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:
Trenton Watch do. George Reed James & Henry Pitkin Manhatten Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Aurora Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Auburndale Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Ball Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. National Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Freeport Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Ingersol Cheshire Watch Co. |
Melrose Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Peoria Watch co B.D. Bingham Waterbury Mosart Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Herman Vod der Heydt Newark Watch Co. W.E. Harper Thomas Harland Illinois Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. Luther Goddard |
Potter Albert Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Rockford Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. American Waltham Rock Island Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Jacob Custer Lancaster Watch Co. Benedict & Burham |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Newmark Felca Regina Cornavin Asprey Wittnauer Friedli Imperial Jardur Eloga Watex Butex Kelton Titus Helbros Lyceum P. Buhre Univer Seth Thomas Ardath Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Tissot Illinois Americus Turler Hilton Hallmark Jules Jurgensen Lip Admes Nivada Levrette PiagetPreesent Beltone Orator Seeland Mido Lancel Benson Glashutte International Certina Rulon Bovet Alpina Urania Audax Sperina Perpetual Watch Co. LePhare Tiffany Germinal Baume & Mercier Buren Borel Boucheron Helvetia Grana Eska Bucherer Van Cleef & Arpels Avalon Glycine Roamer Ogival Hamilton Louvig Guinand Alpha |
Concord Ebel Altus South Bend Hermes Favre Leuba Unitas Dugena Orfina Zenith Opel Baylor Montbrilliant Ofair Clebar Corum Hebdomas Shield Hy. Moser & Cie Invicta Kurth Rembrant Olma Niton Benrus Coronet Elgin Louis Alsta Bueche-Girod Hayden Electra Duodial Gallet Tornex-Rayville Harwood Framont Ollendorff Timecraft Wakmann Aramis Huguenin P. Garnier Nicewatch Co. Lucien Piccard Kent Rolls Trebex Ultimor Westend Breguet Rolex Weldon Dunhill Rima Standard Girard-Perregaux Cortebert Didisheim Ekegren Lavina Continental Lorton Phillepe Watch Co. Enicar Eterna Juvenia |
Fontainemelon Aristo Lusina Roxy Warwick Excelsior Arsa Vacheron Ball Jaeger Zodiac Mimo Record Patria Winton Wig Wag Wyler Normandie Exactus Croton LeCoultre Breitling Gruen Pronto Gubelin Rado Lang Uhr Golay Alton Chopard Provita Smith Marlys Sigma Crown Touchon Audemars Piguet Stowa Cartier Semca Hafis Bulova Blancpain Frodsham Mappin Goering Yale Patek Philippe Pabro Perfine Arctus Angelus Autdrist Condal Lucerne Monarch Garland Evans Ulysse Nardin Hydepark Cawford Harvel Olympia Charles Nicolet WhiteStar Rockford |
Eberhard Emerson Central Orvin Doxa Leonidas Frey Rapid Tourneau Weltall Verno Monte Hever Delbana Cyma J.E. Watch Co. Nicolet Watch Tavannes Omega Agassiz Boulevard Universal Harvard A. Lange & Sohne Movado Harman Mt. Vernon Lemania Fairfax Kingston Alavente Berg Octo LIbela Rocail Moriva Haste Carlton Driva Hampden Henda Laco Mar Nicolet Sheffield Geneve Rotary Vulcain Arbi Longines Dome National Schultz Zentra Kord Faith Kelek Kelbert Ace Acro Mars Minerva Daynite Revue Welsbro Parker |
Models of watches that we repair:
Monaco Aldrich Eternamatic Barbizon Boatswain Wesleyan Attache Collegian Heyward Otis Chief Windsor Oxford Champion Molly Stark Thincraft Glenn Radburn Eric Chanticleer Glenn Curtis Ramsey Doublet Judson Wilkinson Sea-crest Varsity Franklion Spencer Elliot Emery Russell Custer Keane Spur Brooke Mount Vernon Whitman Arnold Bianca Peyton Seaview Grenadier the Curtis Richmond Milton Holden Dwight Thor Powell Bartley Senator Stafford Ristflo Sawyer Avigo Courier Maritza Culver Touraine Livingston Prentice ipso-vox Calvin Major Cavalier Wellington Cadet Clark Norfolk Fulton Blackstone Precision Bradford Samson Errol Robert Roberta Piccadilly Fleetwood Martin Centurion Newlin Coburn Conway Stuart Cullen Sea Cliff Flint Ridge Sea Breeze Viscount Ansley Lone Eagle Brewster Randolph Donavan Hudson Aviator Boyd Corvet Baxter Commodore Edgewater Bailey Gladstone Valiant Reardon Barry Guardsman Stormking Commander Arlington Top Gun |
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