Practical Watch Repairing
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| Rating | : | 4.45 (997 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0719800307 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Two Stars ken shiroma hard to understand. Good for Pros This is an interesting book.it's like a textbook for watch repair for manual watches. If you've got a lot of time, and some expensive old watches--say pre-19Good for Pros M. Farrell This is an interesting book.it's like a textbook for watch repair for manual watches. If you've got a lot of time, and some expensive old watches--say pre-1945 Omegas and the like, this book may be for you. Anyone who's already a fine-watch repair person would like this book, if they don't already own it, it's got all the hard stuff in it. "Hard stuff" like winding mainsprings, bluing hands and screws, ma. 5 Omegas and the like, this book may be for you. Anyone who's already a fine-watch repair person would like this book, if they don't already own it, it's got all the hard stuff in it. "Hard stuff" like winding mainsprings, bluing hands and screws, ma. Very good resource but you will need more F. Wong Mechanical watches are precision micro machines. It is unrealistic for anyone to think that it is possible to learn to repair mechanical watches just by reading books. There are drawn illustrations through out the book. However; the illustrations do not show step by step of the operations being discussed. On the other hand,in the age of the internet it is not difficult to overcome this problem. There are
About the Author Donald de Carle was a Fellow and Medallist of the British Horological Institute and a Freeman of the City of London by virtue of being a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. He contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was the author of many other horological works including Clock and Watch Repairing, Complicated Watches and their Repair, Practical Clock Repairing, Watch and Clock Encyclopaedia, Clocks and their Value, Horology ('Teach Yourself Series'), Practical Watch Adjusting and Springing, The Watchmaker's and Modern Engineer's Lathe, Watches and their Value, etc. Donald de Carle died in 1989.
Donald de Carle was a Fellow and Medallist of the British Horological Institute and a Freeman of the City of London by virtue of being a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. Donald de Carle died in 1989. He contributed to the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was the author of many other horological works including Clock and Wa
De Carle takes his reader through every stage and operation of watch repairing, and with 553 illustrations, it 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.. This book describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail