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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Washington Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. New York Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Hampden Watch Co. Jacob Custer Charles Fasoltd Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Manhatten Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. W.E. Harper South Bend Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. |
Warren Manufacturing Co. Western Watch Co. George Reed Rockford Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Benedict & Burham D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Peoria Watch co American Repeating Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Cheshire Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Thomas Harland Trenton Watch do. E. Howard and Co. Nashua Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Waterbury Mosart Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham |
Ingersol Independent Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Wichita Watch Co. Luther Goddard American Waltham Columbus Watch Co. National Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Auburndale Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Newark Watch Co. B.D. Bingham South Bend Watch Co. Ball 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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Moriva Lang Uhr Montbrilliant LIbela Zodiac Kelbert Haste Felca Hamilton Roamer Mappin Bulova Hayden Weldon Revue Wittnauer Rockford Fairfax Girard-Perregaux Harman Friedli Lorton Niton Fontainemelon Lancel Pabro Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Nicewatch Co. Goering Ollendorff WhiteStar Stowa Beltone J.E. Watch Co. Audax Orvin Patek Philippe Mimo Winton Dugena Benson Rado Louis Electra Ogival Crown Seeland Boulevard Levrette Altus Normandie Arctus Favre Leuba Laco Angelus Wig Wag Rapid Sigma Universal Berg Lemania Alsta Smith P. Garnier Agassiz Parker Monarch Rolls |
Glashutte Sheffield Frey Nivada Kingston Faith Driva Univer Condal Hilton Didisheim Rima Clebar Continental Illinois Titus Newmark Jardur Invicta Croton Cartier Mido Delbana Henda Regina Kurth Cyma Charles Nicolet Tavannes Lucerne Bovet Aristo Breguet Eberhard Rolex LeCoultre Lyceum Framont Juvenia Orator Tourneau Alton Movado Standard Longines Patria Record P. Buhre Mar Nicolet Bueche-Girod Lavina Autdrist Blancpain Sperina Duodial Daynite Ebel Westend Kent Provita Urania Tissot Hampden Wakmann Dunhill Evans Lip |
Rembrant Baume & Mercier Van Cleef & Arpels Tornex-Rayville Seth Thomas Asprey Breitling Timecraft Benrus Ulysse Nardin Eloga Roxy Jaeger Carlton Harwood National Hafis Gubelin Rocail Gruen South Bend Yale Minerva Baylor Shield Wyler Pronto Grana Ultimor Opel Omega Rulon Ardath Glycine Elgin Dome Borel Boucheron Alpina A. Lange & Sohne Turler Mt. Vernon Hebdomas Eska Cawford International Ace Acro Olympia Germinal Hydepark Alpha Zenith Hever Geneve Corum PiagetPreesent Kelton Enicar Arsa Chopard Orfina Warwick Harvard Hallmark Garland Kelek Phillepe Watch Co. |
Hermes Imperial Frodsham Marlys Helvetia Unitas Jules Jurgensen Ball Central Welsbro Bucherer Buren Cortebert Louvig Hy. Moser & Cie Avalon Nicolet Watch Cornavin Perfine Doxa Zentra Weltall Leonidas Golay Coronet Ofair Lucien Piccard Schultz Exactus Emerson Vacheron Kord Aramis Harvel Mars Audemars Piguet Alavente Monte Admes Semca Concord Watex Arbi Guinand Rotary Trebex Certina Lusina Vulcain Perpetual Watch Co. Touchon Excelsior Butex Olma Tiffany Helbros Octo Gallet Eterna Huguenin Verno Americus LePhare Ekegren |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Orson Spencer Medalist Wembley Norde Adjutant Dante Donald Gladstone Seabrook Lakehurst Lyle B Malcom Kenilworth Gallahad Stanford Lambert Sea Breeze Guardsman Molly Stark Thincraft Croydon Raymon Vincent Ramsey Beau Royal Arlington Hawthorne Piccadilly Ascot Rolland Fischer Wakefield B.W. Raymond Eaton Yorktown Collegian Linwood Langford Boyd Cedric Huntley Ristflo Custer Gordon Bradford Windsor Radburn Langley Airman Staunton Morley Peyton Hastings Casino Annapolis Finalist Tiger & Lady Paxton Perry Sea-cap Edgewater Dewitt Dexter Harris Guardsman Garfield Montclair Gilman Bagley Dickens Avigo Winthrop Hartman Brooke Gardner Quadron Oakley Pinehurst Trooper Sutton Spencer Samson Coburn Ward Barton Argyle Wellington Gold knight Kevin Linden Hall Wayne Adrian Chapman Nelson Stanford Black Star Seville Sheldon Newlin Mount Vernon Wesley Cranston Portia Caroline Transcontinental A B Diamond Blackstone Coronado Morton Citadel Barry Ericsson Emerson Chief ipso-vox Brockton |
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