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Clock Repairing As a Hobby
This all-time illustrated favorite will interest both the horologist
and serve as a how-to guide for the beginner who wants to learn clock
repairing.
Repairing Antique Clocks
Antique clocks are a common sight in many homes, being popular with
collectors and often passed down through families as treasured
heirlooms. This practical guide, fully updated, teaches readers how to
apply the tools, materials and techniques needed to repair and maintain
all types of antique clocks without paying the expense of hiring a
professional. A worthwhile resource for the hobbyist or do-it-yourselfer
who wishes to increase the value and pleasure they receive from antique
clocks.
Antique Clocks Identification and Price Guide
CD-ROM and Internet Resource
Price Guide to Antique Clocks
This price guide features more than 600 photos of antique clocks with
current values, plus collecting tips and historical information that
will aid both beginning and veteran clock collectors.
Antique Trader Clocks Price
Guide
Including All Types of Clocks
17th Through 20th Century
The Clock Repairer's Handbook
Clock lovers, collectors, repairers, or anyone with a timepiece back
home that's moving too slowly, speeding up, or come to a grinding halt:
if you want it to work like new, here's a wealth of information of
diagnosing and correcting faults in clock both antique and modern. Not
only does this all-inclusive manual have detailed descriptions of repair
methods, but it contains alternative techniques for the less
well-equipped shop and the inexperienced, as well as over 250 of the
author's excellent drawings and plenty of beginner's tips. Coverage of
lathe work, cleaning, brushing, pivoting and mounting, replacing or
preparing an escapement, train faults, gears, suspension, crutches,
striking and chiming work, lubrication, assembly, and testing make this
an invaluable asset for every clock repairer's bench.
The Official Price Guide to Clocks
History of the Hour
Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders
In this sweeping study of the organization of time, Dohrn-van Rossum
offers fresh insight into the history of the mechanical clock and its
influence on European society from the late Middle Ages to the
industrial revolution. Detailing the clock's effects on social activity,
he presents a vivid picture of a society regulated by the precise
measurement of identical hours.
The Standard Antique Clock Value Guide
Wheel and Pinion Cutting in Horology
A Historical and Practical Guide
100 Years of Vintage Watches
A Collector's Identification and Price Guide
It’s time to find out more about collectible watches!
This full-color book features 100 years of vintage wristwatches
and pocket watches made from 1870-1970, the most popular period for
watch collectors. Author Dean Judy provides collectors with practical
information on what and how to collect, as well as what to avoid.
Accurate prices and detailed descriptions accompany each listing.
Before-and after-pictures illustrating the restoration stages, along
with photos of near mint versus the average watch, will aid the reader
in identifying and valuing their own collection.
Famous Swiss makers such as Alpina, Breitling, Cyma, Tissot, and
Zodiak are featured, as well as many American watch companies, including
Bulova, Elgin, Hamilton, and Illinois.
Dean Judy has been repairing, restoring, collecting, buying, and
selling watches for more than 25 years.
• More than 50 watch companies represented
• More than 600 full-color photographs illustrate these glorious
vintage watches
• Covers the most popular period for watch collectors, 1870-1970
Practical Watch Repairing
Pocket Watch Handbook
Miller's Clocks & Barometers: Buyers Guide
The Clocks & Barometers Buyer's Guide, fully updated for this
edition with revised prices and current market information, is an
invaluable practical reference for enthusiasts and experienced
collectors. It covers the wide range of timepiece styles and mechanisms
available, from mahogany long-case clocks to enameled brass carriage
clocks, with a special section on the increasingly collectible field of
American clocks. Each item has an up-to-date guide.
The Clock Repair Primer : The Beginners Handbook
American Pocket Watches
Identification and Price Guide
Beginning to End
1830-1990
Clocks
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION
International magazine for horological collectors and restorers. Lauched
over 25 years ago to cater Britain's interests, it now meets the
interests of horologists around the world. Covers clock collecting,
profiles on clockmakers of the past 300 years, repair/restoration, news,
and readers letters.
Hong Kong Watches & Clocks
MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTION
Provides access to all the elegant yet stylish, classic
yet ornate, sophisticated yet competitively-priced timepieces produced
by Hong Kong. Covers cases, children's watches, desktop clocks,
dials/crowns/hands/movements, diving watches, dress watches, sports
watchers, timers, wall clocks, and more.
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