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:
American Waltham Auburndale Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Otay Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Waterbury Lancaster Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Appleton watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Fitchburg Watch bo. E.F. Bowman Boston Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Melrose Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Watch Co. |
Ball Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Benedict & Burham Columbus Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Peoria Watch co National Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Washington Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Ingersol Hampden Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. |
W.E. Harper Charles Fasoltd Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Appleton, Tracy & Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Thomas Harland Freeport Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. George Reed U.S Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. B.D. Bingham South Bend Watch Co. Rock Island 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:
Welsbro Lang Uhr Octo Enicar Breguet Breitling Titus Alpha Ebel Ardath Lemania Daynite Harvard Uhrenfabrik Glashutte South Bend Zentra Schultz Hever Smith Provita Movado Duodial Felca Helvetia Parker Weltall Ekegren Bueche-Girod Wittnauer Tissot Blancpain International Excelsior Faith Montbrilliant Charles Nicolet LePhare Cartier Tavannes Alavente Aristo Longines Huguenin P. Buhre Imperial Rockford Didisheim Audemars Piguet Lyceum Dunhill Roxy Glycine Mido Ulysse Nardin Chopard Patria Glashutte Standard Admes Mar Nicolet Lip Hebdomas Timecraft Urania Croton Nicewatch Co. Seeland Revue |
Trebex P. Garnier Beltone Carlton Opel Sheffield Kord Gallet A. Lange & Sohne Nivada PiagetPreesent Golay Rolls Arbi Henda Minerva Illinois Corum Avalon Univer Rapid Continental Fairfax Garland Harwood Kelton Certina Sperina National Rima Normandie Yale Invicta Buren Kent Rolex Benrus Fontainemelon Patek Philippe Rembrant Baylor Eloga Central Autdrist Bucherer Bovet Agassiz Hydepark Rotary Mimo Van Cleef & Arpels Tourneau Jardur Electra Shield Exactus J.E. Watch Co. Stowa Butex Zenith Lucerne Hallmark Jules Jurgensen Orator Boulevard Seth Thomas Gruen |
Alton Hilton Niton Regina Hermes Americus Touchon Delbana Berg Goering Crown Orvin Elgin Omega Watex Coronet Olma Phillepe Watch Co. Harman Lucien Piccard Universal Harvel Girard-Perregaux Haste Eterna Mappin Arctus Louvig Mars Pabro Hy. Moser & Cie Wyler Moriva Pronto Frodsham Louis Doxa WhiteStar Rocail Winton Lavina Sigma Baume & Mercier Eberhard Hayden Levrette Semca Dugena Monte Audax LIbela Guinand Geneve Perpetual Watch Co. Grana Olympia Wakmann Verno Cawford Leonidas Zodiac Tornex-Rayville LeCoultre Cornavin Favre Leuba Record |
Gubelin Ultimor Kurth Wig Wag Lusina Warwick Cortebert Aramis Juvenia Borel Boucheron Ball Turler Roamer Kingston Emerson Weldon Ogival Germinal Unitas Evans Condal Monarch Ace Acro Dome Ofair Bulova Clebar Concord Orfina Hafis Lorton Tiffany Ollendorff Lancel Framont Angelus Eska Mt. Vernon Jaeger Kelbert Cyma Rulon Perfine Hampden Nicolet Watch Marlys Driva Alpina Westend Asprey Vacheron Alsta Vulcain Altus Newmark Laco Frey Kelek Benson Rado Friedli Hamilton Arsa Helbros |
Models of watches that we repair:
Chapman Langford Viscount Dexter Ashley Whitman Arnold Black Star Pierre Eaton Sentinal Cabot Rutgers Avigo Lambert Andover Contour Chatham Huntley Cordell Bartley Berkshire Wesley Stanford Dickens Whitford Rutledge Derby Vincent Lyndon President Antique Glendon Commodore Lowell Cambridge Hudson Aviator Top Time Carlisle Midas Kirk Oakmont Wilkinson Colby Oval Powell Conway Boulton Gold knight Norman Brewster Stadium Scott Newlin Sherwood Spencer Reagan Flight I Howard Mayfield Baton Grant Garfield Wakefield Drexel Baxter Sir Echo Malcom Winfield Adrian Sea-glo Harris Guardsman Ambassador Courier Ardsley Linden Hall Beldon Otis Franklion Aldrich Lester Dean Dixon Spencer B.W. Raymond Ascot Golden Tempus Edgemere Vernon Mason Flint Ridge West Point Merritt Tildon Steeldon Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Bianca Gordon Stanford Gilvert Clark Barry Whitehall Doublet Sheryll Clinton Coronado Commander Bentley Chief |
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