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 Waterbury Cornell Watch Co Seth Thomas Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Herman Vod der Heydt J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. American Waltham Thomas Harland Rockford Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Illinois Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Charles Fasoltd Columbus Watch Co. Western Watch Co. |
Otay Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. New England Watch Co., South Bend Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Benedict & Burham U.S Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Luther Goddard Wichita Watch Co. George Reed U.S. Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Appleton watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. |
New York Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Mosart Watch Co. Jacob Custer Newark Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Hamilton Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Hampden Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Ingersol James & Henry Pitkin National Watch Co. Adams & Perry 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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Rado Cornavin Faith Touchon Univer Coronet Concord Parker Invicta Zodiac Breitling Tiffany Bulova Benson Arbi Lusina Turler Hafis Fairfax Jardur Pabro Blancpain Urania Sigma Golay Ogival Rima Boulevard Croton Ulysse Nardin Bueche-Girod Hilton Moriva Niton Dugena Rocail Wittnauer Ardath Eska Imperial Hermes Ball P. Buhre Nicewatch Co. Alavente Rembrant Nivada Rotary Helvetia Eberhard Ollendorff Buren Altus Seth Thomas Louvig Regina Orvin Rolls Tissot Clebar Evans Crown Bovet Leonidas Omega Favre Leuba Vulcain Zenith |
Monarch Westend Aramis Harvard Alsta Grana Standard Alton Excelsior Emerson Exactus Nicolet Watch Wig Wag Mt. Vernon Bucherer P. Garnier Lyceum Borel Boucheron Gubelin Kord Ofair Mimo Lang Uhr Kelek Timecraft Universal Continental Hy. Moser & Cie A. Lange & Sohne Kingston Alpha Didisheim Gallet Glycine Olma Huguenin Fontainemelon Olympia Weldon Admes Laco Americus Patek Philippe Yale Watex Trebex Minerva Berg Cawford J.E. Watch Co. Jaeger Enicar Tornex-Rayville Helbros Hebdomas Audax Newmark Angelus Kelbert Dome Seeland Phillepe Watch Co. Audemars Piguet Chopard Lavina Ultimor Electra |
Harman Duodial Normandie Orator Illinois Garland Montbrilliant Welsbro Unitas Eterna Ebel Schultz Cyma Sperina Carlton Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Pronto Geneve Henda Winton Mido Monte Smith Goering Certina Driva Butex Marlys Tourneau PiagetPreesent Perfine Orfina Juvenia Delbana Doxa Ace Acro Arsa Girard-Perregaux Condal Hallmark Wakmann Hydepark Wyler Eloga Titus Kurth Rulon South Bend Breguet LeCoultre International Mars Lancel Sheffield Roxy Levrette National Elgin Friedli Corum Zentra Frey Revue Asprey LIbela Lucerne |
Aristo Van Cleef & Arpels Frodsham Vacheron Mar Nicolet Lip Hamilton Guinand Arctus Rockford Baume & Mercier Octo Hampden Avalon Haste WhiteStar Kelton Germinal Shield Autdrist Hever Alpina Harwood Lemania Verno Stowa Movado Framont Mappin Tavannes Ekegren Felca Longines Warwick Roamer Charles Nicolet Cortebert Benrus Glashutte Perpetual Watch Co. Louis Record Patria Baylor Rapid Daynite Lucien Piccard Jules Jurgensen Rolex Semca Lorton Gruen LePhare Kent Opel Agassiz Weltall Central Harvel Cartier Dunhill Provita Hayden Beltone |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Oxford Baronet Beau Brummel Carson Sherwood Jason Attache Ardsley Sir Echo Norman Sea Ranger Reagan Coronado Steeldon Sinclair Gardner Major Spencer Blair Guardsman Seabrook Cavalier Vernon Colby Touraine Flight II Radburn Brent the Curtis Gladstone Cross country Norfolk Champion Brandon Coburn Warwick Croydon Edgewood Yorktown Grover Gilman Longacre Meadowbrook Gold knight stanley Seville Sheldon Guardsman Bryn Mawr Doublet Medalist Wembley Morley Roland Barry Romanesquen Ross Finalist Aldrich Mount Vernon Midas Bradford Montclair Consul Donald Tempus Courtney Sinclair Beldon Aviator Benton direct read Winthrop Ryan Sloane B.W. Raymond watson Reardon Elliot Emery Cabot Mayfield Barton Dean Cadet Thincraft Byrd Errol Allison Norton Martin Captain Rice Ristflo Piccadilly Lance Eric Kirk Curvex Sea Scout Sea Skip Myron Medford Fleetwood Andover Sentinal Raleigh Paige Caroline Futura Gramercy Diamond Austin Fulton Sidney Calvin Linwood Arlington |
Amherst Briarcliffe Ansley Linden Hall Chatham Brewster Arlington Hawthorne Commodore Paxton Boulton Essex Franklion Chesterfield Andrews Monaco Lone Eagle Golden Tempus Airman Molly Stark Khyber dunkirk Talbot Wayne Lee Brock Avigo Marshall Peyton Foster Tiger & Lady Dixon Contour Sea-crest Howard Boone Kinematic Kirby Dexter Stuart Lord Lancaster Putnam Vincent Sea-cap Rutledge Berkshire Thor Chanticleer Bartley Cyril Neil Ensign Powell Portia Windsor Brooke Newlin Wakefield Ascot Annapolis Hastings Lakeland Brockton Top Time Minu-stop Baxter Aqualine Milton Gulfport Perry Carlyle Whitehall Donavan Hudson Golden Tempus II Merritt Centurion Marcus Whitman ipso-vox Veri-thin Chadwick Chieftan Grant Kensignton Dodson Norde Prescott Murray Trudy Spur Sea Breeze Webster Drake Nelson Clyde Kinematic New Yorker Milburn Boyd Carlton Winfield Todd The Athelete Seaview Bagley Barbizon Chapman Randolph Ward Glenn Spencer Top Gun |
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