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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New England Watch Co., Herman Vod der Heydt Hampden Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Waltham Waterbury Manhatten Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Benedict & Burham Appleton watch Co. Jacob Custer Wichita Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. |
American Repeating Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Rock Island Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham E.F. Bowman Freeport Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd George Reed Boston Watch Co. W.E. Harper Nashua Watch Co. Thomas Harland Western Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Warren Manufacturing Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. |
Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. New York Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Ingersol Newark Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Luther Goddard Melrose Watch Co. National 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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Longines Ollendorff Bucherer Gallet Angelus Normandie Jardur Roxy Orator Sperina Faith Touchon Warwick Asprey Evans Stowa Croton Carlton Certina Ultimor Niton Orfina Coronet Eberhard South Bend Glycine Benson Newmark Audax Revue Borel Boucheron Frey Urania Felca Monarch Pronto Baylor Omega WhiteStar Harvard Zentra Daynite Golay Continental Rembrant Kelton Hy. Moser & Cie Helbros Hampden Welsbro Olympia Laco LePhare Phillepe Watch Co. Tornex-Rayville Baume & Mercier LIbela Ogival Buren Delbana Audemars Piguet Hermes Cartier J.E. Watch Co. Harwood Lavina Girard-Perregaux Berg |
Opel Aristo International Vacheron Juvenia Exactus Doxa Lusina Fontainemelon Monte National Lyceum Yale Condal Watex Timecraft Friedli Benrus Favre Leuba Rockford Haste Wyler Sheffield Autdrist Lancel Kelek Alton P. Buhre Cornavin Lucerne Nicolet Watch Kurth Boulevard Ace Acro Kent Shield Patek Philippe Garland Seeland Hever Trebex Fairfax Kelbert Standard Dunhill Regina Invicta LeCoultre Cyma Perpetual Watch Co. Breguet Seth Thomas Unitas Butex Roamer Kingston Gruen Mappin Hafis Provita Kord Clebar Mt. Vernon Marlys Excelsior Patria Germinal |
Altus Tavannes Moriva Eska Americus Blancpain Lang Uhr Ofair Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Mido Alavente Vulcain Henda Harvel Beltone Sigma Westend Levrette Enicar Electra Jules Jurgensen Ball Grana Alpha Titus Perfine Glashutte Guinand Zodiac Bulova Rulon Driva Alpina Breitling Illinois Van Cleef & Arpels Cortebert Nivada Central Lemania Nicewatch Co. Tissot Alsta Aramis Gubelin Harman Agassiz PiagetPreesent Universal Elgin Smith Minerva Rima Lucien Piccard Semca Crown Mar Nicolet Goering Corum Octo Tourneau Wig Wag Mimo Huguenin Rapid Concord |
Admes Rocail Parker Eloga Univer Lip Hydepark Dugena Arbi Charles Nicolet Schultz Avalon Imperial Emerson Bueche-Girod Pabro Duodial Hamilton Framont Turler P. Garnier Weldon Montbrilliant Rado Leonidas Geneve Arsa Zenith Louis Wittnauer Hayden Movado Chopard Ardath Rolls Hilton Jaeger Weltall Louvig Tiffany Dome Ulysse Nardin Mars Arctus Rolex Cawford Eterna Didisheim Winton Orvin Bovet Helvetia Frodsham Hebdomas Record Lorton Verno Olma Wakmann Ekegren Rotary Hallmark A. Lange & Sohne Ebel |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Reagan Minu-stop Foster direct read Cabot Thinline Chesterfield Sentinal Aviator Halesworth B Streamlined Keane Keith Sheryll Newlin Ward Dawson Raleigh Monaco Edgemere Chronomatic top hat Barry Trudy Spur Dyson Chatham Sinclair Carson Curtis Lance Baton stanley Gardner Conway Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Bowman Doublet Norman Argyle Windsor watson Carlyle Martin Centurion Nelson Glenn Curtis Ascot Chatham Fleetwood Montclair Cyril Gramercy Drew Orson Windsor Bartley Courtney Glendon Varsity Putnam Murray Richmond Andrews Blake Rutgers Stuart Sea Breeze Contour Chanticleer Lyle B Courier Andover New Yorker Dante Secometer Sedgman Aqua Lung Guardsman Casino Dodson Medalist Wembley Beldon Curvex Ardmore Prentice Oxford Cross country Drexel Hudson Sea-glo Staunton Franklion Carlisle Airflight Kinematic Kirby Prescott Stafford Rolland Fischer Trent Chief Consul Whitney Blade Spur Larchmont Fulton Stadium Sea guard Grafic Deluxe Donald Clyde Seville Sheldon Tiger & Lady |
Allison Adjutant Robert Roberta Tyron Vardon Sky Chief Derby Cavalier Linden Hall Thor Champion Brockton Baronet Beau Brummel Jason Norton Pimlico Bailey Baron Blackstone Commander Wilshire Norman Paige Randolph Trooper Todd Barbizon Vincent Marcus Malcom Norde Flint Ridge Landon Molly Stark Black Star Drake Tempus Meadowbrook Scout Piping Rock Viscount Powell Glenn Nightingale Errol Dwight Elliot Emery Huntley Accumatic Morley Corvet Barton Blair Surf Sloane Arnold Custer Viking Bentley Talbot Cedric Quadron Arlington Hawthorne Mount Vernon Secron Oval Dickens Lowell First Mate Lakeland Greenwich Hayden Sawyer Raleigh Boulton Calvin Heyward Gilman Wesleyan Colby The Athelete Lambert Wesley Sea Ranger Winfield Fleetwood Touraine Croydon Dexter Senator Bianca Clark Cadet Samson Alan Brooke Frontenac Rodney Lawrence Eternamatic Ensign Sir Echo Langford Hastings Boone Ambassador Berkshire Golden Tempus II Portia Dixon Wakefield |
Carlton Golden Tempus Ericsson Emerson Turner Lindsay Diamond Sea-crest Romanesquen Ross Cambridge Bradford Top Time Tildon Spencer Haddon Sinclair Brent Carteret dunkirk Jeffrey Lone Eagle Steeldon Ardsley Maritza Yorktown Ristflo Stormking Spencer Livingston Chapman Ansley Grant Adonis Ramsey Longacre Essex Darrell Futura Pacermatic Sea Hawk Cedercrest Chevy Chase Morton Donavan Manhattan Arlington Yorktown Captain Rice Lee Khyber Flight I Rutledge Lincrest Mason Wilson Maxine Piccadilly Wellington Clinton Sea-cap Collegian Lyndon Seabrook Winthrop Bryn Mawr Milburn Kensignton Milton Gulfport Mayfield Caroline Whitman Clearview Amherst Top Gun Cordell Thornton Lakehurst Newton Warwick Vernon Raymon Finalist Tuxedo Glendale Veri-thin Precision Guardsman Edgewood William Osler the Curtis Gladstone Dunhan Howard Ensign Whitehall Grover Benton Austin Wilkinson Peyton Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Merritt Thincraft Gyromatic Culver Langley President Antique Sea Rover Kirk Kinematic Norfolk |
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