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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Illinois Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Seth Thomas Watch do. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. George Reed American Waltham Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. James & Henry Pitkin Trenton Watch do. Newark Watch Co. National Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Appleton watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd New England Watch Co., Appleton, Tracy & Co. |
Manhatten Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. W.E. Harper Boston Watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Jacob Custer Melrose Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Ingersol Mosart Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. |
Benedict & Burham Peoria Watch co Hampden Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. B.D. Bingham New York Watch Co. Luther Goddard Nashua Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt E. Howard and Co. E.F. Bowman Waterbury American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Freeport 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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Louis Winton Lorton Rima LePhare Bulova Invicta Electra Vulcain Universal Audemars Piguet Pabro Rulon Record Duodial Newmark Chopard Weldon Movado Framont Gubelin Corum Dugena Frodsham Glashutte Blancpain Americus Harman Germinal Monte LIbela Bueche-Girod Baume & Mercier J.E. Watch Co. Nicewatch Co. Admes Provita Cornavin Weltall Hampden Jules Jurgensen Nivada Buren Montbrilliant Zodiac Alavente P. Buhre Croton Avalon Roamer Alpina Central Levrette Arbi Rembrant Favre Leuba Warwick Tiffany Faith Kelek Friedli Cartier Kurth Helvetia Bucherer Alsta Schultz Wakmann |
Mar Nicolet Semca Patek Philippe Trebex Lemania Angelus South Bend Orator Smith Tavannes Emerson Goering P. Garnier Doxa Sperina Timecraft Geneve Kelton Dunhill Lang Uhr Girard-Perregaux Felca Eloga Shield Patria Ollendorff Autdrist Hy. Moser & Cie Sigma Dome Rotary Lucien Piccard Watex Pronto Butex Louvig Lyceum Urania Concord Jardur Normandie Univer Eska Sheffield Ulysse Nardin Haste Roxy Marlys Longines Tourneau Olma Boulevard Guinand Zentra Borel Boucheron Mt. Vernon Imperial Elgin Leonidas Phillepe Watch Co. Ebel International Ardath Arctus Altus Helbros Opel |
Wittnauer Gruen Mappin Mido Rolex Mimo Regina Baylor Evans Harvard Ultimor Jaeger Rocail Ogival Stowa Continental Breitling Yale Frey Cawford Parker LeCoultre Kelbert Mars Rolls Coronet Fairfax Condal Perfine Kingston Titus Grana Beltone Alpha Lusina Berg Hydepark Driva Perpetual Watch Co. Aramis Didisheim Verno Nicolet Watch Harvel Huguenin Gallet Lip Golay Benson Excelsior PiagetPreesent Hayden Eterna Touchon Certina Tissot WhiteStar Bovet Cortebert Monarch Audax Cyma National Daynite Rado Rockford |
Asprey Wyler Moriva Hebdomas Seeland Tornex-Rayville Lancel Aristo Carlton Kent Olympia Ofair Minerva Seth Thomas Lucerne Zenith Hallmark Hever Rapid Wig Wag Eberhard Kord Fontainemelon Enicar Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Standard Ace Acro A. Lange & Sohne Omega Westend Arsa Octo Hilton Unitas Orfina Glycine Hermes Delbana Van Cleef & Arpels Illinois Hamilton Clebar Breguet Orvin Garland Agassiz Revue Exactus Turler Niton Benrus Alton Ball Ekegren Crown Hafis Lavina Juvenia Henda Charles Nicolet Welsbro Vacheron Harwood Laco |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Windsor Arnold ipso-vox Sheryll Dorsey Curtis Stuart Todd Jason Molly Stark Heyward Lester Langford Ambassador Sea mate The Chief's B.W. Raymond Bostonian Hartman Lincrest Lambert Carl Robert Roberta Windsor Judson Piping Rock First Mate Steeldon Norman Chatham Prentice Finalist Prescott Sea guard Fleetwood Elliot Emery Ryan Scott Merritt Dwight Glendon Benton Amherst Medford Gramercy Senator Lord Lancaster Minu-stop Dawson Cross country Grafic Deluxe Larchmont Carlisle Hastings Brewster Edgewater Barbizon Golden Tempus Guardsman Eternamatic Surf Golden Tempus II Airflight Black Star Coburn Curvex Vincent Livingston Byrd Clark Tiger & Lady Adrian Martin Linden Hall Medalist Wembley Guardsman Chieftan Flint Ridge Andrews Montclair Whitman The Athelete Rolland Fischer Sea Scout Sea Skip Berkshire Meadowbrook Haddon Wesleyan Edgemere Sea Hawk Thinline Flight I Monaco Harris Lee Jeffrey Seville Sheldon Foster Orson Top Time Mate Tuxedo Gyromatic Bentley Grover Thor Quadron watson Spencer Chadwick Stanford |
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