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:
James & Henry Pitkin Columbus Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. New England Watch Co., American Repeating Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Thomas Harland Trenton Watch do. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd |
Bannatyne Watch Co. Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt National Watch Co. George Reed Appleton watch Co. Ball Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Ingersol Rock Island Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham U.S Watch Co. Luther Goddard Waterbury Western Watch Co. New York Watch Co. |
Mosart Watch Co. American Waltham Fitchburg Watch bo. U.S. Watch Co. W.E. Harper Cornell Watch Co Freeport Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. E.F. Bowman South Bend Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Hampden Watch Co. Jacob Custer Washington Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Peoria Watch co Auburndale 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:
Kurth Ofair Schultz Tissot Asprey Charles Nicolet Kelbert Audax Rembrant Fairfax Unitas Hy. Moser & Cie Eloga Emerson Olma Girard-Perregaux Dunhill Corum Tourneau Crown Hydepark Yale Delbana Opel Goering Perfine Excelsior Ollendorff Hever Roxy Rolex Benrus Borel Boucheron Lusina Audemars Piguet Wyler Warwick Favre Leuba Jules Jurgensen Cartier Ardath Louvig Glashutte Bulova Cawford Elgin Mar Nicolet Watex Lemania Guinand Verno Gruen Garland Altus Welsbro Alpha Nivada Lancel Univer Westend Tavannes Orvin Harvel Aristo Kingston Montbrilliant Baume & Mercier Vulcain |
Evans Sheffield Leonidas Semca Alavente Eterna Rotary Juvenia Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Smith Ogival Cortebert Orator Zodiac LeCoultre Newmark Orfina Mappin Berg Niton Dugena Vacheron South Bend Angelus Tornex-Rayville Alsta Sperina Arbi Provita Germinal Chopard P. Garnier National Moriva Carlton Autdrist Rolls J.E. Watch Co. Aramis Agassiz Patek Philippe Kent Concord Standard Bovet Normandie Rocail Hampden Glycine Helbros Minerva Admes Lucien Piccard Kelek PiagetPreesent Perpetual Watch Co. Ball Grana Imperial Felca Omega Frey Alpina Pabro Universal Bueche-Girod Dome |
Levrette Alton Kord LIbela Continental Record Geneve Titus Driva Touchon Enicar Patria Turler Monarch Hamilton LePhare Breguet Buren Frodsham Mimo Certina Beltone Winton Hafis Roamer Henda Nicewatch Co. Mt. Vernon Nicolet Watch Hallmark Harman Ultimor P. Buhre Ekegren Wakmann Laco Timecraft Lip Hebdomas Cyma Gallet Rockford Clebar Ebel Sigma Fontainemelon Invicta Urania Octo Weldon Ulysse Nardin Marlys Louis Americus Eberhard Condal A. Lange & Sohne Revue Regina Arctus Mido Electra Seeland Phillepe Watch Co. Lavina Tiffany |
Seth Thomas Hilton Haste Wittnauer Stowa Jardur Baylor Rima Breitling Movado Harvard Harwood Bucherer Illinois Butex Framont Croton Friedli Lang Uhr Gubelin Boulevard Daynite Cornavin Rulon International Shield Weltall Olympia Hermes Helvetia Benson Lucerne Avalon Trebex Doxa Didisheim Lyceum Central Coronet Blancpain Rapid Exactus Zentra WhiteStar Wig Wag Zenith Lorton Rado Pronto Duodial Mars Eska Faith Parker Kelton Golay Hayden Longines Van Cleef & Arpels Monte Arsa Ace Acro Huguenin Jaeger |
Models of watches that we repair:
Maxine Tyron Vardon Franklion Yeoman Lambert Andrews Golden Tempus II Captain Rice Carson Nightingale Blair Ramsey Grafic Deluxe Deauville Marquis strap Edgemere Gyromatic Marcus Longacre Centurion Morton Clinton Drake Seville Sheldon Dyson Champion Cordell Finalist Whitehall Curvex Fleetwood Haddon Reagan Dante Blake Grover Tempus Whitford Collegian Oakmont Sloane Myron Byrd Grant Barry Milburn Gladstone Rutgers Piccadilly Precision Aqua Lung Sir Echo Piping Rock Spencer Midas Clyde Top Time Thor Sutton ipso-vox Diamond Mayfield Linwood Aldrich Otis Sea guard Cross country Larchmont Aqualine Edgewater Donavan Vernon Brockton Lincrest Thornton Mount Vernon Howard Langford Grenadier Ascot Wellington President Antique Manhattan Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Prentice The Chief's Dixon Airflight Roland Tildon Secometer Sedgman Taylor Blade Seabrook Marshall Transcontinental A B Caroline Glendale Jason Gold knight Staunton Orson Stormking Boyd Eaton Milton Flint Ridge Brewster Ardsley Dickens Ristflo |
Yorktown Scott Arnold Glenn Curtis Sea Ranger Winthrop Wilson Tuxedo Culver Steeldon Gilvert Curtis Ashley Warwick Bryn Mawr Powell Holden Gilman Sea Scout Sea Skip The Athelete Murray Jeffrey Derby Ansley Montclair Prescott Annapolis Landon Wakefield Dewitt Pinehurst Mason Rolland Fischer Langdon Bailey Crispin Cadet Lone Eagle Cyril Essex Sea-cap Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Sheryll William Osler Valiant Talbot Spencer Beldon Cullen Lyle B Chronomatic top hat Bagley Randolph Accumatic Chief Whitney Hudson Arlington dunkirk Martin Streamlined Drexel Windsor Coburn Eric Wilkinson Malcom Yorktown Rutledge Oxford Lindsay Paxton Adonis Veri-thin West Point Winfield Russell Foster Surf Cranston Gordon Norton Lakehurst Whitman Errol Citadel Morley Sidney Boulton Amherst Major Stafford Cedercrest Chevy Chase Calvin Gramercy Neil Greenwich Trooper watson Allison Richmond Bianca Farrell Rodney Sinclair Oakley Vincent Guardsman Barbizon Reardon |
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