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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Ball Watch Co. Waterbury Nashua Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Melrose Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Charles Fasoltd Mosart Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Ingersol South Bend Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. George Reed Rockford Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Independent Watch Co. |
Cheshire Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Manhatten Watch Co. W.E. Harper Illinois Watch Co. National Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham New York Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Auburndale Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co Peoria Watch co Otay Watch Co. American Waltham American Waltham Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Thomas Harland Newark Watch Co. |
Wichita Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. E.F. Bowman Hamilton Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Jacob Custer U.S. Watch Co. Benedict & Burham U.S Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Luther Goddard Seth Thomas Watch do. Aurora Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. 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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Urania Frodsham Turler Tornex-Rayville Croton P. Garnier Rado WhiteStar Emerson Tissot Jardur Orfina Hilton Arctus Longines Sperina National Kingston Helvetia Octo Roxy Borel Boucheron Pabro Unitas Lyceum Hallmark Guinand Seth Thomas Benson Yale Harman Kelbert Ofair Universal Montbrilliant Leonidas Gubelin Butex Breitling Watex Agassiz Jules Jurgensen Boulevard Shield Altus Rima Felca Cartier Newmark Phillepe Watch Co. Hafis Semca Bovet Daynite Hermes Alpina Eterna Record Tavannes Revue Henda Harvel Louis Zodiac LeCoultre Baume & Mercier Continental Baylor |
Elgin Sheffield Mt. Vernon Carlton Cyma LePhare Gruen Evans Cornavin Warwick Rulon Marlys Admes Univer Central Lucerne Cortebert Beltone Levrette Seeland Ollendorff Rolls Rembrant Trebex Glycine Certina Rocail Perpetual Watch Co. Timecraft Lemania Provita Imperial Crown Fontainemelon Harwood Mimo Arsa Dugena Kelek Gallet Winton Zentra Excelsior Didisheim Westend Eska Juvenia Blancpain Standard Hamilton Jaeger Frey Driva Pronto Regina Wyler Olympia Roamer Electra Condal Parker Doxa Kurth Helbros Alsta Girard-Perregaux Clebar |
Rotary Wig Wag Autdrist Avalon Welsbro Lancel Monarch Ball Huguenin Tourneau Favre Leuba LIbela Mars Golay Ebel Orator Faith Weldon Hever Wittnauer Angelus Aristo Kent Wakmann Delbana Haste Berg A. Lange & Sohne Lusina Dome Eberhard International Duodial Americus Lip South Bend Harvard Monte Garland Smith Illinois Louvig Geneve Zenith Lucien Piccard Hampden Rolex Ekegren Nicewatch Co. Breguet Opel Hebdomas Laco Orvin Tiffany Verno Benrus Mar Nicolet Kord Rockford Framont Buren Normandie Olma Glashutte Alpha |
Sigma Concord Audemars Piguet Schultz Germinal Eloga Alton Cawford PiagetPreesent Enicar Hy. Moser & Cie Vulcain Moriva Asprey Nivada Corum Grana Rapid Weltall Omega Fairfax Charles Nicolet Minerva P. Buhre Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lorton Mappin Ardath Vacheron Ace Acro Movado Touchon Mido Bueche-Girod Titus Bucherer Invicta Goering Friedli Lang Uhr Exactus Stowa Kelton Hydepark Ulysse Nardin Audax Patria Dunhill Coronet Hayden Arbi Nicolet Watch Bulova Alavente Aramis Chopard Ogival Niton J.E. Watch Co. Lavina Patek Philippe Ultimor Perfine Van Cleef & Arpels |
Models of watches that we repair:
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The Chief's Black Star Major Grover Molly Stark Yorktown Turner Stafford ipso-vox Monaco Minu-stop Beldon Cedric Pacermatic Randolph Raleigh Dewitt Whitehall Lowell William Osler Romanesquen Ross Sea Hawk Lone Eagle Milburn Parker B Baronet Beau Brummel Donald Doublet Landon Croydon Ristflo Commander Wilshire Dixon Brent Cordell Webster Scout Clinton Pierre Linwood Fleetwood Precision Dwight Allison Edgemere Dorsey Clark Ascot Franklion Ardsley Gardner Champion Kensignton Dartmouth Carson Drew Wilson Culver Stadium The Athelete Prescott Cullen Lakehurst Grant Taylor Annapolis Sir Echo Lester Vincent Greenwich Wellington Gyromatic Roland Marcus Tildon Blake Bostonian Marshall Myron Keith Howard Maxine Chieftan Dunhan Clearview Gilman Haddon Guardsman Senator Sea Ranger Amherst Hastings Cavalier Huntley Brock Rutledge Glenn Curtis Cedercrest Chevy Chase Oxford Carlyle Courtney Harris Hudson Lee Whitney Carlton Aqua Lung Malcom Captain Rice Bowman |
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