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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American Waltham E. Howard and Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. National Watch Co. Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Hampden Watch Co. Ingersol Otay Watch Co. Waterbury Fitchburg Watch bo. Charles Fasoltd B.D. Bingham Hamilton Watch Co. Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Warren Manufacturing Co. New England Watch Co., Jacob Custer |
New York Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. E.F. Bowman Auburndale Watch Co. Bannatyne Watch Co. U.S. Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. American Repeating Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. Luther Goddard South Bend Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Seth Thomas Watch do. Washington Watch Co. Trenton Watch do. U.S Watch Co. Western Watch Co. Independent Watch Co. |
Adams & Perry Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. Peoria Watch co George Reed Benedict & Burham Appleton watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Thomas Harland Melrose Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. Wichita Watch Co. Aurora Watch Co. Herman Vod der Heydt Lancaster Watch Co. W.E. Harper Mosart 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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Seeland Helvetia Wyler Bulova Phillepe Watch Co. Girard-Perregaux Altus Sperina PiagetPreesent Montbrilliant Concord Condal Mappin Lucerne Octo Gruen Imperial Pronto Weltall Winton Roamer Fontainemelon Boulevard Vulcain Ace Acro WhiteStar Ardath Ulysse Nardin Harwood Carlton Germinal Driva National Timecraft Record Hallmark Nicewatch Co. Charles Nicolet South Bend Movado Geneve Seth Thomas Alton Opel Elgin Avalon Unitas Kingston Borel Boucheron Henda Welsbro LePhare Cortebert Huguenin Coronet Hayden Glashutte Orvin Patek Philippe Crown Exactus Lang Uhr Rolls Tiffany Olympia Tourneau Rapid Buren |
Mars Moriva Didisheim Lorton Watex Rembrant Asprey Louvig Framont Levrette Ofair Orfina Roxy Perfine Rotary Tavannes Regina Lucien Piccard Rocail Audax Parker Longines Breguet Nivada Benson Wig Wag Cornavin Friedli Wakmann Verno Eloga Patria Fairfax Leonidas Monte Revue Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Titus Croton Standard Hebdomas Ultimor Corum Faith Perpetual Watch Co. Semca Kurth Alsta Baylor Hermes Dome Aramis Rolex Bueche-Girod Nicolet Watch Niton Clebar Mt. Vernon Delbana Van Cleef & Arpels Newmark LeCoultre Shield Ekegren Harman Tissot Zenith |
Duodial Hilton Arsa Bovet Chopard Invicta Stowa Eberhard Hy. Moser & Cie Eska Wittnauer Cartier Guinand Omega Hamilton Garland Schultz Minerva Jaeger Harvard Continental Lemania Alpina Turler Harvel Emerson Baume & Mercier P. Buhre Arctus Zodiac Kord P. Garnier Felca Kent Gubelin Universal Jules Jurgensen Autdrist Louis LIbela Ogival Gallet Mido Vacheron Rulon Marlys Favre Leuba Lavina Juvenia J.E. Watch Co. Cyma Jardur Sigma Butex Frey Weldon Frodsham Americus Sheffield Rado Hafis Cawford Westend Golay Ball Daynite |
Ebel Angelus Laco Normandie Monarch Univer International Beltone Provita Lancel Admes Yale Grana Electra Benrus Agassiz A. Lange & Sohne Alavente Dugena Olma Lip Tornex-Rayville Excelsior Dunhill Enicar Rockford Goering Haste Alpha Audemars Piguet Certina Urania Kelbert Glycine Blancpain Warwick Mimo Lyceum Touchon Illinois Kelek Eterna Pabro Hever Mar Nicolet Doxa Central Smith Hydepark Evans Hampden Zentra Lusina Aristo Orator Trebex Ollendorff Helbros Arbi Kelton Bucherer Berg Breitling Rima |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Vincent Frontenac First Mate Cavalier Turner Yeoman Marshall Merritt Cedercrest Chevy Chase Accumatic Sea mate Derby Dorsey Nelson Langdon Norde Howard Reardon watson Byrd Perry Lambert Glendale Touraine Doublet Whitehall Baxter Sky Chief West Point Sea Scape Rodney Dean Sloane Vernon Garfield Malcom Baron Cullen Holden Spencer Cranston Whitford Tiger & Lady Major Allison Piping Rock Gilvert Blake Montclair Dennis Heyward Arlington Hawthorne Staunton Thor Richmond Talbot Milburn Mate ipso-vox Neil Eternamatic Dante Ashley Aqualine Scout Winfield Commodore Brent Larchmont Top Gun Haddon Lakehurst Pinehurst Lyndon Windsor Stanford Piccadilly Nightingale Boone Hudson Dawson Aldrich Champion Midas Enditcott Warwick Sea Breeze Wilshire Bartley Darrell Manhattan Medford Brandon Carlton Lee Prescott Glenn Curtis Randolph Whitney Livingston Craig Rolland Fischer Berkshire Adrian Bryn Mawr Amherst Edgemere Thin-o-matic Masterpiece Avigo Cameron Stuart |
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