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A Guide to Complicated Watches François LeCoultre
NEW. A good book by a former professor at the Geneva School of Watchmaking. All types of complication are discussed in detail - striking mechanisms, astronomical work, chronographs, jumping seconds, quarter repeaters, perpetual calendars, equation work, etc. A new, fully revised, edition of this well-known work. All the figures have been moved to the end of the book on fold out plates, so can be consulted alongside the relevant text.
148 pages plus 47 folding plates (with 54 figures), 4th edition, English language, 2020.
£75.00 Order Here
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The English Fusee Lever Pocket Watch - Its History, Development, Service and Repair Christopher Barrow
NEW. A brief history of the development of the English fusee lever watch followed by a step-by-step manual covering the dismantling, cleaning, repair and reassembly of a variety of English fusee lever movements made during the nineteenth century. With dust jacket.
160 pages, 190 photographs, 2019.
£18.99 Order Here
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David (Jacques): American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 NEW. £17.50 Order Here
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Drake (S.): Galileo Galilei Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass NEW. £8.50 Order Here * One copy only *
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Fanelli (J.) & Terwilliger (C.): A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks NEW. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Knudsen (J.M.R.): The Jürgensen Dynasty - Four Centuries of Watchmaking in two Countries NEW. £165.00 less 10% Order Here
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Patek Philippe: Cult Object and Investment J. Michael Mehltretter
NEW. Written for the serious collector and investor this book illustrates and describes in great detail 90 different Patek Philippe classic wristwatches from 1935 to the 1980's. As well as a brief history of the firm, the book has useful chapters on how to assess and how to purchase a vintage watch, plus notes on professional refurbishment. The final section is a detailed list of reference numbers with commentary of all models from the 1930's to the 1980's. With dust jacket.
256 pages, 1st English language edition, 218 illustrations, 2012.
£103.99 less 10% Order Here
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Miller (J.J.): Rare and Unusual Black Forest Clocks NEW. £85.00 Order Here
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Oechslin (L.): Astronomische Uhren Und Welt-Modelle Der Priestmechaniker Im 18. Jahrhundert NEW. £220.00 less 10% Order Here
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Pingree (D.): Eastern Astrolabes NEW. £27.50 Order Here * One copy only *
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Platt (J.G.): Lancashire Watch Company - History and Watches NEW. £65.00 Order Here
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Potts (M.S.): Potts of Leeds Five Generations of Clockmakers NEW. £45.00 Order Here
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Saff (D.): From Celestial to Terrestrial Timekeeping - Clockmaking in the Bond Family NEW. £52.50 Order Here
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Severs (D.F.): Ripon's Clockmakers: Clockmaking in a Former West Riding Market Town NEW. £25.00 Order Here
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Smith (S.) & Son Limited: Motor Accessories Catalogue 1910 NEW. £12.00 Order Here
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Staudacher (F.): Jost Bürgi, Kepler und der Kaiser: Uhrmacher, Instrumentenbauer, Astronom, Mathematiker (1552-1632) NEW. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Tennant (M.F.): The Art of the Painted Clock Dial NEW. £75.00 Order Here
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Essai sur L'Horlogerie Ferdinand Berthoud
O/P. Berthoud's well known work on clocks and watches & clock and watch making, with several chapters on temperature compensation and two designs for a marine timepiece. A fine copy. [French language, the modern introduction in French and English]
2 volumes, 477 & 451 pages, 5 tables, 38 folding plates, 1978. A facsimile reprint (limited to 500 copies) of the 2nd edition published in 1786.
£250.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Bulova: Bulova Accutron Quartz - Service Manual for Stepping Motor Quartz (S.M.Q.) Series 242 O/P. £9.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Gerner-Swissco: The Horophile Watch Trader February 1952 O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Hackmann (W.D.) editor: Alexander Bain's Short History of the Electric Clock (1852) O/P. £16.00 Order Here
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Laycock (W.S.): The Lost Science of John "Longitude" Harrison O/P. £295.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *
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Lee (R.A.): The Knibb Family Clockmakers O/P. £750.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Lloyd (H.A.) & Drover (C.B.): Nicholas Vallin (c.1565 - 1603) O/P. £16.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Loomes (B.): Brass Dial Clocks O/P. £175.00 less 10% Order Here
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Le Pendulier Neuchâtelois J. P. Matthey
O/P. A book on the movements of Neuchâtel clocks with details of escapements and striking mechanisms, both of use to restorers. A good copy, card covers a little stained. [French language]
60 pages, 29 figs., [ 1946 ].
£20.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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[Minnesota Watchmakers Association]: American Watch Historical Information with Serial Numbers and Dates O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Odmark (A.L.): Patents for Inventions Abridgements of Specifications Class 139 Watches, Clocks and Other Timepieces 1855 - 1930 O/P. £120.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *
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Ord-Hume (A.W.J.G.): Joseph Haydn and the Mechanical Organ O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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Smith (J.): Horological Disquisitions O/P. £75.00 Order Here * Four copies only *
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Snell (M.): Clocks and Clockmakers of Salisbury - 600 Years of Skill and Invention O/P. £50.00 Order Here
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Tardy: General Bibliography of Time Measurement O/P. £80.00 Order Here
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Watch Dials Burford Ltd: Catalogue of Watch and Clock Hands O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *
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We also have some very special offers again this month, with large discounts, please check them out here. If there are any books you are looking for that we do not have in stock then please let us know and we will try and find them for you.
With best wishes,
Jeff & Ros Formby
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Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558
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