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Winter in the Northern hemisphere is rapidly approaching so it's a good time to stay at home and catch up with reading the books we all keep meaning to read. Listed below are some of the new and out of print titles in stock which may interest you. Happy reading and stay safe in these difficult times.

Back in stock this month are Archie Perkins' book The Modern Watchmakers Lathe, Konrad Knirim's Military Timepieces - 150 Years of Watches and Clocks of German Forces and Ian White's The Majesty of the Chinese Market Watch.

New Books:


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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

Daniels (G.): Watchmaking
NEW. £55.00 Order Here

David (Jacques): American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876
NEW. £17.50 Order Here

Drake (S.): Galileo Galilei Operations of the Geometric and Military Compass
NEW. £8.50 Order Here * One copy only *

Fanelli (J.) & Terwilliger (C.): A Century of Fine Carriage Clocks
NEW. £65.00 Order Here * One copy only *

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

Miller (J.J.): Rare and Unusual Black Forest Clocks
NEW. £85.00 Order Here

Oechslin (L.): Astronomische Uhren Und Welt-Modelle Der Priestmechaniker Im 18. Jahrhundert
NEW. £220.00 less 10% Order Here

Pingree (D.): Eastern Astrolabes
NEW. £27.50 Order Here * One copy only *

Platt (J.G.): Lancashire Watch Company - History and Watches
NEW. £65.00 Order Here

Potts (M.S.): Potts of Leeds Five Generations of Clockmakers
NEW. £45.00 Order Here

Saff (D.): From Celestial to Terrestrial Timekeeping - Clockmaking in the Bond Family
NEW. £52.50 Order Here

Severs (D.F.): Ripon's Clockmakers: Clockmaking in a Former West Riding Market Town
NEW. £25.00 Order Here

Smith (S.) & Son Limited: Motor Accessories Catalogue 1910
NEW. £12.00 Order Here

Staudacher (F.): Jost Bürgi, Kepler und der Kaiser: Uhrmacher, Instrumentenbauer, Astronom, Mathematiker (1552-1632)
NEW. £50.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Tennant (M.F.): The Art of the Painted Clock Dial
NEW. £75.00 Order Here

Out of Print Books:

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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 *

Bulova: Bulova Accutron Quartz - Service Manual for Stepping Motor Quartz (S.M.Q.) Series 242
O/P. £9.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Gerner-Swissco: The Horophile Watch Trader February 1952
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Hackmann (W.D.) editor: Alexander Bain's Short History of the Electric Clock (1852)
O/P. £16.00 Order Here

Laycock (W.S.): The Lost Science of John "Longitude" Harrison
O/P. £295.00 less 10% Order Here * Two copies only *

Lee (R.A.): The Knibb Family Clockmakers
O/P. £750.00 less 10% Order Here * One copy only *

Lloyd (H.A.) & Drover (C.B.): Nicholas Vallin (c.1565 - 1603)
O/P. £16.00 Order Here * One copy only *

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 *

[Minnesota Watchmakers Association]: American Watch Historical Information with Serial Numbers and Dates
O/P. £10.00 Order Here * One copy only *

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 *

Ord-Hume (A.W.J.G.): Joseph Haydn and the Mechanical Organ
O/P. £40.00 Order Here * One copy only *

Smith (J.): Horological Disquisitions
O/P. £75.00 Order Here * Four copies only *

Snell (M.): Clocks and Clockmakers of Salisbury - 600 Years of Skill and Invention
O/P. £50.00 Order Here

Tardy: General Bibliography of Time Measurement
O/P. £80.00 Order Here

Watch Dials Burford Ltd: Catalogue of Watch and Clock Hands
O/P. £5.00 Order Here * One copy only *

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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