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:
Western Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Peoria Watch co E.F. Bowman National Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. George Reed American Waltham Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Otay Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Mosart Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. B.D. Bingham |
Adams & Perry Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Ball Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Appleton, Tracy & Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. |
Waterbury Nashua Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. South Bend Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Charles Fasoltd Herman Vod der Heydt E. Howard and Co. Ingersol South Bend Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Trenton Watch do. W.E. Harper New England 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:
Rockford Altus Ardath Rolex Eloga J.E. Watch Co. Perpetual Watch Co. Admes Lyceum Helbros Hamilton Felca Vulcain Revue Chopard Mimo Kelbert Charles Nicolet Helvetia Roamer Alpha Nicewatch Co. Harman Kelton Ofair Garland P. Buhre Crown Dome Trebex Rapid Tourneau Clebar Dugena Hallmark Longines Bulova Normandie Beltone Harwood Shield Mt. Vernon Corum Huguenin Louis Verno Blancpain Wyler Rulon Ebel LePhare Emerson Record Hy. Moser & Cie Turler Guinand Hydepark Titus Standard Minerva Parker Henda Coronet Baylor Hebdomas Faith Bovet Weltall |
Ogival Illinois Butex Olympia Timecraft Breitling Cawford South Bend Unitas Lang Uhr Benson Driva Glashutte Delbana Baume & Mercier Wig Wag Kelek Geneve Benrus Universal Louvig Jardur Daynite Angelus Evans Certina Hermes Cartier Mappin Carlton Westend Sperina Rocail Tavannes Zenith Moriva Olma Aristo Haste Avalon Weldon Mars Tissot Americus Exactus Arctus Arbi Bucherer Kingston Goering Mido Orvin Doxa Ekegren Mar Nicolet Nivada Rima Lucerne P. Garnier Winton Stowa Orator Friedli Levrette Hafis A. Lange & Sohne Phillepe Watch Co. |
Montbrilliant Sigma Enicar Lemania Movado Tiffany Monte Octo Pabro Lavina Kurth Seth Thomas Alpina Frey Urania Continental Glycine Croton Buren Harvel Opel Golay Bueche-Girod Duodial LIbela Rotary Grana Lucien Piccard Patria Eska International Hilton Lip Smith Cortebert Zentra Imperial Electra Ollendorff Nicolet Watch Excelsior Welsbro Wakmann Fontainemelon Girard-Perregaux Hever Yale Frodsham Framont Elgin Hampden Eterna Alsta Lancel Zodiac Marlys Gubelin Harvard Kent Sheffield Monarch Roxy Gallet Audemars Piguet Ulysse Nardin Patek Philippe |
Perfine Jules Jurgensen Touchon Hayden Tornex-Rayville Ultimor Didisheim Boulevard Lorton Audax Concord Lusina Central Semca Invicta Newmark Seeland Niton Omega National Aramis Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Rado LeCoultre Ball Rembrant Asprey Fairfax Juvenia Cornavin Pronto Borel Boucheron Germinal Orfina PiagetPreesent Kord Berg Alavente Condal Schultz Autdrist Gruen Eberhard Dunhill Wittnauer Warwick Leonidas Cyma Ace Acro Arsa Favre Leuba Laco Agassiz Vacheron Univer Rolls Alton WhiteStar Regina Van Cleef & Arpels Breguet Jaeger Provita Watex |
Models of watches that we repair:
Benton Prentice Nightingale Major Montclair Linden Hall Glendale Dickens Yeoman Neil Dodson Cedric Grafic Deluxe Tildon Quadron Fleetwood Sutton Mount Vernon Boyd Boulton Valiant Sea mate Ryan Barry Allison Transcontinental A B Barton Rolland Fischer Flint Ridge Sea Rover Baronet Beau Brummel Bailey New Yorker Carlton Sentinal Ardmore Lambert Norman Turner Wilkinson Black knight Oval Landon President Antique Pinehurst Gold knight Morton Cullen Cranston Edgewater Dean Lawrence Newlin Holden Diamond Hastings Sea guard Conway Bianca Lance Baxter Touraine Secometer Sedgman Whitney Barbizon Argyle Reagan Hayden Pacermatic Beau Royal Dorsey Paxton Tempus Lee Wesley Medford Cadet Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Sky Chief Drummond Futura Edgewood Midas Custer Winthrop Veri-thin direct read West Point Darrell Orson Boatswain Whitehall Brent Deauville Brockton Judson Frontenac Dante Chapman Aviator Sea-glo Edgemere Molly Stark Corvet Myron B.W. Raymond Donald Brock Chief Langford Ward |
Stanford Sea Scout Sea Skip Minu-stop Dyson Trudy Spur Drake Glendon Glenn Ansley Seaview Wayne Lyle B Beldon Norde Larchmont Sherwood Bostonian Yorktown Eternamatic Wellington Alan Farrell Commodore Austin Contour Lester Staunton Piping Rock Sea Ranger The Governor Maxine Spencer Cross country Guardsman Whitford Sea-crest Lindsay Gyromatic Huntley Accumatic Arlington Hawthorne Derby Dwight Oakmont Thincraft Collegian Flight II Chatham Raleigh Crispin Arlington Langdon Champion Cabot Andrews Carson Chieftan Seville Sheldon Marcus Powell Keith Commander Sea Cliff Chesterfield Russell Oxford Top Time Blair Mason Trooper Windsor Lyndon Essex Top Gun Longacre Stormking Enditcott Langley Chronomatic top hat Baron Keane Sheryll Raymon dunkirk Lone Eagle Mate Stanford Airflight Spur Dartmouth Oakley Taylor Norman Andover Dixon Stadium Nelson Coronado Ramsey Dennis Windsor Gramercy Sea-cap Carlyle Wilshire Franklion Kenilworth Gallahad Dewitt Lincrest Gordon |
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