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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Nashua Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Appleton, Tracy & Co. Columbus Watch Co. American Waltham Illinois Watch Co. George Reed New York Watch Co. Watch Co. Thomas Harland South Bend Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. U.S Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Jacob Custer Manhatten Watch Co. National Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt |
Fitchburg Watch bo. Washington Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Ball Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Waterbury Charles Fasoltd W.E. Harper Freeport Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Warren Manufacturing Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Hampden Watch Co. Luther Goddard Trenton Watch do. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. |
Hamilton Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin American Repeating Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Benedict & Burham South Bend Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Ingersol Peoria Watch co Lancaster Watch Co. Western Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Otay 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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Goering Eloga Sigma Universal Germinal Schultz Central Lang Uhr Winton Ulysse Nardin Harman Shield Tornex-Rayville Kent Exactus LIbela Cortebert National Charles Nicolet Lavina Hydepark Arctus Urania Friedli Eterna PiagetPreesent South Bend Borel Boucheron Dome Cornavin Hayden Berg Mars Kord Ball Seeland Felca Lemania Zenith Frey Ofair Titus Electra Mar Nicolet Omega Ollendorff Harvel Monte WhiteStar Semca Montbrilliant Boulevard Unitas Westend Grana Rembrant Hy. Moser & Cie Enicar Nicolet Watch Movado Bovet Lorton Octo Patria Buren Crown Haste Alsta |
Cawford Chopard Patek Philippe Verno Pronto Rolls Ace Acro Newmark Eberhard Hamilton Baylor Agassiz Nivada Touchon Fontainemelon Dugena Favre Leuba Nicewatch Co. Niton Pabro J.E. Watch Co. Daynite Louis Beltone Weltall Ultimor Alpha Autdrist Zentra Audax Rapid Tiffany Sperina Univer Gubelin Eska Levrette Avalon Carlton Tissot Rolex Frodsham Kelek Normandie Blancpain Orator Perpetual Watch Co. Gruen Tavannes Turler LePhare Excelsior Mido Admes Arbi Elgin Hilton Stowa Cyma Hebdomas Kurth Rulon Vulcain Hermes Dunhill Americus Coronet |
Alavente Tourneau Record Vacheron Wittnauer Monarch Ardath Standard Condal Delbana Weldon Timecraft Trebex Asprey Concord Glycine Wyler Arsa Mimo Glashutte Corum Rima Olympia Phillepe Watch Co. Opel Rotary Ekegren Golay Lucien Piccard Faith International Huguenin Mt. Vernon Baume & Mercier Mappin Provita Bueche-Girod Zodiac Invicta Benrus Jaeger Roxy Parker Kelbert Benson Wakmann Hampden Ogival Altus Continental Warwick Jardur Bulova Laco Alton Lusina Wig Wag Marlys Rado Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Watex Helvetia Fairfax Regina Lucerne Gallet |
Breguet Emerson Breitling Framont Didisheim Ebel Aramis Van Cleef & Arpels Louvig Lancel Hallmark Jules Jurgensen Girard-Perregaux Sheffield Perfine Roamer Minerva Yale Geneve Illinois Lip Kingston Rocail LeCoultre Orfina Alpina P. Garnier Croton Moriva Welsbro Cartier Seth Thomas Aristo Juvenia Angelus Rockford Lyceum Garland Butex P. Buhre Helbros Hever Leonidas Kelton Harvard Harwood Guinand Doxa Bucherer Duodial Driva Imperial Smith A. Lange & Sohne Clebar Revue Evans Certina Henda Longines Olma Hafis Orvin Audemars Piguet |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Stanford Bianca Todd Hartman Stafford Chatham Beldon Marcus Lone Eagle Golden Tempus Briarcliffe Piping Rock Mason Sinclair Ward Collegian Ensign Fleetwood Contour Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Scout Commodore Kinematic Adjutant Wilson Dante Eternamatic Rolland Fischer Sea Breeze Sawyer stanley Sherwood Veri-thin Larchmont Pierre Sea mate Dewitt Dixon Jolly Roger Doublet Viscount Arlington Gulfport Dwight Stanford Ensign Whitman Keane Portia Myron Chapman Top Time Croydon Webster Diamond Barton Linden Hall Lyndon Brent Kirk Windsor Norman Murray Lee Sky Chief Staunton Cambridge Secometer Sedgman Cedric Carson Arlington Hawthorne Milton Drexel Tuxedo Austin Wellington Grover Nightingale Grenadier Glendon Boatswain Newton Sea Scout Sea Skip Tyron Vardon Huntley Vernon Lawrence Culver Brewster Cyril Pimlico Bentley Sutton Cadet Commander Franklion Courier Lakeland Caroline Boulton Lindsay Foster Wayne Seaview Baronet Beau Brummel Benton Cross country Byrd Paxton Sinclair |
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