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


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


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