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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Trenton Watch do. Nashua Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Ingersol Thomas Harland Auburndale Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Peoria Watch co American Waltham Freeport Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd South Bend Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Boston Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. |
Potter Albert Watch Co. National Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Jacob Custer American Repeating Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Independent Watch Co. Western Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Luther Goddard D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Appleton watch Co. W.E. Harper Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. |
Lancaster Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. James & Henry Pitkin Seth Thomas Watch do. New England Watch Co., Waterbury U.S Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Herman Vod der Heydt E.F. Bowman Aurora Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. George Reed |
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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Lavina Olma Patek Philippe Hydepark LePhare Touchon Alsta Breguet Gruen Hamilton Rotary Condal Buren Kelton Rapid Montbrilliant Continental Rima Agassiz Guinand Felca Lucerne Emerson Beltone Alavente Lorton Ardath Yale Vacheron Mimo Kent Excelsior Invicta P. Buhre Blancpain Lip Opel Delbana Benrus Phillepe Watch Co. Verno Cartier Perpetual Watch Co. Benson Corum Friedli Autdrist Carlton Daynite Standard Glycine Nivada Sperina Rolls Baume & Mercier Niton Jardur Bovet Hallmark A. Lange & Sohne Westend Rocail Ollendorff WhiteStar Asprey Louvig South Bend Concord |
Hebdomas Kingston International LIbela Minerva Grana Pronto Henda Univer Garland Rolex Croton Regina Alpina Weldon Perfine Elgin Ball Frodsham Helbros Mappin Electra Germinal Mt. Vernon Sheffield Crown Breitling Unitas Eberhard Winton Hilton Hayden Mar Nicolet Girard-Perregaux Eterna Tornex-Rayville Coronet Dunhill LeCoultre Wakmann Sigma Tavannes National Kelek Provita Arctus Shield Van Cleef & Arpels Helvetia Framont Audemars Piguet Gallet Exactus Levrette Mars Newmark Aristo Geneve Golay Parker Berg Welsbro Lucien Piccard Imperial Record Harvard Butex |
Faith Roamer Enicar Bueche-Girod Omega Angelus Clebar Charles Nicolet Weltall Cyma Lyceum Turler Harvel Lang Uhr Favre Leuba Borel Boucheron Ekegren Titus Stowa Juvenia Hafis Altus Huguenin Octo Pabro J.E. Watch Co. Illinois Zentra Tiffany Lusina Hever Nicolet Watch Monte Boulevard Rulon Hy. Moser & Cie Audax Moriva Longines Rockford Evans Seeland Eska Mido Watex Bulova Zodiac Duodial Nicewatch Co. Seth Thomas PiagetPreesent Central Urania Movado Harwood Revue Ogival Roxy Doxa Smith Hampden Gubelin Ultimor Timecraft Ulysse Nardin Avalon |
Cortebert Alpha Bucherer Alton Leonidas Marlys Fairfax Kelbert Dugena Baylor Tourneau Arsa Glashutte Driva Cornavin Chopard Lemania Patria Haste Kord Hermes Frey Ebel Jules Jurgensen Arbi Louis Rembrant Harman P. Garnier Ace Acro Orfina Fontainemelon Normandie Kurth Semca Cawford Monarch Lancel Ofair Dome Zenith Didisheim Wittnauer Universal Americus Admes Rado Laco Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Eloga Aramis Olympia Jaeger Orator Goering Vulcain Certina Wyler Schultz Warwick Tissot Wig Wag Trebex Orvin |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Blackstone Morton Veri-thin Grenadier Boulton Lyle B Linwood Oxford Culver Grant Ascot Sir Echo Dunhan Andover Coronado Pacermatic Seabrook William Osler Gilman Bentley Medford Avigo Malcom Glendon Tuxedo Romanesquen Ross Touraine Montclair Hastings Golden Tempus Clinton Thincraft Peyton Neil Turner Clark Franklion Beau Royal Molly Stark Hudson Seaview Lyndon Andrews Winfield Elliot Emery Blake Cranston Diamond Adjutant Frontenac Bryn Mawr Baton Blair Clyde Carlton Lance Dexter Secron Langford Commodore Dennis Calvin Sea Scape Chesterfield Fleetwood Marshall Alan Grafic Deluxe Tildon Marquis strap Lord Lancaster Chatham Norman Thinline Maritza Dyson Mason Raymon Rolland Fischer Doublet Monaco Pierre Essex First Mate Vernon Dawson Ardsley Craig Langley Samson Norton Dodson Kinematic Kirby Aldrich Jeffrey Scout Edgewood Brooke Drake Grover Wilshire Brockton Gardner Major Arlington Jolly Roger Senator Lowell Cameron Lawrence Greenwich |
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