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. Cheshire Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Jacob Custer Boston Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. W.E. Harper Freeport Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Luther Goddard Waterbury American Waltham Watch Co. Western Watch Co. |
Appleton, Tracy & Co. Ball Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Warren Manufacturing Co. Ingersol Rockford Watch Co. George Reed Newark Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. South Bend Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. U.S. Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. American Waltham Adams & Perry Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Potter Albert Watch Co. |
Mosart Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Nashua Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Trenton Watch do. Peoria Watch co New England Watch Co., Thomas Harland Fitchburg Watch bo. Independent Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Columbus 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:
Rotary Felca Shield Eska Hayden Olympia Coronet Rolls Croton Agassiz Hamilton Montbrilliant Newmark Touchon Vulcain Kelek Seeland Butex Ardath Cartier Central Helbros Wakmann Universal Fontainemelon Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Elgin Glashutte Zentra Yale Haste Titus Unitas Univer Urania Lorton Breitling Audemars Piguet Omega Tissot Rima Breguet LIbela Asprey Dunhill Alton Avalon Baume & Mercier Bueche-Girod Leonidas Eberhard Ollendorff Cawford Angelus Smith A. Lange & Sohne Imperial Kent Roxy Ebel Corum Zenith Ace Acro Sigma Mar Nicolet Emerson Bucherer Clebar |
Hy. Moser & Cie Concord Lang Uhr Longines Germinal Vacheron Mars Dugena Buren Harwood Lucien Piccard Ofair Electra Invicta Normandie Rulon Sperina Tourneau Watex Orfina Berg Lip Octo Lusina Autdrist Mido Regina Tavannes Condal Alavente Goering Patria Wig Wag Ultimor Frodsham Harman Rolex Friedli Didisheim Harvard LePhare Turler Bovet Jardur Pronto Cyma Monarch Niton Kingston Eloga Continental Timecraft Altus Standard Audax Benrus Seth Thomas Ekegren Perpetual Watch Co. Certina Van Cleef & Arpels Nicewatch Co. Monte Daynite Eterna Glycine Harvel |
Mappin Evans Roamer Orator Chopard Lemania Beltone Minerva Sheffield Juvenia Lavina Verno Arbi Pabro Carlton Moriva Hydepark Helvetia Doxa Gallet South Bend Wittnauer Phillepe Watch Co. Alpha Americus Stowa Gruen Trebex Rado P. Buhre Orvin Alpina Girard-Perregaux National Huguenin Enicar Exactus Bulova Revue Kurth Hampden Ogival Geneve Charles Nicolet Zodiac Blancpain Arctus PiagetPreesent Marlys Nicolet Watch Levrette Driva Boulevard Ulysse Nardin Record Baylor Louvig Grana Weldon Duodial J.E. Watch Co. Movado Westend Favre Leuba Parker Borel Boucheron |
Mt. Vernon Lancel Dome Garland Delbana Kord Gubelin Illinois Rockford Cortebert Hafis Henda Rapid Arsa Winton Jaeger Hilton P. Garnier Hallmark Benson Framont Weltall Aramis WhiteStar Opel Alsta Provita Rembrant Lucerne Olma Admes Warwick Schultz Welsbro Frey Aristo Kelton Crown Cornavin Fairfax Semca Excelsior Hever Lyceum LeCoultre International Patek Philippe Louis Tornex-Rayville Wyler Guinand Nivada Laco Hebdomas Tiffany Rocail Perfine Mimo Hermes Faith Kelbert Jules Jurgensen Ball Golay |
Models of watches that we repair:
Andover Gilman Thincraft Mount Vernon Milburn Top Time Courtney Frontenac Samson B.W. Raymond Boulton Fleetwood Raleigh William Osler Barton Turner Alan Spencer Thinline Flint Ridge Baxter Cullen Streamlined Chatham Lambert Sea-glo Calvin Lyle B Dunhan Croydon Scout Yorktown Chadwick Gordon Sawyer Blackstone Winfield Dickens First Mate Carson Flight II Reagan Livingston Sheryll Chanticleer Monaco Bryn Mawr Ascot Curtis Garfield Robert Roberta Courier Putnam Pinehurst Drexel Tempus Grover Bradford Sentinal Centurion Beldon The Governor Futura Raymon Roland Tiger & Lady Glenn Stadium Langford Ashley Parker B Bowman Lord Lancaster Lindsay Nightingale The Chief's Wellington Greenwich Lincrest Ericsson Emerson Radburn Jolly Roger Sherwood Ward direct read the Curtis Portia Rutgers Stanford Manhattan Perry Dawson Cabot Norman Cyril Drake Wesleyan Edgewood Cedercrest Chevy Chase Accumatic Bagley Winthrop Glendon Dorsey Newton Kinematic Sea Rover Baron Pimlico Vincent Precision |
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