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:
Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Appleton, Tracy & Co. American Waltham Bannatyne Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Warren Manufacturing Co. Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Herman Vod der Heydt Benedict & Burham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Rockford Watch Co. Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin South Bend Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. New York Watch Co. |
Hamilton Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Boston Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. George Reed Trenton Watch do. Appleton watch Co. Waterbury B.D. Bingham Thomas Harland Mosart Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Ingersol U.S Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. W.E. Harper |
Columbus Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham National Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Auburndale Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. 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:
Perfine Welsbro Electra Asprey Warwick Harman Fontainemelon Regina WhiteStar Grana Illinois Haste Kurth Provita Rado Eterna Hever Helvetia Univer Doxa Jules Jurgensen Watex Seth Thomas Elgin Driva Timecraft Henda Lyceum Perpetual Watch Co. Frodsham Americus Record Weltall Ogival Zodiac Boulevard Westend Arctus Ace Acro Lang Uhr Kelton Chopard Cartier Montbrilliant Altus Longines Vacheron Crown Smith Baume & Mercier Semca Huguenin Rima Certina Nicewatch Co. Baylor Avalon Wittnauer Gallet Kingston Normandie Cortebert Rocail Aristo Roxy Tornex-Rayville Tourneau Framont |
Cawford Louvig Rotary Beltone Rockford Alpina Verno Dugena Favre Leuba Revue Evans Goering Parker Girard-Perregaux Monte Emerson South Bend Trebex Lemania Ball Kent Winton Hydepark Buren P. Garnier Gruen Bovet Concord Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lucerne Benrus Guinand Stowa Golay Audemars Piguet Shield PiagetPreesent Juvenia Olma Hy. Moser & Cie Charles Nicolet Eloga Gubelin Excelsior Ardath J.E. Watch Co. Hallmark Jardur Dunhill Octo Glashutte Mido Sheffield Condal Helbros Minerva National Glycine Corum Marlys Orvin Friedli Butex Eska Nivada Ulysse Nardin P. Buhre |
Benson Invicta Titus International Unitas Daynite A. Lange & Sohne Turler Opel Dome Wyler Van Cleef & Arpels Standard Rapid Enicar Fairfax Kelbert Mar Nicolet Alpha Arbi Movado Seeland Zenith Angelus Lancel Central Orator Blancpain LIbela Duodial Monarch Yale Weldon Continental Imperial Harvel Bulova Aramis Carlton Breitling Harwood Alavente Geneve Cornavin Hayden Sperina Alton Hebdomas LeCoultre Ofair Hamilton Garland Ebel Ollendorff Tiffany Agassiz Germinal Mappin Pabro Lavina Lorton Patek Philippe Levrette Bucherer Admes Coronet |
Lucien Piccard Nicolet Watch Harvard Patria Schultz Frey Wakmann Delbana Rembrant Vulcain Phillepe Watch Co. Mt. Vernon Ultimor Tissot Autdrist Audax Olympia Didisheim Clebar Laco Faith Eberhard Bueche-Girod Kelek Mars Croton Hermes Rulon Niton Arsa Touchon Omega Pronto Kord Breguet Lip Wig Wag Urania Hilton Roamer Newmark Sigma Alsta Moriva Felca Hafis Rolex Ekegren Lusina LePhare Borel Boucheron Hampden Universal Zentra Rolls Orfina Cyma Tavannes Berg Exactus Louis Leonidas Jaeger Mimo |
Models of watches that we repair:
Trooper Meadowbrook Hastings direct read Orson Steeldon Nightingale Sutton Valiant Ashley Kirk Ensign Stanford Brewster Glenn Curtis Harris Bryn Mawr Gardner Boone Sea Cliff Ardmore the Curtis Aqualine Milton Pimlico Mount Vernon Berkshire Wilshire Edgemere Bradford Airman Consul Myron Sinclair Cullen Staunton Streamlined Chatham Sea-glo Linden Hall Sea-cap Clyde Alan Wayne Cranston Baron Baxter Lord Lancaster Calvin Perry Bentley Grafic Deluxe Newlin Mayfield Gordon Arlington Hawthorne Foster Kevin Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Sea Breeze Norfolk Rolland Fischer Brent Ristflo Blair West Point Amherst Drake Secometer Sedgman Spencer Argyle Randolph Varsity Baton Livingston Brandon Airflight Touraine Paige Donavan Jeffrey Samson Sea mate William Osler Beau Royal Sea guard Thor Morton Barton New Yorker Aldrich Lyle B Edgewood Gladstone Majesty Manhattan Collegian Taylor Donald Croydon Benton Medford Pinehurst Dickens Heyward Minu-stop Sky Chief Midas Prentice Stadium Romanesquen Ross |
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