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:
Auburndale Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Washington Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Jacob Custer Waterbury Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Seth Thomas Watch do. Cornell Watch Co W.E. Harper Luther Goddard Independent Watch Co. American Waltham George Reed Otay Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. E.F. Bowman U.S Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. |
New England Watch Co., Rock Island Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Cheshire Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Melrose Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin National Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Adams & Perry Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. |
American Waltham Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Ingersol D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Columbus Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Aurora Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Western Watch Co. Thomas Harland South Bend Watch Co. Benedict & Burham |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Mimo Blancpain LePhare Lorton Titus Tissot Certina Monte Sperina International P. Buhre Alavente Omega Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Louvig Jaeger Newmark Van Cleef & Arpels Watex Nicewatch Co. Ebel Levrette Berg Benson Rado Orfina Rockford Favre Leuba Girard-Perregaux Seth Thomas Alton Admes J.E. Watch Co. Minerva Juvenia Hever Lip Mappin Arbi Montbrilliant Hallmark Ace Acro Orator Touchon Roamer Cawford Olma Cornavin Hafis Felca Wyler Hamilton Guinand Zodiac Ekegren Jardur WhiteStar Rapid Pronto Emerson Bueche-Girod Exactus Winton Delbana Lavina Smith Clebar Rolex |
Universal Olympia Record Butex Welsbro Autdrist Audemars Piguet Pabro Roxy Benrus Rembrant Coronet Lyceum Niton Ofair Breguet Fairfax Huguenin Elgin Mar Nicolet Illinois Grana Avalon Mido Croton Ulysse Nardin Jules Jurgensen Baylor Univer Kingston Moriva Enicar Haste Perfine Vacheron Schultz Harvard Opel Americus Daynite Patek Philippe Rima Audax Lemania Central Dome Buren Rocail Leonidas Zenith Tourneau Cyma Chopard Hydepark Boulevard Wittnauer Gubelin Alsta Mars Harwood Frodsham Angelus Faith Rulon Zentra Vulcain Cortebert |
Breitling Dugena Ardath Orvin Parker Frey Standard Nicolet Watch Hy. Moser & Cie Geneve Doxa Lancel Movado Trebex Helbros Regina Asprey Laco Alpha Monarch Eberhard Arsa Continental Tiffany Yale Mt. Vernon Kurth Turler Wakmann Louis Kent Garland Eterna Weltall LIbela Kelbert Lusina Bovet Duodial Kord Harman Invicta Timecraft Crown P. Garnier Semca Concord Corum Beltone Gallet Cartier Henda Ogival Lucien Piccard Alpina Longines Westend Seeland Sigma Phillepe Watch Co. Agassiz Electra Rotary Arctus Lang Uhr Friedli |
Nivada Hampden Excelsior Condal Ball Hilton Hermes Borel Boucheron LeCoultre Ultimor Tavannes Dunhill Evans Warwick Stowa PiagetPreesent Octo Didisheim A. Lange & Sohne National Aristo Sheffield Driva Helvetia Framont Charles Nicolet Golay Glycine Harvel Weldon Wig Wag Patria Rolls Fontainemelon Gruen Unitas Eloga Hayden Lucerne Tornex-Rayville Kelton Eska Shield Germinal Bucherer Goering Imperial Marlys Glashutte South Bend Urania Ollendorff Bulova Normandie Kelek Hebdomas Carlton Perpetual Watch Co. Altus Provita Aramis Revue Baume & Mercier Verno |
Models of watches that we repair:
Flight II Webster Peyton Dexter Molly Stark Carson Linwood Landon Sidney Larchmont Bartley direct read Baronet Beau Brummel Tempus Brooke Bentley Whitman Chatham Croydon Chadwick Argyle Sinclair Culver Oxford Flint Ridge Merritt Avigo Gulfport Norman Sea Rover Adrian Sir Echo Rutgers Lambert Radburn Heyward Deauville Darrell Carlton Milburn Hudson Baron Dixon Golden Tempus Stanford Lincrest Putnam Glenn Dewitt Meadowbrook Thornton Dodson Scott New Yorker Major Glenn Curtis Ardsley Franklion Stanford Staunton Holden Wesleyan Cabot Medford Langdon Ansley Brock Sea guard Finalist Eric Greenwich Cordell Boulton Lakeland Touraine Jason Warwick Conway Gilvert Sea Ranger Lawrence Lone Eagle Lord Lancaster Vernon Diamond Whitehall Transcontinental A B Kinematic Kirby Beldon Cyril Keane Seville Sheldon Coronado Casino Yeoman Reagan Sea Scape Carl Gramercy Maritza Midas Mason Donavan Gary Vincent Arlington Hawthorne Ambassador Ensign Sutton Brandon Kirk |
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