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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Cheshire Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Ingersol Boston Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. National Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Watch Co. Washington Watch Co. George Reed Thomas Harland Seth Thomas Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Peoria Watch co Independent Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. |
Waterbury Newark Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. E. Howard and Co. Jacob Custer Rock Island Watch Co. E.F. Bowman American Waltham Ball Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Fitchburg Watch bo. Hamilton Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co South Bend Watch Co. Luther Goddard Hampden Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. |
Wichita Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham New York Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Trenton Watch do. Auburndale Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd James & Henry Pitkin W.E. Harper New England Watch Co., Mosart Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Western 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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Leonidas Westend Zenith Eberhard Garland Eloga Favre Leuba Rulon Pabro Doxa Turler Rado Parker Cortebert Seeland Unitas Kurth Arsa Admes Friedli Fontainemelon Alavente Revue Smith Standard Hafis Henda Aramis Seth Thomas Electra Bovet Cyma Lancel Tornex-Rayville Trebex Timecraft Perfine Arctus Harwood Levrette Invicta Regina Helbros Kelek Roxy Mars Huguenin Yale Avalon Faith Lyceum Daynite Weldon Dome Ball Helvetia Americus Glycine Eska Ardath Normandie Cawford Buren Glashutte Imperial Wakmann Benrus Gubelin |
Pronto Hamilton Ogival Orvin Nicolet Watch Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Zentra Baylor Zodiac Tiffany Mimo Alpha Clebar Chopard Juvenia Olympia Golay Altus Kelbert Kelton Ekegren Cornavin Exactus Girard-Perregaux Patek Philippe J.E. Watch Co. Beltone Rima Ultimor Rockford Kord Minerva Rocail Univer Harvard Hever Niton A. Lange & Sohne Lip Lorton Framont Roamer Boulevard Ace Acro Germinal Certina Elgin Driva Haste Mar Nicolet Felca Illinois Aristo Jaeger Excelsior Rolls Berg Tourneau Winton Dugena Harvel Ulysse Nardin P. Garnier Provita Rotary Duodial Hermes |
Rapid Urania Tissot Benson Van Cleef & Arpels Alpina Delbana Ofair Octo Eterna Louvig Montbrilliant Tavannes Hallmark Goering Kingston International Ebel Sigma Corum Hilton Vacheron Ollendorff Continental Bulova Hampden Lucerne Semca Hayden Orator Borel Boucheron National Bucherer Emerson Movado Jardur Baume & Mercier Wittnauer Touchon Evans Wig Wag Central Audax Lemania Shield Alsta Perpetual Watch Co. Olma Concord P. Buhre Welsbro Lusina Titus Patria Sperina Vulcain South Bend LIbela Marlys Condal Sheffield Fairfax Stowa Butex Rolex PiagetPreesent |
Bueche-Girod Asprey Opel Longines Mt. Vernon Warwick LePhare Carlton Orfina Newmark Blancpain Breguet Frodsham Geneve Louis Jules Jurgensen Universal Cartier Verno Rembrant Dunhill Frey Wyler Schultz Omega Angelus Nivada Gruen Hydepark Charles Nicolet Breitling Didisheim Agassiz Mappin Weltall WhiteStar Lang Uhr Audemars Piguet Guinand Record Mido Kent Hebdomas Alton Grana Moriva Harman Enicar Gallet Hy. Moser & Cie Watex Lavina Phillepe Watch Co. Monarch Autdrist Monte Crown Laco Croton Nicewatch Co. Arbi Coronet LeCoultre Lucien Piccard |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Turner Calvin Flight II Bowman Otis Fleetwood Parker B Wilson Arlington Hawthorne Jolly Roger Darrell Dorsey Annapolis Varsity Adjutant Samson Garfield Aldrich Pinehurst Cadet Aviator Allison Golden Tempus Dewitt Carlisle Bagley Rodney Lowell Colby New Yorker Blair Spencer Halesworth B Sea-cap Winthrop Caroline Grant Thor Arnold Todd Cedercrest Chevy Chase Sea Scout Sea Skip Eric Keane Blake Beldon Nelson Hastings Paxton Airflight Kinematic Blackstone Precision Sea Hawk Norman Windsor Harris Flight I Sea guard Lee Tyron Vardon Rolland Fischer Sentinal Trent Drew Deauville Sir Echo Bartley Kenilworth Gallahad Myron Norfolk Newton Top Gun Baton Tuxedo Reardon Enditcott Khyber Sinclair Lindsay Berkshire Spencer Prentice Boone Glendale Howard Meadowbrook Gordon Boulton Bryn Mawr Sea-crest Ward Ryan Kirk Whitman Gary Lawrence Lord Lancaster Molly Stark Brent West Point Piping Rock Gyromatic Bailey Mate Morton Landon Dodson Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights Perry Carl |
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