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Antique Swiss and American mechanical watch repair specialists since 1987


Thank you for visiting my vintage and antique watch repair site. Most visitors are here because they own an heirloom "family watch" and want to learn more about it's potential of being serviced and repaired. Most inherited mechanical watches were made in an era where the science of perfecting dependable timekeeping forced industry competition. The resulting jeweled watches are amazing and comparable to any science achievement in man's history. I encourage you to click through my antique watch repair site and learn more about my guaranteed mechanical watch services and welcome you to contact me.




I supply both watch parts to the watchmaker AND watch restoration services. Please read my website and contact me with any questions.

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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:
George Reed
Lancaster Watch Co.
Melrose Watch Co.
Manhatten Watch Co.
National Watch Co.
Ingersol
Thomas Harland
Boston Watch Co.
Washington Watch Co.
Seth Thomas Watch do.
Potter Albert Watch Co.
E.F. Bowman
Cheshire Watch Co.
Luther Goddard
Columbus Watch Co.
South Bend Watch Co.
American Waltham
W.E. Harper
Nashua Watch Co.
Jacob Custer
U.S. Watch Co.
Adams & Perry Watch Co.
Illinois Watch Co.
Independent Watch Co.
Charles Fasoltd
Rockford Watch Co.
Appleton, Tracy & Co.
J.P.Stevens Watch Co.
Otay Watch Co.
E. Howard and Co.
Western Watch Co.
James & Henry Pitkin
Herman Vod der Heydt
B.D. Bingham
Warren Manufacturing Co.
Hampden Watch Co.
Mosart Watch Co.
Auburndale Watch Co.
New York Watch Co.
Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham
Cornell Watch Co
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co.
Peoria Watch co
Watch Co.
Freeport Watch Co.
American Waltham Watch Co.
Benedict & Burham
South Bend Watch Co.
Trenton Watch do.
Hamilton Watch Co.
Appleton watch Co.
Aurora Watch Co.
American Repeating Watch Co.
Bannatyne Watch Co.
U.S Watch Co.
Newark Watch Co.
Ball Watch Co.
Wichita Watch Co.
Fitchburg Watch bo.
New England Watch Co.,
Rock Island Watch Co.
Waterbury


WRISTWATCHES: We will consider for restoration any high grade manual wind, or automatic Swiss watch of 15 jewels or better of the following manufacture:
Mappin
Friedli
Mido
Rolls
Rolex
Regina
Dome
Sheffield
Central
Ultimor
Goering
Helbros
Exactus
Agassiz
Hebdomas
Cartier
Evans
Moriva
Lorton
Omega
Phillepe Watch Co.
Glycine
Coronet
Gruen
Eberhard
Concord
Clebar
Illinois
Ollendorff
Americus
Monarch
Roamer
Buren
Invicta
Sigma
Univer
Blancpain
Harvel
Patria
Fairfax
Monte
Certina
Aramis
Audemars Piguet
Hilton
P. Buhre
Boulevard
Titus
Breguet
Hermes
Beltone
Tiffany
Orator
Standard
Rima
P. Garnier
Unitas
Seth Thomas
Jardur
Eterna
Didisheim
Tissot
Ball
Dugena
Roxy
Stowa
A. Lange & Sohne
Rockford
Levrette
Delbana
Normandie
Ulysse Nardin
Alsta
Lip
Van Cleef & Arpels
Felca
Baume & Mercier
Patek Philippe
Zenith
Wig Wag
Marlys
Hy. Moser & Cie
Kingston
Guinand
Hampden
Eska
Audax
Enicar
Ebel
Pronto
Rocail
Olympia
PiagetPreesent
Ogival
Lucien Piccard
Bulova
Perfine
Lang Uhr
Benrus
Elgin
Framont
LeCoultre
LIbela
Welsbro
Harvard
Harman
Henda
International
Daynite
Cornavin
Autdrist
WhiteStar
Aristo
Weltall
Zentra
Dunhill
Cawford
Bueche-Girod
Hydepark
Butex
Provita
Kelbert
National
Duodial
Newmark
Condal
Croton
Haste
Semca
Glashutte
Movado
Hamilton
Benson
Favre Leuba
Lemania
Charles Nicolet
Chopard
Alpha
Admes
Schultz
Arbi
Nivada
Yale
Angelus
Imperial
Hever
Octo
Perpetual Watch Co.
Borel Boucheron
Geneve
Asprey
Vulcain
Trebex
Baylor
Alpina
Kelton
Hayden
Frey
Ofair
Record
Garland
Orfina
Gallet
Lancel
Wyler
Olma
Bovet
Timecraft
Juvenia
Kord
Sperina
Grana
Tourneau
Alton
Kurth
Mt. Vernon
Orvin
Breitling
J.E. Watch Co.
Kelek
Arsa
Rado
South Bend
Parker
Ardath
Shield
Lucerne
Jules Jurgensen
Cortebert
Rapid
Excelsior
Lusina
Niton
Germinal
Urania
Nicolet Watch
Bucherer
Doxa
Girard-Perregaux
Ekegren
Kent
Vacheron
Longines
Watex
Berg
Louvig
Corum
Hallmark
Frodsham
Avalon
Montbrilliant
Helvetia
Jaeger
Laco
Mimo
Cyma
Lavina
Smith
Opel
Tornex-Rayville
Wittnauer
Harwood
Turler
Driva
Zodiac
Continental
Mar Nicolet
Leonidas
Universal
Minerva
Lyceum
Eloga
Weldon
Ace Acro
Fontainemelon
Crown
Golay
Winton
Arctus
Faith
Rembrant
Revue
Nicewatch Co.
Hafis
Emerson
Rulon
Electra
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte
Verno
Carlton
Rotary
Pabro
Touchon
Seeland
Mars
Louis
Wakmann
Gubelin
LePhare
Altus
Tavannes
Westend
Huguenin
Warwick
Alavente


Models of watches that we repair:
Quadron
Curtis
Keith
Elliot Emery
Richmond
William Osler
Chanticleer
Lincrest
Pacermatic
Beau Royal
Rodney
Putnam
Mate
Airflight
Boone
Lord Lancaster
Donald
ipso-vox
Veri-thin
Wakefield
Seaview
The Chief's
Paige
Bianca
Murray
Precision
Baton
Hayden
Aldrich
Langley
Trooper
Gilvert
Bagley
Carlyle
Top Time
Chronomatic top hat
Valiant
Norton
Nightingale
Cavalier
Winthrop
Drew
Kirk
First Mate
Romanesquen Ross
Chapman
Cranston
Champion
Eaton
Prentice
West Point
Derby
Grant
Paxton
Courtney
Newlin
Carl
Aviator
Colby
Harris
Medford
Bailey
Bentley
Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights
the Curtis
Stanford
dunkirk
Maxine
Whitney
Ardsley
Robert Roberta
Garfield
Dexter
Montclair
Rutgers
Edgewood
Boulton
Varsity
Linden Hall
Thinline
Sea Breeze
Samson
Consul
Dodson
Fleetwood
Gyromatic
Merritt
Commander
Carson
Lyndon
Lindsay
Argyle
Vernon
Andover
Carlisle
Citadel
Gold knight
Senator
Blair
Brock
watson
Lester
Nelson
Oxford
Windsor
Gilman
Grover
Sheryll
Judson
Vincent
Tuxedo
stanley
Bradford
Black Star
Gardner
Dante
Eric
Brockton
Drexel
Gary
Franklion
Norfolk
Chieftan
The Governor
Trent
Clearview
Thincraft
Cameron
Wesley
Kevin
Jeffrey
Otis
Spur
Rolland Fischer
Sea Scape
Norde
Flint Ridge
Commodore
Chadwick
Edgemere
Culver
Fulton
Chief
Lance
Glendale
Tiger & Lady
Livingston
Jolly Roger
Oakmont
Scout
President Antique
Heyward
Lakehurst
Drummond
Winfield
Craig
Keane
Carlton
Cedric
Glenn
Holden
Doublet
Gordon
Windsor
Avigo
Seville Sheldon
Andrews
Finalist
Neil
Radburn
Foster
Sky Chief
Dewitt
Tyron Vardon
Adonis
Wayne
Kenilworth Gallahad
Greenwich
Scott
Aqua Lung
Barbizon
Lawrence
Adrian
Edgewater
Dennis
Pierre
Sea mate
The Athelete
Brent
Brandon
Warwick
Marshall
Majesty
Reardon
Attache
Sea-cap
Raleigh
Reagan
Grafic Deluxe
Orson
Golden Tempus
Peyton
Darrell
Wesleyan
Turner
Futura
Frontenac
Thor
Clyde
Bartley
Annapolis
Hudson
Bostonian
Streamlined
Sawyer
Huntley
Donavan
Diamond
Secron
Austin
Carteret
Monaco
Ristflo
Centurion
Sea Ranger
Ramsey
Clark
Glendon
Accumatic
Wellington
Parker B
Milburn
Coburn
Roland
Glenn Curtis
Yorktown
Oakley
Contour
Norman
Guardsman
Mason
direct read
Lowell
Marcus
Dartmouth
Flight II
Calvin
Linwood
Russell
Whitford
Sidney
Webster
Brooke
Viking
Black knight
Tempus
Baxter
Barton
Medalist Wembley
Langford
Sentinal
Kinematic Kirby
Benton
Yorktown
Ensign
Talbot
Meadowbrook
Pinehurst
Piping Rock
Sea Rover
Crispin
Sea guard
Steeldon
Baron
Midas
Mount Vernon
Briarcliffe
Landon
Chatham
Brewster
Raymon
Longacre
Ashley
Crusade
Sea-glo
Beldon
Fleetwood
B.W. Raymond
Powell
Molly Stark
Curvex
Dickens
Casino
Eternamatic
Newton
Viscount
Marquis strap
Raleigh
Martin
Perry
Stadium
Cross country
Ascot
Drake
Blade
Whitman
Spencer
Halesworth B
Guardsman
Cambridge
Lyle B
Ensign
Spencer
Collegian
Piccadilly
Secometer Sedgman
Randolph
Aqualine
Croydon
Amherst
Sea Hawk
Jason
Taylor
Ansley
Captain Rice
Maritza
Dixon
Ericsson Emerson
Gladstone
Sinclair
Morton
Howard
Boatswain
Ambassador
Chesterfield
Portia
Cedercrest Chevy Chase
Dyson
Blake
Courier
Seabrook
Cordell
Sutton
Surf
Lakeland
Cabot
Kinematic
Malcom
Baronet Beau Brummel
Manhattan
Morley
Stormking
Custer
Mayfield
Langdon
Vernon
Prescott
Farrell
Corvet
Airman
Arlington Hawthorne
Sherwood
Minu-stop
Trudy Spur
Coronado
Allison
Pimlico
Dorsey
Khyber
Sea Scout Sea Skip
Sloane
Dwight
Wilson
Dawson
Cullen
Conway
Transcontinental A B
Sinclair
Deauville
Rutledge
Top Gun
Hartman
Oval
Grenadier
Sea-crest
Bowman
Staunton
Larchmont
Alan
Clinton
Boyd
Major
Flight I
Haddon
Bryn Mawr
Adjutant
Wilshire
Arnold
Stafford
New Yorker
Lambert
Cyril
Yeoman
Dean
Arlington
Sea Cliff
Lone Eagle
Norman
Thornton
Hastings
Errol
Stanford
Stuart
Caroline
Thin-o-matic Masterpiece
Enditcott
Myron
Gramercy
Blackstone
Tildon
Byrd
Ward
Lee
Touraine
Sir Echo
Berkshire
Gulfport
Ardmore
Milton
Barry
Golden Tempus II
Essex
Chatham
Ryan
Whitehall
Cadet
Kensignton
Todd
Dunhan
Wilkinson
...


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