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:
Lancaster Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Cornell Watch Co Cheshire Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Ingersol U.S. Watch Co. Benedict & Burham B.D. Bingham Melrose Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Seth Thomas Watch do. Rockford Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. |
Luther Goddard D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Illinois Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Hampden Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Appleton watch Co. W.E. Harper Aurora Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. National Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Jacob Custer Herman Vod der Heydt |
Nashua Watch Co. George Reed American Repeating Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Washington Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Mosart Watch Co. American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Waterbury Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Hamilton Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Thomas Harland |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Hever Continental Nicewatch Co. Smith Patria Weltall Favre Leuba Kingston Louvig Driva Yale Benson Seth Thomas Cyma Longines Harvel Rockford Tavannes Arctus Friedli Lancel Kurth Crown Alpina Perfine Montbrilliant Delbana Roxy Exactus Kord Perpetual Watch Co. Provita Schultz Bueche-Girod Angelus Dunhill Monte Wig Wag Newmark Vacheron Sigma Lorton Westend Doxa Kelbert Rolls Regina Aristo Tissot Ball Watex Minerva Mt. Vernon Didisheim Lucien Piccard Rotary Glashutte Zenith Shield Nicolet Watch Mido Orvin PiagetPreesent Coronet Hilton Invicta Altus Niton |
Beltone Ace Acro Charles Nicolet Germinal Frey Audax Universal Lyceum Croton Tiffany Eska J.E. Watch Co. Hampden Juvenia Gubelin Jardur Opel Levrette Americus Kent Benrus Autdrist Pabro P. Garnier Felca Dome Goering Hayden Illinois Ardath Hermes Verno Patek Philippe Henda Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Tourneau Omega Lang Uhr Revue Grana Movado Vulcain Jaeger Mappin Moriva Unitas Rocail Louis Ollendorff Zentra Sheffield Haste Frodsham Leonidas Marlys Hafis P. Buhre Cartier LePhare Warwick Ogival Kelek Geneve Arbi Helbros Titus Hy. Moser & Cie |
Butex Cornavin International Lavina Weldon Rado Cortebert Evans Fontainemelon Rulon Trebex Normandie Harwood Rolex Ekegren WhiteStar Standard Timecraft Chopard Gallet Welsbro Record Mar Nicolet Rembrant Gruen Pronto Winton Ofair Wittnauer Admes Clebar Urania Zodiac Girard-Perregaux Corum Bucherer Lusina Alsta Certina Lucerne Mimo Alpha Agassiz Stowa Carlton Semca National Asprey Baume & Mercier Tornex-Rayville Nivada Eloga Phillepe Watch Co. Avalon Breitling Jules Jurgensen Condal Seeland LeCoultre Emerson Rapid Bulova Univer Harvard Baylor Cawford |
Aramis Alton Orfina Eterna Olma Blancpain Octo Eberhard Hebdomas Wyler Parker Golay Olympia Sperina A. Lange & Sohne Duodial Guinand Ebel South Bend Rima Ultimor Monarch Boulevard Glycine Orator Hallmark Imperial Central Arsa Daynite Helvetia Harman Framont Berg Touchon Borel Boucheron Wakmann Buren Excelsior Concord Kelton Breguet Lip Electra Garland Bovet Ulysse Nardin Faith Laco Elgin Alavente Hamilton Lemania Mars Van Cleef & Arpels Dugena LIbela Turler Fairfax Hydepark Huguenin Roamer Audemars Piguet Enicar |
Models of watches that we repair:
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