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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George Reed Cornell Watch Co Otay Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Appleton watch Co. Trenton Watch do. New York Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Washington Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. |
South Bend Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Luther Goddard U.S. Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. National Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Charles Fasoltd James & Henry Pitkin Thomas Harland U.S Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Waterbury Ingersol Western Watch Co. |
B.D. Bingham W.E. Harper Seth Thomas Watch do. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Nashua Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Manhatten Watch Co. American Waltham Cheshire Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Jacob Custer Rock Island Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Wichita Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Peoria Watch co Benedict & Burham Boston 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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Vacheron Fontainemelon Mido Frey Roamer Ogival Didisheim Sigma Newmark Seeland Lorton Perfine Pabro Rocail Dome Bueche-Girod Geneve Nivada Driva Weltall Weldon Zenith Niton Zentra Arctus Doxa Normandie Alton Wyler Grana Framont Orator Kelbert Verno Illinois Perpetual Watch Co. Ball Condal Patria Ollendorff Yale Ace Acro Marlys Bulova Glycine Favre Leuba Kurth Louis Univer Evans Wittnauer Zodiac Crown Bucherer Imperial Dunhill J.E. Watch Co. Ultimor Hafis Titus Wakmann Cortebert WhiteStar Jardur Frodsham Monte Henda Daynite |
Faith Huguenin Warwick Lavina Harwood Watex Garland Rotary Rapid Orvin Parker Duodial Lusina Bovet Sheffield South Bend Breitling Tornex-Rayville Gubelin Rockford Mappin Patek Philippe Lang Uhr Eberhard Monarch Boulevard Cornavin P. Buhre Cawford Wig Wag Helbros Rima Buren Berg Levrette Aramis Hampden Lucien Piccard Opel Revue Hallmark Benson Butex Louvig Asprey Juvenia Provita Jules Jurgensen Hebdomas Van Cleef & Arpels Pronto Kord Nicolet Watch Alpina Rolls Chopard Turler Croton Tourneau Lancel Corum Continental Westend Aristo Lucerne Mars Nicewatch Co. |
Seth Thomas Hermes Touchon Movado Excelsior Haste Smith Angelus Ofair Phillepe Watch Co. National Girard-Perregaux Electra Roxy Concord Kelek Jaeger Laco Felca Rolex Trebex Ekegren Kingston Admes Cyma Audemars Piguet Alpha Arsa LeCoultre Avalon Omega Kent Record Lyceum PiagetPreesent Gruen Friedli Agassiz Universal Eterna Tiffany A. Lange & Sohne Rado Eloga Montbrilliant Alsta Unitas Rulon Enicar Dugena Elgin Leonidas Blancpain Tavannes Charles Nicolet Americus Benrus Hayden Coronet Eska Goering Schultz Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Moriva Fairfax Rembrant |
Timecraft Baume & Mercier Gallet Minerva Certina International Octo Kelton Autdrist Regina Exactus Semca Harvard Olma Emerson Welsbro Delbana Guinand LePhare Ulysse Nardin Baylor Ebel Breguet Tissot Arbi Hilton Lemania Winton Harvel Vulcain Hy. Moser & Cie Shield Cartier Mimo Invicta Mt. Vernon Longines Borel Boucheron Mar Nicolet Glashutte LIbela Orfina Helvetia Alavente Sperina Urania Olympia Central P. Garnier Beltone Harman Lip Carlton Standard Golay Hamilton Hever Altus Stowa Hydepark Germinal Clebar Ardath Audax |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Linwood Sea Scout Sea Skip Bianca Flight I Nightingale Dickens Gold knight Larchmont Howard Drummond Warwick Dwight Conway Fulton Carson Livingston Wilkinson Sheryll Grafic Deluxe Merritt Morton Carlton Tildon Deauville direct read Grant Taylor Sea-cap Winthrop Brock Aldrich Stanford Greenwich Wayne Flint Ridge Hartman Manhattan Chatham Brent Jason Sutton Huntley Secron Hudson Top Time Mason Ascot Marquis strap Contour Culver Veri-thin Blade Tiger & Lady Cullen Flight II Maritza Argyle Longacre Brewster Yeoman Kinematic Kirby Spencer Seabrook Wakefield Surf Byrd The Chief's Winfield Airman Keane Arnold Morley Frontenac Sidney Robert Roberta Crusade Boyd Cyril Paige Ensign President Antique Bryn Mawr Webster Norman Lyle B Wesley Langford Norman Top Gun Craig Portia Maxine Edgemere Stafford Croydon Pierre Rutledge Kinematic Farrell Black knight Eaton Guardsman Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Linden Hall Piping Rock Richmond Bagley Romanesquen Ross Chief dunkirk Curtis |
Glendon Newlin Wilshire Sea Cliff Dennis Norde Ardmore Medalist Wembley Lakeland Montclair Boatswain Bradford Ashley Precision Tuxedo Citadel Derby Carl Oxford Transcontinental A B Gary Chronomatic top hat Norfolk Seaview Barbizon Commodore Baron Sky Chief Chatham Keith Bailey Spur Powell Harris Eric Gordon Sea Rover First Mate Oakmont Carlisle Rolland Fischer Murray watson Cedric Guardsman Trent Donavan Cabot Varsity Khyber William Osler Chanticleer Curvex Avigo Whitney Beau Royal Scout Jolly Roger Dorsey Gilman Foster Allison Chesterfield Ristflo Dawson Viking Tempus Bostonian Neil Garfield Putnam Benton Gyromatic Ansley Perry Chapman West Point Yorktown Lincrest Norton Dyson Gilvert Milburn Nelson stanley Cross country Calvin Peyton Boone The Athelete Paxton Raleigh Sea Ranger Eternamatic Reardon Parker B Blair Captain Rice Bentley Sinclair Drake Sinclair Doublet Mayfield Viscount Barry Wellington Colby Dartmouth Oval |
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