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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Benedict & Burham Columbus Watch Co. National Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Jacob Custer Freeport Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Boston Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Warren Manufacturing Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Waterbury New England Watch Co., George Reed American Waltham Watch Co. American Waltham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. |
South Bend Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Thomas Harland Hampden Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Ingersol E.F. Bowman E. Howard and Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. |
Appleton watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co W.E. Harper Wichita Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Luther Goddard Appleton, Tracy & Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. South Bend Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Seth Thomas Watch do. Independent Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Aurora 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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Girard-Perregaux Cornavin Dome Kurth Harvel Revue Tiffany Patria Gruen Bucherer Octo Dunhill Aristo Normandie Lemania Rima Driva Lyceum Roamer LIbela Levrette Carlton Alton Kord Autdrist Winton Ogival Boulevard Newmark Gallet Jardur Avalon Rotary Blancpain Cortebert Tornex-Rayville Charles Nicolet Movado Pronto Universal Hermes Hever Aramis Admes Imperial Framont Weltall Trebex Touchon Orator Borel Boucheron Lusina Crown Wyler Hayden Golay Marlys Kingston Monarch Rulon Rockford Zentra Ebel Frey Grana Alsta Mimo Rapid |
Louis Standard Arbi Westend Pabro Hampden Hamilton Regina Laco Concord Sheffield Ekegren Dugena Bulova Glashutte Ball Gubelin Moriva Evans Eloga Urania Audax Wittnauer Watex Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Coronet Elgin Patek Philippe Lip Ace Acro Benson Mt. Vernon Favre Leuba Ardath Ultimor Mappin Invicta Agassiz Wig Wag Roxy Continental Turler Condal Harvard Breguet Warwick Univer Harwood Kelek Smith Leonidas Unitas Frodsham Glycine Ofair Breitling Fairfax Cyma Yale Mars Chopard Vacheron Weldon Electra Lavina Rado Montbrilliant |
Haste Rembrant Louvig Eterna Friedli Provita Kent Perpetual Watch Co. Vulcain P. Buhre Lancel Lucien Piccard Benrus Baylor Berg Guinand Alpha P. Garnier Welsbro Cawford Olympia Beltone Niton Delbana Henda Helvetia Corum Mido Olma Juvenia Nicolet Watch LeCoultre Jaeger Rolex Perfine J.E. Watch Co. Zodiac Rocail Jules Jurgensen Goering Parker Asprey Butex Arctus Van Cleef & Arpels Tourneau LePhare Ollendorff Minerva Hafis Kelbert Central Cartier Eberhard Hebdomas Americus Kelton Monte Exactus Bovet Harman Timecraft Geneve Hilton Opel Alpina |
Faith Alavente Garland Hy. Moser & Cie Croton Nicewatch Co. A. Lange & Sohne Buren Omega PiagetPreesent Fontainemelon Felca Ulysse Nardin Illinois Verno Helbros Seeland Lucerne Baume & Mercier Arsa Longines Audemars Piguet Clebar Tissot Mar Nicolet Eska Excelsior Huguenin Rolls South Bend Hallmark Emerson Bueche-Girod Schultz Stowa Orfina Didisheim Angelus Shield Altus Doxa Phillepe Watch Co. Daynite Wakmann Seth Thomas Sperina Duodial Germinal Nivada Sigma Hydepark International Orvin Titus Certina WhiteStar Zenith Lang Uhr Semca Lorton Record Enicar National Tavannes |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Elliot Emery Fulton Bowman Stuart Bradford The Chief's Wellington Whitney Pacermatic Secron Sea Hawk Oakmont ipso-vox Commodore Sky Chief Hudson The Athelete Byrd Haddon Drexel Colby Arlington Curvex Jason Cavalier Barbizon Valiant Mason Grover Raleigh Spencer Sea Ranger Landon Wesleyan Tildon Oakley Top Gun dunkirk Cordell Yorktown Andrews Caroline Bailey Dawson Farrell Cambridge Webster Pierre Piping Rock Diamond Craig Pimlico Radburn Bartley Argyle Thincraft President Antique Hayden Roland Trent Champion Livingston Bryn Mawr William Osler Larchmont Viking Marshall stanley Lester Gold knight Chadwick Putnam Meadowbrook Blake Brooke Donald Calvin Allison West Point Viscount Brent Medford Nelson Sinclair Beldon Merritt Ambassador Franklion Austin Harris Wilkinson Norde Attache Langley Frontenac Eaton Carlyle Guardsman Wilson Heyward Casino Aqua Lung Benton Lowell Brock Captain Rice Stormking Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Tuxedo Rodney Whitford |
Croydon Bentley Dwight Blackstone Sea-cap Raymon Montclair Thinline Gramercy Dartmouth Commander Arnold Doublet Seville Sheldon Rutgers Hartman Surf Norton Sea-glo Romanesquen Ross Ascot Molly Stark Donavan Kenilworth Gallahad Prentice New Yorker Gilvert Reagan Cyril Mayfield Cross country Carl Lyndon Medalist Wembley Sherwood Whitehall Neil Avigo Perry Scout Darrell Airman Boone Wakefield Norman Oxford Lance Lawrence Kensignton Raleigh Sea mate Golden Tempus II Dixon Cabot Glenn Streamlined Ensign Carteret Lord Lancaster Baxter The Governor Sea Breeze Greenwich Corvet the Curtis Briarcliffe Otis Chatham Cullen Grenadier Berkshire Lone Eagle Halesworth B Brockton Judson Sea-crest Turner Mate Ramsey Chieftan Finalist Flight II Oval Black Star Marquis strap Sidney Boulton Gulfport Sea Rover Thor Blair Baton Seabrook Curtis Ward Drew Gilman Dexter Jeffrey Veri-thin Senator Morton Keith Lakeland Windsor Ensign Culver Chapman Winfield Pinehurst |
Cranston Powell Brandon Errol Lindsay Sheryll Adonis Boatswain Milton Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Lakehurst Samson Newton Windsor Majesty Kirk Vernon Staunton Alan Custer Spur Winthrop Lee Coronado Lincrest Contour direct read Langdon Huntley Bostonian Blade Carlton Portia Richmond Seaview Deauville Thornton Stadium Peyton Gary Edgemere Chatham Bagley Aldrich Amherst Sir Echo Ristflo Futura Talbot Drake Dickens Wesley Russell Ardmore Ryan Orson Airflight Malcom Guardsman Sloane Glendale Sea Scape Drummond Trooper Gordon Adrian Top Time Garfield Clyde Monaco Dyson watson Gyromatic Foster Citadel Centurion Milburn Carson Khyber Transcontinental A B Trudy Spur Holden Taylor Glendon Quadron Barry Newlin Edgewater Grafic Deluxe Dewitt Tempus Linwood First Mate Whitman Tyron Vardon Maxine Ardsley Accumatic Courier Gardner Murray Keane Dunhan Golden Tempus Prescott Marcus Baron Mount Vernon Vernon Ansley |
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