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Antique Swiss and American mechanical watch repair specialists since 1987


Thank you for visiting my vintage and antique watch repair site. Most visitors are here because they own an heirloom "family watch" and want to learn more about it's potential of being serviced and repaired. Most inherited mechanical watches were made in an era where the science of perfecting dependable timekeeping forced industry competition. The resulting jeweled watches are amazing and comparable to any science achievement in man's history. I encourage you to click through my antique watch repair site and learn more about my guaranteed mechanical watch services and welcome you to contact me.




I supply both watch parts to the watchmaker AND watch restoration services. Please read my website and contact me with any questions.

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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:
Peoria Watch co
Otay Watch Co.
Appleton, Tracy & Co.
Fitchburg Watch bo.
New York Watch Co.
Luther Goddard
W.E. Harper
Watch Co.
Rock Island Watch Co.
Trenton Watch do.
Lancaster Watch Co.
Freeport Watch Co.
Waterbury
South Bend Watch Co.
Rockford Watch Co.
Auburndale Watch Co.
Independent Watch Co.
Newark Watch Co.
American Waltham
Hamilton Watch Co.
E. Howard and Co.
E.F. Bowman
Benedict & Burham
Appleton watch Co.
Warren Manufacturing Co.
Aurora Watch Co.
George Reed
Herman Vod der Heydt
Bannatyne Watch Co.
James & Henry Pitkin
Western Watch Co.
Jacob Custer
Hampden Watch Co.
Columbus Watch Co.
Potter Albert Watch Co.
U.S Watch Co.
Washington Watch Co.
Ingersol
Ball Watch Co.
Cheshire Watch Co.
Charles Fasoltd
B.D. Bingham
American Waltham Watch Co.
Boston Watch Co.
Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham
South Bend Watch Co.
Wichita Watch Co.
National Watch Co.
Nashua Watch Co.
Cornell Watch Co
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co.
Seth Thomas Watch do.
Manhatten Watch Co.
Illinois Watch Co.
J.P.Stevens Watch Co.
American Repeating Watch Co.
Melrose Watch Co.
New England Watch Co.,
Mosart Watch Co.
Thomas Harland
U.S. Watch Co.
Adams & Perry 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:
Smith
Wyler
Bovet
Hilton
Ace Acro
Invicta
Excelsior
Berg
Octo
Guinand
Cortebert
Jaeger
Vacheron
Hy. Moser & Cie
Kelton
Phillepe Watch Co.
Agassiz
Juvenia
Orvin
Driva
Dome
Lyceum
Breguet
Americus
Blancpain
Mt. Vernon
Rapid
Bucherer
Elgin
Parker
Coronet
Semca
Rocail
Avalon
LePhare
Lemania
Zenith
Autdrist
Geneve
Newmark
Duodial
Turler
Aramis
Stowa
Van Cleef & Arpels
Urania
Mars
Mar Nicolet
South Bend
Delbana
Felca
Lucerne
Electra
Friedli
Wakmann
Corum
Cawford
Warwick
Eberhard
Gubelin
Kord
Orator
Altus
Alpha
Roxy
Trebex
Baylor
Marlys
WhiteStar
Central
Laco
Ebel
Unitas
Certina
Concord
Nicewatch Co.
Pabro
Lorton
Hamilton
Enicar
Sperina
Audemars Piguet
Glycine
Niton
Rembrant
Helvetia
Harman
Croton
Perpetual Watch Co.
Clebar
Revue
Monarch
Crown
Ekegren
Weltall
Shield
Hebdomas
Gruen
Baume & Mercier
Orfina
Ultimor
Tornex-Rayville
Olympia
Rotary
Carlton
Eterna
Daynite
Breitling
Fairfax
Hallmark
Dugena
Patria
Hayden
Doxa
Alsta
Zentra
Lang Uhr
Jardur
Girard-Perregaux
Kurth
Timecraft
PiagetPreesent
Golay
P. Garnier
Mimo
Hever
Cyma
Rulon
Montbrilliant
Rado
Huguenin
Glashutte
Moriva
Minerva
Tavannes
Arctus
P. Buhre
Angelus
Rima
Lucien Piccard
Schultz
Ollendorff
Monte
Haste
Touchon
Garland
Vulcain
Weldon
Verno
Lancel
Longines
Kelbert
Audax
Watex
Yale
Buren
Olma
Winton
Welsbro
Ball
Goering
Hydepark
Aristo
Wig Wag
Mappin
LIbela
Ofair
Harwood
Leonidas
Ardath
Butex
Alton
Gallet
Nivada
Seth Thomas
Imperial
Exactus
Alpina
Rolex
Nicolet Watch
Arsa
Faith
Zodiac
Hafis
Arbi
Illinois
Evans
A. Lange & Sohne
Favre Leuba
Universal
Louvig
Patek Philippe
Frey
Ulysse Nardin
Tissot
Kingston
Asprey
Rockford
Jules Jurgensen
Kelek
Benrus
Alavente
Didisheim
Regina
Borel Boucheron
Boulevard
Roamer
Lip
Levrette
Lusina
Lavina
Provita
Normandie
LeCoultre
Rolls
Continental
Harvel
Perfine
Hermes
J.E. Watch Co.
Record
Kent
Univer
Benson
Framont
Hampden
Condal
Harvard
Cornavin
Tiffany
Emerson
National
Omega
Ogival
Charles Nicolet
Germinal
Louis
Opel
Sigma
Standard
Westend
Cartier
Bueche-Girod
Dunhill
Pronto
Titus
Helbros
Movado
International
Bulova
Henda
Mido
Eska
Fontainemelon
Wittnauer
Eloga
Admes
Seeland
Chopard
Grana
Tourneau
Sheffield
Frodsham
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte
Beltone


Models of watches that we repair:
Conway
Mason
Coburn
Wesleyan
Windsor
Valiant
Arlington Hawthorne
Hartman
Thor
Lakeland
Medalist Wembley
Boatswain
Adrian
Ryan
Dartmouth
Grant
William Osler
Radburn
Chief
Quadron
Diamond
Holden
Newlin
Baton
Avigo
Adjutant
Wesley
Gary
Carteret
Varsity
President Antique
Glenn
Glendon
Byrd
Dawson
Bailey
Pimlico
Dwight
Spur
Mate
Adonis
Bentley
Centurion
Barry
Lyle B
Viking
Chapman
Cambridge
Lambert
Brewster
Edgewood
Lowell
Sea-glo
Livingston
Chatham
Montclair
The Athelete
Chesterfield
Ramsey
Oakley
Larchmont
Touraine
Craig
Otis
Transcontinental A B
Aldrich
Huntley
Keane
Andover
Sherwood
Berkshire
Seaview
Clearview
Brock
Barbizon
Oval
Thornton
Curtis
Dante
Courier
Roland
Attache
Gulfport
Webster
Langley
Taylor
Precision
Paige
Vernon
Sidney
Carlyle
Sutton
Oakmont
Vernon
Milton
Ardsley
Senator
Gold knight
Scott
Sea Scape
dunkirk
Fulton
Murray
Ambassador
Perry
Hudson
Bradford
Drew
Wakefield
West Point
Pinehurst
Viscount
Powell
Futura
Cameron
Bagley
Tiger & Lady
Meadowbrook
Carson
Deauville
Fleetwood
Chieftan
Andrews
Wilkinson
Putnam
Doublet
Sentinal
Sinclair
Talbot
Whitney
Derby
Nightingale
Russell
Norfolk
Cedercrest Chevy Chase
Winthrop
Piping Rock
Donald
Longacre
Golden Tempus
Thincraft
Molly Stark
Rutgers
Malcom
Lance
Whitehall
Flint Ridge
Whitman
Dyson
Citadel
Donavan
Boulton
Greenwich
Bryn Mawr
Blair
Rodney
Sloane
Sea Cliff
Gladstone
Caroline
Black Star
Blake
Essex
Cordell
Khyber
Newton
Curvex
Marquis strap
Drummond
The Chief's
Accumatic
Farrell
Warwick
Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights
Clinton
Clyde
Carlton
Dean
Reardon
Culver
Brent
Piccadilly
Blackstone
Ristflo
Calvin
Norton
Lester
Staunton
Hayden
Sea-crest
Heyward
Romanesquen Ross
Sea Rover
Errol
Aqualine
Spencer
Corvet
Ascot
Robert Roberta
Guardsman
Garfield
Sawyer
Sinclair
watson
Chanticleer
Kinematic
Wilson
Whitford
Lakehurst
Pierre
Drake
Cedric
Boyd
Kirk
Minu-stop
Scout
Thinline
Boone
Milburn
Stanford
Manhattan
Ward
Sea Hawk
Nelson
Neil
Stadium
Parker B
Franklion
Tempus
Hastings
Sea Breeze
Secron
Todd
the Curtis
Coronado
Casino
Spencer
Majesty
Dennis
Top Time
Airflight
Darrell
Cabot
Steeldon
Lord Lancaster
Captain Rice
Landon
Prentice
Dixon
Merritt
Surf
Briarcliffe
Vincent
Chadwick
Chatham
Mayfield
Gyromatic
Howard
Tuxedo
Frontenac
Seville Sheldon
Custer
Dorsey
Rutledge
Linwood
Stuart
Marcus
Midas
Dexter
Finalist
Sea Ranger
Arnold
Kenilworth Gallahad
Aviator
Myron
Lawrence
Gilvert
Rolland Fischer
Sea guard
Carl
Ashley
Baxter
Edgemere
Glenn Curtis
Barton
Lincrest
Bianca
Paxton
Clark
Turner
Aqua Lung
Black knight
Jolly Roger
Trent
Samson
Sea mate
Croydon
Bartley
Argyle
Halesworth B
Winfield
Baronet Beau Brummel
Brandon
Ericsson Emerson
Flight II
Cadet
Maritza
Grenadier
Norman
Commander
Secometer Sedgman
Sea-cap
Top Gun
Cyril
Amherst
Haddon
Thin-o-matic Masterpiece
Brooke
Crispin
Cavalier
Raleigh
Major
Grafic Deluxe
Wilshire
Dewitt
Yeoman
Harris
Lyndon
Beau Royal
Dickens
Wellington
Lone Eagle
Wayne
Morton
Trooper
Veri-thin
Ansley
Judson
Windsor
New Yorker
Carlisle
direct read
Stanford
Trudy Spur
Baron
Collegian
Seabrook
Stormking
Jason
Ardmore
Keith
Richmond
Airman
stanley
Kensignton
Yorktown
Medford
Linden Hall
Enditcott
Flight I
Monaco
Morley
Gardner
Cullen
Sir Echo
Grover
Allison
Ensign
Martin
Yorktown
Marshall
Bowman
Kinematic Kirby
Elliot Emery
Blade
Jeffrey
Eric
Edgewater
Dodson
Gramercy
B.W. Raymond
Norman
Raymon
Cranston
Brockton
Randolph
Golden Tempus II
Eaton
Reagan
Sheryll
Arlington
Glendale
Oxford
Cross country
Orson
Gilman
Commodore
Crusade
Raleigh
ipso-vox
First Mate
Langford
Norde
Pacermatic
Stafford
Bostonian
Courtney
Contour
Ensign
Chronomatic top hat
Colby
Fleetwood
Consul
Drexel
Beldon
Sky Chief
Foster
Guardsman
Streamlined
Tildon
Maxine
Portia
Austin
Benton
Alan
Champion
Dunhan
Prescott
Langdon
Lee
Eternamatic
Tyron Vardon
Kevin
Peyton
Gordon
The Governor
Mount Vernon
Lindsay
Sea Scout Sea Skip
Annapolis
...


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