker B Clark Adrian Dexter dunkirk Norman Edgewater The Athelete Colby Baton Trent Frontenac Varsity Fulton Scott Raleigh Radburn Piping Rock Peyton Chatham Eaton Sea-cap Sheryll Lyle B Chronomatic top hat Airman Wayne Dennis Dewitt Futura Whitney B.W. Raymond Allison Berkshire Spencer Dorsey Vernon Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Myron Russell Bianca Grenadier Top Gun Blair Coburn Majesty Black Star Whitehall First Mate Bailey Cordell Adonis Spencer Gyromatic Gladstone Senator The Governor Chapman Sentinal Prentice Stanford Livingston Yeoman Croydon Hastings Sea mate Newlin Stuart Pierre Citadel Chanticleer Brockton Mason Amherst Lowell Milton Glenn Curtis Powell Sinclair Consul Viking Beau Royal Fleetwood Jeffrey Carlisle Richmond Carlton Huntley Gramercy |
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