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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Benedict & Burham Auburndale Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Columbus Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Bannatyne Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. George Reed Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Appleton, Tracy & Co. E. Howard and Co. Aurora Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. |
Waterbury Western Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Fitchburg Watch bo. Rock Island Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Ingersol American Repeating Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Warren Manufacturing Co. National Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. B.D. Bingham E.F. Bowman Jacob Custer Potter Albert Watch Co. Luther Goddard Hamilton Watch Co. W.E. Harper |
U.S Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Peoria Watch co American Waltham Otay Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Herman Vod der Heydt Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Thomas Harland |
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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Ekegren Gubelin Daynite Hafis Agassiz Juvenia Golay Harman Dugena Ultimor Central Kent Breguet Rapid Hamilton Univer Record Parker Clebar Touchon Audax Warwick Bulova Orfina Rolex Boulevard Alpha Verno Zentra Huguenin Kingston Wig Wag Hydepark Welsbro Levrette Rotary Mars Wyler Tissot Baume & Mercier Octo Semca Seth Thomas Perpetual Watch Co. Wittnauer Altus Orator Vacheron Jardur Blancpain Benrus Invicta South Bend Leonidas Patria Croton Unitas Lorton Americus Tiffany Mappin Eska Stowa Kord Borel Boucheron Benson Westend Evans |
Turler Perfine Winton Tourneau Lemania Geneve Glashutte Nicolet Watch Lip Haste Elgin Glycine LePhare Breitling Faith Trebex Angelus Continental Lusina Jaeger Movado A. Lange & Sohne Eterna Electra Dunhill Mido Harwood Chopard Lancel Laco Bucherer Duodial Ball Orvin Marlys Didisheim Rima Patek Philippe Hermes Pabro Provita Corum Hebdomas Frey Olma Kelbert Admes Friedli Berg Helbros Alavente Alsta International Autdrist Wakmann Concord Hilton Enicar Yale Baylor Excelsior Weldon Urania Olympia Hallmark Driva Mt. Vernon |
Grana Cortebert Weltall Asprey Opel Smith Bovet Cawford Felca Gruen Ace Acro Coronet Tornex-Rayville Kurth Alton Vulcain Arctus Mar Nicolet Sigma Cyma Hy. Moser & Cie Harvel Pronto Watex Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Charles Nicolet Frodsham Zodiac National Standard Tavannes Ogival Rado Roxy Fontainemelon Delbana Mimo Aramis Buren Dome Audemars Piguet Rembrant Arbi Seeland Hayden Germinal Emerson Rulon Beltone Universal Rolls Sperina Monarch Framont Hampden Condal Minerva Sheffield Garland Schultz Newmark P. Garnier Avalon PiagetPreesent Ardath Shield |
Lang Uhr Carlton Timecraft Lucien Piccard Eberhard J.E. Watch Co. Alpina Lyceum Monte LIbela Regina Roamer Aristo Lavina Louvig Harvard Henda Kelton Zenith Ofair Certina Bueche-Girod Guinand Normandie WhiteStar Rocail Exactus Illinois Girard-Perregaux LeCoultre Niton P. Buhre Kelek Hever Imperial Fairfax Longines Gallet Ollendorff Lucerne Rockford Moriva Nivada Crown Favre Leuba Butex Ulysse Nardin Nicewatch Co. Montbrilliant Helvetia Louis Doxa Jules Jurgensen Revue Phillepe Watch Co. Eloga Titus Arsa Goering Cartier Omega Van Cleef & Arpels Ebel Cornavin |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Rutgers Russell Contour Dixon Rolland Fischer Enditcott Beldon Sea Breeze Spencer Windsor Corvet Flint Ridge Curtis Trent Langdon Wilshire Mate Spencer Stormking Ardsley Rodney Valiant Conway Milburn Seville Sheldon Adrian Ansley Clark Wilkinson Sentinal Adonis Carteret Gordon Diamond ipso-vox Ristflo Lowell Morley Longacre Gary Drew Manhattan Dawson Baxter Flight I Haddon Sea Hawk Minu-stop Caroline Curvex The Athelete Vernon Consul Sea Rover Monaco Oval Sutton Crusade Murray Bradford Sherwood Winfield Stuart Kinematic Kirby Adjutant Trudy Spur Putnam Edgewood Martin Oakmont Keane Whitman Casino Viscount Culver Lester Carlton Blade Thinline Brock Clearview Sea Ranger The Governor Tildon Wesley Garfield Pimlico Sea-cap Ambassador Carlyle Black knight Heyward Sky Chief Kevin Viking Baronet Beau Brummel Paige Kenilworth Gallahad Custer Lincrest Merritt Elliot Emery Malcom Glenn Curtis Oxford Drake Thor Carson Parker B Kensignton Guardsman |
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