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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Freeport Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Peoria Watch co American Waltham Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Jacob Custer E. Howard and Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Western Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. |
Bannatyne Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Thomas Harland Hampden Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Appleton watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Appleton, Tracy & Co. National Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Cheshire Watch Co. Ingersol Trenton Watch do. New York Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Nashua Watch Co. Waterbury Herman Vod der Heydt Newark Watch Co. |
South Bend Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Wichita Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. George Reed U.S. Watch Co. Luther Goddard Manhatten Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Ball Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham W.E. Harper Charles Fasoltd |
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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Leonidas Corum Harwood Girard-Perregaux Driva Baylor Orator Parker Rima Rulon Glycine Nivada P. Garnier Warwick Guinand Daynite LIbela Sperina Kelton Ekegren Excelsior Glashutte Rocail Lip Monte Cyma Aristo Vacheron Winton Schultz Ball Illinois Dugena Rolex Arctus Benrus Wyler PiagetPreesent Olma Rapid Goering Asprey Doxa Invicta Felca Clebar Hayden Helbros Alpina Semca Movado Ardath Ebel Univer Lucerne Louvig Trebex Lyceum Hallmark Perpetual Watch Co. Frodsham Weltall Zenith Regina P. Buhre Kingston Fairfax Ogival |
Hebdomas Roamer Benson Olympia Wig Wag Bulova Grana Hamilton Van Cleef & Arpels Hy. Moser & Cie Juvenia Rado Ultimor Eloga Bueche-Girod Eska Tavannes Helvetia Hilton Huguenin Monarch Orvin Dunhill Minerva Buren Record J.E. Watch Co. Lancel Alpha Zentra Kurth Kent Standard Dome Eterna Aramis Marlys Hampden Admes Patek Philippe Zodiac Omega Elgin Hydepark Frey Hermes Evans Tourneau Cortebert Mappin Niton Lemania Revue Avalon Gallet A. Lange & Sohne Timecraft Central Titus Framont Welsbro Yale Haste Universal South Bend Geneve Friedli |
Imperial Coronet Sheffield Germinal Montbrilliant Audax Charles Nicolet Mars Lucien Piccard Breitling Touchon Butex Arsa Harvard Normandie Orfina Phillepe Watch Co. Bovet Berg Baume & Mercier Nicewatch Co. Americus Gruen Arbi Blancpain Mimo Concord Cornavin Harman Longines Rotary Condal Borel Boucheron Seeland Kord Angelus Tiffany Breguet LePhare Emerson Electra WhiteStar Hever Delbana Pronto Perfine Golay Roxy Wittnauer Lorton Louis Ace Acro Stowa Levrette Didisheim Exactus Bucherer Lusina Lavina Ollendorff Boulevard Fontainemelon Certina Croton Seth Thomas Turler |
Cartier Crown Favre Leuba Hafis Westend Cawford Shield Wakmann Kelbert Faith National Alsta Harvel Lang Uhr Alton Tornex-Rayville Carlton Eberhard Jardur Alavente Weldon Provita Mar Nicolet Octo Moriva Gubelin Opel Mt. Vernon Autdrist Ulysse Nardin Jules Jurgensen Vulcain Beltone LeCoultre Nicolet Watch Jaeger Enicar International Unitas Pabro Chopard Garland Smith Patria Mido Rembrant Altus Verno Ofair Sigma Henda Rockford Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Rolls Audemars Piguet Newmark Urania Kelek Continental Tissot Laco Duodial Watex Agassiz |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Custer Spencer Yorktown Trent Neil Wilshire Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Quadron Frontenac Lakehurst Webster Adrian Aviator dunkirk Whitney Boatswain Ardmore Larchmont Maritza Norfolk Lincrest Windsor Sea Ranger Casino Todd The Chief's Edgewood Lone Eagle Winfield Norton Carlyle Lakeland New Yorker Brock Maxine Culver Arlington Hawthorne Clark Secron Varsity Lawrence Samson Langdon Amherst Sea-glo Cedercrest Chevy Chase Kinematic Kirby Carlton Sherwood Captain Rice Hartman Corvet Spur Piping Rock Baxter Glendon Sea Scout Sea Skip Midas Cabot Chieftan Foster Viking Mayfield Eric Bryn Mawr Whitford Calvin Garfield Sea Cliff Contour Kenilworth Gallahad Myron Greenwich Sea mate Brandon Russell Eternamatic Barton Citadel Mason Major Ristflo Dorsey Raymon Ericsson Emerson Keith Dunhan Gilman Streamlined Dodson Fleetwood Norde Paige Donavan Deauville Pimlico Futura Murray Bartley Thor Trooper Franklion Sir Echo Dickens Tempus First Mate Morton Jeffrey Chatham Montclair Grover |
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