Watchmaking

Watchmaking
Author: George Daniels
Publsiher: Philip Wilson Publishers
Total Pages: 462
Release: 2011-05-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0856677043

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The first and most comprehensive step-by-step guide on the subject, Watchmaking has become a classic in its own right. This new edition is updated to include a new section which discusses and illustrates a variety of the author's own watches. The author's principal aim in writing this book has been to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among a new generation of enthusiasts. The making of the precision timekeeper is described, step by step, and is illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. Great care has been taken to ensure the text is easy to follow and to avoid complicated technical descriptions.

The Theory of Horology

The Theory of Horology
Author: Technical College of the Vallee de Joux
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2015
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 2940025495

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The Rise and Decline of England s Watchmaking Industry 1550 1930

The Rise and Decline of England s Watchmaking Industry  1550   1930
Author: Alun C. Davies
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2022-04-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781000571905

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This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.

The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking Training Manual

The Joseph Bulova School of Watchmaking Training Manual
Author: Bulova School of Watchmaking (New York)
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 344
Release: 2003-02-01
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0918845211

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Observations on the History and Progress of the Art of Watchmaking

Observations on the History and Progress of the Art of Watchmaking
Author: Octavius Morgan
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 44
Release: 1849
Genre: Clock and watch making
ISBN: BL:A0021856112

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All in Good Time

All in Good Time
Author: George Daniels
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 552
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780857732842

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All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.

Practical Watch Repairing

Practical Watch Repairing
Author: Donald De Carle
Publsiher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2020-02-07
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780719831065

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Here is a unique book. It describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail: a thing which has never been done so completely before in the many books on the same subject. As a text book it is a revelation. Taking nothing for granted, except the ability to read and comprehend a simple description of mechanical processes, de Carle takes his reader through every stage and every operation of watch repairing ...and to deal with them thoroughly is quite a programme - it takes 300 pages containing 24 chapters, two appendices and 553 illustrations. The fine draughtsmanship and accurate technical detail of the illustrations set a new standard. Practical Watch Repairing can justifiably claim to be the best illustrated book on practical horology yet issued, and one of the best of its kind on any subject. The publication of the book marks the beginning of a new epoch in the study of the mechanics of horology.

Watchmakers

Watchmakers
Author: Maxima Gallery
Publsiher: Antique Collector's Club
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES
ISBN: 1851499075

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Watchmakers: The Masters of Art Horology gathers the work of the most celebrated independent watchmakers in the world. Thirteen artisans, each a legend in the realm of haute horlogerie, tell their stories, describing the traditional working methods and prized watches upon which their reputations have been built. Photographs of the masters in their workshops bring their stories to life, along with detailed sketches and images of their watches in all their brilliant intricacy. Watchmakers also features insightful text from other leading figures of the independent watchmaking world, including Aurel Bacs of the Fondation Haute Horlogerie and Nicholas Faulkes, writer for Vanity Fair, The Telegraph and GQ, and author of the only authorised biography of Patek Philippe"--Provided by publisher