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