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:
Hamilton Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Bannatyne Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Wichita Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Benedict & Burham South Bend Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. George Reed Illinois Watch Co. Luther Goddard Newark Watch Co. Peoria Watch co |
Manhatten Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Jacob Custer Washington Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Otay Watch Co. Waterbury South Bend Watch Co. National Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Boston Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. American Waltham Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham New England Watch Co., Rock Island Watch Co. Thomas Harland Charles Fasoltd B.D. Bingham Aurora Watch Co. |
Lancaster Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Columbus Watch Co. W.E. Harper Hampden Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Ingersol Freeport Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. E.F. Bowman Herman Vod der Heydt New York Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Independent 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:
South Bend Lucerne Crown Touchon Wig Wag Ball Mimo LIbela Record Sperina Beltone P. Buhre LePhare Longines Glashutte Admes Marlys Ultimor Ollendorff Watex Laco Condal Harvard Audemars Piguet Welsbro Continental Perpetual Watch Co. Seth Thomas Invicta Breguet Ofair Kurth Electra Americus Alsta Urania Alavente Friedli Montbrilliant Lang Uhr Corum Lusina Harvel Mar Nicolet Rolex Zodiac Buren Omega Fairfax Alpina Arsa Autdrist Bucherer Hayden Frey Patria Gruen Excelsior Duodial Coronet Lancel Lucien Piccard Tiffany Felca Hallmark Octo Geneve Haste |
Westend Yale Weltall Dugena Normandie Eloga National P. Garnier Angelus Nicewatch Co. Hydepark Hever Cornavin Niton Stowa Ekegren Kelbert Helvetia Bulova J.E. Watch Co. Daynite Cortebert Frodsham Monte Hamilton Tourneau Revue Roxy Lorton Perfine Orvin Lyceum Provita Dunhill Kingston Movado Newmark Garland Rolls Louvig Gubelin Rulon Guinand Semca International Hy. Moser & Cie Eberhard Enicar Aristo Jules Jurgensen Avalon Delbana Hermes Sheffield Orfina Exactus Mappin Breitling Baume & Mercier Rapid Tissot Regina Rocail Monarch Arbi Kord Levrette |
Vacheron Turler Alton Benson Alpha Hebdomas Charles Nicolet Verno LeCoultre Mido Pronto Jardur Jaeger Evans Seeland Imperial Mt. Vernon Van Cleef & Arpels Ace Acro Nicolet Watch Juvenia Ardath Faith Parker Leonidas Huguenin Concord Winton Mars Orator Driva Ebel Didisheim Grana Bovet Wyler Elgin Tornex-Rayville Rado Central Framont Agassiz Fontainemelon Rockford Girard-Perregaux Rima Pabro Borel Boucheron Shield Altus Harman Doxa Hampden Vulcain Kelton A. Lange & Sohne Gallet Germinal Louis Illinois Dome Henda Olma Glycine Certina Standard |
Moriva Zentra Berg Benrus Minerva Lemania Cawford Warwick Eterna Emerson Kelek Phillepe Watch Co. Favre Leuba Aramis Kent Nivada Rotary Tavannes Lavina Cyma Unitas Wakmann Universal Sigma Hilton Titus Golay Audax PiagetPreesent Eska Baylor Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Goering Boulevard Zenith Ulysse Nardin Schultz Cartier Rembrant Blancpain Lip Ogival Arctus Smith Timecraft Opel Harwood Clebar Patek Philippe Olympia Trebex Carlton Asprey Helbros Wittnauer Chopard Bueche-Girod Univer Weldon WhiteStar Butex Roamer Croton Hafis |
Models of watches that we repair:
Keane Dante Brock Oakley Ambassador Golden Tempus II Flint Ridge Lester Marquis strap Jason Bentley Wesley Staunton Dickens Stanford Streamlined Milton Boone Steeldon Derby Flight II Perry Black Star Rolland Fischer Craig Stadium Bryn Mawr Curvex Top Gun Halesworth B Piccadilly Linwood Secron Allison Quadron Gilman Windsor Sawyer Airman Aviator Thornton Howard Cranston Ryan Boatswain Randolph Sea Cliff Mason Sentinal Sky Chief Martin President Antique watson Sir Echo Turner Midas Sea-glo Russell Prentice Eaton Corvet Fulton Meadowbrook Vernon ipso-vox Rutgers Whitehall Judson Champion Sea-cap Piping Rock Dwight Secometer Sedgman Gladstone Chesterfield Coronado Scott Baronet Beau Brummel Viking Medalist Wembley Captain Rice Majesty Bailey Wilshire Wilkinson Clinton Chronomatic top hat Brooke Norfolk Gordon Dodson Dixon Top Time Grant Murray Roland Clark Avigo Livingston Yorktown Samson Lee Beldon Commander Beau Royal Blackstone Dyson Oxford Boulton Rodney Lakehurst |
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