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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Otay Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. South Bend Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Waterbury B.D. Bingham American Repeating Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Jacob Custer Peoria Watch co Mosart Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Hamilton Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Western Watch Co. W.E. Harper |
American Waltham Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. George Reed Washington Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Lancaster Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. National Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Ball Watch Co. Ingersol Charles Fasoltd Benedict & Burham Appleton, Tracy & Co. |
James & Henry Pitkin U.S Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Boston Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Thomas Harland Luther Goddard New England Watch Co., Aurora Watch Co. American Waltham Warren Manufacturing Co. Independent Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Watch Co. E.F. Bowman South Bend 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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Gallet Benrus Electra Aristo Orfina Tiffany Lucerne Arsa Hampden Favre Leuba Westend Harvel Continental Kingston Baylor Welsbro Newmark Ball Huguenin Lancel Kelek Audemars Piguet LIbela Wig Wag Urania Condal Laco Regina Seth Thomas Rapid Montbrilliant P. Buhre Rotary Alpina Eberhard Invicta Framont Vacheron Nicolet Watch Omega Hallmark Lip Tissot Rima Certina Jaeger Golay Frodsham LeCoultre Orator Verno Ace Acro Yale J.E. Watch Co. Friedli Roamer Trebex Angelus Rocail Mimo Alavente Alsta Rolls Bovet Blancpain Pronto Normandie Unitas |
Illinois Wittnauer Ultimor Tavannes Felca International Lyceum Zentra Moriva Pabro Croton Marlys Ogival A. Lange & Sohne Mido Stowa Winton Rolex Titus Leonidas Driva Alpha Jardur Niton Mappin Monarch Touchon Standard Frey Harman Van Cleef & Arpels Cawford Universal Chopard Admes National Opel Hayden Nicewatch Co. Beltone Ulysse Nardin Rulon Olympia Harvard Arctus Germinal Alton Haste Seeland Patria Juvenia Parker Kent Perfine Boulevard Longines Grana Mars Wyler Kelbert Concord Hebdomas PiagetPreesent Benson Louvig Patek Philippe Cyma |
Aramis Delbana Bulova Rembrant Bucherer Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lavina Fontainemelon Dugena Imperial Phillepe Watch Co. Semca Levrette Goering Bueche-Girod Kelton Cortebert Smith Hydepark Corum Rockford Didisheim Guinand Timecraft Lang Uhr Ebel Kurth Hever Jules Jurgensen Helvetia Revue Girard-Perregaux Coronet Sheffield Crown Cornavin Elgin Asprey Exactus Lemania Mt. Vernon Wakmann Orvin Kord Breguet Weltall Glashutte Borel Boucheron Movado Warwick Vulcain Hy. Moser & Cie Eterna Altus Helbros Glycine Doxa Garland Buren Avalon Agassiz WhiteStar Emerson Nivada Autdrist Harwood |
Breitling Central Gruen Hermes Schultz Enicar Tourneau Mar Nicolet Arbi Monte Evans Olma Dunhill Eloga P. Garnier Baume & Mercier Audax Shield Cartier Roxy Ardath Zodiac Hamilton Clebar Lorton Louis Duodial Record LePhare Butex Ollendorff Excelsior Watex Zenith Eska Henda Fairfax Hilton Dome Tornex-Rayville Provita Lucien Piccard Sigma Americus Weldon Univer Carlton Gubelin Minerva Ofair Lusina Octo Daynite South Bend Faith Charles Nicolet Perpetual Watch Co. Rado Ekegren Berg Geneve Hafis Sperina Turler |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Golden Tempus Corvet Yorktown Crispin Dickens Sea Ranger Avigo Lawrence Sinclair Grafic Deluxe Carl Putnam Carteret Gyromatic Bartley Eric Newton Orson Morley Pinehurst Sherwood Vincent Chanticleer Kevin Spencer Norton Warwick Wilson Citadel Cranston Thinline Gardner Wilshire Touraine Crusade Rutgers Edgemere Gramercy Kenilworth Gallahad Stadium Cullen Norman Yorktown Barbizon Secometer Sedgman Rodney Otis Monaco Medford Chatham Carlton Raleigh Murray Glenn Curtis Whitman Gladstone Sea mate Colby Fleetwood Ryan Tempus Stormking Winfield Raleigh Windsor Peyton Flight I ipso-vox Boyd Haddon Brewster Meadowbrook Farrell Thor Scout Coronado Benton Norfolk Chesterfield Oxford Morton Sky Chief Casino Frontenac Holden Glenn Prescott Grenadier Whitney Essex Seabrook Brent Dewitt Blackstone Ensign Yeoman Custer Cyril Larchmont Cross country Keith The Athelete Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Oakmont Rolland Fischer Tuxedo Oakley Baronet Beau Brummel Berkshire Wesleyan The Chief's |
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