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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Independent Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Luther Goddard Ingersol Freeport Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Otay Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. National Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. B.D. Bingham American Waltham Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. E. Howard and Co. U.S Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Rock Island Watch Co. |
Trenton Watch do. Herman Vod der Heydt Auburndale Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Appleton watch Co. W.E. Harper Western Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Boston Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd |
American Repeating Watch Co. George Reed Hamilton Watch Co. Waterbury Manhatten Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Thomas Harland E.F. Bowman New York Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Wichita Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Jacob Custer Fitchburg Watch bo. Columbus Watch Co. 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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Rima Audemars Piguet Mappin Mars Leonidas Aramis Mar Nicolet Louis Rado P. Buhre Titus Cawford Wyler Provita Felca Baylor Pabro Rocail Jaeger Welsbro Hermes Delbana Lucerne Semca Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Guinand Bulova Clebar Gruen Haste Avalon Jardur Touchon Chopard Ogival Zodiac Germinal Altus J.E. Watch Co. Kingston Rolls Lucien Piccard Helbros Movado Monte Dome Excelsior Lorton Minerva Timecraft Evans Standard Beltone Vacheron Alavente Electra Hever Schultz Regina Breitling Hamilton Niton International Phillepe Watch Co. Smith P. Garnier Imperial Lusina |
Boulevard Orfina Perfine Nicewatch Co. Ace Acro Helvetia Garland Aristo Kord Exactus Roamer Lyceum Hilton Audax Cyma Corum Ardath Angelus Elgin Tiffany LePhare Bueche-Girod Golay Shield Fontainemelon Weltall Longines Admes Rembrant Mido Rapid Huguenin Gallet Hy. Moser & Cie Emerson Opel Tourneau Verno Pronto Baume & Mercier Univer Harman Autdrist Lemania Rolex Arbi Buren Universal Ofair Driva Nivada Charles Nicolet Lang Uhr Berg PiagetPreesent Westend Ebel Rulon Doxa Alton Kent Benrus Bucherer Kelbert Eterna Normandie Olympia |
Newmark Arsa LeCoultre Alsta Seth Thomas Kurth Alpina Harvel Fairfax Hydepark Ultimor Carlton Framont Duodial Illinois Nicolet Watch Orator Monarch Orvin Turler Alpha Harvard Hayden Continental Goering Unitas Watex Weldon Kelton Didisheim Wakmann Ekegren Faith Revue Cornavin South Bend Mt. Vernon Kelek Favre Leuba Urania Record Enicar Ollendorff Rockford Stowa A. Lange & Sohne Friedli Condal Asprey Croton Mimo Jules Jurgensen Wig Wag Butex Lavina Concord Hafis Parker Van Cleef & Arpels Frodsham Glycine Americus Wittnauer Henda Patria Laco |
Dunhill Geneve Lip Lancel Tavannes Glashutte Yale Rotary Louvig Juvenia Hampden Girard-Perregaux Breguet Sheffield Harwood Montbrilliant Eska Hallmark Invicta Perpetual Watch Co. Cartier Ball Sigma Grana Gubelin Benson Tissot Marlys Borel Boucheron Roxy Daynite Hebdomas Olma Vulcain Eloga Crown Arctus Zenith Ulysse Nardin LIbela Certina Sperina Tornex-Rayville Patek Philippe Moriva Central Frey Blancpain Warwick Dugena Octo Cortebert Omega Coronet Levrette WhiteStar Agassiz Winton Zentra Bovet Trebex Seeland Eberhard National |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Warwick Lawrence Gyromatic Lester Farrell Merritt Russell Wesleyan Grant Glendale Guardsman Carson Landon Guardsman Orson Corvet Dodson Top Gun Essex Stanford Donavan Cavalier Rodney Aviator Gordon Bostonian Contour Flight II Turner Eternamatic Captain Rice Collegian Grafic Deluxe Andover Fleetwood Consul Wakefield Eaton Doublet Gary B.W. Raymond Whitney Adjutant Stanford Cameron Cambridge Cranston Gulfport Valiant Barry Bryn Mawr Paxton Lord Lancaster Baton Flight I Andrews Glenn Curtis Tuxedo Streamlined Piccadilly Lindsay Black knight Pinehurst Bagley Foster Stafford Drew Ericsson Emerson Sheryll Edgewood Trent Chief Carteret Montclair Wesley Cedercrest Chevy Chase Glendon Lakehurst Baron Windsor Dennis Trooper Heyward Hartman Huntley Colby Sea Hawk Bowman Dorsey Medalist Wembley Dante Holden Benton Seabrook Stadium Whitman Clark Lee Dickens Lincrest Futura Kevin Spencer Keane Cedric Dawson Reagan Craig Lowell Molly Stark stanley |
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