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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U.S Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Manhatten Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. National Watch Co. George Reed Seth Thomas Watch do. American Repeating Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Aurora Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. B.D. Bingham New York Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Appleton watch Co. Waterbury Boston Watch Co. |
Charles Fasoltd Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Illinois Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Luther Goddard U.S. Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Jacob Custer Auburndale Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Otay Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co American Waltham Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Warren Manufacturing Co. Wichita Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. |
Benedict & Burham Mosart Watch Co. Ingersol Adams & Perry Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. American Waltham Rock Island Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Washington Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Western Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Thomas Harland W.E. Harper Nashua 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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Nicolet Watch Ogival Ball Fontainemelon Blancpain Helbros Perfine Americus Helvetia Welsbro Dome Eterna PiagetPreesent Semca Chopard Imperial Schultz Jaeger Rotary Glycine Beltone Standard Hallmark Regina Niton Boulevard Stowa Lavina Autdrist LeCoultre Buren Yale Louis Cartier Tiffany Arctus Juvenia Croton South Bend Sperina Audemars Piguet Lucerne Arbi Gruen Felca Coronet Crown Breguet Zenith Hampden Orator Jules Jurgensen Carlton Trebex Weldon Zodiac Condal Huguenin Alavente Lusina Orvin Mappin Exactus Harvel Zentra Mido Ardath Touchon |
Hermes Garland Ekegren Germinal Lorton Corum Rado Record Roamer Breitling Angelus Titus Central Kelek Lip Faith Omega Nicewatch Co. Marlys Wyler Emerson Asprey Longines Baylor Newmark Kelton Wig Wag Geneve Tissot LIbela Warwick Butex Admes Alsta Excelsior Tornex-Rayville Seth Thomas Ulysse Nardin Cyma Moriva Wakmann Normandie Ace Acro Haste Phillepe Watch Co. Orfina Kord Hy. Moser & Cie Agassiz Alpha Unitas Lancel Urania WhiteStar Jardur Certina Seeland Daynite Baume & Mercier Favre Leuba Bueche-Girod Rocail Bovet Levrette Tavannes Van Cleef & Arpels Doxa |
Hilton Cornavin Monarch Lucien Piccard Lemania Provita Mt. Vernon Monte Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Grana Kingston Invicta A. Lange & Sohne Bucherer Roxy Rembrant Mars Sheffield Avalon Didisheim Winton Harwood Illinois Westend Frey Rima Driva Patek Philippe Gubelin Enicar Audax Evans Dunhill Frodsham Ofair Laco Leonidas Concord Altus P. Buhre Electra Wittnauer Hamilton Henda Rulon Guinand Lang Uhr National Charles Nicolet Octo Olma Kent Framont Alpina Ebel Turler Harman Sigma Nivada Universal International Glashutte Aristo P. Garnier Girard-Perregaux Clebar |
Hayden Rockford Harvard Kelbert Goering Hafis Olympia Hydepark Vacheron Montbrilliant Cortebert Movado Mar Nicolet Friedli Fairfax Univer Ultimor J.E. Watch Co. Continental Vulcain Verno Kurth Smith Patria Ollendorff Parker Arsa Rolls Watex Hever Benrus Eloga Timecraft Lyceum Borel Boucheron Cawford LePhare Perpetual Watch Co. Revue Rapid Shield Aramis Hebdomas Opel Duodial Elgin Tourneau Bulova Berg Eberhard Benson Gallet Pronto Eska Pabro Golay Delbana Mimo Minerva Dugena Alton Rolex Louvig Weltall |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Ward Sheryll Raleigh Monaco Neil Martin Newlin Centurion Sea-cap Carlyle Orson Caroline Thor Norton Stanford Gilvert Barry Holden Chief Kenilworth Gallahad Landon Hayden Norfolk Rutledge Consul Huntley Richmond ipso-vox Citadel Diamond Baronet Beau Brummel Tildon Kinematic Heyward Amherst Beldon Trent Dwight Airman Drexel Stafford Milburn Edgewood Lawrence Finalist Aqualine Trooper Wayne Pacermatic New Yorker Kinematic Kirby Attache Carson Ashley Chatham Putnam Golden Tempus Pimlico Darrell Frontenac Tempus Livingston Jolly Roger Cranston Curvex Sherwood Minu-stop Tyron Vardon Sloane Wilkinson Brock Transcontinental A B Senator Wakefield Barton Courier Cambridge Gramercy Langley Lyle B Drew Bradford Garfield Russell Adjutant Nightingale Hudson Carteret Futura Major Langford Sea Ranger Robert Roberta Boulton Gilman Vernon Stadium Marshall Oakmont Brooke Wilson Cavalier Aqua Lung Dexter Whitehall Chanticleer B.W. Raymond Top Time Greenwich West Point Essex |
Peyton Bryn Mawr Radburn Boyd Berkshire Avigo Craig Commander Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Black Star Sawyer Chronomatic top hat Paige Majesty Romanesquen Ross Colby Foster Captain Rice President Antique Oakley Dante Clark Lone Eagle Sea Cliff Cordell Cabot The Chief's Steeldon Lyndon Reagan Powell Airflight Manhattan Dewitt Molly Stark Marcus Coburn Windsor Gulfport Stanford Glendale Lakeland Culver Grant Aviator Grenadier Andrews Briarcliffe Argyle Rutgers Webster Lord Lancaster Whitman Warwick Blake Portia Malcom Piping Rock Ryan the Curtis Cyril Ardmore Clinton Norman Hastings Whitney Stuart Sutton Winthrop Drummond Judson Rolland Fischer Ramsey Quadron William Osler Trudy Spur Cameron Touraine Grafic Deluxe Talbot Viking Raymon Mount Vernon Eaton Edgemere Errol Andover watson Jeffrey Baron Tiger & Lady Longacre Bostonian Parker B Gyromatic Lester Randolph First Mate Dennis Raleigh Cullen Sea-crest Mason Eternamatic Lance Arlington Adonis Linwood Ensign Arlington Hawthorne |
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