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:
Auburndale Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. George Reed Waterbury Peoria Watch co New England Watch Co., Charles Fasoltd Seth Thomas Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Thomas Harland Benedict & Burham Otay Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Ball Watch Co. W.E. Harper New York Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. |
American Waltham Western Watch Co. B.D. Bingham E. Howard and Co. National Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Manhatten Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Ingersol Hamilton Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Jacob Custer American Waltham Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. |
Bannatyne Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham American Repeating Watch Co. Luther Goddard D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. U.S Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Boston 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:
Niton Mar Nicolet Aramis Glashutte Tiffany Opel Emerson Ultimor Butex Sheffield Rulon Urania Hampden Universal Van Cleef & Arpels LIbela Shield Newmark Hy. Moser & Cie Lorton Fairfax Garland Illinois Sperina Smith Admes Aristo Continental Ball LePhare Welsbro Lyceum South Bend Pabro Juvenia Marlys Benson PiagetPreesent Breguet Rolex Harvard International Perpetual Watch Co. Rima Kelbert Leonidas Olma A. Lange & Sohne Audax Helbros Rapid Asprey Goering Eberhard Parker Central Ace Acro Mido Delbana Pronto Yale Carlton Sigma Helvetia Grana Trebex Patria Autdrist |
Rockford Orfina Regina Touchon Alsta Orvin Ebel Alton Avalon Seth Thomas Stowa Ardath Haste Evans Monte Agassiz Baume & Mercier Frey Laco Electra Rembrant Dome Corum Croton Bueche-Girod Lavina Doxa Wittnauer Patek Philippe Weltall Didisheim Weldon Warwick Unitas Exactus Hayden WhiteStar Standard Kent Angelus Tornex-Rayville Moriva Hallmark Record Dugena Levrette Zodiac Revue Gruen Felca Condal Audemars Piguet Univer National Henda Friedli Wig Wag Eloga Eska Phillepe Watch Co. Altus Duodial Zentra Octo Favre Leuba Rolls Louis |
Elgin Gallet Harvel Orator Seeland Arctus Guinand Lip Ogival Lancel Jaeger Americus Bucherer Cartier Perfine Lucerne Movado Fontainemelon Nicewatch Co. Timecraft Olympia Alpina Nicolet Watch Certina Longines Roamer Dunhill Lemania Girard-Perregaux Eterna Concord Clebar Wakmann Normandie Lang Uhr Hilton Daynite Gubelin Hermes Germinal Geneve LeCoultre Monarch Crown Harwood Cortebert Kelton Tourneau Kord Zenith Enicar Hydepark Kelek Ulysse Nardin Hever Ekegren Winton Cyma P. Garnier P. Buhre Minerva Arbi Semca Charles Nicolet Schultz Verno |
Mimo Jardur Blancpain Montbrilliant Rado Driva Chopard Hamilton Buren Berg Huguenin Vacheron Glycine Rotary Hafis Beltone Mars Breitling J.E. Watch Co. Invicta Westend Tavannes Boulevard Hebdomas Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lucien Piccard Tissot Watex Benrus Baylor Bulova Borel Boucheron Alavente Excelsior Frodsham Mappin Imperial Coronet Mt. Vernon Kingston Roxy Cornavin Bovet Omega Ollendorff Provita Ofair Framont Nivada Rocail Lusina Alpha Turler Faith Cawford Harman Jules Jurgensen Titus Louvig Golay Kurth Arsa Vulcain Wyler |
Models of watches that we repair:
Martin Robert Roberta Avigo Raymon Baronet Beau Brummel Powell Winthrop Staunton Eaton Chieftan Yeoman Dorsey Holden Fulton Darrell Secron Chatham Barton Tyron Vardon Harris Sea Ranger Pimlico Cavalier Longacre Rutledge Curtis Citadel Elliot Emery Medalist Wembley Ensign Stafford Wilkinson Whitehall Allison Vernon Valiant Lowell Wakefield Boyd Khyber Culver Kinematic Kirby Kinematic Dyson Sinclair Jolly Roger Windsor Raleigh Argyle Enditcott Oval Sea-glo Beldon Cullen Kenilworth Gallahad Carson Lakehurst Flight I Sherwood Windsor Sea Scout Sea Skip Aqua Lung Yorktown Barry Parker B Colby Sutton the Curtis The Chief's Glenn Oakmont Gardner Arnold Thornton Mayfield Marquis strap Boatswain Morton Ascot Stanford Carlisle Stormking Centurion Howard Turner Essex ipso-vox Seville Sheldon Lincrest Pierre Grant Chesterfield Deauville Piping Rock Trent Accumatic Yorktown Futura Gilman Tuxedo Captain Rice Wayne Whitford Lawrence Chatham Bowman Flint Ridge Viscount Bailey President Antique Huntley |
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