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Watchmaking is a highly skilled profession and requires years of training and experience to become proficient. Call Angelo Barone today for all of your watch repair needs The office is located at 92 State Street in the heart of the Boston Financial District, just one block to the world famous Faneuil Hall Marketplace , Italian North End, + Newbury Street Back Bay, Charles Street Beacon Hill, Harvard Square Cambridge, Newton Brookline Weston Natick Wellesley Belmont Arlington Lexington Bedford & Winchester
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A mechanical watch is a watch that uses a non-electric mechanism to measure the passage of time. They are driven by a spring (called a mainspring) which must be wound periodically, and releases the energy to turn the clock's wheels as it unwinds. They keep time with a balance wheel, which oscillates back and forth at a constant rate, and make a 'ticking' sound when operating. Mechanical watches evolved in the 1600s from spring powered clocks, which appeared in the 1400s.
Mechanical watches are not as accurate as modern quartz watches and are generally more expensive. They are now kept more for their aesthetic qualities and as jewelry than for their timekeeping ability.

All mechanical watches have these five parts:
A mainspring that stores mechanical energy to power the watch.
A balance wheel which oscillates back and forth. Each swing of the balance wheel takes precisely the same amount of time. This is the timekeeping element in the watch.
An escapement mechanism which has the dual function of keeping the balance wheel vibrating by giving it precisely timed pushes, and allowing the clock's gears to advance or 'escape' by a set amount with every swing of the balance wheel. It is this part that makes the watch's characteristic 'ticking' sound.
A gear train, which has the dual function of transmitting the force of the mainspring to the balance wheel, and adding up the pulses of the balance wheel to get units of seconds, minutes and hours, etc. A separate part of the gear train winds the mainspring and enables the hands to be moved to set the watch.
An indicating dial or face to display the time in human-readable form.
Additional functions on a watch besides the basic timekeeping ones are traditionally called complications. Mechanical watches may have these complications:
Automatic winding or self-winding - in order to relieve the need to wind the watch, this device winds the watch's mainspring automatically using the natural motions of the wrist, with a rotating weight mechanism.
Day and Date display.
Chronograph - This is a watch with additional stopwatch functions. Buttons on the case start and stop the second hand and reset it to zero, and usually several subdials display the elapsed time in larger units.
Hacking feature - found on military watches, this is a mechanism that stops the second hand while the watch is being set. This enables watches to be synchronized to the precise second.
Moon phase dial - shows the phase of the moon with a moon face on a rotating disk.
Wind or power reserve indicator - mostly found on automatic watches, this is a subdial that shows how much power is left in the mainspring, usually in terms of hours left to run.
Repeater - this is a watch that chimes the hours audibly at the press of a button. This rare complication was used before artificial lighting to check what time it was in the dark.
Tourbillon - the 'queen of complications', this was originally designed to make the watch more accurate. In an ordinary watch the balance wheel oscillates at different rates when the watch is in different positions, causing inaccuracy. So in a tourbillon, the balance wheel is mounted in a rotating cage so it will experience all positions equally. The mechanism is usually exposed on the face to show it off.

more history...Mechanical watches were very popular back from early on, especially from around 1760, when the chronometer was created by John Harrison, and therefore "perfecting" the movement of the watch industry. Watches from the early 1500s to the early 1800s featured the chain-driven fusee movement, which was the only means for substitution of a mainspring format back in the time. The fusees were very brittle, were very easy to break, and often featured many, many problems, especially inaccuracy of timekeeping when the fusee chain became loose or lost its velocity after the lack of maintenance.
Mainsprings began to become popular as technological stepping stones improved, and newer designs came to place in the industry, perfecting the movement of a typical mechanical watch. With the new mainspring, the fusee maintenance and chain-loosening problems were now gone, a mainspring-operated watch does not have to be serviced as much as the fusee, and also other time-keeping problems were solved with the evolution of the Mainspring. Mainspring watches were most popular from the 1850s to the 1970s before the evolution of the Quartz Digital operation method came into place.
Basically three types of escapements have been industrially used: "lever", "pin-lever", and "Roskopf", latter invented by Georges Frederic Roskopf for cheaper watches.
As manual-wound mechanical watches became less popular and less favored in the 1960s, watch design and industrialists came out with the Automatic Watch Movement. Whereas a mechanically-wound watch must be wound with the pendant or a levered setting, an Automatic watch does not require to be wound by the pendant, but by simply shaking the watch winds the watch automatically. The interior of an Automatic Watch houses a swivelling metal or brass "plate", that swivels on its axes when the watch is shaken horizontally. An Automatic watch may come in handy if you do not want to constantly wind a watch manually, because it simply winds itself from its position on your wrist or your arm.
But since the mainspring does not have an even power output from low wound to fully wound sequences, several solutions were tried to rectify this problem. Such as the chain and fusee (the barrel for the mainspring has a chain attached to one end which then on the other end is fixed to the fusee) were used to correct the power output. This evens the power from the mainspring out to some degree.

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• Hamilton model 21 & 22 ships chronometer • Hamilton world war two deck watch model 22 • Hamilton 21 & 23 jewel railroad pocket watch repair & sales • Illinois 60 hour power reserve bunn special pocket watch repair A Perfect Timing watchmaker and watch repair and sales Angelo Barone 92 State Street ... thank you Angelo Barone 617 523 4101 owner watchmaker Location: cape cod nantucket
A Perfect Timing is the best store in boston for vintage rolex watch repair and sales. Rolex is a trademark of Rolex USA and A Perfect Timing is not connected with Rolex USA in any way. All Rolex watches sold are pre-owned & any Rolex warranty does not apply.


A Perfect Timing Wacth Repair @ 92 State Street Boston is not connected with Rolex
in any way

All Rolex Watches are 100% genuine

any and all Rolex warranty does not apply


for sale - mens rolex submariner - $3,550 - sapphire crystal with date

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a brief history of the waltham, hamilton & illinois watch companies





The Hamilton Watch Company was established when the Keystone Standard Watch Company was forced into bankruptcy and sold at a sheriff's sale to a group of Lancaster, Pennsylvania entrepreneurs whose "objective was to build only watches of the highest quality." During this same year, a merger took place between the newly established Lancaster based watchmaking concern and the Aurora Watch Company of Illinois. A decision was made to name the new company after James Hamilton, owner of a large tract of land which was granted to him from William Penn and included what is now the city of Lancaster. The new company would be known as The Hamilton Watch Company. [1] Hamilton Watch Company was housed on a thirteen acre complex in Lancaster. Hamilton eventually took possession of 'Aurora's' machinery shortly after incorporation. With quality being Hamilton's primary goal, the company set out to manufacture "America’s Finest Watch." The first watch made under the Hamilton name was an 18-size 17-jewel pocket watch in 1893. Within the next six years, Hamilton had developed a reputation for creating pocket watches of the highest caliber of quality. During Hamilton's first fifteen years, only two size movements were produced - the 18-size and the smaller 16-size. [2] Its first series of pocket watches, the Broadway Limited, was known as the "Watch of Railroad Accuracy," and Hamilton became popular by making accurate railroad watches. Hamilton introduced its first wristwatch in 1917. This watch was designed to appeal to men entering World War I and contained the 0-sized 17-jewel 983 movement originally designed for women's pendent watches. The introduction of the 0-sized wristwatch was the start of a line of wristwatches that included some of the finest American wristwatches made. In 1928 Hamilton purchased the Illinois Watch Company. Some of the most collectible early Hamilton wristwatches include: The Oval, The Tonneau, The Rectangular, The Square Enamel, The Coronado, The Piping Rock, The Spur, The Glendale, The Pinehurst, The Langley, The Byrd, The Cambridge, and The Flintridge. Many models came in solid gold and gold filled cases. During World War II, production of consumer watches was stopped, with all watches manufactured being shipped to troops. More than one-million watches were sent overseas. The company was extremely successful in producing marine chronometers and deck watches in large numbers to fill the needs of the US Navy. This achievement was a milestone in industrial history and represents the only time a true precision timekeeper was produced on a mass production scale. In 1951, Hamilton rebuffed a hostile takeover bid by the Benrus watch company. The fallout from the failed takeover action culminated in Hamilton Watch Co. v. Benrus Watch Co (206 F.2d 738, 740 (2d Cir. 1953), a Federal proceeding that is considered to be landmark in the realm of Federal anti-trust case law.
In 1957, Hamilton introduced the world's first battery-powered watch, the Hamilton Electric 500.
History In 1850, Roxbury, Massachusetts, David Davis, Edward Howard and Aaron Lufkin Dennison formed together the company that would later become the Waltham Watch Company. The revolutionary business plan was to manufacture the movement parts so precisely that they would become fully interchangeable. Based upon the experience of earlier failed trials, Howard and Dennison would eventually perfect and patent their precision watch making machines and create the American System of Watch Manufacturing. [edit]American Horologe Company In 1851, the company took the name American Horologe Co. and production started in the new factory building. Late 1852, the first watches were complete. The first 17 watches, marked "The Warren Mfg Co" were distributed among company officials. Number 18 to 100 were named "Warren Boston" and the following 800 "Samuel Curtis". A few, marked "Fellows & Schell", sold for $40. January 1853 saw the introduction of the "P.S. Bartlett" watch. [edit]Boston Watch Company The company was renamed Boston Watch Co. in September 1853. A new factory was built in Waltham, Massachusetts, on the banks of the Charles River, which grew over the years to its present size. In October 1854 the company moved into the new factory. The next movements manufactured (1001-5000) were marked "Dennison, Howard, & Davis", "P.S.Bartlett", and "C.T. Parker". The company had financial difficulties and Edward Howard left to form E. Howard & Co.. [edit]Appleton Tracy & Company Upon bankruptcy, the company was sold at auction to Royal E. Robbins, who reorganized it under the new name Appleton Tracy & Co. (ATCo) in May 1857. Bearing this name, the next movements produced, Waltham Model 1857 was the 1st pocket watch produced in America of standard parts. Serial numbers 5001 to 14,000. The "C.T. Parker" was introduced as the 1857 model. 399 units were made. Also 598 chronometers were manufactured. [edit]American Watch Company The Waltham Improvement Co. merged in January 1859 with the Appleton, Tracy & Co. forming the American Watch Co. (AWCo). In 1860, as President Abraham Lincoln was elected, the country was in Civil War. Production ground to a halt. However, the company decided to downsize to the lowest possible level to keep the factory open. It worked: Upon his Gettysburg Address, President Lincoln became the proud owner of a Waltham watch: Model 1857, grade "Wm. Ellery", serial number no 67613. Waltham became the main supplier of Railroad chronometers to the various railroads in North America and in as many as 52 other countries of the world. In 1876, Waltham disclosed the first automatic screw making machinery and obtained the first Gold Medal in a watch precision contest at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. Not only the American Horology but also the world owes much to the early members of the Waltham Watch entity, such as Bacon, Church, Dennison, Fogg, H. Marsh, Webster and Woerd for their technical inventions and developments. [edit]American Waltham Watch Company In 1885, after 26 years, the company name changed to American Waltham Watch Co. (AWWCo) where it was to remain for the next 32 years. Most widely known under this name, the company would produce some of the finest examples of pocket watches ever created. [edit]Waltham Watch Company In 1907 the name changed to Waltham Watch Co. (WWCo), in 1923 briefly to Waltham Watch and Clock Company and finally in 1925 to Waltham Watch Company (WWC). Two high-quality groups of watches were produced by Waltham as direct result of orders placed by the Canadian Pacific Railway. One large group has the shield and beaver emblem of the Railway engraved on the movements, and is known as the "CPR" type. The second group has "Canadian Railway Time Service" engraved on the movements, and is known as the "CRTS" type. They are both highly prized by collectors. In U.S.A., the manufacturing of Waltham watches and watch parts ended in 1957. Production was transferred to Switzerland, to Waltham International SA, a company established for this purpose in 1954 by the US parent company. However, specialized clocks and chronographs for use in aircraft control panels continued to be made in the Waltham factory under the name of Waltham Precision Instruments Company until the company was sold in 1994. The company is now based in Alabama as the Waltham Aircraft Clock Corporation. [edit]Waltham International SA The Waltham Watch Company went out of business in 1957, but had founded a subsidiary in Switzerland in 1954, Waltham International SA, which now produces Waltham Swiss made luxury watches as a full-fledged member of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH. [edit]US Business The United States business of Waltham is now owned by MZ Berger and Company http://www.mzb.com
The Illinois Watch Company was founded on December 23, 1870, in Springfield, Illinois by J.C. Adams, John W. Bunn and various financiers. Twenty years later, Jacob Bunn, Jr. took over and ran the company until his death in 1926. The family name was used in their most famous railroad watch, the Illinois "Bunn Special". The passing of Bunn, Jr. threw Illinois Watch into disarray. In 1928, the company was purchased by the Hamilton Watch Company of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, which continued to operate the factory under the Illinois name and shifted the emphasis from pocket to wrist watch production. By 1932, the Great Depression forced Hamilton to close the Illinois factory, though they retained possession of the brand name. [edit]Wristwatches Illinois Watch Company had four basic "periods" of wrist watch production. The first period was from the 1910s to the early 1920s, during which most wrist watches were converted pocketwatch movements. Gent's military and military-style specimens were made, often featuring porcelain dials. The second period -- from the early to mid 1920s -- included movements and dials which were sold to be cased by individual jewelers. These were mostly small 6/0-size movements with 6:00 or 9:00 subsidiary seconds. Some were also cased at the factory using generic cases from a variety of sources. Some of the better-known models from that latter category include the Square, Canby, Square Cut Corner, Cushion, and Whippet. Also, larger 3/0-size movements were cased at the factory in this way -- the Champion, Special, Ace/Maxine, and Atlantic, for example. In the late 1920s, shortly before the Hamilton Watch Company took over, Illinois began commissioning its own unique wrist watch cases. The company cased and boxed its watches at the factory, marking the beginning of what many collectors consider the company's golden era, during which the finest watches were made. Models include the Picadilly, Marquis, Chieftain, Ritz, New Yorker and Manhattan (the New Yorker came with a leather strap, the Manhattan with a metal one), the Beau series (Beau Monde, Beau Geste, Beau Brummel, and Beau Royale), the Mate, and the top of the line 14-karat solid gold Consul. Many collectors consider The Consul to be the finest American wrist watch ever made -- examples with original silver pinstripe dials, starburst dials, and with a small second hand are especially desired. Some of these art deco models also came in 2-tone gold (white gold sections along with yellow or green gold) which are also very desired and rare. The fourth period began in the early 1930s, and is characterized by the Streamline Moderne influence on the styling of the cases. Many of these watches featured a new 207 movement, 12/0-size with 17 jewels (of which only 40,000 were made) and included such sleek designs as the Futura, Chesterfield, Wentworth, Andover, and the 14kt Rockliffe. Many of these are very similar to watches made at the time by the Hamilton Watch Company. Some Illinois 12/0-size 207 movements were finished with the Hamilton name and used in the 401 series of Hamilton wrist watches, which premiered in 1934 and were named after famous explorers including Stanley, Livingstone, Byrd, and others. Many Illinois collectors also collect these pieces since they contain movements derived from Illinois-made movements. Some think that the Hamilton Watch Company purchased the Illinois Watch Company merely to expedite the production of a rectangular-shaped movement, but this is uncertain. In the 1950s, Hamilton offered a line of Illinois and Hamilton-Illinois wrist watches with Swiss movements. These have absolutely nothing in common with the "originals" except the name. They are not considered collectible by die-hard illinois collectors. Caution should be exercised when buying Hamilton-Illinois off auction sites as many sellers mis-represent these 1950's models as examples of '30s Illinois produced by Hamilton.
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