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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Independent Watch Co. Peoria Watch co E. Howard and Co. James & Henry Pitkin Bannatyne Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Trenton Watch do. Fitchburg Watch bo. Cheshire Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Melrose Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Freeport Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. New York Watch Co. |
South Bend Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Jacob Custer Columbus Watch Co. Ingersol American Waltham Seth Thomas Watch do. W.E. Harper Appleton watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Hamilton Watch Co. Thomas Harland Nashua Watch Co. Waterbury |
Illinois Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. George Reed Benedict & Burham National Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Luther Goddard Charles Fasoltd Rockford Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Newark 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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Stowa Patria Ace Acro Rima Ogival Omega Evans Zenith Shield Montbrilliant Benrus Nicolet Watch Ekegren Jardur Lancel Helvetia Kord Ebel Hydepark Niton Warwick Girard-Perregaux Normandie Imperial Frodsham Urania Borel Boucheron Moriva Monte Faith Smith Lucien Piccard Hever Roamer Revue Concord Kurth Invicta Audax Duodial Tissot Wakmann Charles Nicolet International Patek Philippe Baylor Orvin Cawford Movado Dunhill Agassiz P. Garnier Westend Lucerne Rotary Wittnauer Exactus Kelek Goering Trebex Kent Orfina Enicar Lavina Jaeger Timecraft Framont Geneve |
Titus Lang Uhr Eloga Jules Jurgensen Marlys Asprey Dome Excelsior Hayden Perpetual Watch Co. Vacheron Standard Felca Didisheim Ollendorff Zodiac Mido Semca Altus Lemania Rado Carlton Condal Alsta Hebdomas Hallmark Louis Nivada Weltall Welsbro Electra Gubelin Rolex Hermes Benson Cortebert Weldon Rapid Harwood Driva Baume & Mercier Monarch Coronet Favre Leuba Lusina A. Lange & Sohne Mimo Seth Thomas Hilton Delbana Boulevard Roxy Mt. Vernon Berg Turler Eberhard Hampden Olympia Seeland Laco Guinand Daynite Universal Americus Longines Audemars Piguet Hamilton |
Zentra Tourneau Minerva Juvenia Grana Breitling Haste Yale Ulysse Nardin Fontainemelon Croton Henda Unitas Alavente Regina Univer Illinois Tiffany Aristo Bovet Vulcain Alpha Angelus Harvel Fairfax Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lip Ball Helbros LIbela Friedli Watex Avalon Chopard Mappin Tornex-Rayville Autdrist Opel Certina Bulova Corum Cyma Golay Kelbert Eska Germinal Mar Nicolet Alpina Central P. Buhre Lyceum Alton Harman Ardath PiagetPreesent Cornavin Provita WhiteStar Eterna Emerson Blancpain Rockford Record Olma Newmark Rolls |
Bucherer Admes Van Cleef & Arpels Glashutte Winton Garland Harvard Nicewatch Co. Huguenin LeCoultre Glycine Frey Pronto Gruen Elgin Schultz Bueche-Girod Butex Lorton Ofair Kingston Arsa Perfine Levrette Hy. Moser & Cie LePhare Hafis Verno Tavannes Buren Aramis Pabro Louvig Crown Kelton Clebar Parker Arbi Phillepe Watch Co. J.E. Watch Co. Sheffield Ultimor Touchon Rulon South Bend Sperina Gallet Wyler National Cartier Sigma Rocail Dugena Mars Rembrant Arctus Beltone Breguet Orator Doxa Leonidas Octo Continental Wig Wag |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Pacermatic Yorktown Ambassador Cedric Curvex Gold knight William Osler Franklion Lyle B Milton West Point Drummond Vincent Howard Nelson Ryan Aqua Lung Steeldon Adrian Thincraft Holden the Curtis Collegian Oakmont Vernon Ward Neil Contour Corvet Roland Rutgers Conway Baxter Seaview Dexter Donald The Athelete Hastings Airflight Adjutant Scout Andrews Clyde Croydon Myron Cavalier Major Landon Nightingale Allison Golden Tempus II Kevin Langdon Seville Sheldon Chieftan Midas The Governor Eric Bostonian Whitman Andover Prescott Citadel Whitehall Garfield Hayden Clearview Frontenac Boyd Martin Commodore Bartley Secron Ardsley Sentinal The Chief's Avigo Norde Todd Carteret Fleetwood Foster Oxford Glendale Kensignton Carl Gulfport Carlisle Baronet Beau Brummel Lambert Ashley Glendon Lincrest Sea Ranger Dean Top Time Clinton Lee Viscount Sidney Sea guard Cyril Edgemere Berkshire Lance Thornton Richmond Trent Gyromatic Attache Drake |
Glenn Yeoman Wakefield Wilkinson Keith Kinematic Sky Chief Eaton Sea-cap Ascot Senator Surf Ramsey Cabot Brock Farrell Craig Newlin Whitford Halesworth B Mate Dwight Parker B Austin Sea Scout Sea Skip Lester Putnam Otis Commander Windsor Sea-glo Minu-stop Barry Gary Chapman Grant Gardner Glenn Curtis Tyron Vardon Cranston Elliot Emery Guardsman Gilvert Merritt Donavan Lakehurst Norman Brandon Bianca Rutledge Cameron Coburn Tildon watson Chief Trudy Spur Ericsson Emerson Ristflo Marshall Briarcliffe Black knight Newton Robert Roberta Veri-thin Adonis Gladstone Dennis Sheryll Quadron Bailey New Yorker Medalist Wembley Crusade Precision Barton Flight I Trooper Brent Norman Bentley Keane Sir Echo Wilson Stafford Doublet Ansley Blade stanley Amherst Raymon Drew Webster Courier Stadium Captain Rice Kirk Edgewood Malcom Arnold Byrd Raleigh Beldon Barbizon Jeffrey Judson Norton Cordell Wayne Linwood Dante |
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