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:
Peoria Watch co Otay Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. New York Watch Co. Luther Goddard W.E. Harper Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Lancaster Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Waterbury South Bend Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. American Waltham Hamilton Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. |
E.F. Bowman Benedict & Burham Appleton watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Aurora Watch Co. George Reed Herman Vod der Heydt Bannatyne Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Western Watch Co. Jacob Custer Hampden Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Ingersol Ball Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd B.D. Bingham |
American Waltham Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham South Bend Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. National Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Mosart Watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S. 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:
Smith Wyler Bovet Hilton Ace Acro Invicta Excelsior Berg Octo Guinand Cortebert Jaeger Vacheron Hy. Moser & Cie Kelton Phillepe Watch Co. Agassiz Juvenia Orvin Driva Dome Lyceum Breguet Americus Blancpain Mt. Vernon Rapid Bucherer Elgin Parker Coronet Semca Rocail Avalon LePhare Lemania Zenith Autdrist Geneve Newmark Duodial Turler Aramis Stowa Van Cleef & Arpels Urania Mars Mar Nicolet South Bend Delbana Felca Lucerne Electra Friedli Wakmann Corum Cawford Warwick Eberhard Gubelin Kord Orator Altus Alpha Roxy Trebex Baylor Marlys |
WhiteStar Central Laco Ebel Unitas Certina Concord Nicewatch Co. Pabro Lorton Hamilton Enicar Sperina Audemars Piguet Glycine Niton Rembrant Helvetia Harman Croton Perpetual Watch Co. Clebar Revue Monarch Crown Ekegren Weltall Shield Hebdomas Gruen Baume & Mercier Orfina Ultimor Tornex-Rayville Olympia Rotary Carlton Eterna Daynite Breitling Fairfax Hallmark Dugena Patria Hayden Doxa Alsta Zentra Lang Uhr Jardur Girard-Perregaux Kurth Timecraft PiagetPreesent Golay P. Garnier Mimo Hever Cyma Rulon Montbrilliant Rado Huguenin Glashutte Moriva Minerva Tavannes |
Arctus P. Buhre Angelus Rima Lucien Piccard Schultz Ollendorff Monte Haste Touchon Garland Vulcain Weldon Verno Lancel Longines Kelbert Audax Watex Yale Buren Olma Winton Welsbro Ball Goering Hydepark Aristo Wig Wag Mappin LIbela Ofair Harwood Leonidas Ardath Butex Alton Gallet Nivada Seth Thomas Imperial Exactus Alpina Rolex Nicolet Watch Arsa Faith Zodiac Hafis Arbi Illinois Evans A. Lange & Sohne Favre Leuba Universal Louvig Patek Philippe Frey Ulysse Nardin Tissot Kingston Asprey Rockford Jules Jurgensen Kelek Benrus |
Alavente Didisheim Regina Borel Boucheron Boulevard Roamer Lip Levrette Lusina Lavina Provita Normandie LeCoultre Rolls Continental Harvel Perfine Hermes J.E. Watch Co. Record Kent Univer Benson Framont Hampden Condal Harvard Cornavin Tiffany Emerson National Omega Ogival Charles Nicolet Germinal Louis Opel Sigma Standard Westend Cartier Bueche-Girod Dunhill Pronto Titus Helbros Movado International Bulova Henda Mido Eska Fontainemelon Wittnauer Eloga Admes Seeland Chopard Grana Tourneau Sheffield Frodsham Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Beltone |
Models of watches that we repair:
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