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. American Waltham Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. New York Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Luther Goddard Charles Fasoltd South Bend Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Thomas Harland U.S. Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Jacob Custer Appleton, Tracy & Co. E. Howard and Co. National Watch Co. |
Fitchburg Watch bo. Adams & Perry Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Otay Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Trenton Watch do. Illinois Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. B.D. Bingham Herman Vod der Heydt Manhatten Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. George Reed Bannatyne Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. American Waltham Hamilton Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. |
Waterbury W.E. Harper Ball Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham U.S Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Cornell Watch Co Washington Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Peoria Watch co Western Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Rockford Watch Co. Ingersol |
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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Emerson Blancpain Geneve Kelbert Autdrist Benson Clebar Fontainemelon National Alpina Hamilton Charles Nicolet Grana PiagetPreesent Perfine Rotary Eloga Ebel Girard-Perregaux Olma Urania Arbi International Butex Mido Kelek Roamer Glycine Americus Audax Huguenin Cartier Doxa Wakmann Smith Harvel Wig Wag Vulcain Tissot Framont Frey Tourneau Revue Hafis Nivada Monarch Coronet Ball Ogival Eska Semca Chopard Lemania Tavannes Enicar Schultz Weldon Altus Dugena Hayden Provita Timecraft Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Eterna Evans Zodiac Dunhill Arctus |
Nicolet Watch Borel Boucheron Univer Corum Continental Angelus Kurth Beltone Perpetual Watch Co. Faith Invicta Zentra Levrette Guinand Orfina Touchon Goering Standard Avalon Delbana Ekegren Lavina Germinal Bucherer Sperina Leonidas Fairfax Moriva Croton Hy. Moser & Cie Aramis P. Garnier Rolex Kingston Winton Hilton Alpha Rado Ace Acro Garland Weltall Tiffany Orator Longines Watex Vacheron Aristo Hallmark Westend Bulova Olympia A. Lange & Sohne Universal Warwick Elgin Marlys Niton Patek Philippe Rapid Rembrant Orvin Carlton Mars Jaeger Hermes Shield Baylor |
Hampden Laco Patria Baume & Mercier Trebex Movado Louis Crown Ulysse Nardin Excelsior Rolls Lorton Pabro Normandie Alavente Cortebert Certina Golay Helvetia Hydepark Juvenia Ultimor Arsa Cyma Kord Benrus Welsbro Ofair Lyceum Stowa Breguet Gruen Ardath LeCoultre Nicewatch Co. Concord Rulon Wyler Rocail Omega Alton Yale LePhare Regina Alsta Frodsham Exactus South Bend Louvig Hebdomas Daynite Roxy Glashutte Bovet Phillepe Watch Co. Titus Minerva Illinois Lusina Henda Octo Lucerne Rockford Mt. Vernon Lucien Piccard Berg |
Jardur Hever WhiteStar Newmark Driva Pronto Harwood Condal Buren Zenith Boulevard Kent Seth Thomas Parker Ollendorff Didisheim Felca Admes Duodial Breitling Tornex-Rayville Agassiz Electra Record Mar Nicolet Asprey Eberhard Gallet P. Buhre LIbela Lancel Van Cleef & Arpels Mappin Favre Leuba Cornavin Wittnauer Friedli Seeland Verno Harvard Dome Jules Jurgensen Opel Turler Gubelin Audemars Piguet Lang Uhr Unitas Haste Monte Rima Cawford Lip Central Bueche-Girod Harman Montbrilliant Mimo Kelton Sigma Helbros Sheffield Imperial J.E. Watch Co. |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Clark Sea Cliff Guardsman Flight I Aviator Baton Wellington Arlington Donavan Coronado Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Carlyle Sinclair Lee Drexel Crusade Wesleyan Harris Courier Chief Grover Steeldon Morton Streamlined Pimlico Annapolis Ascot Kensignton Seaview Mayfield Medalist Wembley stanley Turner Cameron Sloane New Yorker Wilson Vernon Gary Richmond Boone Carteret Viscount Norfolk Bentley Chieftan Avigo Wilkinson Tildon Arlington Hawthorne Chronomatic top hat Brockton Dante Dennis Robert Roberta Hayden Norman Myron Lakehurst Thinline Roland Barton Sea Scape Bailey Whitman Drake Webster Nelson Stormking Haddon Curvex Flint Ridge Glenn Curtis Tiger & Lady Rutledge Cordell Eternamatic Thor Chesterfield Eaton Citadel Gardner Consul ipso-vox Longacre Khyber Sentinal Ensign Reagan Drummond Nightingale Wesley Lyndon Essex Sea mate watson Adrian Black knight Prescott Stafford Garfield Winfield Kinematic Sea Breeze Landon Norton Barry Top Time Dodson Mate Sea Ranger |
Brandon Pierre Drew Finalist Heyward Chanticleer Meadowbrook Deauville Huntley Corvet Ardmore Precision Cranston Darrell Marcus Futura Samson Piping Rock Attache Parker B Carson Sidney Spur Baron Holden Glendale Bartley Centurion Newton Gladstone Taylor Thincraft Allison Montclair Dunhan Transcontinental A B Dorsey Lakeland Jolly Roger Cadet Kinematic Kirby Byrd Malcom Alan Langley Brooke Cross country Grant direct read Sea guard Valiant Raymon Golden Tempus II Windsor Powell Vernon Ward Ansley Airman Sawyer Courtney Kenilworth Gallahad Dexter Jeffrey Raleigh Croydon Bradford Spencer Seville Sheldon Grenadier B.W. Raymond Craig Brent Kirk Portia Peyton Spencer Gilman Sea Hawk Fulton Farrell Cullen Brock Whitney Boulton Surf Marquis strap Blackstone Livingston Chatham Errol The Athelete Tempus Frontenac Sutton Argyle Vincent Baronet Beau Brummel Merritt Berkshire Benton Oakley Varsity Oakmont Sea-cap Commander Oxford Bagley Enditcott Custer |
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