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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Jacob Custer Bannatyne Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham South Bend Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Benedict & Burham E.F. Bowman Trenton Watch do. Cornell Watch Co Hampden Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. W.E. Harper J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Luther Goddard Mosart Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Western Watch Co. Ingersol George Reed American Repeating Watch Co. |
B.D. Bingham Fitchburg Watch bo. Independent Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Herman Vod der Heydt Waterbury Watch Co. Thomas Harland Boston Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham American Waltham Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. |
Hamilton Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Rock Island Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. New England Watch Co., Peoria Watch co National Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Manhatten 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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Kelbert Touchon Borel Boucheron Gruen Ogival Nivada Eterna Lucerne Zenith Turler Agassiz Garland Pronto Olympia Ultimor Continental Westend Boulevard Lorton LIbela Cawford Helbros Alsta Dome Rockford Jardur Ekegren Rolex Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Kelton Regina Mt. Vernon Patria Certina Girard-Perregaux Nicewatch Co. A. Lange & Sohne Pabro Croton Kingston Rulon Louis Watex J.E. Watch Co. Octo Wig Wag Revue Clebar Ardath Levrette Cyma Tourneau Bulova Angelus Roamer Aramis Evans Kent Van Cleef & Arpels Invicta Frodsham Leonidas Bueche-Girod Tavannes Frey Tissot Carlton Berg |
Phillepe Watch Co. Seth Thomas Fairfax Butex P. Garnier Welsbro Harwood Rapid Standard Stowa Gubelin LeCoultre Enicar Rado Framont Hy. Moser & Cie Harman Altus Goering Guinand Arsa Audemars Piguet Nicolet Watch Lancel Weldon Arbi Jaeger Jules Jurgensen Central Hilton Weltall Gallet Hafis Yale Elgin Mars Warwick Seeland P. Buhre Vulcain Zentra Longines Laco PiagetPreesent Record Hermes Ollendorff Eloga Provita Rocail Fontainemelon Rima Coronet Lusina Ebel Doxa Lemania Alpina Eberhard Admes Charles Nicolet Eska Delbana Shield Concord Lang Uhr Orfina |
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WhiteStar Grana Excelsior Breguet Movado Perpetual Watch Co. Avalon Felca Ofair Hever Condal Niton Didisheim Geneve Mimo Germinal South Bend Harvard Harvel Benrus Tornex-Rayville Rolls Hallmark Mappin Orator Ball Duodial Asprey Hebdomas Newmark Golay Juvenia Breitling Schultz Kord Cornavin Crown Verno Audax Hampden Kurth Beltone Daynite Semca Alton International Wittnauer Smith Benson Ulysse Nardin Sigma Minerva Kelek Glycine Perfine Mido Titus National Timecraft Patek Philippe Zodiac Universal Omega Olma |
Models of watches that we repair:
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