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:
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Charles Fasoltd Jacob Custer George Reed Adams & Perry Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Aurora Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Waterbury Seth Thomas Watch do. Independent Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Rockford Watch Co. |
Lancaster Watch Co. Luther Goddard Rock Island Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Manhatten Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Ball Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. New York Watch Co. New England Watch Co., B.D. Bingham Trenton Watch do. Thomas Harland U.S. Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. National Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. W.E. Harper Ingersol |
Auburndale Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Hampden Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Western Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. U.S Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Boston Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co American Waltham |
WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Kord Certina Provita Fairfax Aramis Watex Seeland Sperina Hilton Eska Duodial Lyceum Frey Roamer Rockford Monarch Helbros Audax Crown Favre Leuba Jaeger Cortebert Dunhill Coronet Rima Henda Orator Central Dome Nicolet Watch Eberhard Rolls Framont Charles Nicolet Monte Cawford Clebar Titus Vacheron Tissot Alton Helvetia LePhare Hafis Urania Didisheim Wyler Arsa Imperial A. Lange & Sohne Ball Stowa Kelek Ace Acro Nicewatch Co. Cartier Alpha Record Hampden Grana Rapid Rolex Lip Lusina P. Buhre Corum Olympia Mt. Vernon |
Bucherer Hayden Louis Montbrilliant Bueche-Girod Hermes Normandie Unitas Goering Baume & Mercier Breitling Garland Delbana Weldon Rotary Invicta Beltone Benson Mars International Pabro Bulova Frodsham Buren Warwick Guinand Eterna Kelton Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Niton Lancel Lemania PiagetPreesent Roxy Alavente Movado Lorton Zentra Wittnauer Orfina Smith Rulon South Bend Avalon Newmark Benrus Aristo Shield Perfine Continental Hy. Moser & Cie Hamilton J.E. Watch Co. Nivada Sigma Friedli Blancpain Weltall Lavina Marlys Gruen Altus Croton Glashutte Hebdomas Electra Rado |
Baylor Elgin Mar Nicolet Winton Welsbro Mappin WhiteStar Lang Uhr Gallet Hallmark Condal Yale Faith Boulevard Arctus Univer Omega Asprey Seth Thomas Tiffany Ofair Illinois Minerva Leonidas Wakmann Ogival Hydepark Hever Borel Boucheron Glycine Tornex-Rayville Exactus Enicar Levrette Universal Bovet Geneve Standard Autdrist Olma Cornavin Rembrant Lucerne Emerson Chopard Audemars Piguet Westend Butex Revue Zodiac Doxa Longines Van Cleef & Arpels Americus Ardath Octo Breguet Verno Orvin Carlton Kent Ekegren Vulcain Parker Admes Rocail |
Phillepe Watch Co. Trebex Schultz Louvig Moriva National Mimo Excelsior Fontainemelon Touchon Ollendorff Evans Gubelin Jules Jurgensen Patek Philippe Concord Ultimor Daynite Harvard Patria Tourneau Opel Cyma Pronto Girard-Perregaux Agassiz Jardur Zenith Ulysse Nardin Regina Alpina Tavannes Driva Harman Dugena Felca Harwood Turler Timecraft Juvenia Semca Laco Kelbert Harvel P. Garnier Alsta Haste Kingston Wig Wag Sheffield Kurth Berg Germinal Mido Huguenin LeCoultre Angelus Arbi Perpetual Watch Co. LIbela Golay Eloga Lucien Piccard Ebel |
Models of watches that we repair:
Golden Tempus II Jeffrey Chronomatic top hat Tempus Beldon Brandon Carlyle Morton Errol Midas New Yorker Oxford direct read Stuart Gary Briarcliffe Vernon Rutgers Farrell Barry Tildon Stadium Dawson Sea Scout Sea Skip Lee Adjutant Sinclair Edgemere Allison Wayne Clyde Randolph Steeldon Whitman Lakeland Newlin Huntley Majesty Montclair Flint Ridge Blackstone Eaton Hastings Corvet Eric Golden Tempus Sloane Sea Hawk Lawrence Coburn Paige Boulton Airflight Brewster Transcontinental A B Gladstone Heyward Newton Futura Myron Norman Commodore Baron Dodson Sea Cliff Adonis Minu-stop Mate Haddon Gilman Ericsson Emerson Kirk Secron Viking Arlington Hawthorne Guardsman Trooper Webster Cedercrest Chevy Chase Flight II Malcom Todd Gulfport Conway First Mate Caroline Sinclair Lyle B Windsor Major Clinton Landon Boyd Holden Marshall Mount Vernon Reagan Lester Quadron Linwood Amherst Varsity Ensign Carlton Marquis strap Howard Bryn Mawr Vernon Barton Spur Whitehall |
Sir Echo Prescott Carteret Maritza Top Time Neil Fleetwood Ascot Viscount Chatham Wilson Darrell Sea mate Deauville Dickens Clark Putnam Collegian Martin Rodney B.W. Raymond Drummond Andover Merritt Dunhan Dewitt Jolly Roger Bianca Touraine stanley Stormking Croydon Wilshire Ramsey Drake Sherwood The Governor Byrd Thor Casino Marcus Harris Kensignton Alan Rutledge Lincrest Grenadier Commander Norman Aqua Lung Yeoman Dorsey Talbot Fulton Linden Hall Russell Senator Dwight Ardsley Surf Elliot Emery Molly Stark Cambridge Otis watson Mason Thinline Donald Avigo Paxton Sea-glo Boone Eternamatic Bowman Stafford Oakley Cranston Argyle Keith Scott Contour Annapolis Lowell Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Ward Berkshire ipso-vox Sentinal Coronado Tyron Vardon Milburn Morley Nightingale Cameron Blade Franklion Lakehurst Powell Dyson Medford Captain Rice Rolland Fischer Clearview Sawyer Windsor President Antique Aviator Bostonian Pinehurst Lone Eagle |
Baxter Sea-crest Austin Craig Ansley Thornton Prentice Donavan Manhattan Kinematic Warwick Black knight Sheryll Veri-thin Glendale Kinematic Kirby Frontenac Black Star Bartley Curtis Chanticleer Doublet Robert Roberta Judson Gold knight Gordon Glenn Chieftan Courier Stanford Bentley Khyber Trudy Spur Bailey Bagley Pierre Murray Oval Kenilworth Gallahad Ensign Beau Royal Valiant Blair Piping Rock Baronet Beau Brummel Kevin Sidney Longacre Meadowbrook Taylor Glenn Curtis Aqualine Calvin Carlisle Curvex Scout Turner Foster Oakmont Monaco Arlington Tiger & Lady Piccadilly Lyndon Chapman Ryan Wilkinson Hayden Arnold Roland Gyromatic Orson Larchmont Dixon dunkirk The Chief's Wesley Ambassador Samson The Athelete Colby Fleetwood Benton Milton Culver Parker B Chadwick Brooke Gardner Livingston Custer Tuxedo William Osler Airman Dennis Centurion Norton Maxine Sutton Accumatic Yorktown Whitney the Curtis Flight I Stanford Sea Ranger Winthrop Spencer Cavalier Dean |
Baton Edgewater Lance Peyton Hartman Boatswain Diamond Richmond Sky Chief Trent Romanesquen Ross Champion Cross country Glendon Grafic Deluxe Courtney Jason Wakefield Crusade Raleigh Ristflo Attache Finalist Cullen Grover Sea Breeze Cordell Winfield Adrian Top Gun Precision Reardon Dexter Cyril Drew Hudson Drexel Sea Rover Halesworth B Chief Cedric Essex Barbizon Seville Sheldon Lord Lancaster Medalist Wembley Sea-cap Grant Raleigh Seaview Nelson West Point Aldrich Gilvert Greenwich Langdon Crispin Streamlined Carson Norde Chatham Brent Bradford Cadet Perry Norfolk Mayfield Brockton Pacermatic Pimlico Lambert Yorktown Secometer Sedgman Langford Ashley Edgewood Portia Thincraft Dartmouth Vincent Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Wesleyan Consul Wellington Sea Scape Lindsay Langley Spencer Staunton Enditcott Seabrook Blake Citadel Gramercy Garfield Sea guard Dante Cabot Brock Carl Guardsman Keane Radburn Andrews Chesterfield Raymon Derby Whitford Ardmore ... |
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