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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Thomas Harland Charles Fasoltd E. Howard and Co. U.S. Watch Co. American Waltham Watch Co. Warren Manufacturing Co. Lancaster Watch Co. Freeport Watch Co. Western Watch Co. George Reed American Waltham Trenton Watch do. Aurora Watch Co. Hamilton Watch Co. B.D. Bingham W.E. Harper Non-Magnetic Watch Co.E. Ingraham Otay Watch Co. James & Henry Pitkin Waterbury D.D. PalmerRemont Watch Co. |
American Repeating Watch Co. Boston Watch Co. Manhatten Watch Co. Newark Watch Co. Cornell Watch Co U.S Watch Co. Fitchburg Watch bo. Peoria Watch co Adams & Perry Watch Co. Nashua Watch Co. Ball Watch Co. Rockford Watch Co. National Watch Co. Luther Goddard Herman Vod der Heydt Wichita Watch Co. Seth Thomas Watch do. Bannatyne Watch Co. South Bend Watch Co. Appleton watch Co. Benedict & Burham |
E.F. Bowman South Bend Watch Co. Jacob Custer Independent Watch Co. Melrose Watch Co. Ingersol Watch Co. J.P.Stevens Watch Co. Illinois Watch Co. Appleton, Tracy & Co. Mosart Watch Co. Auburndale Watch Co. Cheshire Watch Co. Rock Island Watch Co. Columbus Watch Co. Potter Albert Watch Co. New York Watch Co. New England Watch Co., Hampden Watch Co. Washington 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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Driva Van Cleef & Arpels Ulysse Nardin Zenith Alpina Didisheim Concord Nivada Timecraft Germinal Boulevard LIbela Cortebert Baume & Mercier P. Buhre Chopard Arctus Doxa Gallet Clebar Urania Benrus Jaeger Girard-Perregaux Certina Mars Kent Stowa PiagetPreesent International Henda Blancpain Touchon Charles Nicolet Moriva Buren Rolls Ekegren Shield Weltall Audemars Piguet Hayden Orfina Tissot Coronet Alsta Angelus Verno Jardur Lemania Carlton Vulcain Ogival Nicolet Watch Delbana Wakmann Eterna Monte Geneve Kingston Seth Thomas Tiffany Ardath Rulon Turler Exactus A. Lange & Sohne Wig Wag |
Bovet Asprey Titus Ultimor Croton Leonidas Gruen Lyceum Aramis Tavannes Uhrenfabrik Glashutte Lancel Hilton Pabro Record Winton Rotary Mt. Vernon Semca Wyler Breguet Roamer Louvig Rockford Harwood Tourneau Invicta Central LePhare Hebdomas Arbi Dome Admes Monarch Hallmark Perfine Lucerne Seeland Cartier Breitling LeCoultre Louis Hafis Haste Warwick Illinois Friedli Aristo Welsbro Cyma Elgin Phillepe Watch Co. Frodsham Lang Uhr Levrette Watex Olympia Lusina Parker Bucherer WhiteStar Olma Longines Rapid Guinand Normandie Ollendorff |
Dugena Autdrist Fairfax Bulova Borel Boucheron Framont Rocail Daynite Goering Orator Roxy Vacheron Zentra Trebex Eberhard Eska Wittnauer Marlys Helbros Harvel Provita Minerva Hy. Moser & Cie Ace Acro Zodiac Agassiz Gubelin Benson Favre Leuba Standard Opel Sheffield Enicar Alavente Alton Americus Movado Dunhill Ofair Kelbert J.E. Watch Co. Omega Niton Westend Yale Condal Harman Lavina Jules Jurgensen Alpha Lorton Nicewatch Co. Sperina Audax Montbrilliant Crown Glycine Universal Patek Philippe Mar Nicolet Mappin Octo Hermes Kurth Electra Fontainemelon |
Lip Lucien Piccard Revue Altus Pronto Mimo Beltone Kelton Faith Bueche-Girod Harvard Regina Butex Rima Ball Arsa Evans Perpetual Watch Co. Kord Baylor Golay Excelsior Hydepark Weldon Cornavin P. Garnier Patria Berg Newmark Avalon Garland Imperial Rado Smith Emerson Univer Schultz Laco Eloga Sigma Helvetia Duodial Rembrant Corum Cawford Hever Ebel Continental Hamilton Kelek Orvin Hampden Juvenia Felca Frey Unitas Huguenin Rolex South Bend National Glashutte Tornex-Rayville Grana Mido |
Models of watches that we repair:
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Langley Blackstone Chesterfield Doublet Sir Echo Portia Thinline Ward Edgemere Boyd Raleigh Sea-cap Dwight Trooper Sea Ranger Livingston Sinclair Bryn Mawr Airflight Benton Mount Vernon Spur Dante Errol Drake Larchmont Sea Rover Touraine Scott Myron Caroline Cedercrest Chevy Chase Carson Chief Wilson Carl Ambassador watson Airman Sidney Gordon Sutton Pacermatic Lee Elliot Emery Flight I Radburn Dodson Pimlico Aldrich Farrell Aviator Golden Tempus II Eric Blade Tuxedo Ericsson Emerson Keith Brewster the Curtis Gilvert Thor Samson Donald Amherst Malcom Barton Midas Dean Alan Judson Windsor Paige Turner Drummond Murray Flight II Talbot Linwood Steeldon Black Star Arlington Wesleyan Kenilworth Gallahad Todd Garfield Piccadilly Dewitt Cedric Valiant Yorktown The Athelete Trudy Spur Robert Roberta Guardsman Deauville Captain Rice Donavan Wilshire Surf Webster Allison Chieftan Kirk Veri-thin Cavalier Eternamatic Gary Gold knight Rutgers Cross country |
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