This early work on watch and clockmaking is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all horologists. Contents Include: A Glossary of General Terms, Table of Altitude, Balance Springs for Bi-Metallic Cut Balances, Balance Springs for Mono-Metallic Balances, Stop Watches, Chronographs, and Times, Antique Clock and Clock Case Terms, Dates of English Period Styles, Metals Used in Horology, Marbles and Ornamental Stones, Clock Case Woods, Mouldings, Standardisation of Supplies of Watch Material, Watch Parts in six Languages and Official Spare Parts Numbers, Chronograph Parts in Two Languages and Official Spare Parts Numbers, Watch Hand Styles, Watch Glass Styles, Winding Button Styles, Winding Buttons for Chronograph and Hunter or Half-hunter Cases, Pocket Watch Case Parts, Watch Case Styles, Martin Mainspring Gauge Heights and Metric Equivalents, Martin Mainspring Gauge Forces and Metric Equivalents, Days of the Week in Fifteen Languages, Months of the Year in Fifteen Languages, Standard Time Zones, Temperature Conversion Table, Chimes, Arrangements of, Gemstone Cutting Styles, Workshop Hints and Helps. The contents are extensively illustrated with explanatory diagrams, forming a complete how-to guide. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The absorbing and everlasting subject of watch repairing has been dealt with in books in many languages throughout the years. But when de Carle first set out to write "Practical Watch Repairing" in 1946, it was with the intention of creating a textbook "that a watchmaker can understand, even if he can't read." With over 550 instructional black-and-white illustrations and an approach that assumes no prior watch-repairing experience, this book achieves and surpasses that lofty mission, and has been touted as "the best illustrated book on practical horology" ("Horological Journal") ever written. For the readers in his audience, de Carle has provided well-informed discourse on every topic a watchmaker, or aspiring watchmaker, needs to know. With "Practical Watch Repairing," even a layman can become a watch-repair specialist.

Dealing with a complicated watch used to be a rare job for the watch repairer, but with the popularity of the automatic, it is almost commonplace. Furthermore, the increased interest in calendar work, alarm watches, and chronographs will undoubtedly bring more and more complicated work into the workshop. This book deals with complicated work essentially from the repairer's point of view. The action of each mechanism is briefly and clearly described because understanding this is essential to proper servicing, repair and testing for functioning. Dismantling and assembly instructions are given, as well as oiling charts and - most important - hints on fault-finding and their rectification. Another essential feature of the book is that it 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. Exceptional care has been taken in the preparation of diagrams, which have been drawn from actual movements in various stages of assembly, so that the reader can actually work with the book illustrations beside the watch itself. As always with books by Donald de Carle, instructions are easy to follow and there is no reason why anyone well versed in ordinary work and able to use watchmakers' tools should not become a specialist in complicated watches and their repair.

This early work on watch and clockmaking is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all horologists. Contents Include: A Glossary of General Terms, Table of Altitude, Balance Springs for Bi-Metallic Cut Balances, Balance Springs for Mono-Metallic Balances, Stop Watches, Chronographs, and Times, Antique Clock and Clock Case Terms, Dates of English Period Styles, Metals Used in Horology, Marbles and Ornamental Stones, Clock Case Woods, Mouldings, Standardisation of Supplies of Watch Material, Watch Parts in six Languages and Official Spare Parts Numbers, Chronograph Parts in Two Languages and Official Spare Parts Numbers, Watch Hand Styles, Watch Glass Styles, Winding Button Styles, Winding Buttons for Chronograph and Hunter or Half-hunter Cases, Pocket Watch Case Parts, Watch Case Styles, Martin Mainspring Gauge Heights and Metric Equivalents, Martin Mainspring Gauge Forces and Metric Equivalents, Days of the Week in Fifteen Languages, Months of the Year in Fifteen Languages, Standard Time Zones, Temperature Conversion Table, Chimes, Arrangements of, Gemstone Cutting Styles, Workshop Hints and Helps. The contents are extensively illustrated with explanatory diagrams, forming a complete how-to guide. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.