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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Independent Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. National Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Otay Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Jacob Custer New York Watch Co. E.F. Bowman New England Watch Co., Western Watch Co. U.S Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Cornell Watch Co |
Washington Watch Co. Ingersol Peoria Watch co Warren Manufacturing Co. Thomas Harland Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Luther Goddard Nashua Watch Co. Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. W.E. Harper American Waltham Herman Vod der Heydt Trenton Watch do. Freeport Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Benedict & Burham Hampden Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. |
Illinois Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Charles Fasoltd American Waltham Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Newark Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. B.D. Bingham George Reed U.S. Watch Co. Waterbury E. Howard and Co. South Bend Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Adams & Perry Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Mosart Watch Co. Lancaster Watch Co. D.D. PalmerRemont 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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Arctus Huguenin Audemars Piguet Continental Ebel Ace Acro Semca Wittnauer Lorton Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Orvin Asprey Fontainemelon Hilton Audax Weldon Frodsham Carlton Regina Baylor Chopard Ogival Lavina Turler Ardath Roamer Nivada Lancel Perfine Charles Nicolet Bueche-Girod Van Cleef & Arpels Patek Philippe Borel Boucheron LIbela Seth Thomas Glycine Lyceum Arsa Exactus Kent Lip Hampden Cawford Central Louis Germinal Tornex-Rayville Olympia Corum Faith Longines Tissot Guinand Benrus LeCoultre Trebex Schultz Gallet Kelton Kelek Yale Jaeger Niton Rulon Touchon Alsta Harman |
Didisheim Coronet Rado Crown Mt. Vernon Ultimor Mar Nicolet Buren Rotary Pabro Gubelin Alpha Avalon Harwood Nicewatch Co. Mido Agassiz PiagetPreesent Lucerne Juvenia Roxy National Hayden Cyma Harvel Ekegren Aristo Henda Tavannes Rockford A. Lange & Sohne Winton Framont Hydepark Enicar Certina Levrette Bovet Timecraft J.E. Watch Co. Kord Hebdomas Univer Ulysse Nardin Weltall Hallmark Benson Pronto Minerva Kingston Rembrant Goering Concord Driva Bulova Parker Warwick South Bend Monte Felca Evans Patria Autdrist Illinois P. Buhre Excelsior Dome |
Lemania Rolls Haste Kelbert Opel Delbana Normandie Dugena Moriva Smith Duodial Hamilton Orfina Imperial Monarch Olma Invicta Bucherer Universal Orator Eterna Lucien Piccard Cortebert Titus Alpina Kurth Watex Perpetual Watch Co. Jardur Phillepe Watch Co. Lang Uhr Elgin Rocail Vulcain Hermes Cartier Verno Zenith Alavente Lusina Blancpain Croton Cornavin Eska Vacheron Seeland Zentra Westend Rolex Record Newmark Montbrilliant Altus Alton Electra WhiteStar Wig Wag Favre Leuba Glashutte Sheffield Americus Mars Wakmann Sigma Frey Rima |
Hever Movado Welsbro Berg Wyler Laco Shield Golay Arbi Doxa Emerson Helvetia Helbros Provita Angelus Baume & Mercier Fairfax Grana Zodiac Boulevard Hy. Moser & Cie Mimo Nicolet Watch Garland Daynite Breitling Tiffany Condal Rapid Ollendorff Hafis Ball Sperina P. Garnier Friedli Clebar Ofair Eberhard Omega Girard-Perregaux Breguet Beltone Leonidas Standard Unitas Louvig Tourneau Gruen Aramis Revue Harvard Eloga Dunhill Geneve Octo Stowa Jules Jurgensen Admes LePhare International Urania Marlys Mappin Butex |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Rodney Newton Carteret Wilson Sheryll Wayne Sidney The Chief's Drummond Windsor Veri-thin Bartley B.W. Raymond Beau Royal the Curtis Fleetwood Custer Annapolis Calvin Blake Steeldon Lester Trent Wesleyan Dean Commander Curvex Jason Chatham Fulton Cadet Blade Briarcliffe Guardsman Barton Kinematic Kirby Richmond Donavan Mayfield Ashley Oxford Lindsay Holden Seaview Carlton Orson Sea guard Gold knight Cullen Samson Varsity Wellington Livingston Chieftan Halesworth B Coburn Norman Staunton Essex Drexel Putnam Lowell Ensign Avigo Landon Heyward Sea Hawk Valiant Clinton Sherwood Rutgers Langford Cedric Clyde Deauville Lakehurst Brockton Gladstone Portia Manhattan Romanesquen Ross Gramercy Lord Lancaster Oval Meadowbrook Bentley Rolland Fischer Peyton ipso-vox Secron Champion Dartmouth Warwick Scout Sea mate Cavalier Norfolk Ensign Linwood Glenn Robert Roberta Lincrest Montclair Ascot Sentinal Kevin Sea Scout Sea Skip Brewster Andover Flint Ridge Sawyer |
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