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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Cheshire Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Newark Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Western Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Manhatten Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd American Repeating Watch Co. W.E. Harper D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Waltham Warren Manufacturing Co. |
South Bend Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Appleton watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Jacob Custer Lancaster Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Auburndale Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Luther Goddard Boston Watch Co. Ingersol Illinois Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. |
U.S Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Potter Albert Watch Co. National Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. New York Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin George Reed Bannatyne Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Wichita Watch Co. New England Watch Co., B.D. Bingham Appleton, Tracy & Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Waterbury Herman Vod der Heydt Thomas Harland |
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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Westend Dunhill Touchon Glycine Pabro Faith Regina Hallmark Fontainemelon Lancel Zenith Ultimor Buren Weldon Carlton Perfine Wittnauer WhiteStar Mappin South Bend Lavina Gubelin Croton Provita Alpina Van Cleef & Arpels Baylor Boulevard Vacheron Roamer Hayden Welsbro Cortebert Illinois Agassiz LeCoultre Tissot Golay Vulcain Bucherer Harvel Baume & Mercier Bulova Laco Trebex Hermes Alton Chopard Germinal Yale Orfina Arctus Nivada Zodiac Rembrant Mars Ball Excelsior Geneve Zentra Certina Wig Wag Rolex Mido Harvard Daynite Coronet Ebel |
Ekegren Driva Movado Mar Nicolet Kord Ofair Louvig Stowa Central Rado LIbela Watex Audax Beltone Dome Alpha Hilton Gallet Ace Acro Omega Benrus Lusina Garland Framont Olympia Monte Condal Angelus Asprey Eska Henda Leonidas Levrette Orator Hever Perpetual Watch Co. Rockford National Kurth Exactus Cawford Lyceum Arsa Timecraft Rolls Juvenia Concord Wakmann Didisheim Clebar Patek Philippe Sperina Girard-Perregaux Butex Lemania Sigma Duodial Arbi Weltall Turler Ogival Winton Jaeger Cyma Rulon Enicar Aristo |
Americus Smith Warwick Roxy Schultz Gruen Montbrilliant Invicta Ulysse Nardin Phillepe Watch Co. Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Glashutte Eloga P. Buhre Urania Olma Tavannes Audemars Piguet Dugena Admes Ardath Huguenin Emerson Alsta Sheffield Favre Leuba Guinand Hamilton Mt. Vernon J.E. Watch Co. Tourneau Record Seth Thomas Univer Aramis Universal Minerva Bueche-Girod Harwood Fairfax Goering Imperial Moriva Titus Marlys Delbana Revue Rima Friedli Felca Newmark Electra Lang Uhr Lorton Lucien Piccard Orvin Autdrist Niton Evans Rapid Standard Opel Mimo Seeland Tornex-Rayville Kelbert |
Benson Crown Frey Lip P. Garnier Continental Bovet Hafis Patria Tiffany Helvetia Breitling Cartier Parker PiagetPreesent Kelek Nicewatch Co. Harman Monarch Cornavin Eterna Lucerne Doxa Charles Nicolet Unitas Kelton Eberhard LePhare Grana Kent Ollendorff Pronto Octo Frodsham Blancpain Helbros Rotary Altus A. Lange & Sohne Alavente Jardur International Rocail Longines Avalon Hampden Semca Shield Kingston Elgin Jules Jurgensen Nicolet Watch Borel Boucheron Louis Normandie Hy. Moser & Cie Verno Haste Hydepark Hebdomas Berg Breguet Wyler Corum |
Models of watches that we repair:
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stanley Lincrest Bianca Blake Cordell Argyle Norton Meadowbrook Consul Diamond dunkirk Cedric Vernon Contour Drummond Captain Rice Collegian Carson Cyril Raleigh Gulfport Keane Franklion Amherst Fleetwood Fleetwood Myron Sea Cliff Pinehurst Bradford Dennis First Mate Top Time Ericsson Emerson Holden Stanford Ward Chadwick Citadel Edgewater Tildon Arnold Aqualine Piping Rock Varsity Transcontinental A B Dwight Nelson Brandon Beldon Coburn Cadet Guardsman Norde Courtney President Antique Keith Culver Black Star Clearview Bostonian Ansley Ramsey Richmond Whitney Gilman Sawyer Doublet Gold knight Flight I Wakefield Austin Dean Sea-crest Sea Hawk Longacre Boulton Black knight Dixon Rolland Fischer Aviator Gardner Todd Flint Ridge Peyton Pierre Piccadilly Sloane Gary Murray Norman Commander Scout Casino Spencer Vincent Randolph Donald Cullen Turner Gladstone Taylor Linden Hall Windsor Errol Grafic Deluxe Radburn Carlyle Sea Scape Judson Glenn Curtis |
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