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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New York Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Bannatyne Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. W.E. Harper E.F. Bowman Charles Fasoltd U.S Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Lancaster Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Aurora Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Rockford Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Appleton watch Co. Jacob Custer Manhatten Watch Co. |
Illinois Watch Co. American Waltham Boston Watch Co. Waterbury Newark Watch Co. Luther Goddard B.D. Bingham Thomas Harland U.S. Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Benedict & Burham Hamilton Watch Co. George Reed Rock Island Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Mosart Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Western Watch Co. |
Columbus Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Ingersol Potter Albert Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt New England Watch Co., Auburndale Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. National 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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Levrette Pronto Vacheron Framont Daynite Turler Boulevard Tavannes Enicar Harvel Butex WhiteStar Electra Trebex Girard-Perregaux Harman Mar Nicolet Timecraft Sigma Rolls Rolex Stowa Doxa Helvetia Fairfax Faith Olympia Kingston Dugena Tornex-Rayville Gubelin Lavina Arctus Weldon LeCoultre Imperial Frodsham Cartier Unitas Bovet Juvenia Glycine Mappin Octo Kelek Grana Cortebert Evans Borel Boucheron Huguenin Lusina Ekegren Provita Emerson Germinal Zentra Clebar Excelsior Hermes Gruen Jardur Garland Kurth Weltall Angelus Aramis Hy. Moser & Cie Orfina |
Wakmann Continental Univer Glashutte Shield PiagetPreesent Aristo Lemania Rado Wittnauer Rima Patek Philippe Hever Autdrist Sheffield Seth Thomas Niton Lancel Alton Jaeger Rulon Minerva Yale Golay Winton Coronet Avalon Hayden Orvin Monarch Eterna Urania Henda Croton Zenith LePhare Lip Audax Tiffany Ebel Rocail Wyler Exactus Laco Asprey Tissot Semca Cornavin Welsbro Van Cleef & Arpels Omega Lang Uhr Newmark Nivada Eska Mido Titus South Bend P. Buhre Rembrant Frey Schultz Standard Hafis Perfine Illinois Dunhill |
Agassiz Normandie Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Central Ulysse Nardin Orator Beltone Geneve Certina Breguet National Felca Moriva Ardath Favre Leuba A. Lange & Sohne Rockford Admes Ofair Blancpain Chopard Cawford Elgin Longines Bucherer Concord Baylor Lucien Piccard Perpetual Watch Co. Kent Delbana Tourneau Louis Harwood Harvard Hallmark Alsta Buren Berg Wig Wag Duodial Rapid Condal Dome Warwick Seeland Verno Bulova Monte Universal Baume & Mercier Lucerne Ultimor Arsa Record Arbi Vulcain Altus Roamer Alavente Ollendorff Olma Zodiac Hampden Invicta Movado |
Jules Jurgensen Nicewatch Co. Mt. Vernon Benrus Charles Nicolet Patria Bueche-Girod Sperina Roxy Didisheim Smith Ace Acro Gallet Eberhard Friedli Lorton Hamilton Touchon Phillepe Watch Co. Parker Goering Mimo Americus Kelton Carlton Ball Driva Pabro Montbrilliant Leonidas Eloga Audemars Piguet P. Garnier Kord J.E. Watch Co. Corum Kelbert Rotary Haste Lyceum LIbela Opel Regina Fontainemelon Alpina Helbros Crown Benson Breitling Hilton Mars Marlys Alpha Westend Watex International Ogival Louvig Nicolet Watch Cyma Revue Hebdomas Hydepark Guinand |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Molly Stark Heyward Curtis Top Gun Ardsley Conway Curvex Brockton Langdon Streamlined direct read Ascot Dyson Blair Argyle Russell Whitney Grafic Deluxe Tildon Corvet Prescott Chesterfield Minu-stop Jeffrey Spencer Blackstone Carl Kinematic Kirby Eric Mount Vernon Norman Errol Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Brooke Pinehurst Bowman Aqua Lung Wakefield Oakmont Jason Harris Byrd Boulton Wellington Maritza Carlisle Judson Flint Ridge Lance Winthrop Baxter Gilman Annapolis Lakehurst Fleetwood Eternamatic Colby Chronomatic top hat Oakley Culver Austin Norde Consul Chief Warwick Seabrook Allison Newton Malcom Sea-crest Dexter Cedercrest Chevy Chase Sheryll Rutgers Golden Tempus Drexel Greenwich Yeoman Baton Turner Webster Gramercy Coronado Carlton Halesworth B Boatswain Airman Wilshire Lord Lancaster Medford Chieftan Collegian Donald Avigo Dennis Morton Todd Talbot Sinclair Darrell Reagan stanley Paxton First Mate Kevin Sea Scout Sea Skip Tiger & Lady Wayne Commodore Marshall Airflight |
Chatham Bartley Kirk Secron Samson Cavalier Scott Brewster Sloane Gary Medalist Wembley Casino Cordell Clinton Livingston Hastings Coburn President Antique Gulfport Andover Citadel Khyber Tuxedo Kinematic Blade Manhattan Majesty Aqualine Wilkinson Dawson Tyron Vardon ipso-vox Ericsson Emerson Hudson Cranston Gardner Bagley Martin Caroline Carlyle Clearview Sea Rover Lyndon Midas Lee Stormking Attache Sidney Sea-cap Flight II Foster Whitman Valiant Futura Trudy Spur Lambert Portia Windsor Lakeland Cyril Rutledge Milburn Veri-thin Putnam Myron Whitehall Raleigh Norfolk Craig Sea Scape Lyle B Ristflo Thinline Cedric Cambridge Mason Stanford Gold knight Ensign Courier Dixon Longacre Amherst Brent Beau Royal Sentinal Vernon Raleigh West Point Glenn Blake Lester Black knight Benton Quadron Merritt Oxford Barry Champion Cadet Mayfield Adjutant Seaview Edgewater Gilvert Dwight Lincrest Keith Croydon Garfield |
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