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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W.E. Harper Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co American Waltham Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Rockford Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Thomas Harland Potter Albert Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. |
Trenton Watch do. Ingersol National Watch Co. Waterbury Mosart Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Manhatten Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Benedict & Burham Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham George Reed Adams & Perry Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Appleton, Tracy & Co. |
Melrose Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Aurora Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Illinois Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd South Bend Watch Co. Jacob Custer Hampden Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Luther Goddard Boston Watch Co. Peoria 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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LIbela WhiteStar Alton Mt. Vernon Invicta Ekegren Ace Acro Opel Daynite Bucherer Tourneau Lang Uhr Agassiz Jardur Kent Crown Cartier National Jules Jurgensen Hebdomas Perfine Rockford Kelek Standard Rado Kord Longines Gallet Ollendorff Ebel Kelton Ardath Grana PiagetPreesent Unitas Exactus Tornex-Rayville Glycine Evans Hermes Beltone Rima Mimo Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Carlton Monarch Yale Admes Duodial Parker Verno Revue Henda Frodsham Zenith Rembrant Glashutte Harman Buren Pronto Certina Lemania Tavannes Cyma Mars Patek Philippe Weltall Van Cleef & Arpels |
Golay Nicewatch Co. Tissot Pabro Americus Ball Kingston Seeland Helbros Weldon Alpha Frey Electra J.E. Watch Co. Lancel Cawford Dunhill Harwood Clebar Imperial Watex Orvin Omega Newmark Octo Wittnauer Regina Eska Bueche-Girod Trebex Sperina Rolex Lorton Levrette LePhare Driva Hayden South Bend Hallmark Huguenin Framont Kelbert Vulcain Louis Hamilton Alsta Vacheron Aramis Doxa Kurth Hampden Fontainemelon Monte Baylor Breguet Urania Arbi Nicolet Watch Bulova Dome Asprey Hafis Wyler Timecraft Harvard Excelsior Record |
Mappin Germinal Benson Jaeger Titus Rotary Ultimor Angelus Benrus Lyceum Continental Croton Didisheim Stowa Ofair Phillepe Watch Co. Zodiac LeCoultre Ulysse Nardin Wakmann Emerson Avalon Eloga Welsbro Enicar Cortebert Ogival Juvenia Autdrist Minerva Zentra P. Garnier Touchon Dugena Leonidas Charles Nicolet Condal Nivada Turler Alpina P. Buhre International Hever Olympia Seth Thomas Audemars Piguet Aristo Semca Univer Chopard Lucien Piccard Laco Gubelin Helvetia Gruen Roamer Harvel Guinand Concord Rolls Baume & Mercier Favre Leuba Hy. Moser & Cie Garland Movado Eberhard |
Mar Nicolet Hilton Friedli A. Lange & Sohne Marlys Central Roxy Westend Rapid Elgin Moriva Hydepark Lucerne Girard-Perregaux Sheffield Lip Borel Boucheron Montbrilliant Bovet Lusina Coronet Goering Audax Haste Arsa Orfina Patria Wig Wag Delbana Winton Tiffany Geneve Lavina Butex Perpetual Watch Co. Olma Warwick Blancpain Faith Schultz Corum Felca Arctus Berg Rocail Rulon Sigma Universal Eterna Niton Altus Breitling Illinois Alavente Cornavin Provita Smith Shield Fairfax Orator Boulevard Louvig Mido Normandie |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Tempus Garfield Sea Rover Kirk Sidney Oakley Malcom Whitehall Ristflo Richmond Seaview Fleetwood Haddon B.W. Raymond Adjutant Darrell Enditcott Cedric Langley Mason Carl Sea Scout Sea Skip Gary Contour Aldrich Boyd Craig Spur Wilkinson Kinematic Hastings Grenadier Ambassador Ensign Norton Drexel Glendale Vincent Viking Brewster Adonis Golden Tempus II Accumatic Blake Bailey Windsor Cyril Dean Landon Dorsey Gramercy Sea Hawk direct read Dawson watson Rutledge Gardner Dunhan Conway Winthrop Touraine Gold knight Viscount Beau Royal Baton Glendon Nelson Barbizon Briarcliffe Norde Frontenac Franklion Beldon Sloane Langdon Varsity Yorktown Ramsey Black Star Edgemere stanley Argyle Lyle B Tuxedo Randolph Russell Chatham Gladstone Norman Lone Eagle Jason Livingston Edgewood Guardsman Spencer Clark Hartman Pacermatic Eric West Point Avigo Fleetwood Tyron Vardon Norfolk Oxford Prentice Cordell Samson Cranston Lakeland Jolly Roger |
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