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:
South Bend Watch Co. B.D. Bingham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. James & Henry Pitkin Wichita Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Benedict & Burham U.S Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Thomas Harland W.E. Harper American Waltham Watch Co. |
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Cornell Watch Co American Waltham New York Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Rock Island Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. E. Howard and Co. Luther Goddard Cheshire Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Freeport Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Ingersol Nashua Watch Co. |
Columbus Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. George Reed Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman National Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Waterbury U.S. Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Fitchburg Watch bo. Peoria Watch co Jacob Custer Hampden Watch Co. New England 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:
Yale Schultz Golay Wakmann Frodsham Roxy Nivada Jules Jurgensen Touchon Rado Kord Frey Corum Admes Olma Smith Tissot Orvin Hydepark Lyceum Kelbert Rotary Phillepe Watch Co. Alavente Kurth Laco Angelus Niton Henda Verno Faith Driva Buren Vacheron Lancel Hayden Revue Aristo Guinand Elgin Tornex-Rayville Van Cleef & Arpels Nicolet Watch Carlton Hamilton Enicar Ulysse Nardin Sigma Urania Omega Normandie Hampden Parker Tavannes Fairfax Rocail Benson Wittnauer Illinois Warwick Harman Ogival Gubelin Vulcain Avalon Lip Longines Opel |
Provita Wyler Eloga Monte Lavina Duodial Mars Doxa Arbi Trebex Electra Roamer Wig Wag Daynite Bucherer Grana Univer Mar Nicolet South Bend Concord Zenith Minerva Mt. Vernon Movado Tiffany Clebar Ekegren Levrette Pronto Westend Olympia National Ollendorff Audax Regina Arsa International Autdrist Hermes Crown Louvig Alpha Rockford PiagetPreesent Record Orator Geneve Hafis Ardath Perfine Rulon Seeland Benrus Rembrant Arctus Winton Lucien Piccard Ofair A. Lange & Sohne Cyma Timecraft Jaeger Eska Bueche-Girod Lemania Garland Louis |
Croton Aramis Ace Acro Kingston Beltone Jardur Sperina Americus Alton Leonidas Unitas Goering Delbana Helvetia Universal Stowa Kelek Butex Newmark P. Garnier Audemars Piguet Harvard Turler Dunhill LIbela Breitling Montbrilliant Gruen Mappin Framont Bulova Asprey Ultimor Cornavin Semca Eterna Watex Rapid Fontainemelon Kent LePhare Helbros Germinal Altus P. Buhre Charles Nicolet Bovet Zentra Titus Nicewatch Co. Ball Pabro Invicta Glycine Borel Boucheron Monarch Chopard Harvel Rolex Emerson Mido Glashutte J.E. Watch Co. Haste Rima Baylor |
Zodiac Weldon Kelton Exactus Mimo Lusina Gallet Friedli Excelsior Girard-Perregaux Central Marlys Hebdomas Alsta Welsbro Imperial Agassiz Cartier Cawford Lang Uhr Harwood Weltall Blancpain WhiteStar Alpina Hy. Moser & Cie Perpetual Watch Co. Dome Breguet Felca Condal Evans LeCoultre Huguenin Seth Thomas Favre Leuba Orfina Patek Philippe Continental Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lorton Hilton Sheffield Tourneau Boulevard Rolls Moriva Certina Octo Patria Hallmark Dugena Baume & Mercier Lucerne Berg Standard Ebel Hever Eberhard Coronet Cortebert Didisheim Shield Juvenia |
Models of watches that we repair:
Barry Frontenac Sloane Ericsson Emerson Rutledge Sea Scape Ensign Kensignton Hastings Drexel Clearview Aqualine Dexter Dartmouth Wesley Hartman Linden Hall Midas Grant Pierre Cyril Secometer Sedgman Morley Rodney Murray Marshall Gilman Farrell Boyd Top Time Howard Glendale Stanford Edgewood Blake Wesleyan Sea Scout Sea Skip Ramsey Clinton Kinematic Consul Eternamatic Chatham Radburn Dawson Dixon Glenn Curtis Drummond Trudy Spur Flight I Doublet Lincrest Blackstone Khyber Whitehall Sheryll Whitman Gilvert Deauville Mayfield Newlin Tiger & Lady Morton Baton Surf Winfield Langley Romanesquen Ross Meadowbrook Sutton Dennis Golden Tempus Cabot Rolland Fischer Lyle B Ashley Crispin Montclair Guardsman Manhattan Andover Vernon Cordell Fulton Norman Warwick Ryan Harris Alan Norfolk Randolph Donald Lowell Vincent Bailey Brent Tyron Vardon Bostonian Carl Colby Oxford Blade Bagley Bowman Courtney Streamlined Richmond Spencer Lambert Avigo Casino |
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B.W. Raymond Collegian Gramercy Ascot Secron Precision Windsor Roland Clyde Talbot Craig Spur Lindsay President Antique Lance Dorsey Futura Kevin Glendon Guardsman Martin Bradford Reardon Molly Stark The Chief's Hudson Allison Franklion Cranston Carlyle Conway Milton Finalist Dickens Holden Wakefield Lyndon Annapolis Curtis Oakmont Sea Rover Bryn Mawr Brooke Grover Garfield Chapman watson the Curtis Portia Dante Nightingale Peyton Brandon Chesterfield Todd Cameron Sir Echo Viking stanley Gardner Black knight Langford The Athelete Medalist Wembley Mate Bartley Senator Monaco Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Airman Sawyer Briarcliffe Sea-cap Gladstone Carlisle Custer Bentley Veri-thin Chanticleer Seville Sheldon Stafford Stuart Cross country Coronado Piping Rock Austin Mason Darrell Linwood Jolly Roger Amherst Thor Putnam Dwight ipso-vox Croydon Brock Boatswain Viscount Parker B Heyward Cavalier Sidney Orson Huntley Chadwick Carson Tildon Dyson Arlington Hawthorne |
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