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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Western Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. American Waltham National Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Lancaster Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Jacob Custer Columbus Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Thomas Harland Appleton watch Co. New England Watch Co., American Repeating Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Peoria Watch co |
Ingersol Cornell Watch Co Charles Fasoltd Bannatyne Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham U.S. Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Waterbury Herman Vod der Heydt Cheshire Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Hampden Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Melrose Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Luther Goddard |
Potter Albert Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Wichita Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Newark Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. W.E. Harper Seth Thomas Watch do. Aurora Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. George Reed U.S Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. New York 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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Lancel Orfina Doxa Angelus Lang Uhr Asprey Lip Borel Boucheron Frey Geneve Breitling Movado Westend Timecraft Cartier South Bend Driva Bovet Smith Berg Parker Hamilton Dunhill Seth Thomas Gallet Nicolet Watch Chopard Friedli Jaeger Welsbro Provita Wakmann Ball Moriva Zodiac Bueche-Girod Lyceum Jules Jurgensen Minerva Lemania Harvard Warwick Dugena Leonidas Vacheron Cawford Urania Eska Pabro Cyma Excelsior Montbrilliant Aramis Cornavin Carlton Mars Rockford Harman Zenith P. Garnier Goering Breguet Winton Enicar Hilton Olma Fontainemelon Baylor |
Hy. Moser & Cie Rocail Louis Alpina Eloga Ollendorff Tornex-Rayville Omega Wittnauer Kelbert Audemars Piguet Huguenin Haste Americus Faith Glashutte Audax Lavina Alton Arctus Octo Kingston Evans Buren Mar Nicolet Ultimor Monarch Boulevard Ace Acro Perpetual Watch Co. Olympia Pronto Patria Opel Alpha Louvig Stowa Croton Crown Hever WhiteStar Delbana Levrette Schultz Roxy Hallmark Rolls Garland Helvetia Certina Duodial Emerson Golay Girard-Perregaux Agassiz Kent Seeland Baume & Mercier Helbros Tavannes Hebdomas Eterna Hermes Ardath Tissot Nivada Bucherer |
Altus Tiffany Germinal Weldon Tourneau Semca LIbela Kord Concord Laco Rulon Zentra Benrus Harwood Ofair Niton Hayden Clebar Condal Watex Alavente Continental J.E. Watch Co. Gruen Favre Leuba Trebex Shield Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Autdrist LeCoultre Central Verno Henda Mimo Gubelin Butex Guinand Grana Exactus Cortebert Kelton Elgin Lucerne Imperial Didisheim Sperina Hafis Kelek Corum Juvenia Record Univer P. Buhre Phillepe Watch Co. Rado Illinois Revue Wyler Mt. Vernon LePhare Sigma Electra Kurth Rapid A. Lange & Sohne Patek Philippe |
Harvel Titus Benson Mappin Vulcain Yale Ebel Glycine Longines Daynite Hydepark Monte Charles Nicolet National Ogival Arsa Rotary Lucien Piccard Universal Orvin Wig Wag Frodsham Felca Ulysse Nardin Touchon Nicewatch Co. PiagetPreesent Normandie Bulova Unitas Framont Standard Rolex Roamer Arbi Regina Weltall Marlys Turler Rima Mido Coronet Lorton Beltone Invicta Alsta Orator Perfine International Admes Blancpain Van Cleef & Arpels Ekegren Hampden Avalon Fairfax Jardur Rembrant Newmark Lusina Eberhard Dome Aristo Sheffield |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Centurion Precision Bagley The Chief's Winthrop Wayne Eaton Pinehurst Sea Breeze New Yorker Farrell Commander Attache Chatham Livingston Darrell Dixon Adjutant Montclair Steeldon Elliot Emery Spur Andover Gary Tiger & Lady Bailey Commodore Randolph Langley Marshall Eternamatic Arlington Hawthorne Khyber Ward Whitford Hastings Putnam Ascot Larchmont Sentinal Raleigh Corvet Foster Flight I Carson Lambert Lord Lancaster Tildon Colby Sea Hawk Richmond Sea Scape Thincraft Cranston Sea-crest Talbot Boone Top Gun Newlin Turner Portia Fleetwood Manhattan Contour Majesty Morley Ristflo Pacermatic West Point Lee Aldrich Brewster Alan Doublet Brock Trudy Spur Argyle Oxford Deauville Judson Cambridge Norfolk Sloane Sinclair Parker B Carl Radburn Dunhan Powell the Curtis Gilvert Langdon Franklion Sea-glo Sea Rover Veri-thin Captain Rice Enditcott Ansley Stadium Brandon William Osler Dean Coburn Airman Adrian Drake Lowell Lance Boyd Oval |
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