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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Nashua Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. National Watch Co. W.E. Harper Thomas Harland Seth Thomas Watch do. South Bend Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Herman Vod der Heydt Wichita Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Rock Island Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Ingersol Hampden Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. |
Fitchburg Watch bo. Rockford Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Luther Goddard J.P.Stevens Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. American Waltham Charles Fasoltd Appleton, Tracy & Co. Aurora Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Freeport Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Mosart Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. |
Benedict & Burham Columbus Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Jacob Custer U.S. Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. George Reed Waterbury Manhatten Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. E.F. Bowman New England 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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Leonidas Perpetual Watch Co. Montbrilliant Frodsham Guinand National Warwick Invicta Hayden Hafis Rockford Frey Touchon Standard Laco Certina Cortebert Semca Bucherer Longines Concord Ebel Breitling Eska Perfine Van Cleef & Arpels Dome Crown Olma Rolex Parker Glycine Zenith Avalon Roxy Imperial Orator Ace Acro Rado Felca Kelek Butex Zentra Nivada Hallmark Alsta Buren A. Lange & Sohne Lyceum Moriva International Tiffany Nicewatch Co. Pabro Jardur Alavente Jaeger Admes Glashutte Movado Monarch Rulon Goering Harvard Patek Philippe Helbros Monte Zodiac |
Dunhill Alton Vulcain WhiteStar Eterna Dugena Hebdomas Jules Jurgensen Alpha Eloga Fontainemelon Rotary PiagetPreesent Duodial Coronet Mido Americus Doxa Ultimor Ulysse Nardin Weltall Shield Hermes P. Garnier Favre Leuba J.E. Watch Co. Sheffield LIbela Rolls Tornex-Rayville Cawford LePhare Mar Nicolet Urania Altus Wyler Lorton Gruen Exactus Trebex Enicar Arbi Golay Autdrist Bueche-Girod Helvetia Condal Ollendorff Gallet Wig Wag Croton Aristo Unitas Ardath Sperina Arsa Beltone Arctus Louvig Asprey South Bend Provita Aramis Agassiz Record Hampden Didisheim |
Friedli Emerson Lancel Newmark Kent Eberhard Elgin Mappin Garland Westend Lip Electra Opel Sigma Minerva Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Nicolet Watch P. Buhre Rocail Pronto Stowa Smith Olympia Juvenia Haste Chopard Harwood Ekegren Hilton Alpina Patria Corum Lucerne Cartier Seeland Mimo Normandie Cyma Universal Harvel Germinal Illinois Omega Kurth Kelbert Borel Boucheron Berg Wakmann Daynite Fairfax Regina Orvin Evans Ball Charles Nicolet Grana Kingston Octo Univer Rima Faith Verno Huguenin Niton Rapid Gubelin |
Weldon Turler Marlys Girard-Perregaux Lusina Wittnauer Welsbro Mars Baylor Ogival Benrus Benson Winton Roamer Bovet Delbana Cornavin Lucien Piccard Mt. Vernon Levrette Audax Lavina Hamilton Baume & Mercier Boulevard Breguet Revue Geneve Clebar Carlton Yale Hever LeCoultre Continental Bulova Driva Louis Vacheron Phillepe Watch Co. Hy. Moser & Cie Rembrant Blancpain Kord Central Timecraft Lang Uhr Seth Thomas Harman Titus Excelsior Tissot Ofair Watex Tourneau Kelton Lemania Angelus Orfina Henda Schultz Hydepark Audemars Piguet Tavannes Framont |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Greenwich Contour Peyton Lance Baron Austin Clark Landon Ardmore Arlington Hawthorne Cabot Flint Ridge Edgewater Orson Dickens Trudy Spur Longacre Lakehurst West Point direct read Sea Breeze Roland Bartley Jason Golden Tempus Marcus Chapman Maxine Wellington Sea Cliff Andrews Allison Aqualine Whitney Yeoman Baronet Beau Brummel Lee Linden Hall Staunton Keane Meadowbrook Cambridge Seaview Richmond Ensign Mason Wakefield Windsor Jolly Roger Attache Chesterfield Custer Pinehurst Nightingale Top Time Stanford Sherwood Curtis Sawyer Majesty Berkshire Ambassador Barton Parker B Yorktown Rutgers Champion Carlisle Bostonian Windsor Vernon Drew Transcontinental A B Bailey Steeldon Baton Touraine Finalist Rodney Romanesquen Ross Stuart Midas Cross country Webster Derby Grafic Deluxe Sea-glo Croydon Black knight Boulton Dante Chronomatic top hat Ryan Sutton Kinematic Kirby Gold knight Airman Brooke Livingston Newton Paige Mayfield Dennis Taylor Otis Scott Dexter Chief Cedric Precision Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights |
Pierre Bradford Cranston Crusade Lyle B Calvin Aldrich Viscount Gordon Radburn Blair Prentice Golden Tempus II Yorktown Todd Whitehall Winthrop Courier Bowman Stadium Khyber Airflight Senator Sky Chief Powell Jeffrey Sea Rover Carlton Tildon Howard Paxton Ensign Ardsley Ansley Sea guard Enditcott Wesley Sea Hawk Minu-stop Lester Linwood Secometer Sedgman Ascot Guardsman Piping Rock Cullen Mount Vernon Keith Cedercrest Chevy Chase Halesworth B Crispin Tiger & Lady Kevin Sea-crest Casino Oxford Arlington Wayne Fulton Beau Royal Piccadilly Errol Pacermatic Amherst The Athelete Kenilworth Gallahad Commodore Black Star Ashley Wilkinson Maritza Holden Curvex Farrell Hayden Craig Spur Gardner Ward Cadet Perry Sinclair Neil Dodson Raleigh Vincent Carson Barbizon Molly Stark Norfolk Streamlined Langley Whitford Langdon Adonis Dean Futura Mate Wilshire Malcom Trent Dawson Norman Merritt Lakeland The Chief's Gyromatic Monaco Thornton Haddon |
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