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:
Appleton watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Benedict & Burham Peoria Watch co Cheshire Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Waterbury Aurora Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Ball Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Seth Thomas Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. |
U.S Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. National Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin E.F. Bowman Western Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Thomas Harland Charles Fasoltd Illinois Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. American Waltham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Independent Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. |
Wichita Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. New England Watch Co., Columbus Watch Co. B.D. Bingham W.E. Harper Cornell Watch Co Ingersol New York Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. George Reed Freeport Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Central Ultimor Invicta Marlys Arbi Kurth Mars Van Cleef & Arpels Huguenin Stowa Monarch Kelton Duodial Regina Condal Lusina Charles Nicolet Harwood Hy. Moser & Cie Ollendorff Helbros Angelus Blancpain Wig Wag Hamilton Alavente Admes Wyler Orator Frodsham Daynite Cornavin Rembrant Beltone Perfine Chopard Lyceum Mido Rima Borel Boucheron Niton Warwick Wittnauer Sheffield Mimo Tornex-Rayville Hilton National Hermes Crown Eloga Lemania Arsa Evans Rulon Aramis Urania Rado Tavannes Turler Welsbro Laco WhiteStar Jules Jurgensen Titus Golay Germinal Dugena |
Electra Friedli Provita Gallet A. Lange & Sohne Parker Winton Illinois Ace Acro Mar Nicolet Trebex Concord Phillepe Watch Co. Eberhard Zodiac Bovet Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Framont Wakmann Zentra Benson Certina Patek Philippe Lucerne Glashutte Alton J.E. Watch Co. Pabro Girard-Perregaux LePhare Rolex Lancel International Lucien Piccard Seeland Kingston Bulova Weldon Boulevard Haste Dome Olympia Ball Normandie Semca Sperina Coronet Hayden Ulysse Nardin Revue Asprey Louvig Universal Gruen Leonidas Eska Orfina Rapid Excelsior Felca Timecraft Rolls Opel Patria Lip Vacheron Berg |
Carlton Nivada Alpha Sigma Buren Weltall Ebel Lang Uhr Faith Ekegren Alpina Montbrilliant Rocail Zenith Baume & Mercier Fontainemelon Hampden Nicewatch Co. Avalon Omega Hafis Yale Vulcain Guinand Tourneau Kelek Americus Touchon Fairfax Minerva Ogival Unitas Emerson Dunhill Butex LIbela Seth Thomas Rockford Glycine Cortebert Hever Bueche-Girod Tiffany Frey Favre Leuba Cartier Exactus Levrette Lorton South Bend Autdrist Watex Bucherer Corum Kelbert Henda Audax Rotary Monte Arctus Longines Pronto P. Garnier Imperial Baylor Eterna |
Enicar Altus PiagetPreesent Mt. Vernon Gubelin Helvetia Audemars Piguet Elgin Shield Ardath Hebdomas Movado Lavina Hydepark Harvel Standard Record Alsta Tissot Jardur Geneve LeCoultre Olma Cawford Agassiz Continental Driva Moriva Juvenia Harman Mappin Ofair Kent Louis Orvin Roxy Delbana Perpetual Watch Co. Schultz Breguet Cyma Aristo Grana Roamer Verno Smith Doxa Harvard Goering Hallmark Clebar Newmark Westend Octo Nicolet Watch P. Buhre Benrus Univer Breitling Jaeger Kord Croton Didisheim Garland |
Models of watches that we repair:
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