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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Western Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin New York Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Benedict & Burham South Bend Watch Co. W.E. Harper Ingersol American Waltham U.S Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Ball Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. |
American Waltham Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. B.D. Bingham E.F. Bowman Trenton Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Newark Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Warren Manufacturing Co. U.S. Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Hampden Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. |
Thomas Harland Independent Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Waterbury Potter Albert Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Columbus Watch Co. National Watch Co. Watch Co. George Reed New England Watch Co., Boston Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Freeport Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Mosart 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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Arsa Lang Uhr Turler International Phillepe Watch Co. Perfine Mar Nicolet Evans Kord Minerva Westend Zentra Smith LePhare Roxy Breitling Kingston Patek Philippe Patria Nicewatch Co. Touchon Favre Leuba Kurth Daynite Hever A. Lange & Sohne Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Agassiz Hebdomas National Didisheim Audemars Piguet Orfina Autdrist Admes Lemania South Bend Lucerne Carlton Schultz Bulova Audax Baume & Mercier Timecraft Movado Benson Niton P. Buhre Golay Lucien Piccard Croton Girard-Perregaux Charles Nicolet Wittnauer Tissot Emerson Buren Octo Huguenin Titus Exactus Angelus Stowa Geneve Winton Juvenia Duodial Provita |
Roamer Ollendorff Ogival Felca Lyceum Kent Fontainemelon Normandie Seeland Pabro Mt. Vernon Aristo Hydepark Mappin Alavente Harvard Jardur Alpina Alton Rulon Parker Continental Fairfax Ball Hallmark Zenith Tiffany P. Garnier Ardath Monarch Ulysse Nardin Kelbert Goering Montbrilliant Illinois Van Cleef & Arpels Regina Revue Blancpain Wig Wag Dome Bucherer Guinand Chopard Avalon Louvig Elgin Benrus Beltone Jules Jurgensen Hamilton Berg Verno Aramis Framont Kelton Standard Lorton Ace Acro Welsbro Rockford Rotary Dunhill Cawford Faith Rapid Weltall |
Garland Vulcain Arbi Ultimor Henda Laco Lip Mars Dugena Unitas Sheffield Tourneau Hafis Coronet Frodsham Driva Eterna Gruen Ebel Ekegren Eloga Concord Perpetual Watch Co. Harwood J.E. Watch Co. Lavina Monte Hilton Seth Thomas Levrette Harman Corum Leonidas Central Germinal Olympia Nivada Trebex Jaeger Glashutte Pronto Record Yale Marlys Altus Rolls Invicta Cartier Omega Alpha Mido Helbros Cortebert Borel Boucheron Eberhard Zodiac Friedli Asprey Orator Cyma Grana LIbela Hampden Glycine Electra Excelsior |
Vacheron Frey Univer Alsta Bueche-Girod Enicar Bovet Condal PiagetPreesent Crown Delbana LeCoultre Wakmann Doxa Haste Gubelin Universal Kelek Semca Lancel Breguet Clebar Rado Olma Americus Rembrant Opel Tavannes Moriva WhiteStar Shield Imperial Harvel Hayden Mimo Tornex-Rayville Louis Rolex Nicolet Watch Hermes Weldon Longines Hy. Moser & Cie Warwick Butex Wyler Arctus Rima Sigma Rocail Urania Orvin Newmark Eska Cornavin Boulevard Baylor Ofair Sperina Certina Lusina Gallet Helvetia Watex |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Stanford Varsity Kirk Morton Keith Seville Sheldon Courier Sir Echo The Athelete Norfolk Barton Amherst Pacermatic Midas Bradford Dexter Cranston Ensign Baronet Beau Brummel New Yorker Contour Surf Baxter Oxford Viscount Marquis strap Donald Golden Tempus II Quadron Reardon Major Bostonian Thor Champion Landon Reagan Dodson Edgewood Raymon Maxine First Mate Majesty Rodney Byrd Lyle B Sentinal Talbot Portia Veri-thin Boone Boyd Crispin Fleetwood Vincent Trudy Spur Chanticleer Parker B Viking Enditcott Custer Fleetwood Bailey Chatham Brent Collegian William Osler Wilshire Grant Rutledge Gardner Medford Ambassador Sea Hawk Blackstone Pinehurst Richmond Adonis Spencer Seaview Arlington Hawthorne Bartley Dewitt Dartmouth Keane Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Glendale Stafford Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Brooke Beau Royal Lone Eagle Sea-cap Corvet Prentice Howard Norman Arlington Sea Scape Gramercy Lowell Oval Molly Stark Jolly Roger Sea-crest Baron Thornton Ardmore Citadel Livingston Lester Annapolis |
Winfield Fulton Scott Greenwich Attache Brockton Mason Manhattan Brandon Taylor Pierre Ward watson Sea-glo Commander Ardsley Franklion Yorktown Gary Dyson Chapman Hayden Lawrence Gordon Precision Sinclair Carteret Russell Grafic Deluxe Dawson Kensignton Lord Lancaster Tempus Paige Consul Blade Neil Cullen Andover ipso-vox Guardsman Khyber West Point Cabot Marshall Derby Black Star Maritza Carlyle Croydon Newton Monaco Carlton Flint Ridge Gladstone Gilman Senator Randolph Cross country Clinton Ashley Peyton Hastings Seabrook Carlisle Flight II Meadowbrook Blake Raleigh Thinline Conway Longacre Gold knight Culver Oakmont Aqualine Coburn Drummond Golden Tempus Austin Garfield Sidney Coronado Ascot Beldon Boatswain Sinclair Rutgers Nightingale Darrell Tyron Vardon Wellington Putnam Robert Roberta Tiger & Lady direct read Sea mate Spur Vernon Lincrest Sea Breeze Grenadier Langley The Chief's Drexel Aldrich Trooper Colby Ryan Boulton |
Roland Spencer Lance Caroline Craig Chesterfield Curvex Sea Cliff Malcom Martin Clearview Touraine Bowman Merritt Grover Top Time Wesleyan Pimlico Marcus Winthrop Curtis Todd Farrell Raleigh Glendon Chadwick Sea Ranger Cadet Wilson Sea Rover Centurion Diamond Elliot Emery Wakefield Cyril Halesworth B Norde Argyle Secron Deauville Stadium Dean Windsor Chief Lyndon Langdon Courtney stanley Tildon Chronomatic top hat Rolland Fischer Morley Barry Vernon Lakehurst Jeffrey Baton Eric The Governor Prescott Airflight Milton Cedric Flight I Gyromatic Secometer Sedgman Sherwood Lakeland Linwood Ristflo Adrian Linden Hall Drew Captain Rice Gulfport Streamlined Glenn Whitman Steeldon Stormking Windsor Trent Gilvert Allison Powell Bentley Dixon Foster Sawyer Brewster Judson Yeoman Norman Staunton Bianca Nelson Aviator Larchmont Ericsson Emerson Arnold President Antique Romanesquen Ross Medalist Wembley B.W. Raymond Crusade Oakley Otis Mount Vernon Accumatic Ensign |
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