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