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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Columbus Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. New England Watch Co., National Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Cheshire Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Western Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Waterbury Ingersol E. Howard and Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Manhatten Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Benedict & Burham |
Lancaster Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Luther Goddard James & Henry Pitkin Cornell Watch Co Jacob Custer Bannatyne Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd B.D. Bingham Thomas Harland American Waltham Watch Co. George Reed South Bend Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. |
Otay Watch Co. American Waltham Aurora Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Melrose Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. W.E. Harper Hamilton Watch Co. Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Herman Vod der Heydt Independent Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Boston Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. New York 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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Warwick Nivada J.E. Watch Co. Wittnauer Roamer Louvig Aristo Geneve Central Opel Parker Charles Nicolet Ultimor Jules Jurgensen Regina Weltall Blancpain Frodsham Ulysse Nardin Audax Juvenia Mt. Vernon Sigma Certina Benrus Condal Minerva Rima Arbi Niton Lucerne Shield Olma Normandie Continental Zentra Gallet Agassiz Movado Verno LeCoultre Lorton Delbana Moriva Semca Buren Alsta Germinal Dugena Rolex Kurth Baume & Mercier Beltone Mappin Croton Garland Eberhard Ardath Standard Vulcain Altus Faith Tornex-Rayville Arsa Angelus Harwood Orator Audemars Piguet |
A. Lange & Sohne Dunhill Vacheron Alpina Rado Nicewatch Co. Rotary Rocail Westend Lancel Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Corum Golay Lemania Gubelin Octo Ace Acro Grana Clebar Jaeger Asprey Trebex Perfine Kelek Driva Levrette Hever Mimo Daynite Zenith Girard-Perregaux Jardur Ball National Gruen Louis Marlys WhiteStar Kelbert Cartier Lang Uhr Autdrist Chopard Seth Thomas Hilton Framont Breguet Harvard Touchon Lavina Smith Cawford Olympia Enicar Duodial Nicolet Watch Alton Coronet Kelton Admes Bucherer Alpha Kent Excelsior Frey Mido Wyler |
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Tiffany Hermes Harman Hallmark Tissot Avalon Phillepe Watch Co. Aramis Eterna Hydepark Pabro Kord Henda Benson Felca Laco Helvetia Schultz Patek Philippe Berg Weldon Borel Boucheron Lip Ebel Favre Leuba Electra Cortebert Ollendorff Harvel Universal Yale Rembrant Kingston Stowa International Perpetual Watch Co. Urania Record Crown Zodiac Ogival Revue Lyceum Fontainemelon Emerson Orvin Hayden Hampden Eska Newmark Exactus Elgin Breitling Didisheim Americus Concord Imperial Orfina Seeland Alavente Doxa Univer Haste Welsbro |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Gyromatic Franklion Winthrop Commodore dunkirk Pierre Stuart B.W. Raymond Richmond Warwick watson Marshall Vernon Windsor Sir Echo Dorsey Crusade Norfolk Hartman Whitehall Wellington Citadel Lakehurst Oakley Golden Tempus Wilkinson Dante Lone Eagle Neil Seabrook Stanford Taylor Brewster Maritza Kinematic Kirby Farrell Bianca Valiant Viscount Sky Chief Top Time Clark Nelson Grant Black Star Tuxedo Casino Harris Contour William Osler Captain Rice Malcom Donavan Tildon Adonis Bartley Pacermatic Thor Manhattan Guardsman Collegian Golden Tempus II Edgemere Brooke Brock Spur Corvet Huntley Amherst Donald Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Dennis Marcus Ascot Murray Todd Deauville Milburn Hastings Landon Stadium Sea-crest Surf Lester Consul Roland Bentley Sea Scape Dean Bostonian Wakefield Meadowbrook Ristflo Rutgers Jeffrey Bailey Sea Rover Gardner Perry Windsor Boulton Sea-cap Cranston Vincent Lawrence Wesleyan Lincrest Sea Breeze Thornton Barry Flight II |
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