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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Rock Island Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Luther Goddard New York Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. W.E. Harper Fitchburg Watch bo. Otay Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Ingersol Benedict & Burham Charles Fasoltd Melrose Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Independent Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham |
Thomas Harland Manhatten Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. George Reed Cheshire Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. New England Watch Co., American Waltham Hamilton Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Waterbury Peoria Watch co South Bend Watch Co. |
Cornell Watch Co Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. National Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Lancaster Watch Co. Jacob Custer Washington Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Mosart Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Newark Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. U.S Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Auburndale Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. U.S. 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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Ogival Bovet Frey Monarch Enicar Alpha Lorton Trebex South Bend Tavannes Bucherer Nicolet Watch Jules Jurgensen Ardath Kurth Nivada Verno Harwood Zentra Cawford Weltall Warwick Huguenin Goering Parker Cortebert Benrus Breitling Audax Rolex Blancpain Stowa Montbrilliant Mars Westend Glycine Lucien Piccard Ulysse Nardin Nicewatch Co. Delbana Unitas Favre Leuba LePhare Evans Harman Orvin Tornex-Rayville International Harvel Patek Philippe Pronto Monte Croton Seeland Friedli Benson Lavina Duodial Germinal Provita Kelek Carlton Kelbert Tourneau Eloga Eska Autdrist Mar Nicolet |
Ekegren Glashutte Tissot Wakmann Harvard Central Audemars Piguet Semca Vulcain Rulon Juvenia Weldon Ball Excelsior Gruen Golay Urania Ultimor Ace Acro Rolls Lucerne Smith Perpetual Watch Co. Buren Olympia Alton Aristo Turler P. Buhre Arsa Framont Sigma Normandie Jardur J.E. Watch Co. Lemania Hafis Henda Condal Record National Asprey Patria Rapid Rembrant Guinand Universal Continental Kent Crown Opel Lyceum Helbros Rotary Illinois Ollendorff Altus Leonidas Didisheim Grana Touchon Hallmark Vacheron LIbela Moriva Agassiz Pabro |
Coronet Bueche-Girod Felca Laco Mt. Vernon Hydepark P. Garnier Baume & Mercier Orator Revue Emerson LeCoultre Beltone Kelton Alsta Certina Wittnauer Timecraft Alavente Zodiac Longines Boulevard Kord Schultz Watex Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Ofair Wig Wag Orfina Rockford Fairfax Louvig Roamer Gubelin Hilton Welsbro Helvetia Roxy Kingston Admes Bulova Louis Arctus Rima Octo Avalon Americus Imperial Daynite Movado Niton Sperina Mappin Newmark Angelus Univer Omega Van Cleef & Arpels Geneve Concord Girard-Perregaux A. Lange & Sohne Yale Seth Thomas Marlys Lang Uhr |
Perfine Hamilton Lusina Titus Fontainemelon Dugena Breguet Rocail Frodsham Phillepe Watch Co. Jaeger Eterna Dome Lip Butex Cornavin WhiteStar Winton Hermes Alpina Electra Hebdomas Cyma Baylor Chopard Eberhard Sheffield Charles Nicolet Borel Boucheron Clebar Berg Lancel Regina Hampden Garland Exactus Wyler Minerva Arbi Shield Doxa PiagetPreesent Elgin Corum Zenith Cartier Hever Standard Hy. Moser & Cie Mimo Mido Faith Aramis Hayden Olma Levrette Gallet Dunhill Driva Invicta Rado Haste Ebel Tiffany |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Bryn Mawr Powell Monaco Dunhan Chesterfield Piping Rock Longacre Aqua Lung Sea-glo Judson Mason Caroline Piccadilly Corvet Bartley Turner Spencer Winthrop Cameron Robert Roberta Gardner Captain Rice Sea Hawk Arnold Winfield Oxford Coronado Carteret the Curtis Rolland Fischer Blade Edgewood Richmond Hayden Commodore Finalist Raleigh Dean Stafford First Mate Thinline Parker B Collegian Milburn Ashley The Governor Vernon Golden Tempus dunkirk Whitford Rutgers Wakefield stanley Transcontinental A B Custer Gladstone Glenn Curtis Brockton Randolph Norman Norman Martin Taylor Surf The Chief's Oval Dodson Sloane West Point Lance Carlyle Drummond Romanesquen Ross Clyde Beldon Bagley Precision Marquis strap Larchmont Bailey Streamlined Sea-crest Adonis Raymon Ward Grenadier Contour Colby Thornton Boatswain Jason Fleetwood Molly Stark Dartmouth Tyron Vardon Courtney Dorsey Golden Tempus II Ensign Byrd Drake Langdon Drexel Ambassador Grover Bradford Conway Prentice Trent Top Time Norfolk |
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