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Antique Swiss and American mechanical watch repair specialists since 1987


Thank you for visiting my vintage and antique watch repair site. Most visitors are here because they own an heirloom "family watch" and want to learn more about it's potential of being serviced and repaired. Most inherited mechanical watches were made in an era where the science of perfecting dependable timekeeping forced industry competition. The resulting jeweled watches are amazing and comparable to any science achievement in man's history. I encourage you to click through my antique watch repair site and learn more about my guaranteed mechanical watch services and welcome you to contact me.




I supply both watch parts to the watchmaker AND watch restoration services. Please read my website and contact me with any questions.

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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:
B.D. Bingham
Washington Watch Co.
National Watch Co.
South Bend Watch Co.
E. Howard and Co.
Rockford Watch Co.
Warren Manufacturing Co.
American Waltham Watch Co.
South Bend Watch Co.
Columbus Watch Co.
Western Watch Co.
Newark Watch Co.
Thomas Harland
American Repeating Watch Co.
Auburndale Watch Co.
Boston Watch Co.
Illinois Watch Co.
U.S Watch Co.
Appleton, Tracy & Co.
Fitchburg Watch bo.
New York Watch Co.
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co.
Freeport Watch Co.
New England Watch Co.,
Otay Watch Co.
Mosart Watch Co.
Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham
Trenton Watch do.
American Waltham
Manhatten Watch Co.
George Reed
Appleton watch Co.
Cheshire Watch Co.
Luther Goddard
U.S. Watch Co.
Ingersol
Jacob Custer
James & Henry Pitkin
Nashua Watch Co.
Potter Albert Watch Co.
E.F. Bowman
Benedict & Burham
Hamilton Watch Co.
Charles Fasoltd
Peoria Watch co
Cornell Watch Co
Adams & Perry Watch Co.
Aurora Watch Co.
Ball Watch Co.
Herman Vod der Heydt
Watch Co.
Melrose Watch Co.
Independent Watch Co.
Rock Island Watch Co.
Hampden Watch Co.
Waterbury
Bannatyne Watch Co.
J.P.Stevens Watch Co.
Wichita Watch Co.
W.E. Harper
Lancaster Watch Co.
Seth Thomas Watch do.


WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Rolls
Daynite
Harwood
LIbela
Geneve
Invicta
Bucherer
Sperina
Monte
Haste
Mars
Verno
Louis
Berg
Nicewatch Co.
Autdrist
Smith
Dome
Elgin
Ofair
Lavina
Dugena
Driva
Breguet
Rima
Germinal
Zentra
Cortebert
Mt. Vernon
Ebel
Longines
Kent
Hebdomas
Normandie
Ollendorff
Tiffany
Alpina
Arbi
Jardur
Cawford
Hydepark
Arsa
Friedli
Doxa
Shield
Altus
Lyceum
Blancpain
Seth Thomas
Regina
Henda
Mido
P. Buhre
Touchon
Tissot
Certina
Rado
Eberhard
Ace Acro
Opel
Phillepe Watch Co.
Ulysse Nardin
Tourneau
Zodiac
Cornavin
Beltone
Welsbro
Lancel
Hever
Agassiz
Universal
Tavannes
Provita
Glycine
Alsta
Ultimor
Cyma
Olympia
Delbana
Lusina
Pronto
Central
Turler
A. Lange & Sohne
WhiteStar
Roamer
Admes
Parker
Lip
Niton
Nicolet Watch
Eloga
Moriva
Audemars Piguet
Nivada
Movado
Chopard
Louvig
LeCoultre
Stowa
Warwick
Gruen
Harman
Didisheim
Sheffield
Buren
Gubelin
Kelton
Laco
Juvenia
Rolex
Glashutte
Monarch
Orator
Hafis
Hallmark
Patria
Emerson
Condal
Weldon
Rockford
Girard-Perregaux
Kingston
Perpetual Watch Co.
Watex
Electra
Seeland
Ekegren
Newmark
Hamilton
Rocail
Ball
Bueche-Girod
Hampden
Baylor
Roxy
Kelbert
Bovet
Audax
Kelek
South Bend
Alton
Olma
Clebar
Goering
Wig Wag
Butex
PiagetPreesent
Lang Uhr
Guinand
Semca
Aristo
Alavente
Hermes
Helvetia
Jules Jurgensen
Kord
Yale
Rembrant
Croton
Excelsior
Trebex
Jaeger
Winton
Vacheron
Enicar
Hayden
Bulova
Hilton
Framont
Americus
Lucerne
Unitas
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte
Imperial
Coronet
Boulevard
P. Garnier
Zenith
Lemania
Crown
Carlton
Hy. Moser & Cie
Omega
Angelus
Wittnauer
Charles Nicolet
Gallet
Huguenin
Borel Boucheron
Van Cleef & Arpels
Titus
Garland
Duodial
Timecraft
Felca
Standard
Lorton
Rulon
Frey
Pabro
Faith
Cartier
Wakmann
Rapid
Harvel
Harvard
Schultz
Lucien Piccard
Vulcain
Ardath
Tornex-Rayville
Rotary
Aramis
Westend
Asprey
Corum
Favre Leuba
Patek Philippe
Fairfax
Wyler
Urania
Evans
Mimo
J.E. Watch Co.
Benrus
LePhare
Breitling
Arctus
Continental
Benson
Concord
Eska
Avalon
Golay
Leonidas
Orvin
Marlys
Orfina
Illinois
Revue
Minerva
Baume & Mercier
Helbros
Alpha
Exactus
Perfine
Mar Nicolet
Univer
Levrette
Record
Mappin
Montbrilliant
National
Grana
International
Kurth
Dunhill
Weltall
Fontainemelon
Eterna
Sigma
Frodsham
Octo
Ogival


Models of watches that we repair:
Streamlined
Ardmore
Bianca
Lindsay
Cedercrest Chevy Chase
the Curtis
Ashley
Sherwood
Boatswain
Drake
Vernon
Essex
Briarcliffe
Carl
Gramercy
Halesworth B
Brock
Enditcott
Accumatic
Captain Rice
Amherst
Dodson
Valiant
Sea Hawk
Annapolis
Chatham
Richmond
Prentice
Murray
Langford
Martin
Glendon
Mount Vernon
Malcom
Alan
Croydon
Romanesquen Ross
Carlisle
Sinclair
Flight II
Todd
Gyromatic
Barbizon
Secometer Sedgman
Crusade
Milburn
Corvet
Sinclair
Bailey
Avigo
Edgemere
Lakehurst
Yorktown
Parker B
Morley
Arnold
Whitman
Lambert
Foster
Aviator
Stafford
Dyson
Glendale
Crispin
Hastings
Windsor
Spencer
Steeldon
Dickens
Carlyle
Talbot
Oval
Livingston
Samson
Byrd
Casino
Linwood
Lowell
Craig
Centurion
Fleetwood
Thornton
Norfolk
Andrews
Tempus
Kinematic Kirby
Thin-o-matic Masterpiece
Whitney
Cross country
Quadron
Sheryll
Gulfport
Yorktown
Judson
Golden Tempus
Ristflo
Ardsley
Tildon
Bostonian
New Yorker
Spur
Collegian
Ensign
Bradford
Randolph
Bartley
Monaco
Paige
Piccadilly
Veri-thin
Pierre
Sea Breeze
First Mate
Lincrest
Adrian
Keith
Sea-crest
Andover
Colby
Kenilworth Gallahad
Brockton
Lyndon
Blackstone
Lawrence
Nelson
Lee
Gilvert
Wesleyan
Jeffrey
Wilkinson
Austin
Varsity
Paxton
Neil
Keane
Cullen
Darrell
Cyril
Eaton
Putnam
Winfield
Citadel
Franklion
Whitford
Caroline
Yeoman
Finalist
Viking
Lance
Norman
Oakley
Seabrook
Elliot Emery
Lester
Reagan
Mayfield
Argyle
Thincraft
Berkshire
Vernon
Cordell
Cambridge
Gold knight
Jason
Pacermatic
Ansley
Dwight
Edgewood
Errol
Consul
Airman
Newlin
Grafic Deluxe
Allison
Garfield
Brooke
Stanford
Langdon
Chief
Hudson
Sea Scape
Custer
Rutgers
Kirk
Edgewater
Beau Royal
Golden Tempus II
Linden Hall
The Chief's
Ensign
Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights
Stormking
Rutledge
Medalist Wembley
Heyward
Otis
Marquis strap
Culver
Taylor
Lord Lancaster
Coronado
Milton
Sea Scout Sea Skip
Tiger & Lady
Meadowbrook
Kevin
Mason
Kensignton
Landon
Pimlico
Top Time
Orson
Howard
Curtis
Black Star
Carteret
Baxter
Harris
Aqua Lung
Baronet Beau Brummel
Marshall
Flight I
Minu-stop
Adonis
Merritt
Raymon
Prescott
Morton
Manhattan
Ward
Norde
Ramsey
Maxine
Staunton
Majesty
Clinton
Khyber
The Athelete
Chatham
Bentley
Barry
Black knight
Courtney
Top Gun
Raleigh
Chronomatic top hat
William Osler
Medford
Commodore
Wesley
Mate
Clyde
Senator
dunkirk
Sea Rover
Carlton
Wilshire
Sawyer
Farrell
Dennis
Ambassador
Wayne
Dawson
Precision
Trent
Midas
Vincent
Seville Sheldon
Glenn Curtis
Wellington
Thinline
Chieftan
Stadium
Baton
Gilman
Powell
Frontenac
Trooper
Seaview
Chanticleer
Grant
Fleetwood
Langley
Bowman
Deauville
Baron
Longacre
ipso-vox
Barton
Cameron
Flint Ridge
Winthrop
President Antique
Sea guard
Webster
Huntley
Glenn
Curvex
Beldon
Airflight
Holden
Lone Eagle
Courier
Gordon
Haddon
Perry
Cadet
Blade
Lyle B
Gardner
Dewitt
Sutton
Ascot
Grenadier
Grover
Dean
Sea Cliff
Dunhan
Newton
Donald
Chesterfield
Carson
Kinematic
Hayden
Sea Ranger
Eric
Stanford
Attache
Molly Stark
Lakeland
Cabot
Viscount
Sky Chief
Conway
Sea mate
Drexel
Dartmouth
Thor
Surf
Arlington Hawthorne
Brent
Sidney
Reardon
Bagley
watson
Guardsman
Blair
Jolly Roger
Windsor
Futura
Aqualine
Hartman
Roland
Robert Roberta
Wilson
Boyd
Benton
Oxford
Norman
Guardsman
Rodney
Russell
Scout
Eternamatic
Tyron Vardon
Calvin
Whitehall
Bryn Mawr
Transcontinental A B
Diamond
Major
Donavan
Contour
Adjutant
Drummond
Doublet
Cranston
Tuxedo
Cavalier
Arlington
direct read
West Point
Sentinal
Trudy Spur
Derby
Rolland Fischer
Aldrich
Marcus
Dexter
Clark
Oakmont
Drew
Maritza
Sea-glo
Chapman
Nightingale
Dante
Wakefield
Dixon
Secron
Ryan
Peyton
Larchmont
Commander
Scott
Spencer
Piping Rock
Sloane
Boone
Pinehurst
Warwick
Portia
Touraine
Champion
Norton
Greenwich
stanley
Sir Echo
Ericsson Emerson
Coburn
Chadwick
Boulton
Dorsey
Brandon
Gladstone
Radburn
Myron
The Governor
Stuart
Brewster
B.W. Raymond
Clearview
Cedric
Gary
Sea-cap
Blake
Fulton
Turner
Raleigh
Montclair
...


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