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... $75.00     View Details Add To Cart
	American Clockmakers & Watchmakers by Spittler - 0930163728 American Clockmakers & Watchmakers by Sonya & Thomas Spittler and Chris Bailey is the most comprehensive and easiest to use research source ever published concerning the individuals and firms involved in making America's clocks and watches. Its sheer size alone is a testament to the thoroughness of the project, almost doubling the entries found in any other like publication. American Clockmakers & Watchmakers is an A - Z list intended to provide the collector or researcher information about t... $34.49     View Details Add To Cart
	American Waltham Watch Co.'s 1885 Materials Catalog Reprint - PUB292 Originally published in 1885 and reprinted in 1971, this 112-page catalog illustrates every part of every Waltham Watch Co. from the first manufactured to the latest model. The illustrations do go into great detail, and include even the smallest pins. It is much like having a detailed breakdown of each American Waltham Watch Co. movement. $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	American Watch Co., 1884 Orleans Expo Catalog Reprint - PUB283 The American Watch Co., later known as the American Waltham Co., distributed this catalog at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, a World Fair held in 1884 - 1885. The 40-page reprint contains 14 pages of text that describe the operations in manufacturing at the Waltham Works at that date. Numerous interesting trade advertisements are presented. These concern both watch and clock firms, as well as many supporting industries. This catalog is a significant record concerning the technological devel... $3.75     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
	Busiest House in America 1889 Illustrated Catalogue - PUB148 This is a big catalog (472 pages) and it has a slew of products in it. Silver, particularly Rogers Bros, Clocks from Waterbury, Seth Thomas, Ithaca Calendar, and Gilbert Co., pocket watches with Waltham and Illinois Watch Co. movements, walking canes and fancy umbrellas, fountain pens by Peerless and Crown, pocket toothpicks, and lots of jewelry are all beautifully illustrated. Printed 30 years ago in 1974, the covers have faded somewhat. $14.50     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
	Chronograph Wristwatches: To Stop Time by Gerd-R Lang & Reinhard Meis - 0887405029 Wrist chronographs are mechanical wristwatches that, in addition to their normal clockwork, are stop-watches. They are one of the most popular collecting areas in the broad spectrum of wristwatches because they are not yet too expensive and are available in large numbers. Until now they have not been studied systematically. Now Land and Meis offer this outstanding identification book. The book consists of two sections: text and illustrations. The text deals first with the "face,"or... $71.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Clock & Watchmakers in Canada 1700 to 1900 - 0919974023 The task of recording the names of clock and watchmakers and associated workers active in Canada was 30 years in the making. The book incorporates the names of clock and watchmakers and those engaged in allied trades who worked in Canada between 1700 and 1900. The places where they were located are listed, together with the date of their birth and death or, if the latter information is not available, then the earliest and latest years in which they are known to have practiced their craft. $17.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Clock and Watch Makers in Wales - PUB048U This is a used book in good condition. Text is highlighted in the first essay o The Development of Clocks and Watches. Clock and Watch Makers in Wales was published by the Welsh Folk Museum and features a catalog in black and white photos of sundials, clocks and watches in the museum. The book features two essays, one on The Development of Clocks and Watches, and the other on Clock and Watch Making in Wales, and a list of clock and watch makers working in Wales in the 17th, 18th and 19th cent... $19.50     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... $23.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Die Noblen Aus Der Schweiz by J. Michael Mehltretter - 3898806820 TEXT IS IN GERMAN Das Interesse an klassischen Schweizer Armbanduhren hat in den zuruckliegenden Jahren stetig zugenommen. Internationale Auktionen und Uhrenborsen, wie auch die zunehmenden Angebote im Internet, eroffnen dem sammelnden Uhrenfreund heute eine Auswahl, wie sie fruher kaum vorstellbar schien. Das vorliegende Buch befasst sich mit bemerkenswerten Armbanduhren jener sechs Schweizer Manufakturen, die man mit Fug und Recht als die bedeutungsvollsten bezeichnen kann. Hierbei wird der... $47.50     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