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:
Ingersol Warren Manufacturing Co. Ball Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Jacob Custer Rock Island Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Appleton, Tracy & Co. Thomas Harland B.D. Bingham Cornell Watch Co Hamilton Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. W.E. Harper New York Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. |
Potter Albert Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Waterbury J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Western Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Peoria Watch co Otay Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. |
U.S Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham James & Henry Pitkin Charles Fasoltd American Waltham E.F. Bowman Luther Goddard Trenton Watch do. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. New England Watch Co., George Reed Adams & Perry Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. National Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Hydepark Provita Welsbro Baylor Hilton Sigma Ulysse Nardin Rockford Faith Hayden Orator Yale Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Kingston Vacheron LIbela Westend Olympia Breguet Emerson Hermes Bucherer Ebel Hever Moriva Grana Charles Nicolet Rima Fontainemelon Eberhard Concord Roxy Audax Electra Fairfax Minerva Regina Guinand Crown Didisheim Gubelin Jardur Wyler Certina Universal Wig Wag Dome Seeland Trebex Rado WhiteStar Ollendorff Cortebert Geneve Jules Jurgensen Doxa Gallet Wittnauer Driva Unitas Tavannes Kurth Bovet Rapid P. Buhre Ekegren Ultimor Agassiz |
Louis Clebar A. Lange & Sohne Central Dunhill Pabro Verno LeCoultre Ogival P. Garnier Levrette Kelton Warwick Zenith Phillepe Watch Co. Dugena Arbi Cartier Sperina Berg Rolls Montbrilliant Mappin Aramis Winton Hy. Moser & Cie Parker Kelbert Framont Cawford Avalon Frodsham Jaeger Angelus Nivada Ball Arctus Breitling Urania Semca Duodial Mimo Rotary Alpina Corum Mar Nicolet Carlton Mars Hampden Eterna Haste Baume & Mercier Turler Seth Thomas Wakmann Asprey Patria Omega Illinois Tissot Enicar Perfine Eska Condal Alavente Tiffany Orvin |
Pronto Lorton Arsa Daynite Hafis Harvard Ofair Nicolet Watch Rolex Felca Touchon Tourneau Niton Lusina Germinal Benrus Excelsior Univer Golay Beltone Frey Lemania Revue Rulon Rembrant Helvetia Weltall Goering Autdrist Monte Lancel Hamilton Roamer Altus Opel Hallmark Bueche-Girod Juvenia Buren Huguenin Weldon Rocail Croton Stowa Standard Evans Lucerne Invicta Smith Longines Elgin Cornavin Audemars Piguet Lyceum Helbros Lip National Movado Watex Exactus Lucien Piccard Schultz Glycine Tornex-Rayville Harwood Admes |
LePhare Henda Coronet Hebdomas Louvig Zodiac Newmark South Bend Timecraft Blancpain Record Harman Orfina Sheffield Cyma Favre Leuba International Leonidas Alsta Chopard Borel Boucheron Mido Titus Mt. Vernon Patek Philippe Alpha Kent Perpetual Watch Co. Glashutte Ardath Delbana Aristo Vulcain Girard-Perregaux Garland Shield Continental Kord Lavina Lang Uhr Benson Van Cleef & Arpels Gruen Eloga Boulevard Olma Monarch Friedli Ace Acro Nicewatch Co. Butex Octo Americus Kelek Zentra Alton PiagetPreesent Imperial Laco Harvel Bulova Normandie Marlys J.E. Watch Co. |
Models of watches that we repair:
Gordon Mason Lester Chatham Brewster Bryn Mawr Andover Grafic Deluxe Sea-glo Farrell Drake Calvin Manhattan Donavan Carlton Carteret Quadron Baronet Beau Brummel the Curtis Cameron Lyndon Paige President Antique Bailey Allison Bianca Minu-stop Russell Portia Larchmont Sea-crest Monaco Seaview Sky Chief Golden Tempus II Sentinal Otis Ramsey Dawson Sinclair Sawyer The Governor Piccadilly Reagan Gary Wellington Merritt Livingston Taylor Drew Collegian Seville Sheldon Frontenac Chronomatic top hat Rutgers Clyde Pimlico Chieftan Veri-thin Stuart Baxter Streamlined Grenadier Sir Echo The Athelete Valiant Ericsson Emerson Crusade Andrews Whitehall Pacermatic Eric Randolph Casino Amherst Lord Lancaster Longacre Milburn Hayden Yorktown Transcontinental A B Chapman Austin Rutledge First Mate Steeldon Khyber Dennis Corvet Blake Tyron Vardon Sea Breeze Ardsley Richmond Spur Black knight Alan Todd Judson Brockton Lakeland Oakmont Oakley Berkshire Pierre Cordell Dwight Barton Varsity Cyril Ensign |
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