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:
Aurora Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Hamilton Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Manhatten Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Luther Goddard Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Otay Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Ingersol J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. |
Fitchburg Watch bo. National Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Jacob Custer W.E. Harper Peoria Watch co Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham E. Howard and Co. Illinois Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. George Reed Cheshire Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin B.D. Bingham |
Herman Vod der Heydt Thomas Harland Columbus Watch Co. New York Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Waterbury Warren Manufacturing Co. Freeport Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Appleton watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Wichita 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:
Standard Pronto Tiffany Grana Altus Harvel Roxy Autdrist Weltall Asprey Rolex Exactus Lancel Record Ollendorff Blancpain Borel Boucheron Kord Monarch A. Lange & Sohne Bucherer Henda Alavente Driva Evans Smith Electra Angelus Delbana Bulova Movado Glashutte Duodial Omega Longines Rulon Zentra Tornex-Rayville Chopard Bovet Butex Dome Americus Ebel Rotary Ulysse Nardin Glycine Patek Philippe Kelek Benson Garland Sperina Girard-Perregaux Wyler Faith Sheffield Turler Lorton Orfina Universal Jules Jurgensen Revue Newmark Urania Haste Rocail Cortebert Louvig |
Moriva Arsa Hallmark Rembrant Watex Cawford Alsta Harman Univer Friedli Seeland Eloga Zodiac Berg Dunhill Gruen Tourneau P. Buhre Verno Stowa Aristo Hydepark Alpina Opel Admes Hermes Provita Enicar Ogival Concord Kelbert Marlys Lang Uhr PiagetPreesent Germinal Rockford Hampden Sigma Mar Nicolet Perpetual Watch Co. Vulcain Crown Lucien Piccard Buren Titus Rado Weldon Ball Didisheim Unitas Avalon Breguet Corum Nicolet Watch Tavannes Goering National Mappin Welsbro Ekegren Mimo Daynite Leonidas Arbi Dugena Harvard LIbela |
Frey Hamilton Fontainemelon Parker Harwood Touchon Benrus Geneve Golay Ace Acro LePhare Minerva Shield Emerson Vacheron Nivada Condal Eska Agassiz Wig Wag Huguenin Continental Hilton Audemars Piguet Excelsior Warwick Regina Doxa Perfine Juvenia Hever Eterna Charles Nicolet Breitling Levrette Eberhard Audax Van Cleef & Arpels Arctus Alpha Carlton Beltone Lusina Jardur Tissot Hayden Orator Orvin Olympia Elgin Phillepe Watch Co. International Helvetia Certina Winton Ofair Mido South Bend Lavina Kent J.E. Watch Co. Rima Rapid Mt. Vernon Boulevard Lemania |
Patria Baume & Mercier Wakmann Yale Guinand Clebar Felca P. Garnier Lyceum Montbrilliant Kurth Zenith Favre Leuba Coronet Bueche-Girod Imperial Hebdomas Louis Lucerne Ardath Illinois Helbros Frodsham Gubelin Rolls Kelton Baylor Central Cartier Croton Nicewatch Co. Cyma Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Timecraft Olma Trebex Ultimor Hy. Moser & Cie Lip Invicta Gallet Cornavin Fairfax Kingston Normandie Seth Thomas Roamer Westend WhiteStar Monte Jaeger Pabro Aramis Semca Laco Hafis Alton Mars Schultz Octo Niton Wittnauer Framont LeCoultre |
Models of watches that we repair:
Lowell Taylor Spur Courier Garfield Nelson Tuxedo Sea Scout Sea Skip Commander Sawyer Mason Grenadier Wesley Champion ipso-vox Landon Raymon Winfield dunkirk Consul Morley Portia Holden Gilman Piping Rock Mayfield Captain Rice Seville Sheldon Rutgers Dexter Whitford Howard Baron Whitney Thincraft Donavan Cadet Whitman Errol First Mate Khyber Aldrich Keith Casino Lee Argyle Lakeland Newlin Gulfport Maritza Sloane Webster Top Gun Thinline Carl Dunhan Reardon Lord Lancaster Todd Jeffrey Culver Ensign Corvet Myron Crusade B.W. Raymond Kensignton Hartman Brandon Jason Grant Lyle B Gordon Bailey Paige Haddon Kinematic Curtis Kirk Sea Hawk Montclair Aqualine Richmond Diamond Stadium Mate Wakefield Eric Samson Norfolk Sea Scape Milburn Tiger & Lady Paxton Lyndon New Yorker Prentice Chatham Murray Chief Yorktown Stafford Grover Transcontinental A B Guardsman Sea Cliff Conway Edgemere Seabrook Talbot Arnold |
Baxter Black Star Pinehurst Yeoman Clearview Pacermatic Langdon Cameron Windsor Drexel Majesty Russell Flight II Judson Gold knight Barry Ansley Boulton Sinclair Chapman The Governor Sir Echo Longacre Bradford Dartmouth Putnam Sea Breeze Parker B Barbizon Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Chieftan Gyromatic Langley Wellington Elliot Emery Citadel Manhattan Arlington Lester Norde Croydon Hudson Merritt Gary Foster Spencer Calvin Yorktown Ryan Hastings Touraine Sentinal Dorsey The Chief's Marcus Chronomatic top hat Arlington Hawthorne Ardsley Milton Thornton Greenwich Donald Warwick Glenn Curtis Precision Sea-crest Drake William Osler Kenilworth Gallahad Reagan Staunton Ensign Sidney Lincrest Drew Senator Carson Blackstone Trooper Tyron Vardon Golden Tempus II Wilkinson Bostonian Farrell Turner Tildon Harris Edgewater Trudy Spur Berkshire Winthrop Airflight Hayden Coronado Ward Centurion Wilson Sea mate Commodore Ardmore Collegian Carlton Norton Viking Dwight Adrian Amherst Bowman Franklion Malcom |
Brent Carlyle Oxford Accumatic Major Ristflo Essex Lakehurst Bartley Cordell Custer Sheryll Sea Rover Cyril Surf Mount Vernon Norman Finalist Avigo Marshall Medalist Wembley Glendale Bagley Viscount Lance Cedric Aqua Lung Cambridge Molly Stark Gramercy President Antique Larchmont Attache Perry Andrews Wesleyan The Athelete Veri-thin Eaton Flint Ridge Ericsson Emerson Fleetwood Chatham Rutledge Kevin Kinematic Kirby Pimlico Monaco Golden Tempus Darrell Heyward the Curtis Austin Alan Piccadilly Langford Ramsey stanley Briarcliffe Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Huntley Boyd Glendon Stuart Prescott Blake Lone Eagle Contour Coburn Dean Ashley Barton Frontenac Midas Brooke Romanesquen Ross Clark Dewitt Vernon Aviator Fleetwood Dickens Beau Royal Blair Randolph Varsity Cross country Airman Baronet Beau Brummel Sherwood Powell Oakley Secometer Sedgman Sea-cap Roland Doublet Sea guard Cranston Flight I Guardsman Cabot Valiant Beldon Keane Gladstone Thor Allison Brock Edgewood Morton |
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