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 watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. Waterbury Potter Albert Watch Co. Thomas Harland Ball Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. W.E. Harper Hamilton Watch Co. George Reed Auburndale Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Hampden Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Watch Co. Jacob Custer Independent Watch Co. |
Newark Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd James & Henry Pitkin Washington Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Cornell Watch Co New York Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham South Bend Watch Co. |
Herman Vod der Heydt Luther Goddard New England Watch Co., Western Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. U.S. Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Ingersol American Waltham J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Benedict & Burham National Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Boston Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Seth Thomas Watch do. Aurora 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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Frodsham Record Zenith Croton Yale Niton Semca South Bend LIbela Hayden Mimo Lusina Helbros Mappin Audemars Piguet Timecraft PiagetPreesent Favre Leuba Arsa Seeland Geneve Glycine Excelsior Kingston Urania Vacheron Levrette Frey Rockford Goering Ekegren Normandie Corum Beltone Central Arbi Cornavin Rolex Girard-Perregaux WhiteStar J.E. Watch Co. Nivada Perfine Tornex-Rayville LePhare Chopard Driva Altus Welsbro Eska Boulevard Univer Cartier Westend Hamilton Louvig Cawford Borel Boucheron Tissot Illinois Olma Benson Lavina Eloga Electra Mido Kelton Ollendorff |
Alton Kelbert Enicar Felca Mt. Vernon Regina Agassiz Exactus Rima Winton Blancpain Rapid Rado Emerson Longines A. Lange & Sohne Certina Nicolet Watch Autdrist Ulysse Nardin Admes Dugena Minerva Hebdomas Stowa Gubelin Lucien Piccard Huguenin Rembrant Cortebert P. Garnier Tavannes Sperina Parker Butex Juvenia Imperial Baume & Mercier International Provita Wakmann Hampden Hallmark Patek Philippe Charles Nicolet Omega Crown Warwick Invicta Lang Uhr Carlton Coronet Duodial Grana Jardur Revue Bovet Lancel Vulcain Trebex Ofair Baylor Aramis Ultimor Zentra Moriva Kord |
Berg Rulon Roamer Avalon Friedli Golay Roxy Harwood Bucherer Jules Jurgensen Ball Bulova Sheffield Glashutte Audax Rolls Aristo Schultz Bueche-Girod Hafis Faith Asprey Leonidas Movado Daynite Orator Buren Touchon Phillepe Watch Co. Americus Lemania Cyma Pabro Marlys Clebar Ardath Watex Hy. Moser & Cie Zodiac National Framont Hermes Fairfax Ace Acro Haste Wyler Arctus Harman Doxa Condal Elgin Eterna Patria Sigma Tourneau Hilton Guinand Pronto Mar Nicolet Wig Wag Delbana Dome Alsta Fontainemelon LeCoultre Helvetia |
Concord Monte Tiffany Weldon Alpina Breguet Eberhard Louis Jaeger Wittnauer Van Cleef & Arpels Rotary Benrus Hydepark Alavente Monarch Kent Breitling Standard Orvin Laco Lip Germinal Gallet Continental Didisheim Lorton Lucerne Evans Lyceum Kelek Mars Rocail Verno Nicewatch Co. Ogival Henda Gruen Turler Uhrenfabrik Glashutte P. Buhre Montbrilliant Harvard Universal Titus Orfina Olympia Angelus Hever Unitas Harvel Shield Dunhill Newmark Weltall Seth Thomas Opel Octo Alpha Smith Perpetual Watch Co. Kurth Garland Ebel |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Viking Sky Chief Dean Beldon Turner Gold knight Winthrop Sea Scape Trooper Russell Chief Sir Echo Pacermatic Arlington Boatswain Boulton Warwick Rutledge Martin Carlton Norton Contour Alan Lindsay Lowell Chatham Vincent Orson New Yorker Adrian Futura Centurion Crispin Hayden Caroline Cavalier Airflight Jason Dwight Rolland Fischer Sloane Linwood Fleetwood Khyber Ambassador Boone Portia Croydon Cedercrest Chevy Chase Spur Ashley Kinematic Medford Thornton Streamlined Gulfport Trent Mate Bradford Hastings Clark Captain Rice Adjutant Sea Ranger Byrd Scott Milburn Cyril Finalist Samson Commodore Hartman Putnam The Athelete Ward Argyle Sea Hawk Lyle B Ascot Drummond Lee Doublet Yorktown Montclair Tuxedo Benton Whitehall Seville Sheldon Prescott Barry Aqua Lung Derby Bartley Landon Parker B Edgewater Dunhan Maxine Curvex Dixon Dennis Brooke dunkirk Manhattan Cambridge Touraine Franklion Conway Drew Coburn Perry |
Eaton Norman Molly Stark Larchmont Dexter Linden Hall Brewster Barton Crusade watson Chronomatic top hat Hudson Norfolk Calvin B.W. Raymond stanley Cameron Wakefield Whitford Andrews Coronado Austin Eric Tempus Colby Dartmouth Deauville Morley Taylor Casino Foster Culver Bostonian Myron Attache Spencer Barbizon Ensign Black knight Mason Blair Thor Kirk Marshall Top Time Dodson Cordell Sutton Ardsley Blade Aqualine Major Sawyer Blackstone Darrell Merritt Sea Breeze Chadwick Carson Cedric Flight II Curtis Adonis Wesleyan West Point Guardsman Bailey Talbot Minu-stop Chesterfield Webster Berkshire Nightingale Sea-cap Lester Citadel Sherwood Wellington Cullen Sentinal Cranston Marcus Rodney Spencer Yeoman Otis Dante Craig Dawson Champion Secron Reardon Boyd Newton President Antique direct read Grenadier Ramsey Glendon Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Yorktown Randolph Maritza Ansley Brock Livingston Glenn Trudy Spur Gary Raleigh |
Grover Essex Wesley Surf Peyton Corvet Eternamatic Flint Ridge Todd Sea guard Collegian Fleetwood Norde Glenn Curtis Prentice Radburn Diamond Consul Valiant Malcom Tiger & Lady Carlyle Neil Oakley Thincraft Lance Frontenac Jolly Roger Steeldon Garfield Secometer Sedgman Keith Piccadilly Marquis strap Gilman Avigo Donald Aviator Wilshire Airman Lakehurst Chatham Cross country Farrell Bowman Accumatic Stuart Lyndon Kenilworth Gallahad Lakeland Flight I Golden Tempus II Bryn Mawr Holden Clyde Clearview Ryan Fulton Ericsson Emerson Langley Newlin Powell Mount Vernon Lone Eagle Courtney Wilson Kinematic Kirby Winfield Sea Rover Guardsman Murray Courier Sea Cliff Monaco Judson Windsor Sidney Brandon Raymon Brent Baronet Beau Brummel Elliot Emery Edgemere Jeffrey Stadium Carl Grafic Deluxe Dewitt Sinclair Tyron Vardon Pierre Brockton Carlisle Drexel Wayne Paxton Andover Halesworth B Grant Milton Haddon Quadron Amherst Nelson Midas Chieftan Annapolis Gyromatic Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Heyward |
Windsor Cadet Chapman Sinclair Baton Seaview Vernon Thinline Harris Sea Scout Sea Skip Custer Baron Rutgers William Osler Arlington Hawthorne Gordon Raleigh Transcontinental A B Senator ipso-vox Seabrook Enditcott Sheryll Sea-glo Howard Oakmont Pimlico Precision Arnold Ensign Romanesquen Ross Sea mate Langdon The Governor Kensignton Blake Oval Donavan Stanford Sea-crest Veri-thin Huntley Cabot Reagan Langford Gardner Baxter Varsity Bianca Keane Lawrence Roland Bentley Lord Lancaster Gilvert Briarcliffe the Curtis Lincrest First Mate Richmond Viscount Tildon Aldrich Longacre Medalist Wembley Carteret Staunton Allison Stanford Whitney Oxford Ristflo Paige Wilkinson Chanticleer Edgewood Stafford Mayfield Top Gun Greenwich Bagley Majesty Dickens Black Star Morton Whitman Drake Meadowbrook Norman Clinton Ardmore Scout Robert Roberta Stormking Errol Commander Dyson Lambert Gramercy Golden Tempus Glendale Beau Royal Piping Rock Gladstone Kevin Vernon The Chief's Dorsey Pinehurst ... |
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