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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Luther Goddard American Waltham Freeport Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Manhatten Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. George Reed New York Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Waterbury Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Cheshire Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Rock Island Watch Co. |
Nashua Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. South Bend Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Thomas Harland E.F. Bowman Newark Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. American Repeating Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Independent Watch Co. Jacob Custer U.S Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd Fitchburg Watch bo. Washington Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. W.E. Harper |
Western Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Mosart Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Columbus Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Ingersol J.P.Stevens Watch Co. National Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. U.S. Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Herman Vod der Heydt |
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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Evans Orator Tavannes Cawford Lorton National Baylor LePhare Semca Normandie Urania Van Cleef & Arpels Stowa Touchon Imperial Agassiz Kord Arsa Crown Huguenin Mars Carlton Kent Wakmann Record Henda Audemars Piguet Emerson Lyceum Eberhard Nicolet Watch Tourneau Harvard Westend Faith Clebar PiagetPreesent Charles Nicolet Nivada Felca Avalon Friedli Eterna Mar Nicolet Jardur Longines Harvel Benson Sheffield Cornavin Smith Lemania Elgin Fairfax Louvig Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Marlys P. Garnier P. Buhre Aristo Movado Eloga Zenith Ulysse Nardin Parker Autdrist Benrus Angelus |
Ebel Ekegren Hayden Glashutte Girard-Perregaux Schultz Exactus Jules Jurgensen Vulcain Roxy Enicar Beltone Leonidas Mappin Doxa Yale Driva Watex Illinois Goering Tornex-Rayville Rulon Breguet Pronto Alpha Monte Frey Rolex Shield Minerva Newmark Warwick Nicewatch Co. Central Bovet International Cortebert Weldon Arbi Ultimor Levrette J.E. Watch Co. Alsta Dunhill Monarch Harman Ogival Delbana Concord Kingston Butex Arctus Standard Berg Continental Geneve Blancpain Grana Ofair Cartier Gallet WhiteStar Opel Provita Gubelin Alton Ollendorff |
Rima Tiffany LeCoultre Corum Audax Hydepark Hermes Condal Seeland Eska Framont Mido Boulevard Dugena Univer Mt. Vernon Universal Kelton Cyma Gruen Hallmark Lang Uhr Perpetual Watch Co. Didisheim Seth Thomas Bucherer Zodiac South Bend Bulova Tissot Duodial Winton Coronet Alpina Louis Lucien Piccard Verno Montbrilliant Altus Welsbro Helbros Juvenia Frodsham Chopard Hebdomas Mimo Certina Glycine Fontainemelon Sigma Buren Hy. Moser & Cie Garland Hamilton Rocail Wittnauer Jaeger Orfina Rado Wig Wag Revue Lancel Ball Baume & Mercier Vacheron Aramis |
Patek Philippe Lavina Kelek Ace Acro Golay Alavente Rockford Asprey Lucerne Rapid Phillepe Watch Co. Borel Boucheron Regina Lip LIbela Hafis Kurth Laco Orvin Olympia Omega Hampden Harwood Dome Kelbert Favre Leuba Trebex Hever Niton Olma Unitas Croton Invicta Patria Guinand Lusina Hilton Americus Haste Breitling Zentra Daynite Bueche-Girod Germinal Helvetia Wyler Perfine A. Lange & Sohne Sperina Titus Turler Weltall Pabro Octo Rolls Roamer Admes Electra Timecraft Excelsior Moriva Ardath Rembrant Rotary |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Reagan Glenn Orson Seabrook Croydon Pinehurst Paxton Lambert Stanford Trent Greenwich Aqua Lung stanley Dorsey Lester Essex Caroline Coburn Dante Adrian Chadwick Elliot Emery Bagley Blake Carlyle Blade direct read New Yorker Drummond Wellington Beldon Thinline Colby Dixon Bailey Ensign Prescott Donald Grenadier Golden Tempus II Oxford Chanticleer Paige The Chief's Deauville Maxine Baxter Morley Lawrence Winfield Wilkinson Ashley dunkirk Edgewater Glenn Curtis Carlton Huntley Sea Breeze Barton Aldrich Drexel Culver Lyle B Brockton Newlin Flint Ridge Norton Darrell Sheryll Grafic Deluxe Lee Bentley Cranston Newton Stadium Eric Rolland Fischer Ryan Dewitt Landon Morton Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Clark Meadowbrook Yorktown Radburn Thor President Antique Gilman Raleigh The Governor Errol Ardsley Foster Allison Thornton Lindsay Lyndon Garfield Frontenac Seville Sheldon Carl ipso-vox Chesterfield the Curtis Cadet Byrd Sea Rover Custer Whitney Adonis |
Parker B Arlington Hawthorne Guardsman Aviator Nightingale Attache Harris Talbot Prentice Berkshire Midas Gramercy Lord Lancaster Stuart Merritt Lowell Stanford Montclair Avigo Precision Marcus B.W. Raymond Barry Samson Boatswain Webster Piping Rock Varsity Brock Fleetwood Cedercrest Chevy Chase Futura Todd Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights West Point Seaview Ardmore Eaton Windsor Perry Viking Clyde Chronomatic top hat Cambridge Otis Brent Kenilworth Gallahad Blackstone Kirk Cyril Gold knight Medalist Wembley Brewster Monaco Dodson Holden Baronet Beau Brummel Livingston Fulton Bianca Cavalier Nelson Whitman Alan Turner Vernon Winthrop Spencer Cameron Bowman Rutgers Longacre Ambassador Touraine Donavan Carson Milburn Neil Lincrest Hudson Sutton Roland Sea-cap Franklion Curvex Briarcliffe Lone Eagle Transcontinental A B Coronado Jolly Roger Corvet Lakehurst Portia Cedric Gilvert Whitehall Sea Scape Cross country Warwick Mason Vernon Brooke Secron Hayden Farrell Baron Ansley Ramsey Norman Wayne |
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