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