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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Manhatten Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Waterbury Herman Vod der Heydt Appleton watch Co. New York Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Ingersol U.S Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Thomas Harland Adams & Perry Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. New England Watch Co., B.D. Bingham Washington Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Watch Co. |
Auburndale Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. W.E. Harper Western Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. South Bend Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Potter Albert Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Jacob Custer D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. George Reed E.F. Bowman Mosart Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Aurora Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. |
Nashua Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Fitchburg Watch bo. Peoria Watch co Hamilton Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Cornell Watch Co Luther Goddard Columbus Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd National Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. American Waltham Warren Manufacturing Co. U.S. 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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Berg National Lip Doxa Kord Lorton Semca Eberhard Beltone Eloga Sheffield Clebar Faith Van Cleef & Arpels Juvenia Agassiz Elgin Opel Hebdomas Ulysse Nardin Longines Cawford Bovet Louis Garland Hamilton Titus Wyler Rima Electra Marlys Continental Montbrilliant Angelus Orvin Touchon Lancel Unitas Bucherer Gubelin Hermes Fairfax Eska Cartier Central Kurth Orfina Mar Nicolet Wittnauer Weltall Olma Felca Alpha Condal Henda Zenith Excelsior Roxy Urania Levrette Shield Benson Ebel Haste Vacheron Geneve Winton Hilton |
Girard-Perregaux Baylor Kelek Baume & Mercier Omega Record Lemania Exactus Ardath Ultimor Bulova Orator Standard Zentra Rado Pabro Kingston Hy. Moser & Cie Seth Thomas Tiffany Perpetual Watch Co. Kent LePhare Favre Leuba Univer Verno Jaeger WhiteStar Regina Rockford Altus Daynite Croton Universal Rembrant Moriva Alsta Carlton Lavina Audax Frodsham Enicar Wakmann Golay Aristo Lusina A. Lange & Sohne Tourneau Audemars Piguet Lucien Piccard Louvig Warwick Lyceum Americus Trebex Westend Patek Philippe Duodial Dugena Chopard Revue Jardur Frey Germinal Normandie Rolls Rotary |
P. Garnier Gallet LIbela Mimo Monte Weldon Lang Uhr Phillepe Watch Co. Arctus Evans Coronet Imperial PiagetPreesent Dome Laco Monarch Cortebert Crown Driva Harvel Yale Eterna Helbros Aramis Movado Ball Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Mars Illinois Mido Corum Harwood Alpina Turler Sperina Glycine Hydepark Ollendorff Patria Breguet Ekegren Hallmark Sigma Nicolet Watch Delbana Asprey Breitling Hafis Ace Acro Zodiac Admes Rocail Hever Smith LeCoultre Avalon Friedli Butex Glashutte Goering Alavente Boulevard Bueche-Girod Nivada Concord Wig Wag |
Schultz Tornex-Rayville Provita Invicta Roamer Cyma Perfine Autdrist Framont Watex International Kelton Charles Nicolet South Bend Niton Ofair Nicewatch Co. Pronto Vulcain Alton Gruen Rulon Octo Newmark Fontainemelon Benrus P. Buhre Jules Jurgensen Stowa Huguenin Lucerne Seeland Arbi Mappin Welsbro Ogival Leonidas Arsa Borel Boucheron Helvetia Buren Kelbert Tavannes Harvard Rolex Emerson Rapid Timecraft Tissot Blancpain Hampden Guinand Mt. Vernon Dunhill Cornavin Minerva J.E. Watch Co. Parker Olympia Harman Certina Hayden Grana Didisheim |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Deauville Craig Dewitt Talbot Winfield Trooper Lone Eagle Minu-stop Gary Touraine Thor Dickens Precision Whitney Cavalier Seaview Khyber Sea Scape Norde Sloane Larchmont Contour Beldon Carl Huntley Oval Oakley Baron Rutledge Dawson Carson Thinline Elliot Emery Adrian Dean Carteret Wayne Tyron Vardon Montclair Maritza ipso-vox Briarcliffe Courtney Aqualine Merritt Dexter Sherwood Adonis Crispin Piping Rock Senator Baronet Beau Brummel Dixon Perry Webster Chanticleer Trudy Spur Bostonian Ensign Ericsson Emerson Windsor Milton Neil B.W. Raymond Randolph Scott Lester Pacermatic Langley Powell Romanesquen Ross Oxford Gramercy Mason Thornton Cross country Chief Morton Cranston Spur Lincrest Annapolis Cullen Gulfport Raleigh Errol Ardmore Captain Rice Top Gun Rodney Avigo Baton Lyle B Midas Cambridge Golden Tempus Brockton Samson Rolland Fischer Medalist Wembley Allison Howard Alan Lyndon dunkirk Derby Dwight Norman Fulton Vernon Tuxedo |
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