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:
Fitchburg Watch bo. Western Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. E.F. Bowman American Waltham Trenton Watch do. Nashua Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Potter Albert Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Rockford Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. W.E. Harper American Repeating Watch Co. Ingersol New York Watch Co. Jacob Custer Wichita Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. |
Benedict & Burham James & Henry Pitkin Auburndale Watch Co. Waterbury Boston Watch Co. National Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Appleton watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Luther Goddard Thomas Harland |
George Reed U.S. Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Charles Fasoltd Peoria Watch co B.D. Bingham Washington Watch Co. Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Bannatyne Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Cornell 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:
Seeland Rotary Mimo Borel Boucheron P. Buhre Beltone Eterna Hamilton Lang Uhr Normandie Coronet Friedli Wig Wag Rapid Vacheron Butex Bovet Fairfax Marlys Hafis Westend Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Continental Huguenin Evans Pronto Admes Autdrist Kelek Condal Altus Octo Glashutte Faith Gruen Sperina Enicar Ace Acro Louvig Imperial Ekegren Opel Smith Grana Roxy Exactus Tourneau Nicolet Watch Seth Thomas Crown Goering Alpina Glycine Alpha Garland Schultz Omega Carlton Frodsham Ollendorff Tornex-Rayville Rolls Bucherer Perpetual Watch Co. Kingston Rado Roamer Alavente |
Kent Leonidas South Bend A. Lange & Sohne Zentra Niton Cartier Aristo Watex Monarch Kurth Alsta Montbrilliant Benson Asprey Mt. Vernon Perfine Didisheim Geneve Phillepe Watch Co. Lemania Delbana Provita PiagetPreesent WhiteStar Agassiz Duodial Ebel Central Nivada International Wakmann Helbros Americus Arbi Tavannes Invicta Gallet Juvenia Hy. Moser & Cie Gubelin Elgin Framont Charles Nicolet Laco Jaeger Olympia Turler Golay Olma Ofair Jardur Driva Patria Felca Orfina Minerva Angelus Regina Monte Sheffield Weldon Hermes Alton Unitas Bulova Hilton |
LePhare Urania Hydepark Lip Kord Eloga Timecraft Baylor Hebdomas Mido Semca Certina Van Cleef & Arpels Stowa Lavina Excelsior Rolex Frey Lusina Touchon Shield Lancel Lucerne Wyler Longines Arsa Parker Titus Doxa Arctus Emerson Clebar Yale Tissot P. Garnier Blancpain Univer Ulysse Nardin Movado Eska Breguet Hallmark Warwick Vulcain LeCoultre Ardath Orvin Harvel Germinal Eberhard Record Lucien Piccard Trebex Patek Philippe Avalon Buren Bueche-Girod Newmark Winton Ball Baume & Mercier Dunhill Rocail Rockford Harvard Zodiac |
Hayden Rulon Mars Girard-Perregaux Daynite Welsbro National Rima Lorton Electra Cortebert Moriva LIbela Orator Fontainemelon Corum Mappin Benrus Mar Nicolet Concord Harwood Nicewatch Co. Hampden Boulevard Lyceum Audax Henda Standard Croton Guinand Favre Leuba Tiffany Cyma Sigma Kelbert Zenith Revue Rembrant Helvetia Cawford Hever Dugena Wittnauer Ogival Harman Verno Kelton Breitling Aramis Cornavin Haste Dome Berg Audemars Piguet Levrette Jules Jurgensen Louis Chopard Illinois Universal J.E. Watch Co. Weltall Pabro Ultimor |
Models of watches that we repair:
Haddon Precision Clark Lakeland Consul Sea Cliff Courtney Maxine Lincrest Radburn Molly Stark Glenn Avigo Senator Fleetwood Corvet Ristflo Paxton Whitehall Langford Sinclair Nelson Stafford Major Cameron Aldrich Sloane Yorktown Dennis Baronet Beau Brummel Briarcliffe Whitney Coburn Frontenac Dorsey Stuart Arnold Rutledge Medford Dean Grant Windsor Carl Fleetwood Argyle Ambassador The Governor Bentley Medalist Wembley Pierre Paige Chieftan Vincent Yeoman Seabrook Cedric Gardner Edgemere Stadium Sea-glo Barton Dexter Brent Secron Pacermatic Cyril Rutgers Thor Eric Cambridge Carlisle Donavan Sky Chief Dixon Kinematic Cross country Berkshire Staunton Wesley Franklion Trent Ascot Lakehurst Andrews Ward Talbot Wesleyan Foster Sea-crest Boyd Diamond Bailey Centurion Surf Piping Rock Carteret Edgewater Raymon Transcontinental A B Boulton Clinton Garfield Reardon Norton New Yorker Eternamatic Amherst Gulfport Dawson Adonis Golden Tempus II |
Craig Sidney Brandon Black Star Sir Echo Tiger & Lady Powell Flight I Varsity Commodore Adjutant Marquis strap Enditcott Portia Otis Ericsson Emerson Quadron Norman Tyron Vardon Milton Bryn Mawr Derby Attache Drummond Viking Richmond Byrd Thornton Lone Eagle Milburn Scott Majesty Gladstone Seaview Wayne Allison Huntley Beau Royal Winfield Chief Morton Norde Hudson Mason Commander Elliot Emery Dewitt Conway Orson Baton Gold knight Doublet Sea Scape Wilson Manhattan Robert Roberta Norman Airflight Finalist Mayfield Sinclair Ardmore Vernon B.W. Raymond Curvex President Antique Brockton Ramsey Glenn Curtis Gary Futura Minu-stop Cedercrest Chevy Chase Nightingale Sea mate Courier Blade Bradford Culver Gilman Oakmont Putnam Ashley Glendale First Mate dunkirk Marcus Tildon Parker B Coronado Cullen Black knight Crusade Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights stanley Peyton Cranston Golden Tempus Whitman Sea guard Drake Romanesquen Ross Errol Sea Scout Sea Skip Randolph Lindsay Sheryll Dwight Annapolis Landon |
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