Don Dahlberg
Familiar Face
- Messages
- 68
- Location
- Southcentral PA
The Elgin is an 18 size movement dating about 1895.
If you are looking for a watchmaker, go to http://www.nawcc.org/index.php/chapter-information/find-a-chapter-and-officers and click on your state. Look for a chapter of NAWCC near you and contact once of the officers listed. As them to recommend someone. Note that the club is made up of watch people and clock people. Sometime we do not speak to each other, so you may be referred to someone else who knows watches.
It is a great deal of work to overhaul a watch properly, so expect it to cost over $100 for an overhaul. In Pennsylvania we start at about $80 for a simple cleaning, but we usually find problems that require more work. If someone says they will do it for less, run, do not walk, out of the door.
Don Dahlberg
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) volunteer
If you are looking for a watchmaker, go to http://www.nawcc.org/index.php/chapter-information/find-a-chapter-and-officers and click on your state. Look for a chapter of NAWCC near you and contact once of the officers listed. As them to recommend someone. Note that the club is made up of watch people and clock people. Sometime we do not speak to each other, so you may be referred to someone else who knows watches.
It is a great deal of work to overhaul a watch properly, so expect it to cost over $100 for an overhaul. In Pennsylvania we start at about $80 for a simple cleaning, but we usually find problems that require more work. If someone says they will do it for less, run, do not walk, out of the door.
Don Dahlberg
National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) volunteer