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:
National Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S. Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Newark Watch Co. George Reed Cheshire Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Ingersol American Waltham Waterbury Independent Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. New York Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Hampden Watch Co. |
Hamilton Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Charles Fasoltd Washington Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. W.E. Harper American Waltham Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin E.F. Bowman Bannatyne Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Melrose Watch Co. New England Watch Co., |
Trenton Watch do. Ball Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham South Bend Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Rockford Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Otay Watch Co. Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Mosart Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Aurora 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:
Ultimor Perfine Baume & Mercier Cyma Grana Aramis Duodial Jaeger Hamilton Hallmark Dome Helvetia Lang Uhr Newmark Lyceum Alpina Emerson Alton Rockford Ofair Hampden Crown Rotary Parker Felca Delbana Ogival Montbrilliant Gruen Benrus Dunhill Sigma International Verno Harvard Revue Orator South Bend J.E. Watch Co. Smith Guinand Mappin Cartier Buren Chopard Titus Kelek Regina Movado Tiffany P. Garnier Nivada Normandie Kingston Altus Octo Van Cleef & Arpels Watex Weldon PiagetPreesent Helbros Orvin Bovet Eberhard Standard Marlys Wakmann Glycine |
Frey Cawford Girard-Perregaux Tavannes Kurth Rapid Benson Unitas Rocail Opel Rulon Rolex Beltone Eterna Cornavin Condal Butex A. Lange & Sohne Friedli Avalon Nicolet Watch LeCoultre Hydepark Breitling Jardur Hafis Jules Jurgensen Seeland Wig Wag Harvel LIbela Huguenin Geneve Rima Charles Nicolet Admes Semca Alpha Zodiac Corum Harman Weltall Hermes Ulysse Nardin Patria Exactus Olympia Doxa Ollendorff Universal Hebdomas Borel Boucheron Mars Angelus Cortebert Urania Pabro Eloga Westend Electra P. Buhre Mimo Arbi Minerva Seth Thomas Didisheim Framont |
Wittnauer Roamer Concord Alavente Eska Baylor Ekegren Lucien Piccard Longines Alsta Mido Phillepe Watch Co. Glashutte Rolls Kelbert Mt. Vernon Henda Patek Philippe Frodsham Kord Omega Niton Trebex Lucerne Yale Enicar Audax Levrette Illinois Autdrist Shield Roxy Excelsior Stowa Hilton Boulevard Driva Tornex-Rayville Sperina Fontainemelon Ball Evans Continental Louis Bueche-Girod Wyler Agassiz Daynite Zentra Mar Nicolet Timecraft Coronet Goering Gubelin Central Breguet Aristo Nicewatch Co. Monte Fairfax Leonidas Lancel Perpetual Watch Co. Welsbro Schultz Zenith |
Faith Hever Croton Louvig Kelton Bulova Ardath Lip Juvenia Lusina Dugena Tissot Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Warwick Turler Hayden Touchon Gallet Certina Univer Ace Acro Blancpain Kent Hy. Moser & Cie Rado National Elgin LePhare Favre Leuba Bucherer Tourneau Audemars Piguet Arctus Lorton Asprey Berg Pronto Ebel Carlton Arsa Haste WhiteStar Provita Orfina Moriva Lemania Germinal Americus Imperial Clebar Sheffield Laco Vacheron Invicta Monarch Record Harwood Garland Rembrant Lavina Winton Olma Vulcain Golay |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Neil Major Andrews Edgewater Adjutant Sea Ranger Benton Scout Gyromatic Sea guard Seville Sheldon Ward Scott Norde Sir Echo Newton Beau Royal Yorktown Sinclair Deauville Stafford Sinclair Courtney Minu-stop Valiant Prentice Tuxedo Sea mate Baton Captain Rice Sutton Aldrich Vernon Glenn Sea-glo Raleigh Howard Dorsey Pimlico Carlyle Drexel Sea Scout Sea Skip Cabot Judson Dodson Foster Lyndon Whitney Whitman Eternamatic Livingston Larchmont Calvin Commodore Norton Bryn Mawr Vincent Clyde Wilson Lord Lancaster Varsity Piping Rock Sea Cliff Crispin Samson Majesty Roland Aviator Lone Eagle Bentley Cambridge Fleetwood Elliot Emery Nelson Trudy Spur Gordon Flight II Blackstone Brockton Secron Richmond Baxter Yorktown Maritza Cameron Pierre Romanesquen Ross Curtis Oakmont Grafic Deluxe Brock Kenilworth Gallahad Wellington Austin The Chief's Blake Hartman Barry Sea-cap Prescott Derby Tempus Cedric Dante Colby Senator Huntley Whitehall Winthrop Attache |
Doublet Holden Perry Marcus Curvex Enditcott Crusade Centurion Ristflo Hayden Chieftan Essex Todd Kevin Oval Midas Conway Errol Darrell Morton Thornton Sawyer Wilkinson Fulton Ansley Cyril Dennis Grover Grant Ryan Powell Bostonian Sea Rover Craig Eric Gardner Sky Chief Bagley Windsor Top Gun Manhattan Veri-thin Farrell Molly Stark Donald Radburn Sea Scape Oakley Lance Gladstone Stuart Medalist Wembley Cross country Black knight Coronado Carlisle Bowman Dunhan Tyron Vardon Milton Cedercrest Chevy Chase Futura Maxine Cadet Amherst Khyber Talbot Commander Langford Lakeland Taylor Bradford The Governor Sloane Ensign Drake Casino Boatswain Russell Chesterfield Thor Chapman Wakefield Arlington Hawthorne Clinton Kinematic Wesley Kensignton Gold knight Chief Baronet Beau Brummel Corvet Chatham Dean Fleetwood Sidney Dickens Mount Vernon Pacermatic Murray Frontenac Garfield Mason Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Turner Linwood Collegian Ascot Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Keane |
Montclair Berkshire Eaton Wesleyan Newlin Bailey Monaco Boyd Brent Mayfield Reardon Sea-crest Peyton Robert Roberta Haddon Portia Warwick Coburn Myron Secometer Sedgman Lester Boulton New Yorker Gilman Boone Thincraft Milburn Staunton Stanford Citadel Marshall Carson Otis Webster Langley Linden Hall Aqualine Stadium Brewster The Athelete Chatham Gary Chanticleer Lakehurst B.W. Raymond Rodney Whitford Caroline Viscount Annapolis Ericsson Emerson Halesworth B Norman Grenadier Vernon Keith Brandon Quadron Cordell Dwight Hudson Seaview Dewitt Trooper Consul Cavalier Donavan Thinline Dawson Kinematic Kirby West Point Streamlined Carl Ardsley Jolly Roger Steeldon Rutledge William Osler Wilshire Ensign Blair Jeffrey Tiger & Lady Lambert Martin Orson Culver Adrian Edgemere ipso-vox Lyle B Glendon Reagan Contour Golden Tempus II Seabrook Dartmouth Sea Hawk Putnam Byrd Heyward Blade First Mate Arnold Barbizon Carteret Morley Spencer Surf ... |
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