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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George Reed Hamilton Watch Co. Jacob Custer New York Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Waterbury Hampden Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Otay Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Bannatyne Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd James & Henry Pitkin Ball Watch Co. |
Rock Island Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Ingersol Newark Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Luther Goddard Cornell Watch Co American Waltham Seth Thomas Watch do. Mosart Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Thomas Harland Cheshire Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Melrose Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. |
Columbus Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. New England Watch Co., Rockford Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. B.D. Bingham South Bend Watch Co. E.F. Bowman National Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Wichita Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. W.E. Harper Warren Manufacturing Co. Independent Watch Co. Adams & Perry 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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Doxa Eterna Gallet Helvetia Audax Clebar Sigma Welsbro Alsta Stowa Eberhard Baylor Olma Girard-Perregaux Beltone Altus Laco Phillepe Watch Co. Rapid Louvig Nivada Newmark Harvel Regina Harvard Urania Blancpain Standard Cartier Hafis Rima Huguenin Univer Revue Tornex-Rayville J.E. Watch Co. Carlton Crown Dome Breitling Daynite Invicta Perpetual Watch Co. Bueche-Girod Geneve Shield Roamer Opel P. Buhre Wakmann Kord Kent Borel Boucheron Mar Nicolet Frey Longines Breguet Tourneau Jardur Lip Rolls Kelbert Sperina Condal Watex Haste Buren Friedli |
Benrus Kurth Moriva Bovet Cawford Certina Normandie Tiffany Henda LeCoultre Cyma Rotary Elgin Yale Jaeger Ekegren Emerson Mido Hilton Ball Benson LePhare Rado Chopard Dugena Ogival Patria Wittnauer Lemania Verno Monte Illinois Zodiac Weltall Trebex Americus Frodsham Hamilton Minerva Goering Central Pabro Marlys Leonidas Delbana Imperial South Bend Parker Hayden Lancel Lang Uhr Sheffield A. Lange & Sohne Butex Grana Louis Ulysse Nardin Provita Cortebert Bucherer Arsa Wig Wag Fontainemelon Garland Boulevard Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Juvenia |
Universal Evans Olympia Enicar Nicolet Watch Glashutte Monarch Mars Glycine International Exactus Ebel Omega Lorton Schultz Pronto Eloga Lusina Berg Baume & Mercier Titus Levrette Ace Acro Seth Thomas P. Garnier Rockford Vacheron Timecraft Driva Ollendorff Hever Cornavin Rembrant Niton Germinal Lucerne Mimo Touchon Mappin Ultimor Orvin Harman Favre Leuba Westend Rolex Roxy Alpina Van Cleef & Arpels Continental WhiteStar Duodial Nicewatch Co. Rulon Octo Audemars Piguet Jules Jurgensen Coronet Fairfax Hy. Moser & Cie Golay Arctus Hallmark Record Gruen Hydepark Helbros |
Montbrilliant Aristo Arbi Bulova Unitas Corum Felca Electra PiagetPreesent Framont Lavina Movado Angelus Patek Philippe Smith Tissot LIbela Hebdomas Ofair Zenith Tavannes Wyler Harwood Charles Nicolet Orfina Autdrist Didisheim Kingston Lucien Piccard Seeland Admes Kelton Dunhill Zentra Winton Concord National Hermes Excelsior Alton Turler Ardath Eska Mt. Vernon Aramis Vulcain Warwick Kelek Agassiz Faith Alavente Asprey Hampden Croton Orator Weldon Gubelin Semca Avalon Perfine Alpha Guinand Rocail Lyceum |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Stormking Sea Rover Consul Samson Stuart Lowell Nelson Wesley Sutton Dennis Courier Chanticleer Black knight Cedercrest Chevy Chase Langdon Lincrest Whitehall Eric Captain Rice Mason Medford Livingston Turner Deauville Romanesquen Ross Medalist Wembley Cadet Harris Dartmouth Finalist Caroline Gladstone Curtis Ensign Doublet Dexter Bostonian Chatham Gulfport Cavalier Merritt stanley Sea mate Morton Darrell Viking Paxton Quadron Neil Chatham Lyle B Robert Roberta Gilman Sea Cliff Minu-stop Rodney Mate Grafic Deluxe Dorsey Brooke Golden Tempus II Lawrence President Antique Ramsey Golden Tempus Vincent Collegian Vernon Webster Sloane Fleetwood Sentinal Radburn Winthrop Sea guard Glendon Viscount Wakefield Thornton Derby Airflight Pierre Putnam Raleigh Cyril Dyson Corvet Jolly Roger Marshall Baronet Beau Brummel Varsity Sea Scout Sea Skip Glenn Curtis Peyton Roland Orson Sea Hawk Grenadier watson Ensign Guardsman Grant Kirk Major Ansley Avigo Malcom Lee The Athelete Raleigh Beau Royal |
Windsor Tuxedo Ristflo Winfield Rolland Fischer Bentley Gyromatic Aqua Lung Cambridge Todd Cross country Barton Perry Conway B.W. Raymond Centurion Byrd Brent Vernon Steeldon Marcus Sky Chief Amherst Portia Ambassador Reardon Brockton Edgemere Drake Berkshire Pinehurst Cullen Tildon Prescott Chapman Edgewood Precision Glendale Larchmont Surf Meadowbrook Dunhan Raymon Flight I Sea Ranger Langley Seaview Brewster Aviator Chief New Yorker Longacre Baton Huntley Stanford Wesleyan Heyward Errol Spencer Clearview Gordon Custer Linden Hall Ascot Blackstone The Governor Dante Piping Rock Gilvert Arlington Black Star Courtney Blake Andrews Kevin Judson Tempus Hastings Barry Dickens Marquis strap Linwood Sheryll Argyle the Curtis Thinline Khyber Chesterfield Franklion Flight II Futura William Osler Andover Jeffrey Clyde Donald Clinton Stadium Carlyle Sea Scape Kinematic Kirby Baron Benton Sawyer Gold knight Oakmont Otis Arlington Hawthorne Adrian Dean |
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