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. Waterbury Nashua Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. American Waltham Jacob Custer Watch Co. W.E. Harper E. Howard and Co. Auburndale Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Ingersol Herman Vod der Heydt J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd B.D. Bingham Cheshire Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. |
Hamilton Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Peoria Watch co Melrose Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Cornell Watch Co U.S. Watch Co. George Reed National Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. New England Watch Co., New York Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. |
Appleton watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Luther Goddard Bannatyne Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin South Bend Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Freeport Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Thomas Harland |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
|
LIbela Angelus Elgin Omega Admes P. Buhre Patria Movado Shield Rolls Jardur Niton Crown Semca Octo Ebel Lang Uhr Hever Marlys Revue Breitling Hafis Mido Breguet Cartier Haste Mar Nicolet Westend Laco Baume & Mercier Alpina Montbrilliant Altus Nicewatch Co. Autdrist Universal Mappin Vulcain International South Bend Cortebert Ofair Kent Fontainemelon Mt. Vernon Chopard P. Garnier Blancpain Alpha Wittnauer Monte Ekegren Goering Juvenia Opel Verno Kelbert Zenith Timecraft Kelton Enicar Driva Lavina Imperial Gallet Ultimor Seeland Univer |
Wig Wag Baylor Urania Electra Tourneau Framont Gruen Eterna Hampden Agassiz Eska Huguenin Invicta Lorton Glycine Normandie Benson Record Rulon Hayden Emerson Hilton Carlton Provita Continental Wyler Pabro Guinand Tissot Aristo Excelsior Golay Cyma Lucien Piccard Weldon Monarch Audemars Piguet Vacheron Louvig Jules Jurgensen A. Lange & Sohne Standard Ball Orator Rembrant Zentra Louis Phillepe Watch Co. Rotary Hermes Sigma Buren Exactus Bulova Borel Boucheron Welsbro Harvard PiagetPreesent Moriva Tavannes Daynite Croton Rocail Felca Stowa Friedli Boulevard |
Roxy Charles Nicolet Hydepark Leonidas Hebdomas Yale Zodiac Lusina LePhare Levrette Butex Ulysse Nardin Arctus Lyceum Illinois Hy. Moser & Cie Sheffield Fairfax Schultz Asprey Audax Warwick Eloga Harwood Beltone Ollendorff Turler Perpetual Watch Co. Weltall Parker LeCoultre Hamilton Kingston Winton Pronto Kord Tiffany Dunhill Kelek Duodial Nivada Longines Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Ardath Americus WhiteStar Helbros Patek Philippe Mimo Coronet Wakmann Bueche-Girod Newmark Henda Certina Frodsham Grana Mars Berg Rado Garland Titus Seth Thomas Cawford Glashutte Nicolet Watch |
Concord Eberhard Hallmark Trebex Bucherer Orfina Tornex-Rayville Harman Roamer Aramis Olma J.E. Watch Co. Girard-Perregaux Ogival Corum Rolex Kurth Clebar Unitas Dome Sperina Bovet Frey Regina Alton Ace Acro Didisheim Rima Arbi Central Lip Geneve Touchon Doxa Orvin Smith Dugena Arsa Harvel Evans Lucerne Faith Rockford Olympia Condal Gubelin Avalon Lemania Helvetia Germinal Jaeger Benrus Delbana National Favre Leuba Minerva Cornavin Van Cleef & Arpels Alsta Watex Alavente Lancel Rapid Perfine |
Models of watches that we repair:
|
Thor Stanford Sinclair Haddon Staunton Lyndon Caroline Ensign Calvin Trent Baron Richmond Reagan Larchmont Harris Radburn Carlyle Steeldon Edgewater Yorktown The Chief's Hayden Finalist Webster Bianca Seaview Khyber Custer Norman Baton Dunhan Deauville Black Star Windsor Taylor Glendon Greenwich Chadwick Chapman Transcontinental A B Curvex Ardmore The Athelete Maxine Sea-glo Montclair First Mate Veri-thin Stuart Norman Flint Ridge Garfield Dewitt Talbot Precision Secometer Sedgman Adonis Brock Fleetwood Sea Hawk Medalist Wembley Gramercy Neil Blade Eaton Rodney Milburn Spencer Tiger & Lady Tyron Vardon Sentinal Livingston Ryan Ascot Donald Blackstone Bowman Futura Guardsman Howard Thornton Beldon Malcom Linwood Chief Samson Wilshire Sky Chief Marshall Cabot Mount Vernon Errol dunkirk Alan Sidney Pimlico Todd Bradford Consul direct read Piccadilly Avigo Sea Ranger Manhattan Thinline Whitford Oxford Berkshire Holden Scout Drew |
Medford Lyle B Austin Sea-cap Surf Boulton Adrian Nightingale Chronomatic top hat Lindsay Warwick Edgewood Sea Rover Crusade Maritza Flight I Frontenac Yeoman Cavalier Paige Derby Romanesquen Ross Hudson Accumatic Golden Tempus II Dyson Midas Majesty Wilson Senator Touraine Carlton Amherst Peyton William Osler Newton Minu-stop Ericsson Emerson Quadron Sea mate Major Clark Valiant Crispin Secron Boatswain Gyromatic Tempus Bentley Marquis strap Arlington Airflight Whitehall Merritt Gary Brent Lance Eric Craig watson Aqua Lung Aldrich Golden Tempus Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Cameron Croydon B.W. Raymond Baxter New Yorker Piping Rock The Governor Kinematic Kirby Jeffrey Lowell Prescott Robert Roberta Byrd Wesleyan Kirk Cranston Jolly Roger Ambassador Cedercrest Chevy Chase Franklion Chesterfield Wellington Andover Raleigh Oakley Coburn Wesley Annapolis Barton Beau Royal Colby Langdon Black knight Dickens Seabrook Sutton Stanford Airman Nelson Fleetwood Glenn Curtis Blake Kinematic Clinton Mayfield Sea Scape |
Rutgers Streamlined Sea-crest Attache Gilvert Murray Prentice Whitman Wayne West Point Morley Langley Dwight Viking Molly Stark Glendale Farrell Gilman Lone Eagle Kenilworth Gallahad Fulton Gardner Marcus Adjutant Brockton Corvet Newlin Drexel Wilkinson Winthrop Seville Sheldon Chanticleer Brooke Rolland Fischer Donavan Drake Oakmont Dorsey Cordell Norfolk Boyd Orson Champion Carl Ramsey Cyril Sea guard Raleigh Gordon Dean Glenn Landon Yorktown Russell Stadium Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Stormking Lester Ansley Benton Ristflo Grafic Deluxe Foster Gold knight Varsity Judson Edgemere Briarcliffe Allison Citadel Keane Coronado Cross country Roland Otis Barry Linden Hall Thincraft Elliot Emery Carteret Randolph Keith Cullen Pinehurst Reardon Pacermatic Commodore Sea Scout Sea Skip Top Gun Ensign Ward Stafford Lambert Dennis Carlisle Kensignton Paxton Clearview Barbizon Enditcott Arnold Aqualine Clyde Guardsman Gladstone Sinclair Top Time Bartley Parker B Morton |
Lakeland Portia Kevin Scott Dawson Culver Milton Bryn Mawr Commander Sawyer stanley Dexter Spencer Norton Powell Gulfport Bailey Carson Conway Hartman Courier Meadowbrook Trooper Trudy Spur Lawrence Ashley Collegian Dodson Diamond Darrell Baronet Beau Brummel Chatham Vernon Martin Drummond Myron Contour Rutledge Curtis Huntley President Antique Raymon Tildon Cadet Bagley Andrews Turner Cedric Dante Doublet Mason Vernon Bostonian Halesworth B Brandon Spur Oval Tuxedo Argyle Pierre Hastings Lincrest Viscount Sherwood Putnam Sloane Monaco Grover Jason Arlington Hawthorne Heyward Chieftan Whitney Windsor Aviator Mate Winfield Langford Lee Dixon Dartmouth Chatham Longacre Wakefield Blair Norde Lord Lancaster Brewster Lakehurst Flight II Captain Rice Courtney the Curtis Sir Echo Centurion Perry Boone Sea Breeze Vincent Eternamatic Sea Cliff Grenadier Cambridge Casino Ardsley Sheryll ipso-vox Essex Grant ... |
|
Contact terry@watchrepair.cc | ||
| Watch Repair Services Watch Case Repair Services For Wrist Watches For Pocket Watches Chronograph Repair Services |
Mailing Instructions Shipping Instructions Contact WatchRepair.cc Home |
Everything Else Meet the Watchmaker How A Watch Works |
Copyright Notice © 1999-2022 Terry Nelson
All rights RESERVED. All material on this Website, including text, photographs, graphics, code and or software, are protected by international copyright and trademark laws. Unauthorized use is not permitted. You may not copy, modify, republish, reproduce, post, distribute or transmit material on this Web Site, in any manner.
www.watchrepair.cc
All rights RESERVED. All material on this Website, including text, photographs, graphics, code and or software, are protected by international copyright and trademark laws. Unauthorized use is not permitted. You may not copy, modify, republish, reproduce, post, distribute or transmit material on this Web Site, in any manner.
www.watchrepair.cc






