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Antique Swiss and American mechanical watch repair specialists since 1987


Thank you for visiting my vintage and antique watch repair site. Most visitors are here because they own an heirloom "family watch" and want to learn more about it's potential of being serviced and repaired. Most inherited mechanical watches were made in an era where the science of perfecting dependable timekeeping forced industry competition. The resulting jeweled watches are amazing and comparable to any science achievement in man's history. I encourage you to click through my antique watch repair site and learn more about my guaranteed mechanical watch services and welcome you to contact me.




I supply both watch parts to the watchmaker AND watch restoration services. Please read my website and contact me with any questions.

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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:
Trenton Watch do.
Peoria Watch co
J.P.Stevens Watch Co.
James & Henry Pitkin
Washington Watch Co.
Wichita Watch Co.
American Repeating Watch Co.
U.S Watch Co.
Warren Manufacturing Co.
Appleton watch Co.
Charles Fasoltd
Rock Island Watch Co.
D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co.
South Bend Watch Co.
National Watch Co.
Jacob Custer
George Reed
Adams & Perry Watch Co.
Potter Albert Watch Co.
Appleton, Tracy & Co.
Independent Watch Co.
Melrose Watch Co.
Waterbury
Benedict & Burham
Watch Co.
Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham
Rockford Watch Co.
Ball Watch Co.
Otay Watch Co.
Columbus Watch Co.
Mosart Watch Co.
Manhatten Watch Co.
New England Watch Co.,
W.E. Harper
Aurora Watch Co.
Auburndale Watch Co.
Lancaster Watch Co.
American Waltham
Cheshire Watch Co.
U.S. Watch Co.
B.D. Bingham
Newark Watch Co.
American Waltham Watch Co.
Herman Vod der Heydt
Boston Watch Co.
Thomas Harland
Illinois Watch Co.
Cornell Watch Co
Western Watch Co.
Fitchburg Watch bo.
E. Howard and Co.
Luther Goddard
E.F. Bowman
South Bend Watch Co.
Ingersol
Nashua Watch Co.
New York Watch Co.
Hampden Watch Co.
Seth Thomas Watch do.
Freeport Watch Co.
Hamilton Watch Co.
Bannatyne 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:
Gruen
Lyceum
Dunhill
Excelsior
Hamilton
Huguenin
Ball
Patek Philippe
Parker
Universal
Leonidas
Beltone
Geneve
Lemania
Olympia
Rado
Hilton
Monarch
Longines
Kelek
Rima
Olma
Winton
Mars
Benson
Fairfax
Fontainemelon
LeCoultre
Helvetia
Harman
Bovet
A. Lange & Sohne
Lucien Piccard
Invicta
Wittnauer
Ebel
Lorton
Nivada
Alsta
Hayden
Ogival
Yale
Trebex
Bueche-Girod
Verno
Mappin
Henda
Mt. Vernon
Hever
WhiteStar
Laco
Mimo
Patria
Arsa
Westend
Eterna
Kent
Dugena
Autdrist
Pronto
Eloga
Rotary
Perpetual Watch Co.
P. Buhre
Movado
Audemars Piguet
Chopard
Frey
Agassiz
Louvig
Schultz
Breitling
Hafis
Bulova
Admes
Minerva
Dome
Arctus
LePhare
Ultimor
Stowa
Central
Lancel
Wyler
Roxy
Newmark
Weltall
Carlton
Roamer
Cyma
Rembrant
Levrette
LIbela
Concord
Rockford
Goering
Harvel
PiagetPreesent
Regina
Certina
Blancpain
Cawford
Turler
Lavina
Framont
Americus
Orfina
Timecraft
Coronet
Elgin
Lang Uhr
South Bend
Octo
Gubelin
Nicewatch Co.
Ace Acro
Lusina
Garland
Glycine
Tourneau
Rulon
Golay
Felca
Rolls
Standard
Normandie
Buren
Jardur
Touchon
Rolex
Eska
Unitas
Glashutte
Emerson
Audax
Revue
Hermes
Illinois
Exactus
Jaeger
Continental
Perfine
Daynite
Baume & Mercier
Jules Jurgensen
Seeland
Evans
Clebar
Tavannes
Sigma
Provita
Faith
Asprey
Kelbert
Sheffield
Wakmann
Butex
Favre Leuba
Tornex-Rayville
Kord
Moriva
Ulysse Nardin
Uhrenfabrik Glashutte
Shield
Frodsham
Boulevard
Harvard
Cartier
Orvin
Benrus
Electra
Bucherer
Hallmark
Kurth
Alpha
Tiffany
Welsbro
Crown
Doxa
Vulcain
Zodiac
International
Grana
Girard-Perregaux
Delbana
Alton
Wig Wag
Altus
Record
Seth Thomas
Arbi
Smith
Ekegren
Lucerne
Hebdomas
Louis
Sperina
Haste
Phillepe Watch Co.
Vacheron
Ardath
National
Baylor
Watex
Urania
Lip
Duodial
Van Cleef & Arpels
Niton
Didisheim
Breguet
Nicolet Watch
Corum
Gallet
Borel Boucheron
Croton
Tissot
Semca
Hydepark
Avalon
Pabro
Driva
Eberhard
Alpina
Mar Nicolet
Cornavin
Berg
Germinal
P. Garnier
Charles Nicolet
Titus
Zenith
Kingston
Ofair
Kelton
Guinand
J.E. Watch Co.
Hy. Moser & Cie
Orator
Weldon
Rocail
Rapid
Harwood
Enicar
Univer
Juvenia
Warwick
Omega
Marlys
Aristo
Helbros
Zentra
Angelus
Aramis
Condal
Imperial
Ollendorff
Alavente
Hampden
Monte
Cortebert
Mido
Montbrilliant
Opel
Friedli


Models of watches that we repair:
Secron
Caroline
Black knight
Newton
Farrell
Carl
Sea guard
Byrd
Sinclair
Precision
Blair
Gilvert
Kinematic Kirby
Dyson
Bowman
Seville Sheldon
Jason
Powell
Cordell
Glendon
Diamond
Centurion
Dewitt
New Yorker
Neil
Fleetwood
Bartley
Croydon
Sea Ranger
Andrews
Haddon
Drummond
Fulton
Whitney
Mate
Brewster
Thin-o-matic Masterpiece
Donavan
Grant
Turner
Gardner
Garfield
Mermaid Blue Angel Golden Knights
Annapolis
Piping Rock
Otis
Captain Rice
Ensign
Lester
Lyndon
Sawyer
Accumatic
Hastings
Wayne
Molly Stark
Norman
Ashley
Lee
Dawson
Gladstone
Essex
Lakehurst
Glenn Curtis
Aqua Lung
Arlington Hawthorne
Thor
Wesley
Wilshire
Sinclair
Carlisle
Citadel
Norde
Carson
Pinehurst
Gold knight
Yorktown
Linwood
Chanticleer
Dennis
Tempus
Clearview
Arlington
Blackstone
Derby
Wilson
West Point
Marquis strap
Sea mate
Dunhan
Hartman
Pacermatic
Carteret
Coronado
Alan
Doublet
Montclair
Kinematic
B.W. Raymond
Prescott
Vernon
Vincent
Keith
Steeldon
Crusade
Calvin
Greenwich
Tildon
Morton
Gary
Futura
Stafford
Chadwick
William Osler
Cabot
Guardsman
Khyber
Thinline
Mount Vernon
Huntley
Seaview
Tiger & Lady
Veri-thin
Lindsay
Paxton
Sea Cliff
Collegian
Conway
Blade
Bianca
Aviator
Foster
Chatham
Drew
Staunton
Lambert
Allison
Whitehall
Curtis
Barton
Franklion
Yeoman
Rolland Fischer
Thincraft
Grover
Windsor
Langdon
Brandon
Whitford
Boyd
Sloane
Corvet
Cross country
Dwight
Sir Echo
Harris
Norton
Eric
Eaton
Maxine
Winfield
Wakefield
Wesleyan
Culver
Baronet Beau Brummel
Milburn
Tuxedo
Raleigh
dunkirk
Heyward
Yorktown
Piccadilly
Edgewater
Seabrook
Oakley
Oval
Merritt
Top Time
Scott
Elliot Emery
Bostonian
Attache
Spur
Aldrich
Ramsey
Parker B
Dartmouth
Varsity
Blake
Deauville
Dexter
Gilman
Oakmont
Windsor
Samson
Minu-stop
direct read
Adjutant
Russell
Maritza
Mason
Nelson
Berkshire
Finalist
ipso-vox
Ensign
Vernon
Airflight
Donald
Enditcott
Sheryll
Perry
Medford
Baton
Romanesquen Ross
Linden Hall
Clark
Colby
Cranston
Ascot
Sea-glo
Cyril
Stuart
Lance
Drake
Richmond
Baron
Bryn Mawr
Todd
Myron
Taylor
Adrian
Beldon
Glenn
Streamlined
Reardon
Halesworth B
Dorsey
Portia
Milton
Holden
Top Gun
Sea Scout Sea Skip
Marcus
Coburn
Orson
Consul
Jolly Roger
Guardsman
Transcontinental A B
Lakeland
Medalist Wembley
President Antique
Courtney
Clyde
Aqualine
Dean
Chieftan
Peyton
Kirk
Briarcliffe
Talbot
Newlin
Stadium
Boulton
Fleetwood
Tyron Vardon
Black Star
Lowell
Champion
Boone
Stanford
Bailey
Commander
Lyle B
Grafic Deluxe
Austin
Reagan
Sea Breeze
Longacre
Kensignton
Flint Ridge
Lord Lancaster
Sherwood
Pierre
Sutton
the Curtis
Ward
Bentley
Radburn
Robert Roberta
Winthrop
Edgemere
Morley
Chesterfield
Bradford
Raymon
Jeffrey
Wilkinson
Martin
Nightingale
Golden Tempus II
Chronomatic top hat
Barry
Commodore
Lone Eagle
Ericsson Emerson
Amherst
Cavalier
Viking
First Mate
Crispin
Grenadier
Lawrence
Touraine
Rutledge
Frontenac
Ardsley
Sky Chief
Kevin
Sentinal
Judson
Ristflo
Lincrest
Marshall
Scout
Cedric
Brock
Roland
Wellington
Sea Rover
Prentice
Malcom
Sea Scape
Howard
Cameron
Viscount
Chatham
Ryan
Casino
Boatswain
Ambassador
Keane
Rutgers
Quadron
Arnold
Sea Hawk
Oxford
watson
The Governor
Courier
Argyle
Darrell
Flight II
Sea-cap
Chapman
Carlton
Webster
Gulfport
Raleigh
Langford
Custer
Putnam
Dante
Ardmore
The Chief's
Landon
Pimlico
Dickens
Senator
Cambridge
Gyromatic
Mayfield
Curvex
stanley
Hayden
Meadowbrook
Brent
Gramercy
Trooper
Errol
Benton
Murray
Livingston
Craig
Surf
Barbizon
Hudson
Majesty
Sidney
Spencer
Stanford
Trudy Spur
Contour
Chief
Glendale
Monaco
Trent
Sea-crest
Baxter
Midas
Randolph
Adonis
Cullen
Langley
Brooke
Drexel
Spencer
Beau Royal
Brockton
Golden Tempus
Norfolk
Andover
Edgewood
Flight I
Thornton
Cadet
Secometer Sedgman
Carlyle
The Athelete
Avigo
Gordon
Rodney
Dodson
Warwick
Kenilworth Gallahad
Valiant
Dixon
Stormking
Bagley
Ansley
Airman
Cedercrest Chevy Chase
Clinton
Manhattan
Whitman
Larchmont
Major
Norman
Eternamatic
Paige
...


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