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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American Waltham Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Waterbury Cheshire Watch Co. American Waltham Herman Vod der Heydt Independent Watch Co. Ingersol Appleton, Tracy & Co. Western Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. B.D. Bingham James & Henry Pitkin Aurora Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Benedict & Burham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd George Reed Cornell Watch Co Ball Watch Co. |
U.S Watch Co. Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Jacob Custer Luther Goddard Rockford Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Thomas Harland Mosart Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. |
Hampden Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Hamilton Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. W.E. Harper Washington Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Illinois Watch Co. Peoria Watch co E. Howard and Co. E.F. Bowman National Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Freeport 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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Newmark Charles Nicolet Hermes National Arctus International Boulevard Agassiz Beltone Rotary Daynite Zodiac Helbros Alsta Breguet Vulcain Croton Rapid Driva Sigma Sheffield Kord Kelek Movado Lavina Ball Weltall Duodial Tiffany LeCoultre Cawford Revue Record Framont Trebex Hever Admes Montbrilliant A. Lange & Sohne Mars LIbela Felca Regina Cyma Rembrant Gruen Smith Germinal Glycine Grana Seth Thomas Didisheim Nivada Exactus Omega Audemars Piguet Coronet Dugena Welsbro Concord Laco Rocail Lyceum Yale Aristo Frodsham Octo Wakmann |
Rolex Borel Boucheron Cornavin Rima Hampden South Bend Tissot Wittnauer Shield Tornex-Rayville Eska Butex LePhare Hilton Lusina Bovet Invicta Enicar Doxa Mappin Orvin Moriva Tourneau Vacheron Breitling Leonidas Ardath Seeland Ebel P. Garnier Normandie Baylor Ulysse Nardin Schultz Juvenia Kelton Fontainemelon Girard-Perregaux Rockford Alpina Hy. Moser & Cie Benson Condal Alavente Fairfax Golay Ace Acro Buren Lang Uhr Ekegren Olma Minerva Monarch Guinand Perpetual Watch Co. Wig Wag Pronto Lip Provita Kingston Benrus Friedli Rado Arbi Louvig Tavannes Dunhill |
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Eloga Nicolet Watch Mar Nicolet Parker Crown Mt. Vernon Glashutte Touchon Kent Niton Nicewatch Co. Patek Philippe Favre Leuba Jaeger Asprey Roamer Warwick Winton Lucerne Huguenin Central Geneve Timecraft Goering Semca Orfina Van Cleef & Arpels Rolls Patria Emerson Zentra Garland Jules Jurgensen Henda Louis Continental Lancel Cortebert Weldon Clebar Standard Angelus Rulon Jardur Watex Helvetia Wyler Titus Kurth Levrette Perfine Mimo Aramis Urania Harwood Longines Faith Electra Arsa Gallet Cartier Carlton Frey Dome Zenith |
Delbana Hayden Avalon Baume & Mercier Roxy Mido Americus Harman Harvel Corum Altus Haste Unitas J.E. Watch Co. Gubelin Universal Chopard Ollendorff Blancpain Hydepark Imperial Berg Elgin Marlys WhiteStar Alton Excelsior Bucherer Certina Alpha Illinois Pabro PiagetPreesent Stowa Lucien Piccard Opel Hafis Bueche-Girod Verno P. Buhre Sperina Bulova Monte Turler Olympia Eterna Evans Autdrist Hebdomas Lorton Hamilton Eberhard Hallmark Lemania Ofair Orator Audax Kelbert Westend Univer Phillepe Watch Co. Ultimor Ogival Harvard |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Adonis Sentinal Sherwood Veri-thin Enditcott Argyle watson Talbot Secron Lyndon Bryn Mawr ipso-vox Wilkinson Judson President Antique The Chief's Prentice Rodney Commodore Ward Airman Lee Norfolk Casino Eternamatic Cambridge Dorsey Baronet Beau Brummel The Athelete Gold knight Gilvert Chesterfield Clyde Lester Martin Sutton Garfield Spencer Touraine Adrian Chanticleer Minu-stop Clinton Bartley Boyd Sea-crest Glendon Keith Austin Cedercrest Chevy Chase Ensign Gary Dean Aqualine Meadowbrook Dickens Lincrest Malcom Grafic Deluxe Thornton Blade Eric Medford Brewster Croydon Maritza Turner Chatham Wesleyan Gardner Hastings Webster Foster Wellington Stadium Cadet Brockton Deauville Ardmore Dexter Beldon Arlington Hawthorne Coburn Pimlico Cedric Greenwich Donavan Black knight Sea Rover Dunhan Cranston Whitehall Errol Larchmont Gladstone Windsor Lyle B Bostonian B.W. Raymond Whitney the Curtis Ramsey Livingston Nightingale Jeffrey Barry Frontenac Drexel Stafford Dyson |
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