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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South Bend Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Ball Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Jacob Custer Rock Island Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Lancaster Watch Co. George Reed W.E. Harper U.S Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. National Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Luther Goddard James & Henry Pitkin |
E. Howard and Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. New York Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Thomas Harland Ingersol American Repeating Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. New England Watch Co., B.D. Bingham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Trenton Watch do. Peoria Watch co Adams & Perry Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. |
Benedict & Burham Potter Albert Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Herman Vod der Heydt Aurora Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Waterbury Illinois Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. American Waltham D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. |
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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Mimo Zenith Harman Niton Parker LIbela Rockford Alpha Nicolet Watch Shield Central Gruen Eberhard Lip Golay Buren Rolls Lorton Urania Mido Ogival Tavannes Hampden Ball Montbrilliant Grana Record Timecraft Rotary Weldon Garland Perpetual Watch Co. Eska Alsta Provita Nivada P. Buhre Carlton Tornex-Rayville Rocail Goering Dome Beltone P. Garnier Jaeger International Hafis Berg Agassiz Patria Ollendorff Illinois Baume & Mercier Cortebert Regina Geneve Orvin Felca Mt. Vernon Winton Smith Juvenia Ultimor Jardur Mar Nicolet Phillepe Watch Co. Monarch Verno |
Harwood Benrus Angelus Lyceum Newmark Dunhill Charles Nicolet Gallet Kingston Pronto Fairfax Olma Aristo Touchon Hever Bueche-Girod Semca Arctus Admes Olympia Frodsham Haste Lemania Mappin Frey Mars Asprey Bovet Van Cleef & Arpels Blancpain Standard Nicewatch Co. Excelsior Americus Arbi Hebdomas Rolex Avalon Kurth Vacheron Glycine Bulova Huguenin Schultz Invicta Revue Audemars Piguet Leonidas Friedli Movado Pabro Rado Henda Arsa Louvig Kent Framont Normandie Croton Cartier Bucherer Hayden Helvetia Breitling Marlys Zodiac Lucien Piccard |
Ardath Sigma Enicar Perfine Rima South Bend Orfina Warwick Crown Titus LePhare Lusina Lancel Aramis Laco Eloga Unitas Germinal Autdrist Watex Alpina Helbros Hydepark WhiteStar Favre Leuba Welsbro Hallmark Yale Audax Continental Rembrant Elgin Universal Electra Kelbert Wakmann Roamer Corum Ace Acro Exactus Harvel Lang Uhr Altus Imperial Faith Wig Wag Glashutte Alavente Condal Clebar Evans Wittnauer Chopard Fontainemelon Rapid Hy. Moser & Cie Breguet Ulysse Nardin Guinand Gubelin Moriva Omega Seth Thomas Lucerne Octo Hilton |
LeCoultre Dugena Louis Wyler Zentra Eterna Cornavin Emerson Girard-Perregaux Ofair Seeland Baylor Turler Kelton Duodial Certina Tiffany Tourneau Orator Stowa Boulevard Didisheim Coronet Hamilton Daynite Lavina Hermes Tissot Patek Philippe Delbana Benson Rulon National Concord Trebex Driva Butex A. Lange & Sohne Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Opel Kelek Harvard Westend Jules Jurgensen Ebel Univer Weltall Roxy J.E. Watch Co. Longines Borel Boucheron Minerva Cawford Kord Levrette Sperina PiagetPreesent Monte Vulcain Alton Ekegren Sheffield Doxa Cyma |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Blade Sea Breeze Trent Lone Eagle Lance Donavan Top Gun Aqualine Norman Casino Medalist Wembley Sidney Arlington Taylor Ericsson Emerson Portia Sea mate Edgemere Grafic Deluxe Oxford Streamlined Fulton Curvex Molly Stark Black Star Top Time Baronet Beau Brummel Cameron Seville Sheldon Neil Courier Merritt Berkshire Pimlico Huntley Conway Wilshire The Chief's Linden Hall Eternamatic Briarcliffe Bowman Brooke Sawyer Nelson Stormking Airman Beldon Whitehall the Curtis Montclair stanley New Yorker Fleetwood Murray Maritza Amherst Bradford Coronado Livingston Piping Rock Larchmont Ardsley Trooper Yeoman Turner Whitman Keane Corvet Flight I Andover Gulfport Commander Elliot Emery Franklion Errol Minu-stop Sutton Dixon Viscount Ryan Champion Ascot Secometer Sedgman Eric Parker B Cavalier Spencer ipso-vox Brockton Dickens Varsity Fleetwood Sinclair Sentinal Haddon Grover Consul Valiant Sky Chief Byrd Carlisle Guardsman Crusade Coburn Vincent Sea Scout Sea Skip Ramsey Prescott Langdon Lester |
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