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:
Illinois Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Freeport Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Watch Co. American Waltham Melrose Watch Co. Ingersol E. Howard and Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. New England Watch Co., B.D. Bingham James & Henry Pitkin Western Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. George Reed South Bend Watch Co. |
Nashua Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Luther Goddard Newark Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Jacob Custer W.E. Harper Herman Vod der Heydt Peoria Watch co Adams & Perry Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Aurora Watch Co. National Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. |
Boston Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Fitchburg Watch bo. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Cheshire Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Otay Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Thomas Harland Independent Watch Co. Waterbury Trenton Watch do. Wichita Watch Co. Columbus 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:
Excelsior Van Cleef & Arpels Orvin Benrus Kelek Benson Lucien Piccard Opel Alsta Standard Octo Warwick Harman Kingston Ollendorff Friedli Wakmann Admes Gallet Emerson Cortebert Exactus Cornavin Baylor Alton Pronto Touchon Phillepe Watch Co. Seeland Weltall Lusina Wittnauer Louis South Bend Turler Gruen Lemania Guinand Mt. Vernon Asprey Borel Boucheron Nicolet Watch Dome Lavina Rado Autdrist Monte Vacheron Driva Wyler Omega Angelus Germinal Aramis Shield Helvetia Charles Nicolet Winton Rolls Eloga Rapid Haste Orator Kurth Moriva Nicewatch Co. Kord Eterna |
Rembrant Alavente Trebex Ulysse Nardin Hermes Berg International P. Garnier Stowa Faith Westend Hebdomas Kelton Jaeger Levrette Cyma Timecraft Regina Tissot Framont Enicar Mar Nicolet Rima Rolex Olympia Eska Hayden Ball Cartier Leonidas Avalon Rulon Mimo Central Grana Goering Gubelin Harwood Urania Baume & Mercier Henda Watex Arbi Alpha Fontainemelon Alpina Ardath Garland Ace Acro Ofair Altus Felca Breitling Seth Thomas Ebel LeCoultre Elgin Buren National Helbros Kent Aristo Corum Daynite Olma Bulova Tornex-Rayville |
Dugena Provita Concord Invicta Mappin Tourneau Harvard Agassiz Pabro Jardur Perpetual Watch Co. Verno Rockford A. Lange & Sohne Mido Weldon Fairfax Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Evans Rocail Condal Clebar Geneve Cawford Tavannes Butex Juvenia Welsbro Hilton Lip Record Ekegren Zentra Perfine Girard-Perregaux Hy. Moser & Cie Schultz Frey Breguet Blancpain Didisheim Continental Lang Uhr Montbrilliant Semca Jules Jurgensen Louvig Patria Sigma Wig Wag Hamilton Coronet LIbela Lyceum Hever Chopard Certina Delbana Niton Lucerne Roamer Marlys Movado Hafis Zenith Audax |
P. Buhre Hydepark Glycine Carlton Sperina Arctus Ogival LePhare Nivada Croton Audemars Piguet Bucherer Frodsham J.E. Watch Co. Universal Arsa Vulcain Longines Imperial Yale Electra Hampden Lorton Unitas Glashutte Normandie Beltone Newmark Favre Leuba Minerva Rotary Huguenin Bovet Titus Dunhill Duodial Laco Lancel Zodiac Roxy Kelbert Parker Revue Univer PiagetPreesent Hallmark Mars Harvel Illinois Sheffield Ultimor Golay Crown Eberhard Monarch WhiteStar Tiffany Orfina Smith Boulevard Bueche-Girod Doxa Americus Patek Philippe |
Models of watches that we repair:
Deauville Chanticleer Gyromatic Foster Sea mate Medford Rodney Alan Stuart Jason Curtis Barbizon Cavalier Marcus Chapman Kenilworth Gallahad Vernon Secometer Sedgman Varsity Prentice Colby Marshall Darrell Barton Harris Dyson The Athelete Kirk Eaton Hudson Beldon Howard President Antique Blade New Yorker Allison Norman Cross country Fleetwood Carlton Monaco Fleetwood Seabrook Wesley Linwood Viking Pinehurst Ryan Baronet Beau Brummel Norde Cambridge Gramercy Cranston Boulton Montclair Ensign Dexter Clearview Aviator Precision Nelson Cedric Thincraft B.W. Raymond Sinclair Corvet Edgemere Bowman Hastings The Governor West Point Trent Champion Talbot Raleigh Grenadier Amherst direct read Sea-crest Seaview Raymon Holden Lone Eagle Adonis Touraine Enditcott Perry Brooke Crispin Webster Sea Hawk Winfield Transcontinental A B Larchmont Boatswain Calvin Romanesquen Ross Maritza Courier Cabot Whitford Chronomatic top hat Sea Cliff Quadron Sheryll Bartley Carl Sea-glo Sherwood Blair Doublet |
Carson Brockton Captain Rice Bagley Lyndon Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights William Osler Turner Airman Powell Morley Curvex Futura Arlington Hawthorne Sinclair Kensignton Beau Royal Secron Lowell Ardsley Molly Stark Gilman Murray Dawson Meadowbrook Raleigh Greenwich Majesty Langdon Wakefield Sloane Citadel Sutton Stafford Derby Heyward dunkirk Wayne Piping Rock Khyber Mayfield Black Star Caroline Orson Arnold Landon Mount Vernon Cullen Maxine Ashley Pierre Craig Essex Garfield Tuxedo Spencer Chatham Andrews Accumatic Milton Otis Yorktown Avigo Aqualine Manhattan Lester Gardner Baron Spur Veri-thin Warwick Todd Carteret Clinton Adjutant Grover Trooper Ardmore Baton Wesleyan Hartman Sea Scape Dodson stanley Lakeland Dean Farrell Brock Ward The Chief's Norman Longacre Bailey Vernon Casino Grant Stadium Glendon Berkshire Briarcliffe Rolland Fischer Andover Dunhan Blackstone Morton Chadwick Sky Chief Seville Sheldon Lance Carlisle |
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