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 Hamilton Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. National Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. American Repeating Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. New York Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. B.D. Bingham Ball Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt American Waltham Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Watch Co. |
Appleton watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Waterbury American Waltham James & Henry Pitkin Rockford Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Ingersol Peoria Watch co Boston Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Jacob Custer Hampden Watch Co. Thomas Harland Nashua Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. |
W.E. Harper Cornell Watch Co Bannatyne Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Trenton Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Rock Island Watch Co. Western Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. George Reed Melrose Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Fitchburg Watch bo. Luther Goddard U.S. Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Auburndale 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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Croton Delbana Orvin Agassiz Ogival Van Cleef & Arpels Kelek Kingston Nicolet Watch Guinand Huguenin Blancpain Benson Normandie Rima Henda Eloga Lucerne Lucien Piccard Hampden Friedli Corum Mars Patria Ollendorff Harvel Nicewatch Co. Ardath Hy. Moser & Cie Montbrilliant Semca Minerva Cyma Breguet Orfina Juvenia Schultz Dome Helvetia Dugena PiagetPreesent Jardur Shield Carlton Alsta Tavannes Imperial Angelus A. Lange & Sohne Provita Zentra Watex Tourneau Buren Ekegren Opel Mido Germinal Eterna Kord Roamer Ulysse Nardin Perpetual Watch Co. Newmark Lip Nivada Omega Vulcain |
Stowa Patek Philippe Arctus Seeland Jules Jurgensen Wig Wag Longines Rado Leonidas Driva Sigma Cornavin Rembrant Invicta Americus Turler Marlys South Bend Geneve Mt. Vernon Moriva Arbi Eberhard Golay Yale Hafis Rotary Roxy Niton Dunhill Regina Duodial Kelbert Haste Audemars Piguet Hamilton Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Perfine Illinois Sperina Laco Hebdomas Welsbro Louvig Felca Trebex Charles Nicolet Clebar Pabro Excelsior Hayden Jaeger Ofair Grana Mappin Sheffield Daynite Levrette Frodsham Kelton Doxa Octo Beltone Elgin Weldon Cawford Kurth |
LeCoultre Rockford Coronet Admes Glashutte Fontainemelon Mar Nicolet Faith National Wyler Electra Pronto Hever Harvard Bucherer Lancel Orator Favre Leuba Baylor Vacheron Movado LIbela Autdrist Hallmark Kent Benrus P. Garnier Central Olympia Tiffany Tissot Chopard Harman Goering Breitling Standard Ace Acro Hilton Seth Thomas Girard-Perregaux Altus Rolex Univer Condal Helbros Borel Boucheron Zodiac Framont Tornex-Rayville Certina Frey Ultimor Universal Hydepark Louis Fairfax Alpha Crown Bulova Cortebert Record International Winton Cartier Lorton Alavente |
Unitas Rocail Rulon Olma Phillepe Watch Co. Westend Revue Alton Rapid Hermes J.E. Watch Co. Bueche-Girod Garland Smith Timecraft Ball Berg Glycine Bovet Wakmann Aristo Alpina WhiteStar Butex Evans Rolls Lyceum Boulevard Mimo Titus Asprey LePhare Lavina Monarch Ebel Concord Lusina Lang Uhr Audax Gallet Continental Urania Monte Arsa Wittnauer Verno Didisheim Gubelin Aramis Warwick P. Buhre Lemania Baume & Mercier Zenith Harwood Emerson Parker Avalon Gruen Weltall Touchon Eska Enicar Exactus |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Longacre Tiger & Lady Norton Chanticleer Gilvert Myron Kevin Barbizon Cedric Blair Bartley Grafic Deluxe Foster Seabrook Clinton Piccadilly Flight I Powell Sidney Sawyer Mayfield Secron Vernon Thinline Carlyle Putnam Crusade Valiant Spur Grenadier Halesworth B Tildon Dewitt Courtney Newlin Black Star Blackstone Allison Casino Glenn Curtis Marcus Yeoman Amherst Sutton Craig Larchmont Rutledge Sea Ranger Gilman Austin Essex Drummond Sir Echo Paige Glendale Newton Stanford Black knight Howard Transcontinental A B Chief Caroline Boatswain the Curtis Rodney Rolland Fischer Glenn Prentice Stormking Ardsley Raleigh Peyton Berkshire Attache Kinematic Reardon Hartman Dixon Norfolk Landon Murray Gladstone Argyle Gramercy Edgemere Turner Heyward Mount Vernon Mate Lawrence William Osler Portia Elliot Emery Brockton Ambassador Bianca Gary Whitney Kinematic Kirby Stuart President Antique Enditcott Dickens Croydon Reagan Holden Oxford Boulton Staunton Dyson Baton |
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