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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B.D. Bingham Trenton Watch do. Rockford Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd George Reed South Bend Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Appleton watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Hamilton Watch Co. |
Jacob Custer Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Freeport Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Waterbury Manhatten Watch Co. Ingersol U.S Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. National Watch Co. Thomas Harland Otay Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Illinois Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Benedict & Burham American Waltham U.S. Watch Co. Peoria Watch co |
Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Cornell Watch Co James & Henry Pitkin New England Watch Co., Nashua Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Auburndale Watch Co. W.E. Harper Luther Goddard E.F. Bowman |
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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Breitling Winton Ace Acro Kelek Buren Ekegren Record Evans Asprey Admes Bucherer Ollendorff Gubelin Rapid P. Buhre Mt. Vernon Cawford Kingston Titus Verno Niton Ball Trebex Alpha Altus Harman Sheffield Mappin Goering Frey Nicewatch Co. Nivada Ebel Faith Weldon Ardath Perfine Hever Mars Rocail Unitas Mimo Didisheim Alsta Kelbert Continental Eberhard Crown Yale Bovet Benson Cornavin Seth Thomas Revue Harvel Excelsior Monarch Sperina J.E. Watch Co. Benrus Gallet Lemania Hampden Touchon Dugena Patek Philippe Nicolet Watch Carlton |
Eloga Pabro Louis Eterna A. Lange & Sohne Exactus Daynite Watex Gruen Louvig Americus Octo Illinois Orvin Framont Glycine Vulcain Arbi Autdrist Rockford Chopard Patria Felca Avalon Beltone Timecraft Zentra Duodial Regina Provita Baylor Turler Lang Uhr Van Cleef & Arpels Monte Opel Cyma Rembrant Lavina Harwood Hy. Moser & Cie Ogival Hebdomas Germinal Levrette Helbros Dome Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Orfina Golay Rulon Ofair Juvenia Berg Huguenin Frodsham Perpetual Watch Co. Leonidas Shield Wig Wag Univer Cortebert Omega Concord Girard-Perregaux Hilton Lyceum |
Tiffany Roamer Henda Olympia Audax Kent Newmark Alton Haste Fontainemelon Semca Standard Geneve Hamilton Sigma Croton Westend LeCoultre Wittnauer Wyler South Bend Hallmark Glashutte Condal Imperial Agassiz Warwick Tourneau Longines Roxy Phillepe Watch Co. Audemars Piguet Clebar Stowa Butex Boulevard Bueche-Girod Movado Angelus Welsbro Moriva Tavannes Kurth Montbrilliant Baume & Mercier Lucien Piccard Dunhill WhiteStar Friedli Mar Nicolet Alpina Minerva Mido LePhare Harvard Zenith Guinand Rado Charles Nicolet Jules Jurgensen Arctus Grana Lancel Tissot Doxa Enicar |
Delbana Driva Tornex-Rayville Electra Central Fairfax Laco Emerson Certina Lorton Elgin Cartier Arsa Borel Boucheron Hermes Rolls Ulysse Nardin Bulova Kord Hayden Ultimor Universal Jaeger Marlys Orator Wakmann Weltall Rima P. Garnier Hydepark Kelton Blancpain Vacheron Jardur Hafis International Zodiac Pronto Parker Rolex PiagetPreesent Favre Leuba National Breguet LIbela Schultz Rotary Invicta Corum Aristo Urania Smith Lusina Garland Seeland Helvetia Normandie Coronet Lip Eska Lucerne Alavente Olma Aramis |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Chieftan The Chief's Lester Webster Khyber Thornton Majesty Rutgers Croydon Flight I Ensign Arnold Annapolis Blake Turner Veri-thin Edgewood Oval Adjutant Senator Gold knight Blair Dexter Gardner Dante direct read Nightingale Peyton Glenn Curtis Whitehall Seville Sheldon Langley Captain Rice Black knight Sea Scout Sea Skip Trudy Spur Chatham Carteret stanley Cambridge Otis Frontenac Gilvert Roland Drew Baronet Beau Brummel Courier Ansley William Osler Meadowbrook Golden Tempus Rolland Fischer Fleetwood Langdon Sheryll Yorktown Whitney Elliot Emery Commodore Grant Top Gun Bowman Brockton Norton Attache Spur Kinematic Kirby Putnam Newlin Sawyer Grenadier Trent Sea Hawk Sinclair Farrell Barry Jason Lyndon Merritt watson Brooke Dunhan Bradford Tiger & Lady Wakefield Glendale Curtis Edgewater Pinehurst Raleigh Huntley Cranston Ashley Andrews B.W. Raymond Judson Thor Pimlico Carson Aqualine Myron The Athelete Tildon Brandon Viking Chronomatic top hat Hartman Quadron Cavalier Lincrest Avigo |
Cabot Dwight Orson Linden Hall Newton Garfield Ascot Boatswain Randolph Eaton Dixon Errol Radburn Greenwich Darrell Halesworth B Caroline Franklion the Curtis Winfield Ensign Norman Ardmore Maritza Stadium Benton Sentinal Carlisle Morley Edgemere Sea mate Piccadilly Raleigh Landon Medalist Wembley Sea guard Hayden Mount Vernon Futura Hudson Medford Gyromatic Wesley Sea-crest Scott Streamlined Crusade Eric Seabrook Dean Derby Tyron Vardon Byrd Adonis Samson Chesterfield Martin Linwood Vernon Briarcliffe Aviator Finalist Portia Commander Norde Courtney Wilshire Stanford Norfolk Lee Dewitt Lone Eagle Yorktown Ramsey Chatham Reardon Perry Prescott Champion Cross country Clyde Richmond Dyson Cedercrest Chevy Chase Blackstone Kirk Murray Raymon Custer Winthrop Consul Centurion Lord Lancaster Ristflo Donavan Culver Manhattan Mate Paxton Sea Rover Dawson Sloane Lindsay Cedric Oakmont Secron Malcom Casino Corvet ipso-vox |
Keith West Point Wayne Minu-stop Eternamatic Prentice Arlington Hawthorne dunkirk Whitman Ward Stuart Lowell Bianca Accumatic Cordell Top Time Gilman Staunton Thinline Colby Ryan Baxter Barbizon Larchmont Hastings Harris Major Sidney Kenilworth Gallahad Neil Austin Brent Steeldon Dennis Sea Scape Coronado Oxford Cadet Flight II Surf Dodson Thincraft Cameron Langford Arlington Pierre Andover Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Grafic Deluxe Sinclair Lakeland Drexel Baton Longacre Sea Cliff Viscount Molly Stark Guardsman Blade Enditcott Glenn Romanesquen Ross Fulton Grover Craig Jeffrey Essex Ericsson Emerson Tuxedo Bartley Kinematic Heyward Drake Gramercy Transcontinental A B Carl Donald Dartmouth Haddon Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Aqua Lung Carlton Deauville Wilson Yeoman Baron Airman Morton Secometer Sedgman Stanford Seaview Russell Powell Tempus Sea Breeze Nelson Norman Spencer Piping Rock Lawrence Trooper Alan Gulfport Whitford Vincent Montclair Boyd Drummond Midas Wellington |
Kensignton Taylor Foster Collegian New Yorker Conway Carlyle Cyril Citadel Ambassador Valiant Golden Tempus II The Governor Bagley Argyle Mason Airflight Rodney Beau Royal Allison Sherwood Fleetwood Crispin Clark Maxine Howard Sea-glo Monaco Milton Dickens Aldrich Warwick Vernon Clinton Adrian Calvin Sky Chief Stormking Bentley Lyle B Touraine Reagan Rutledge Keane Parker B Guardsman Beldon Bryn Mawr Black Star Jolly Roger Todd Marcus Marshall Bostonian Doublet Chief Lakehurst Sir Echo Spencer Mayfield First Mate Paige Oakley Amherst Robert Roberta Chadwick Contour Scout Talbot Coburn Boulton Wilkinson Berkshire Sea Ranger Dorsey Sutton Glendon Curvex Flint Ridge Clearview Windsor Gary Diamond Chapman Stafford Brock Cullen Sea-cap Lance Marquis strap Brewster Gladstone Barton Windsor Lambert Precision Ardsley Holden Gordon Boone Varsity Chanticleer Milburn President Antique Wesleyan Livingston Kevin Pacermatic Bailey ... |
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