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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Washington Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Mosart Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. George Reed Jacob Custer Western Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. W.E. Harper Potter Albert Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Rock Island Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Illinois Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. |
Herman Vod der Heydt National Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Trenton Watch do. Luther Goddard Peoria Watch co South Bend Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Rockford Watch Co. Thomas Harland James & Henry Pitkin Wichita Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. |
Charles Fasoltd Boston Watch Co. New England Watch Co., American Repeating Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham E.F. Bowman Manhatten Watch Co. Ingersol Aurora Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Waterbury American Waltham Columbus Watch Co. American Waltham 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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Alavente Charles Nicolet Helbros Lavina Breitling Elgin Concord Excelsior Niton Stowa Smith Framont WhiteStar Opel LeCoultre Ultimor Eterna Olma Friedli Gruen Audemars Piguet Invicta Agassiz Hydepark Ofair Avalon Buren Weltall Eska Hampden Wyler LePhare Wig Wag Titus Lusina Fairfax Kelek Baume & Mercier Perpetual Watch Co. Laco Alton Jaeger Tornex-Rayville Glashutte Frey Didisheim Asprey Marlys Van Cleef & Arpels Harvard Provita Kelbert Louis Weldon Imperial Golay Turler Orfina Record Wakmann Aramis Ace Acro Ollendorff Doxa Rulon Levrette Lorton Cawford |
Condal Borel Boucheron Vacheron Benrus Lucien Piccard Normandie Helvetia Lemania Pabro Zentra Americus Berg LIbela Electra Lancel Univer South Bend Dunhill Kord Mar Nicolet Seeland Lyceum Girard-Perregaux Geneve Leonidas Garland Unitas Central Sigma Boulevard Delbana Cartier Hebdomas Henda Dugena Alsta Harman P. Buhre Illinois Cortebert Kent Clebar Urania Mt. Vernon Breguet Hilton Mimo International Wittnauer Patria Westend Blancpain Verno Angelus Cornavin Warwick Omega Watex Kelton Roamer Sheffield Bovet PiagetPreesent Jules Jurgensen Daynite Rockford Arbi |
Haste Ardath Touchon Beltone A. Lange & Sohne Movado Rembrant Kingston Timecraft Nivada Rapid Fontainemelon Glycine Gubelin Lip Ekegren Mido Altus Nicolet Watch Zenith Chopard Benson Baylor Emerson Cyma Juvenia Bueche-Girod Shield Tavannes Jardur Faith Rolex Continental Winton Alpina Corum Minerva Audax Lang Uhr Bulova Harvel Kurth Rocail Trebex Roxy Exactus Ebel Olympia Vulcain Standard Ulysse Nardin Tourneau Grana Eloga Mappin Louvig Octo Welsbro Alpha Bucherer Rotary Seth Thomas Newmark Arctus Lucerne Guinand |
Enicar Admes Orator Monarch Aristo Orvin Felca Ball Phillepe Watch Co. Schultz Yale Ogival Longines Regina Zodiac Rado Harwood Tiffany P. Garnier Pronto Hy. Moser & Cie Carlton Rima Hermes Universal Frodsham Autdrist Tissot Semca Patek Philippe Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Hayden Crown Huguenin National Monte Revue Certina Parker Perfine Butex Evans J.E. Watch Co. Montbrilliant Duodial Germinal Driva Sperina Gallet Hallmark Favre Leuba Nicewatch Co. Arsa Hafis Hever Mars Eberhard Rolls Croton Coronet Hamilton Goering Moriva Dome |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Ensign Prentice Lakehurst Diamond Dante Mate Boyd Tempus Citadel Dyson Glendale Sea Hawk Mount Vernon Thinline Langley Caroline Scott ipso-vox Bryn Mawr Thin-o-matic Masterpiece New Yorker Black Star Ardsley Gladstone Sir Echo Parker B Thor Adjutant Wilshire Steeldon Nightingale Trooper Sea Ranger Edgewater Deauville Wayne Talbot Commander Brewster Langdon Contour Greenwich Gramercy Stormking Golden Tempus Carteret direct read Newton Myron Fleetwood Argyle Kirk Barbizon Brooke Baxter Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Molly Stark Murray Ambassador Lester Sherwood Glenn Chapman Sea Breeze Ward Dexter Ascot Major Lance Beldon Piping Rock Doublet Carlyle Custer Arlington Hawthorne Precision Stadium Cordell Donavan Livingston Byrd Crusade Touraine Coburn Newlin Todd Bentley Hastings Blake Otis Cullen Rodney Dorsey Donald Perry Finalist Ansley Curvex Gilman Paxton Romanesquen Ross Annapolis Flint Ridge Ramsey Aviator Aqualine Milton Essex Sky Chief Morley Milburn |
Neil Staunton Ardmore Russell Carlton Bowman Harris Eaton Linwood Rutledge Corvet Halesworth B Dean Colby Accumatic Fulton Rutgers Eric Rolland Fischer Cameron The Athelete Norfolk Benton Bostonian Adrian Kinematic Kirby Varsity Cadet Grenadier Manhattan Guardsman Ashley Sinclair Cedric Cabot Roland Putnam Chronomatic top hat Spencer Sea Cliff Curtis Merritt Foster Gary Hartman Maritza Trudy Spur The Chief's Chanticleer Calvin Sheryll Keith Seabrook Stanford Barry Larchmont Chief Adonis Yorktown Lee Baron Blair Veri-thin Sea guard Arnold Clyde Andrews Cyril Wesleyan Cavalier Oxford Golden Tempus II Futura Tiger & Lady Farrell Norton Secron Consul The Governor Marcus Chatham Grover Marshall Crispin Richmond Holden Peyton Montclair Medalist Wembley Nelson Blackstone Sea Scape Avigo Lord Lancaster Clearview Vernon Malcom Lyndon Sinclair Flight II Baton Jason Drew Seaview Minu-stop Brandon Dawson Paige Errol Turner |
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