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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Columbus Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Ingersol Lancaster Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Hamilton Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Fitchburg Watch bo. James & Henry Pitkin Boston Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham |
Western Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Wichita Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. W.E. Harper American Waltham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Warren Manufacturing Co. Melrose Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Herman Vod der Heydt Nashua Watch Co. George Reed National Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. |
Potter Albert Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Auburndale Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Thomas Harland Independent Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Waterbury E.F. Bowman Luther Goddard Adams & Perry Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Jacob Custer |
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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Coronet Unitas Dunhill Movado Avalon Bovet Tiffany Daynite Carlton Breguet Kelton Sigma Orvin Lyceum Lorton Breitling Cyma Imperial Winton Illinois Baume & Mercier Evans Boulevard Arsa Wig Wag Trebex Framont Dome Kurth Electra Westend Parker Eterna Welsbro Jardur Rapid Timecraft Bulova Lusina Asprey Tornex-Rayville Croton Tavannes Emerson Hydepark Hever Rado Excelsior Ulysse Nardin Orator Harman Lemania Lucerne Ogival Crown Continental Mar Nicolet Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Harvel Garland Jaeger Urania J.E. Watch Co. Lucien Piccard Clebar Altus Ollendorff Ofair |
Rockford Glycine Dugena Audemars Piguet Laco Condal Smith Lip Pabro Warwick Octo Universal Juvenia Hafis Mido LeCoultre Baylor Harvard Olma Verno Buren Rolls Nivada Kent Mars Turler Tissot Central Pronto Marlys Audax National Haste Ekegren Rocail Hamilton Friedli Patria Tourneau Harwood Stowa Record Hermes Ultimor Roxy Vulcain Alpina Rima Eloga Monarch Benson Hy. Moser & Cie Corum Chopard Berg Rolex Hebdomas PiagetPreesent Phillepe Watch Co. Hilton Montbrilliant Benrus Alton Kelek Minerva Kord P. Buhre |
Olympia Louvig Bucherer Lavina Alpha Kelbert Aristo Zenith Ardath Bueche-Girod Ebel Hayden Fairfax Frodsham Yale LePhare Levrette Rotary Louis Gubelin Zentra Mt. Vernon Leonidas Gallet Beltone Normandie Felca Seth Thomas Americus Concord Kingston Longines Sperina Alavente Faith Wyler Duodial Wittnauer Nicewatch Co. Goering Patek Philippe Rembrant Nicolet Watch Wakmann Cawford LIbela Arctus Perfine Girard-Perregaux Monte Mimo Elgin Germinal Angelus Vacheron Lancel Van Cleef & Arpels Cornavin Autdrist Helvetia South Bend Blancpain P. Garnier WhiteStar Ace Acro Butex |
Enicar Alsta Titus Glashutte Doxa Lang Uhr Opel Semca Admes Schultz Geneve Eska Cartier Jules Jurgensen Weldon Sheffield Huguenin Weltall Mappin Regina Perpetual Watch Co. Eberhard Didisheim Favre Leuba Borel Boucheron Aramis Hallmark Moriva Orfina Guinand Exactus Charles Nicolet Golay Arbi Invicta Henda A. Lange & Sohne Watex Revue Ball Rulon Driva Frey Delbana Touchon Shield Provita International Newmark Seeland Standard Niton Certina Gruen Cortebert Grana Agassiz Fontainemelon Roamer Omega Zodiac Helbros Hampden Univer |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Keith Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Lakehurst Aqualine Aviator Sea Scout Sea Skip Curtis Lone Eagle Dyson Conway Boone Sea Cliff Berkshire Heyward Ashley Russell Perry Bailey Wilshire Dartmouth Oval Wesley Ambassador Orson Otis Spencer Stuart Coronado Whitney Khyber Glenn Cambridge Gladstone Edgewater Streamlined Thornton Top Time Culver Grenadier Gold knight Langley Precision Rutledge Langford Maritza Garfield Judson Eaton Morton Glendon Winfield Baron Dixon Ristflo Farrell Frontenac Medford Whitford Sheryll Centurion Allison Pierre Grover West Point Sinclair Barbizon Randolph Boatswain Beau Royal Thor Commander Stanford Martin Winthrop Holden Craig Milton Lindsay Vincent Kenilworth Gallahad Thincraft Dewitt Calvin Chanticleer Chatham Chadwick Drake Parker B Rolland Fischer Brooke Mayfield Piccadilly Secometer Sedgman Tildon Sky Chief Huntley Champion Dante Kinematic Commodore Seaview Lee Accumatic Haddon The Athelete Peyton Grant Sea Breeze Golden Tempus Gordon Chatham |
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