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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Newark Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Ingersol South Bend Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Appleton watch Co. Jacob Custer Charles Fasoltd Hamilton Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co New England Watch Co., |
Trenton Watch do. B.D. Bingham Thomas Harland U.S. Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Melrose Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Waterbury American Waltham E. Howard and Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Freeport Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Western Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. W.E. Harper American Waltham Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt |
Bannatyne Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. George Reed Nashua Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Benedict & Burham Hampden Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Auburndale Watch Co. Luther Goddard New York Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Peoria Watch co National Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Warren Manufacturing Co. Cheshire 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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Lorton Pabro Perpetual Watch Co. Titus Alpha Americus Carlton Aristo Olma Certina Ogival Aramis Grana Continental Coronet Kelek Guinand Admes Schultz Ebel Kingston Normandie Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Baylor Dome Watex Hilton P. Buhre J.E. Watch Co. Nicewatch Co. Jardur Rockford Sheffield Altus Regina Wittnauer Helvetia Beltone Avalon Dugena Longines Tourneau Ulysse Nardin Gallet Revue Lavina Kelbert Shield Fairfax Hayden Lucerne Semca Imperial Mappin Lip Crown Croton Didisheim Benrus Breitling Favre Leuba Butex Roamer Winton Timecraft LePhare International Mt. Vernon |
Turler Framont Berg Octo Harvard Agassiz WhiteStar Orator Goering Gubelin Mimo Eloga Central Audemars Piguet Geneve Zenith Bueche-Girod Lusina Lyceum Montbrilliant Garland Ball Alton Frodsham Exactus Trebex Excelsior Glycine P. Garnier Louis Warwick Opel Harman Leonidas Hy. Moser & Cie Illinois Phillepe Watch Co. Cornavin Provita Verno Cawford PiagetPreesent Touchon Lemania Monte Alavente Patria Daynite Olympia Laco Evans Invicta Bovet Rembrant Wakmann Movado Eska Universal Enicar Cortebert Nivada Cartier Dunhill Elgin Seeland Kelton Golay |
Orvin Borel Boucheron Van Cleef & Arpels Rolex Moriva Wig Wag Hebdomas Blancpain Germinal Mido Parker Arctus Ultimor Minerva LeCoultre Rapid Hampden Niton Alsta Frey Seth Thomas Omega Felca Pronto Rulon Rocail Unitas Gruen Fontainemelon Bulova Tissot Condal Concord Standard Arbi Zodiac Delbana Glashutte National Buren Juvenia Harwood Orfina Kord Hamilton Hydepark Bucherer Smith Angelus Rima Lang Uhr Mar Nicolet Emerson Ofair Baume & Mercier Zentra Rado Levrette Jules Jurgensen Patek Philippe Boulevard Roxy Monarch Hever South Bend Ace Acro |
Weltall Duodial Kent Alpina Perfine Marlys Newmark Driva Clebar Jaeger Ekegren Autdrist Univer Lucien Piccard Chopard Weldon Girard-Perregaux Arsa Ollendorff Sperina Vulcain Harvel Wyler Huguenin Sigma Tavannes Rotary Electra Record Charles Nicolet Tiffany Eterna Benson Corum Eberhard A. Lange & Sohne Haste Asprey Hermes Louvig Westend Kurth Audax Rolls Lancel Helbros Friedli Urania Faith Welsbro Cyma Doxa Breguet Ardath LIbela Vacheron Nicolet Watch Henda Tornex-Rayville Yale Mars Hafis Stowa Hallmark |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Ryan Attache Morley Sky Chief Arlington Hawthorne Steeldon Surf Gardner William Osler Paxton Trudy Spur Crusade Transcontinental A B Accumatic Coburn Chieftan Donald Talbot Brock dunkirk Romanesquen Ross Bostonian Wellington Dixon Norfolk watson Chatham Cabot Hastings Bagley Carlisle Minu-stop Judson Streamlined Briarcliffe Rutgers Franklion Taylor New Yorker Gilman Russell Coronado Collegian Airman Seabrook Spur Glendale Haddon Trent Staunton stanley Thinline Edgewood Khyber Major Chatham Brooke Alan Boone Ward Finalist Spencer Blake Stafford Raleigh Meadowbrook Rodney Benton Diamond Sawyer Lyndon Annapolis Blackstone Kinematic Manhattan Sea Hawk Guardsman Jeffrey Turner Sea Rover Gyromatic Craig Cavalier Grover Lincrest Sea Cliff Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Enditcott Linwood Darrell Edgewater Courtney Carson Beldon Cullen ipso-vox Dodson Glenn Curtis Aldrich Portia Sea Breeze Cambridge Senator Boyd Glendon Langley Raleigh Sea Scape Sea-cap Milton Hartman |
Viking Caroline Fleetwood Piping Rock Mayfield Varsity Nightingale Landon Edgemere Winfield Drew Golden Tempus Scott Garfield Clark Sidney Aviator Scout Grant Norman Curvex Lee Thor Maxine Chronomatic top hat Allison Lawrence Culver Centurion Conway Sea guard Samson Dean Greenwich Drake Sheryll Adonis Lester Touraine Cordell Doublet Dawson Newton Livingston Yorktown Howard The Athelete Black Star Andover Dyson Drexel Sherwood Chesterfield Langdon Sea-glo Martin Custer Monaco Yeoman Chief Elliot Emery Piccadilly Windsor Linden Hall Morton Secron Ramsey Gulfport Marcus Cedric Ensign Austin Ascot Marquis strap Eric Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Rutledge Croydon Rolland Fischer Tyron Vardon Wayne Neil Blade Brandon Peyton Jason Winthrop Barton Lyle B Trooper Bentley Whitney Pierre Brent Dwight Oakmont Wesleyan Montclair Andrews Lindsay Medalist Wembley Wakefield Baron Sutton Arlington Blair Sea-crest Quadron Arnold Chanticleer |
Robert Roberta Cedercrest Chevy Chase Stanford Whitehall the Curtis Kinematic Kirby Tempus Otis Dexter Milburn Sinclair Stormking Dickens Marshall Keane Gordon Cyril Whitman Eaton Malcom Tuxedo Brockton Carl Carlyle Captain Rice Viscount Cranston Thincraft Bowman Sinclair Ashley Spencer Dorsey Randolph Prentice Commander Harris Fleetwood Black knight Dennis Orson Aqua Lung Holden Maritza Richmond Murray Curtis Lone Eagle Kevin Nelson Clyde Newlin Barry Calvin Eternamatic Fulton Lambert Drummond Merritt Pinehurst Webster Langford Lakehurst Kirk Ristflo Tildon Gold knight Wilshire Cameron The Governor Stuart Raymon Clinton Wilkinson Cross country Sea Scout Sea Skip Berkshire Grafic Deluxe Dartmouth Consul Adjutant Errol Deauville Farrell Medford Windsor Chadwick Ericsson Emerson Top Time Veri-thin Top Gun Flight II Reardon Larchmont Pimlico Seville Sheldon Roland Flint Ridge Guardsman Oakley Grenadier Yorktown Longacre Midas Champion Glenn direct read Oxford Commodore Pacermatic |
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