Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches - A Practical Guide

Author: Mark W. Wiles

208 pages, 242 colour photographs, 42 diagrams

This invaluable, practical book is written by a watch repairer with over twenty years' experience. It is aimed principally at the novice mechanical watch repairer, although those with more experience will also find it most useful.

· Covers the essential requirements of a workspace

· Discusses basic tools, and how to use and care for them

· Illustrates how to take a mechanical watch apart and re-assemble it

· Examines types of watch cases, case backs and how to open and re-fit them

· Considers the movement and removing the movement from the case

· Demonstrates how to remove the hands and the dial, and discusses motion work and the removal of the cannon pinion

· Pays attention to keyless-work, the mainspring and the barrel, the balance wheel, the escapement, the gearing and the gear train, pivots and arbors, bearings and jewels, and much more

· Shows the reader how to service, clean and oil a watch, and how to successfully complete common repairs and make basis adjustments