Practical Watch Repairing

Author: Donald de Carle

319 pages, 574 figures, 3rd edition

This book describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail: a thing which has never been done on this 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 23 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.