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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Appleton, Tracy & Co. Hamilton Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Auburndale Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Watch Co. Waterbury Hampden Watch Co. Thomas Harland Cornell Watch Co Washington Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Nashua Watch Co. B.D. Bingham |
South Bend Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Jacob Custer J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Seth Thomas Watch do. American Waltham Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Benedict & Burham Bannatyne Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Luther Goddard Otay Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Fitchburg Watch bo. E. Howard and Co. Herman Vod der Heydt |
Illinois Watch Co. George Reed Melrose Watch Co. American Waltham E.F. Bowman American Repeating Watch Co. National Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. W.E. Harper Charles Fasoltd Rockford Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Ingersol Adams & Perry Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. U.S 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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Arsa Germinal Timecraft Touchon Sigma Jaeger WhiteStar Henda Record Fairfax Americus Eska National Rolex Wig Wag Nicolet Watch Hydepark Hafis Harman Rocail International Revue LIbela Ulysse Nardin Weltall Alpina Turler Lusina Winton Olma Buren Vacheron Didisheim Alavente Rulon Borel Boucheron Elgin Benson Levrette Unitas Haste South Bend Louvig Excelsior Bulova Longines Lemania Trebex PiagetPreesent Alton Ace Acro Semca Continental Provita Weldon Tourneau Hamilton Kelton Rado Agassiz Titus Octo Cornavin Cartier P. Buhre Avalon Lip Uhrenfabrik Glashutte |
Rockford Condal Arbi Opel A. Lange & Sohne Mar Nicolet Harvard LeCoultre Boulevard Electra Gallet Aramis Smith Huguenin Univer Ofair Welsbro Certina Eberhard Felca Nivada Orfina Friedli Carlton Ardath Harwood Shield Hever Illinois Ebel Glashutte Kord Wakmann Eloga Vulcain Yale Kingston Helbros Arctus Breguet Guinand Phillepe Watch Co. Blancpain Lorton Glycine Mido Aristo Geneve Eterna Gubelin Ultimor LePhare Enicar Asprey Lucerne Audemars Piguet Movado Garland Jardur Central Wyler Universal Normandie Berg Hayden Olympia Clebar |
Crown Baylor Mars Corum Wittnauer Bucherer Tavannes Warwick Baume & Mercier Beltone Roamer Chopard Imperial Verno Kelek Regina Perpetual Watch Co. Seth Thomas Audax Marlys Seeland Laco Angelus Lyceum Butex Patek Philippe Tornex-Rayville Nicewatch Co. Duodial Lang Uhr Cortebert Frey Moriva Zentra Breitling Westend Leonidas Roxy Kent Charles Nicolet Altus Rima Tissot Dugena Croton Lavina Driva Faith Niton Monarch Lucien Piccard Ball Concord Parker Mt. Vernon Grana Evans Schultz Daynite Juvenia Montbrilliant Louis Benrus Sheffield Frodsham Pabro |
Favre Leuba Urania Hebdomas Hampden Patria Monte Minerva Exactus Orvin Alpha Harvel Watex Newmark Framont Mimo Jules Jurgensen Rolls Emerson Hallmark Ollendorff Omega Coronet Orator Tiffany Alsta Cawford Ogival P. Garnier Hermes Helvetia Mappin Invicta Autdrist Dunhill Bovet Rembrant Kelbert Bueche-Girod Ekegren Hilton Stowa Admes Sperina Hy. Moser & Cie Kurth Perfine Doxa Gruen Goering Standard Girard-Perregaux Cyma Van Cleef & Arpels Zenith Dome Pronto Golay Fontainemelon Zodiac Delbana Rotary Rapid J.E. Watch Co. Lancel |
Models of watches that we repair:
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dunkirk Tiger & Lady Secometer Sedgman Sea Cliff Keith Donavan Howard Windsor Dennis Nightingale Molly Stark Kirk Dartmouth Maritza Deauville Kinematic Drew Baton Chief Robert Roberta Windsor Longacre Stormking Colby Scott Ascot Ericsson Emerson Glenn Benton Rolland Fischer Malcom Byrd Dawson Blake Argyle Dixon Norman Pacermatic Caroline Chronomatic top hat Ambassador Ristflo Sir Echo Cedric Wilshire Vernon Bartley Wellington Futura Heyward Sea-glo Oxford Adjutant Jeffrey Otis Diamond Thinline Mate The Governor Lindsay Dexter Sentinal Briarcliffe Carlton Wayne Tyron Vardon Holden Staunton Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Webster Midas Trooper Peyton Turner Prentice Putnam Beau Royal Gary Wesleyan Linden Hall Boatswain Majesty Samson Sinclair Fulton The Athelete Coronado Calvin Alan Chatham Kevin Newlin Hastings Merritt Lance Manhattan Guardsman Medford Kenilworth Gallahad Dyson Clearview Derby Huntley Crusade Lincrest Craig Valiant Thornton Senator Cross country Stadium |
Fleetwood Bowman Commodore Piccadilly Croydon Carlisle Monaco Lord Lancaster Clark Tuxedo Cyril Linwood Annapolis Whitford Beldon Crispin Dewitt Sloane Spur Captain Rice Paxton Myron Collegian Aqua Lung Golden Tempus II Seabrook Curvex Lester Trent President Antique Bagley Dorsey Grenadier Enditcott Lowell Grover Thincraft Martin Ensign Donald Clyde Brewster the Curtis Glenn Curtis Lee Tildon Jolly Roger Chadwick Kinematic Kirby Stanford Quadron Morton Harris Larchmont Boulton Berkshire Haddon Gulfport Sea Rover watson stanley Surf Yorktown Secron Cadet Sea Hawk Sea Breeze Top Time Attache Rodney Viking Cranston Mount Vernon Scout Carl Maxine Gilvert Warwick Sea-cap Sea Scape Chanticleer Langford Sutton Carteret Gramercy Transcontinental A B Doublet Sinclair Ardmore Marquis strap Boone Carson Flight I Errol Todd Ardsley Ryan Talbot Drummond Gyromatic Meadowbrook Judson Montclair Winthrop Edgewater Perry Gold knight Brockton Viscount Cedercrest Chevy Chase |
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