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:
E. Howard and Co. Freeport Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Waterbury Ball Watch Co. New York Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Thomas Harland Independent Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. U.S. Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Luther Goddard Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham U.S Watch Co. American Waltham |
Nashua Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Manhatten Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Cornell Watch Co Hamilton Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Melrose Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Western Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Jacob Custer South Bend Watch Co. George Reed Boston Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. |
Mosart Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Ingersol Appleton watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Washington Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Trenton Watch do. Rockford Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Aurora Watch Co. National Watch Co. W.E. Harper James & Henry Pitkin |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Rulon Eberhard Cartier Americus Lip Hebdomas Nicewatch Co. Dome Juvenia Rockford Octo Agassiz Universal Zodiac Tissot Leonidas Kent Yale Arbi Patria Corum Croton Golay Admes Gruen Mt. Vernon Orfina Grana Ofair Harwood Olma Zenith Evans Monarch Ultimor Didisheim Baume & Mercier Regina Benson Boulevard Henda Seeland Dunhill Levrette Continental Ball Welsbro Movado Perfine Alavente Ace Acro Mar Nicolet Central Aramis Chopard Helbros Hermes Monte Mimo Vacheron Alpina Zentra Certina Benrus Geneve Illinois Buren Rapid |
Haste Omega Univer Hydepark LIbela Huguenin J.E. Watch Co. Watex Van Cleef & Arpels Rolex Sheffield Titus Kurth Patek Philippe Wyler Felca Emerson Ekegren Harman Lemania Breguet Nicolet Watch Bucherer Orvin Fontainemelon Beltone Weldon Provita Carlton Dugena Olympia Girard-Perregaux Smith Touchon Tornex-Rayville Ogival Condal Ollendorff Imperial Kingston Opel Invicta South Bend Niton Newmark Lucien Piccard Kelbert Weltall PiagetPreesent Gubelin Lyceum Phillepe Watch Co. Ardath Angelus Louis Bueche-Girod Seth Thomas Garland Glashutte Westend Exactus Rado International Marlys Bulova Baylor Fairfax |
P. Buhre Helvetia Coronet Mars Wakmann Shield Aristo Goering Verno Stowa Cyma Hafis Hayden Alpha Cortebert Crown Pabro Urania Friedli Concord Audax Lavina Winton Perpetual Watch Co. Harvard Arsa Alton Duodial Rembrant Framont Laco Wittnauer Schultz Avalon Rocail Parker Tavannes Harvel Audemars Piguet Roxy Driva Charles Nicolet Berg Lancel Hever Mido Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Hampden Faith Tiffany Autdrist Ebel Trebex WhiteStar Hilton Rolls Normandie Louvig Standard Warwick Mappin Borel Boucheron Record Rima Timecraft Jardur |
Nivada Montbrilliant Moriva Vulcain Cawford Lucerne Daynite Sperina Electra Arctus Eterna Jaeger Germinal P. Garnier Doxa Kelton Wig Wag Minerva Delbana Frodsham Frey Butex Pronto Hallmark Lorton Glycine Clebar Eska Bovet Semca Ulysse Nardin Blancpain Rotary Kelek Hy. Moser & Cie Lusina Turler Revue Asprey Elgin National Enicar Orator Breitling Sigma A. Lange & Sohne Altus Favre Leuba LeCoultre Guinand Hamilton Tourneau Kord Jules Jurgensen Lang Uhr Cornavin Alsta Excelsior Eloga Longines Gallet LePhare Unitas Roamer |
Models of watches that we repair:
Enditcott Oakmont Paxton Stanford Brandon ipso-vox Elliot Emery Commander Maritza Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Drexel Carlton Aqua Lung Finalist Curvex Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Baxter Sea Scape Curtis Chanticleer Croydon Farrell Arlington Seville Sheldon Thinline Nelson Lyle B Bryn Mawr Norman Holden Culver Stadium Top Gun Baton Gramercy Senator West Point Dante Whitehall Sherwood Russell Viking Stuart Vincent Captain Rice Jason Beau Royal Quadron dunkirk Norton Blade Sentinal Tempus Cyril Molly Stark Brock Todd Derby Dickens Barbizon Ansley Austin Ryan Dyson Sea mate Powell Ward Futura Maxine Ramsey Rolland Fischer Dorsey Cullen Hayden Newlin Rutgers Clearview Precision Sea-glo Boone Boyd Spencer Dixon Oakley Commodore Ensign Barry Langley Flint Ridge Manhattan Sawyer Taylor Golden Tempus Keith Clyde Winfield Cordell Seabrook Scott Glendale Cedercrest Chevy Chase Linwood Touraine Norde Wilson Casino Whitman Langdon Kinematic Kirby Frontenac Brewster |
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