CRYSTALS:
Plastic crystal round or square for wrist or pocket watches (instaled): $25
Glass crystal round or square for wrist or pocket watches (instaled): $35
Plastic tension ring crystals for waterproof watches (instaled): $35
Plastic watch crystals for Rolex and other high grade watches with magnifying loupe (instaled): $55
Synthetic Sapphire crystals for Rolex (instaled): $125
Other brand signed crystals such as Omega (instaled): per estimate
SERVICE:
Service on mechanical wrist, pocket and pendant watches: includes taking the watch apart completely, cleaning every part individualy by hand/in ultrasonic cleaning machine or both, oiling & greasing it properly, testing it on a timing machine and testing it manually and adjusting and regulating it accordingly to achieve the best time accuracy possible, lightly polishing and cleaning the case, band and crystal and light cleaning of the dial and hands. Cases and bands are lightly polished and cleaned as not to remove any of the original plating. The hands and dial are cleaned as much as possible without removing any of the original finish. Plastic crystals are polished as much as possible and in most cases all scrathes are removed. Glass crystals are only cleaned (rust present on the movement, cases or hands and deeper scratches on cases or damage to cases cost more):
-Men's or ladies manual wind wristwatch:$45
-Men's or ladies selfwind/automatic wristwatches:$55
-High grade men's or ladies manual wind wristwatches (ex: Rolex, Patek, Piaget, LeCoultre, etc):$75-125
-High grade men's or ladies selfwind/automatic watches:$125-225
-Any average pocket watch:$55
-Any higher grade pocket watch (Railroad Grade in their timeperiod):$65
-Service on Grandmother, Grandfather or any other oversized clock:
-$75 if you bring it to our shop
-$125-$150 if we go to your location
-Service on Cuckoo clocks:$55-$75
-Service on most other clocks (Atmos-Ship Clocks, etc.):$55-$125-most simple clocks are $55
-Service on Bulova Accutron Tunning fork wristwatches (basic service is as described above with a few differences than mechanical watches and does include a new battery):$85-if the watch needs parts (such as coils, index wheel, etc.) it can reach up to $175
OTHER:
-Stem for wrist or pocket watches (installed):-$15-25
-Generic crown for wrist or pocket watches (installed):-$15-25
-Signed crown for high grade watches such as Rolex, Omega, etc:$40 and up-some signed crowns are cheaper (ex:Elgin,etc)
-Leather or metal bands any size, color or style, solid links or expansion:$15 and up. We also carry genuine exotic bands of aligator, crocodile, lizard (and more), plus longer sizes (for larger wrists), shorter sizes (for smaller wrists), waterproof leather bands, deployment claps bands and many others which cost more than $15
-Any watch or car key battery including instalation and setting of the time/date and other functions and oiling the watch if applicable (regular or lithium-tax only charge if paying via credit or debit card):-$5-we do this service on the spot in a matter of seconds or minutes for multiple watches. Most watches (Timex-Omega-Tag-Seiko-Citizen, etc) the price is the same. Very rarely on some of the Kinetic and Eco-Drive watches prices are more tha $5.
-Mainspring replaced on most watches:-$25-35
-Mainspring replaced on high grade watches:-$55-75
-Bow or sleeve for pocket watches: (installed)-$15
-Cleaning and polishing case crystal and band without doing any work on the movement:-$25
-Cleaning and polishing case crystal and band without doing any work on the movementfor (high grade watches):-$55-75-prices may be higher if case or band has deep gauges or scratches or an inscription needs to be removed.
-Repairing broken hinges, case covers, cases, lugs, etc: Per estimate only-We can do almost anything with most metals, gold, stainless, nickel, etc. We use only the very best and most experienced jewelers which we have done business with for over 20 years. Think of how you would feel having a broken lug replaced on your high grade watch for approximately $100. We can do it. Or we can also do conversions such as changimg a gold watch with a one piece integrated case and band (which dont fit on just any wristsize) into a watch with a case with lugs for which any band can be placed unto it while at the same time turning the old band into a band that can have pinbars inserted in case you ever want it back on the watch again.
-Refinishing watch dials to make like new again:
-$125 or less on average watches
-$125-175 on high grade watches, two-tones, chronograph, complications
-Replating a wristwatch or pocket watch case:$100
For replating a case or refinishing a dial I cannot say that you will not find cheaper because you will, but for the results and work we do you will not go wrong choosing us. We use outside services for dial refinishing and case replating but there is work involved. The key to a great replating job is proper preparation (which we do ourselves-buffing, polishing, stripping and cleaning). It is not as easy as one may think to remove movements out of a case and dials from movements. There is a before and after risk involved and there is an after testing that is involved. Like regulating a watch, a novice watch repairman or even a collector might think or say that the task is easy.
A real watchmaker knows the proper work involved if you want to do the work right (No wonder complete books were written on just regulating a watch-and people think its just moving the index back and forth from "f" to "s". But just consider the harm that can be done when not choosing the right watchmaker to do the complete job-scratching or breaking parts, case, hands, magnetizing movement, adding lint and tiny particles to the movement which will require servicing to get those out, loosing screws, and much more. In the past we have removed dials for customers and they send the dials out themselves for restoration and here is just one example of what happened:
A gentleman turned down a proper dial refinishing job for $60 (our total estimate), instead he choose to spend $25 for the dial refinishing by sending to the company of his choice, sent the dial back a second time for rework (first time was not done right), spent time and money with shipping and trips to the post office and then back to our shop so we can install the dial. When all done the dial was still in poor condition and he originally had a "Lord Elgin" that came back as an "Elgin Durapower". Plus we still charged a minimal fee for removing and replacing the dial and movement. Our dial refinishers and case replating company have been carefully sought out after years and years of trial and errors with others.
