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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Aurora Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Rockford Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Jacob Custer Appleton watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Bannatyne Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Trenton Watch do. Rock Island Watch Co. George Reed |
Illinois Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. National Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Cheshire Watch Co. Ingersol Adams & Perry Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Luther Goddard New York Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Melrose Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Thomas Harland Waterbury Otay Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. |
Wichita Watch Co. Western Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. B.D. Bingham U.S. Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Auburndale Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. American Waltham Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Newark Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Herman Vod der Heydt Washington Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd W.E. Harper |
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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Eberhard Imperial Ultimor Omega Autdrist Faith Geneve Orfina Cartier Gubelin Mars Orator Newmark Wig Wag Rapid Bueche-Girod Tissot Vacheron Cortebert Jules Jurgensen Hilton Wittnauer Eterna Octo Helvetia Welsbro Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Titus Alton Hermes Nicolet Watch Hydepark Trebex Ace Acro Berg Glycine Enicar Olympia Doxa Roxy National Buren Girard-Perregaux Fairfax Harwood Bucherer Charles Nicolet Continental Cornavin Clebar Hamilton Butex Rolls Seeland Kelek Agassiz Lyceum Excelsior Breitling Bovet Weltall Kelton Pabro Eloga PiagetPreesent Monarch Rima Hy. Moser & Cie |
Angelus Provita Frey Fontainemelon Lemania Sperina Shield Zentra Perfine Rocail Vulcain LePhare Yale Tiffany Gallet Borel Boucheron Croton Emerson Certina Nicewatch Co. Harman Benson Zodiac Tourneau Baylor Montbrilliant Lusina Friedli Blancpain Aristo Normandie Marlys Standard P. Buhre J.E. Watch Co. Henda Americus Helbros Kurth Aramis Urania Baume & Mercier Sigma Tavannes Orvin Rembrant Leonidas Sheffield Cawford Mar Nicolet Turler Arctus Driva Gruen Longines Lucerne Beltone Haste Boulevard Delbana Jardur Regina Evans Kent Audemars Piguet Hafis Kingston |
Favre Leuba Didisheim Coronet Germinal Daynite Harvard Arbi Unitas Mt. Vernon Patria Ball Perpetual Watch Co. Watex Verno Olma A. Lange & Sohne Kord Goering Bulova Invicta Altus Ardath Cyma Schultz Mappin Ebel Concord International Guinand Hampden Dunhill Westend Univer Juvenia Mimo Timecraft Ollendorff Dugena Alavente Louvig Exactus Garland Lang Uhr Arsa Patek Philippe Jaeger Hever Ulysse Nardin Weldon Condal Chopard Harvel LIbela Touchon Golay Revue Niton Eska Universal Rado Asprey Lip Electra Hebdomas Alpha Framont |
Parker Wyler Kelbert Seth Thomas Carlton Phillepe Watch Co. Louis Benrus Central Dome Rotary Huguenin Wakmann Levrette Tornex-Rayville Illinois Corum Ofair LeCoultre Laco Mido Hallmark Lancel Glashutte Grana Zenith Warwick Lavina Moriva Ekegren Rolex Pronto P. Garnier Movado Roamer Monte Alsta Nivada Stowa Ogival Duodial Felca Admes Minerva Smith Winton Lucien Piccard Hayden WhiteStar Breguet Rulon Opel Rockford Frodsham South Bend Alpina Record Lorton Audax Semca Elgin Van Cleef & Arpels Avalon Crown |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Centurion Brandon Elliot Emery Dennis Medford Grenadier Wilson Peyton Chief Donald Tyron Vardon Arlington Hawthorne Sea Scape Varsity Greenwich Austin Romanesquen Ross Captain Rice Molly Stark Trudy Spur Annapolis Seville Sheldon Bianca Taylor Viking Custer Prescott Parker B Baron Dunhan Eternamatic Gary Allison Gyromatic Jeffrey Cullen Quadron Dodson Lester Sloane Piping Rock Raleigh Medalist Wembley Donavan Collegian Sea Cliff Ward Maritza Sea Hawk Cross country Richmond Curtis Rutgers The Athelete Huntley Surf Blade Chieftan Chapman Pinehurst Guardsman Lyndon Cadet Diamond Arnold Dwight Dewitt Prentice Bryn Mawr Vernon Ryan Drake Thincraft Croydon Myron Contour Barton Edgewater Landon Ristflo Windsor Hudson Yorktown Perry Lance Chatham Cambridge Brent Malcom Norman Piccadilly Bradford Mason Coburn Glenn Randolph Sea guard Dickens Sinclair Ansley Paxton Carl Rutledge Boone Boatswain Carlton Winfield Lyle B Mount Vernon Berkshire Norfolk |
Sutton Langdon The Governor Ardsley Sherwood Webster Glenn Curtis Ascot West Point Glendon Heyward Lindsay Boulton Garfield Courier Deauville Radburn Edgewood Valiant Samson Milton Tuxedo Spur New Yorker Accumatic Brewster Cordell Scott Aviator Chatham Eric Cyril Nightingale Carlisle Oval Wesleyan Thinline Sidney Stadium Sea Ranger Spencer Adjutant Cranston Ardmore Carteret Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Oakmont The Chief's Reardon Blake Golden Tempus Yeoman First Mate Ramsey Steeldon Majesty Oakley Blackstone Cameron Norde Adonis Brock Hayden Vernon Beau Royal Montclair Chronomatic top hat Crispin Lowell Winthrop Secron Ericsson Emerson Calvin Russell B.W. Raymond Mayfield Holden Howard Kinematic Craig Vincent Milburn Beldon Rodney Wilshire Cedric Newlin stanley Brockton Haddon Lincrest Tiger & Lady Tildon Chesterfield Transcontinental A B ipso-vox Keane Trooper Monaco Caroline Mate President Antique Pacermatic Casino Baronet Beau Brummel Ensign Larchmont Commander Jolly Roger Aldrich |
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