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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Hampden Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd American Waltham Thomas Harland James & Henry Pitkin Luther Goddard Nashua Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Rockford Watch Co. National Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Auburndale Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Cornell Watch Co Trenton Watch do. Lancaster Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Benedict & Burham |
W.E. Harper Appleton watch Co. Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Freeport Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Jacob Custer J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. B.D. Bingham New England Watch Co., E.F. Bowman Adams & Perry Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. |
Herman Vod der Heydt American Waltham Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Western Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. New York Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. South Bend Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Waterbury American Repeating Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. Ingersol George Reed Warren Manufacturing Co. Columbus 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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A. Lange & Sohne Titus Grana Geneve Henda Trebex Leonidas Pronto Dugena Univer Stowa Boulevard Buren Cyma Gubelin Kingston Semca South Bend Arsa Hamilton Urania Alsta Audemars Piguet Revue Tornex-Rayville Kelek Berg Ebel Monarch Monte Seth Thomas Tiffany Louis Rockford Imperial Perpetual Watch Co. Favre Leuba Normandie Weldon Parker Illinois International Laco Jardur Hy. Moser & Cie Wakmann Perfine Electra Evans Didisheim Baume & Mercier Altus Vulcain Aramis Eska Hydepark Lemania Orfina Harman Rotary Ofair Borel Boucheron Bueche-Girod Enicar Lucerne Gruen Longines Goering |
Warwick Garland Audax Girard-Perregaux Mars Nicolet Watch Zodiac Chopard Yale Roxy Golay Bovet Friedli Breguet Germinal Daynite Huguenin Timecraft Pabro Standard Cartier WhiteStar Olympia Kent Zentra Provita Rulon Record Zenith Autdrist Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Coronet Glycine Framont Phillepe Watch Co. Harwood Certina Hever Orvin Helbros Eloga Marlys Lucien Piccard Carlton Juvenia Elgin LIbela Vacheron Agassiz Rado Benson Admes Rolls Condal Sperina Lancel Alton Kelton Van Cleef & Arpels Continental Ultimor Louvig P. Garnier Corum Felca Arbi Alavente |
Hermes Seeland Rembrant National Movado Ball Delbana Tavannes Harvel Charles Nicolet Wig Wag Sheffield Wittnauer Lusina Invicta Weltall Guinand Rolex Cornavin Fairfax Avalon Aristo Hayden Shield Butex Moriva LeCoultre LePhare Bucherer Smith Regina Gallet Schultz Kelbert Montbrilliant Duodial Asprey Kord Beltone Bulova Touchon Jaeger Central Excelsior Hebdomas Wyler Ace Acro Harvard Minerva Driva Sigma Croton Crown Frey Roamer Omega Emerson Hilton Mar Nicolet Haste Exactus Americus Tourneau Rocail Eterna Rapid |
Hampden Verno Universal Fontainemelon Lavina Angelus Ulysse Nardin Ollendorff Mido Dunhill Patria Jules Jurgensen Unitas Tissot Glashutte Alpha Kurth Octo Opel P. Buhre Patek Philippe Watex Blancpain Benrus Baylor Ardath Mimo Eberhard Mt. Vernon Olma Ekegren Faith Welsbro Arctus Hallmark Hafis Niton Lip PiagetPreesent Helvetia Clebar Concord Lyceum Breitling Alpina Nicewatch Co. Cortebert Cawford Rima Lorton Westend Newmark Lang Uhr Winton Levrette J.E. Watch Co. Ogival Orator Turler Doxa Mappin Dome Frodsham Nivada |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Sea Scape Stadium Ward Reardon Airflight Jason B.W. Raymond Austin Jeffrey Newton Hayden Carlton Putnam Manhattan Dyson Diamond Sutton Neil Aviator The Chief's Medford Lance Bailey Nelson Oxford Spur Drew Rolland Fischer Langdon Commodore Baxter Boatswain Oakley Enditcott Mason Windsor Top Time Glenn Dartmouth Grenadier Larchmont Lowell Ansley Corvet Whitman Lone Eagle Dean Powell Derby Andover Oval Sinclair Amherst Grover Drake Gladstone Mount Vernon Scout Malcom Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Tuxedo Norman Chieftan Sea Cliff Thincraft Parker B Sloane Holden Trudy Spur Dennis Custer Varsity Beau Royal Dodson Transcontinental A B Stafford Drexel Farrell Curvex Cross country Stuart Dewitt Seville Sheldon Clyde Seaview Carson Myron Chronomatic top hat Warwick Pimlico Elliot Emery Senator Samson President Antique Sidney Dixon Dickens Black Star Hudson Arnold Majesty Beldon Guardsman Lord Lancaster Secometer Sedgman Morley Sky Chief Fleetwood Kenilworth Gallahad Briarcliffe direct read |
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