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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Nashua Watch Co. Luther Goddard Bannatyne Watch Co. Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Charles Fasoltd W.E. Harper B.D. Bingham Peoria Watch co Herman Vod der Heydt Appleton, Tracy & Co. South Bend Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham New England Watch Co., Ball Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Western Watch Co. |
Boston Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Benedict & Burham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Ingersol George Reed Independent Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Jacob Custer U.S. Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. American Repeating Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. E.F. Bowman E. Howard and Co. |
Washington Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. American Waltham Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Mosart Watch Co. National Watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Waterbury American Waltham Auburndale Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Columbus 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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Ebel Kingston LePhare Yale Kelton Zentra Crown Lemania Fairfax Verno Rolex Eberhard Benrus Hebdomas Eloga Hamilton Lang Uhr Jules Jurgensen Minerva Semca Helbros Urania Hydepark International Bucherer South Bend Sigma A. Lange & Sohne Autdrist Moriva Buren Audemars Piguet Delbana Parker Jaeger Rolls Harvel Mappin Haste Arctus Stowa Arbi Regina Hallmark Orator Titus Kent Schultz Beltone Americus Elgin P. Garnier Smith Timecraft Zenith Glycine Duodial Westend Huguenin Benson Imperial Driva Lip Ardath Rembrant Unitas Universal Lucerne |
Audax WhiteStar Hayden Lavina Movado Pabro Harvard Kelbert J.E. Watch Co. Perfine Roxy Mimo Nivada Alavente Lucien Piccard Rocail Aramis Angelus Jardur Glashutte Provita Sheffield Friedli Touchon Germinal Opel Laco Nicolet Watch Rima Turler Gubelin Patria Frodsham Monte Doxa Wittnauer Van Cleef & Arpels Excelsior Cortebert Standard PiagetPreesent Gruen Henda Kurth Niton Juvenia Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Rado Electra Emerson Breitling Dugena Mars P. Buhre Trebex LeCoultre Evans Wyler Newmark Vacheron Corum Harman Eterna Ultimor Charles Nicolet Mido Ekegren |
Kord Golay Vulcain Favre Leuba Boulevard Certina Weldon Wakmann Cyma Tiffany Alpha Hilton Pronto Ace Acro Patek Philippe Goering National Mt. Vernon Normandie Lusina Phillepe Watch Co. Continental Rockford Leonidas Orvin Hy. Moser & Cie Exactus Ball Grana Breguet Chopard Faith Frey Bueche-Girod Hampden Cawford Levrette Didisheim Alpina Shield Harwood Tornex-Rayville Cornavin Croton Dunhill Olma Baylor Bulova Admes Seeland Seth Thomas Montbrilliant Girard-Perregaux Agassiz Louvig Octo Berg Rulon Louis Condal Butex Concord Warwick Blancpain Watex Nicewatch Co. |
Record Hever Coronet Welsbro Avalon Ulysse Nardin Univer Baume & Mercier Altus Borel Boucheron Sperina Revue Bovet Roamer Rapid Weltall Central Hafis Ofair Alsta Perpetual Watch Co. Eska Fontainemelon Winton Aristo Lancel Enicar Helvetia Hermes Wig Wag Ollendorff Marlys Arsa Rotary Carlton Gallet Tavannes Alton Lorton Tourneau Dome Cartier Invicta Longines Lyceum Orfina Mar Nicolet Geneve LIbela Olympia Asprey Illinois Clebar Zodiac Tissot Omega Guinand Kelek Ogival Daynite Felca Garland Framont Monarch |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Bartley Sea Scape dunkirk Keane B.W. Raymond Sawyer Chief Calvin Culver Custer Kensignton Commodore Adonis Norman Wilshire Donald Newton Coburn Ryan Roland Lambert Heyward Croydon Drexel Diamond Gardner Murray Lyndon The Athelete Viscount Brock Lakehurst Ensign Rutgers Lee Sky Chief Ardsley Ward Thor Kirk Collegian Carl Sea Breeze Gordon Boatswain Lakeland Cedercrest Chevy Chase Dwight Austin Accumatic Eternamatic Reagan Ascot Chanticleer Monaco Tiger & Lady Dante Senator Todd Arnold Benton Commander Huntley Midas the Curtis Chapman Windsor Tuxedo Oakley Sutton Ensign Vernon Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Frontenac Chieftan Howard Powell Dickens Thinline Foster Martin Courtney Bagley Trooper Glendon Langley Nelson Morton Bradford ipso-vox Glenn Curtis Boulton Lawrence Dewitt Morley Colby Harris Vernon Gilvert Surf West Point Whitney Airman Dyson Byrd Flight I Landon Norde The Governor Conway Barbizon |
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