Watches

	1901 Goldsmiths Company Watch and Clock Catalog - 0930163494 This is a 1994 reprint of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Ltd.'s 1901 Watch and Clock Catalog. The 52-page booklet depicts a broad range of pocket and wrist watches and clocks of sizes ranging from miniature carriage clocks to grandfather clocks. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Guide to Complicated Watches by Francois LeCoultre - 288175001X LeCoultre's A Guide to Complicated Watches is considered by many to the best work available on complications. It addresses striking mechanisms, astronomical work, chronographs, jumping seconds, quarter repeaters, perpetual calendars, equation work, and more. The direct writing style and excellent illustrations provide the novice reader with a good understanding of the topics at hand. The more experienced craftsman will refer to it frequently. The author, Francois LeCoultre, was a profe... $72.50     View Details Add To Cart
	American Wristwatches, Five Decades of Style by Unger - 0764301713 Introduced into a skeptical American marketplace early in the twentieth century, the wristwatch soon caught the consumer's imagination. American watch manufacturers quickly adopted the form and brought their ingenuity and creativity to bear on the style and design of the wristwatch. Fifty years of innovation and beauty follow, and this beautiful book brings you the story in word and picture. Illustrated with over 600 full color pictures, the text brings life to many of the people who influenc... $58.35     View Details Add To Cart
	Automatic Wristwatches from Germany, England, France, Japan, Russia and the USA - 0764303791 This book is long overdue documentation on automatic wristwatches from countries other than Switzerland. These watches were always considered superior micro-mechanical products and posed a challenge to technicians. It was only a question of time, before the collectors' interest in these watches expanded from Swiss watches to those of other origins. A total of 123 watches are illustrated in three different views and are described in detail. $56.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland by Hampel - 0887406092 On the outside the Swiss automatic wristwatch is like its counterpart, but within the case lies an entirely different world. In Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland: Self-Winding Wristwatches over 200 watches are shown inside and out. Three photos are given to show the dial, and the complete and partly disassembled movement for each clock. The book discusses all the Swiss manufacturers and provides an historical overview of the development of automatic watches from 1926 to 1978. Inf... $57.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches - PUB268 Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches is The New England Watch Company catalogue, circa 1901, reprinted in full color for the 1998 by the Southern Ohio Regional, of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. Very little is known about this short lived company which was famous for its enameled cases. The book concludes with a short 1962 interview with George Tetro, a former employee of The New England Watch Company. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Breitling Watches: The History of a Great Brand of Watches 1884 - Present - 0764310062 Breitling - one watch made this name famous worldwide, the Navitimer. In 1952 this watch was a sensation. The chronograph, along with the calculator, enabled airplane pilots to carry out all necessary calculations during flight. The Navitimer was a valuable on-board instrument, and remains a valuable collectible today. Breitling developed watches for more than just pilots and the aircraft industry. This book shows the whole spectrum of the firm's products since its founding in 1884, and gives... $40.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Centuries of Style: Watches - 1840131268 Personal timepieces did not exist until the 16th century when the mainspring was invented, enabling clocks to become portable. As the horological science became more sophisticated, moving parts of timepieces became smaller, and during the 18th century pocket watches became fairly commonplace among the richer members of society. With intricate movements and ever more elaborate cases, pocket watches were items of great beauty. in the early 19th century the first wrist watches were produced, but... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Clock and Watch Repairing, Second Edition, by Donald de - 9780709194361 This profusely illustrated volume forms a step-by-step instruction manual on the repair of mechanical clocks and watches. Donald de Carle was a Fellow of the British Horological Institute, and the author of many standard works on the subject of horology, who based his writings on many years of practical experience. The work is progressive, beginning with simple clocks and watches and proceeding to the more complicated types. The tools and apparatus needed are described and illustrated. The cl... $32.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Timepieces: Seven Decades of Memories - 088740426X In 1933, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company produced a round Mickey Mouse wristwatch that is considered to be the first comic character watch. It started a movement that has continued for ninety years and shows little sign of letting up. This delightful book covers the history of character timepieces from the earliest clocks to the present day quartz wristwatches. With hundreds of beautiful color photographs it is a celebration of American imagination and artistry. Nearly every character watch ... $62.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Wristwatches - 0764313290 The first Mickey Mouse comic character wristwatch, introduced by Ingersoll-Waterbury Company in 1933, started a craze which continues to today. Comic Character Wristwatches includes advertising & movie promotion watches, as well as contemporary comic characters from such scripts and cartoons Peanuts, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, South Park, etc.). Over 375 color photos, descriptions, and pricing are compiled in this guide. Most of the watches represented were manufactured between 1970-2... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Complicated Watches and Their Repair by de Carle - 0719800900 Complicated Watches and Their Repair deals with all complicated work from the relatively simple automatic to the triple-complicated watch with chronograph, calendar and repeater work, and the very complicated clock watch. The action of each mechanism is briefly and clearly described. Dismantling and assembly instructions are given, oiling charts and, most important, hints on fault finding and their rectification. Exceptional care has been taken in the preparation of diagrams, which ha... $26.50     View Details Add To Cart
	De Carle's Watch & Clock Encyclopedia, Third Edition - 9780719801709 First published in 1950, De Carle's Encyclopedia is a valuable reference book on clocks and watches. The book has an immense amount of knowledge compressed into an easily understood form. There are over 3,000 alphabetical entries providing antiquarian as well as technical and professional information. Over one-third of the entries are illustrated, and nearly all of the line drawings are the work of the late Arthur Ayres FBHI. There are many special sections among the thousands of entries in t... $24.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Digital Watch Repair Manual by Louis A Zanoni - PUB059 Digital Watch Repair Manual acquaints the non-technical person with the fundamentals of LED and LCD watch repair. It has been written in such a way as to minimize the need of any previous electronics training or experience. Learn failure analysis and repair techniques by understanding the fundamentals for LED and LCD watches, including the electronic portion of the analog quartz time pieces. Chapters include: The LED Watch Module The LCD Watch Module Repairing the LCD Watch How Long Will a Wa... $19.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Elgin Time: A History of the Elgin National Watch Company 1864-1968 - 094396394X In the mid-1920s, the world's largest watchmaking complex was located in Elgin, Illinois. The huge factory enclosed more than 21 acres of floor space. Nearby was a school to train watchmakers, an observatory to calibrate timepieces by stars, plus a large boarding house and gymnasium for use by the employees. Over four thousand people were employed producing more than one million watch movements a year. The Elgin National Watch Company dominated the U.S. watch market, and its influence was fel... $37.95     View Details Add To Cart
	From Springfield to Moscow: The Complete Dueber-Hampden Story by James W Gibbs - PUB142 After 40 years as an Ohio business, the Dueber-Hampden Watch Company was purchased in 1930 by Armen Hammer and moved to Soviet Russia to become the first Soviet watch manufacturer. From Springfield to Moscow tells the story of the company, from its precursor watch case and watch movement manufacturers, to John Duebner's founding of the company in response to a watch manufacturers' boycott of his watch cases, and many years of production. The book is appended with catalog reproductions and pho... $27.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Helpful Information for Watchmakers from the Waltham Watch Co. - 0930163214 This booklet was originally produced by the Waltham Watch Co. to provide watchmakers with a brief explanation of certain improvements in the mechanical construction of Waltham Watch Movements. It's not brief; it offers much information in its 95 pages. Click on the above image of the Table of Contents to see full contents. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Illinois Watch Co., Six Historically Significant Watches - PUB289 This small brochure was prepare by Bernie Levine in conjunction with a lecture in 1999. The six pocket watches presented her are very nicely illustrated and captioned. Included is the First 18 Size Open Face Stem Wind Lever Set Model in America, The First Open Face Stem Wind Lever Set Railroad Grade Model in America, and the First model with Elinvar Hairspring and Invar Balance. $4.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Illinois Watches & Their Makers Reprint - PUB287 Illinois Watches and Their Makers is a collection of talks, articles and letters which appeared in the factory paper as well as in the advertising literature. Originally published in 1920, the booklet was reprinted by the Southern Ohio Regional N.A.Q.C.C.in 1999. The articles are numerous and include, for example, Watch Dials Connect Us with Timekeeping Methods of Remotest Antiquity; A Timepiece of Three Hundred Years Ago: and Illinois Watch Company Wireless Time Headquarters for the Central ... $4.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology Volumes I + II - PUB153 Widely known as the Bernier Dictionary after its author G. -A. Berner, this 2002 publication combines the original two-volume dictionary first published in 1961 with the 1995 supplement, all in a single volume. The dictionary, which is in English, French, Spanish and German, has 4,790 entries, 690 sub-entries and 948 illustrations. Published by the Federation de l'Industrie Horlogere Suisse FH, Bienne, Switzerland. $249.50     View Details Add To Cart