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