The excellent book by Robert Miles on the Synchronome Company is now back in print and only 300 copies have been printed. If you are interested in Synchronome and Shortt Synchronome clocks then this book is essential reading.

Also listed below are some of the new books we currently have in stock - ideal as Christmas presents and for reading over the cold winter months.

New Books:

Synchronome - Masters of Electrical Timekeeping
Robert H. A. Miles

NEW. A well researched and comprehensive work on the Synchronome company, their master clock in all its forms and variants, and their slave dials and ancillary equipment. The book also has chapters on the development of the precision clock by William Hamilton Shortt with a list of all known Shortt clocks, the detail of their order-book specification, original location and subsequent history where known. The book is the standard reference work on Synchronome and Shortt clocks. With dust jacket.

274 pages, over 300 illustrations, revised 2nd edition, reprinted 2021.

£39.50 Order Here

Early Clock and Watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company
Keith Bates

NEW. Many early clockmakers were members of the Blacksmiths' Company before the Clockmakers Company was founded in 1631. This is a well researched account of the clock and watch making trades in the Blacksmiths' Company and the rivalry between the two companies in the late 17th and 18th century. The book includes a directory of more than 1500 clock and watchmakers trained in the Blacksmiths' Company. With dust jacket.

490 pages, 400 illustrations, 2018.

£95.00 Order Here

Bell (D.A.): The Watch and Clock Makers of Northern Ireland
NEW. £40.00 Order Here

Berner (G.-A.): Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology / Dictionnaire Professionnel Illustré de L'Horlogerie I & II
NEW. £220.00 less 10% Order Here

Betts (J.): Marine Chronometers at Greenwich
NEW. £157.50 less 10% Order Here

Birch (T.): Thomas Mudge and William Dutton, A Perfect Partnership
NEW. £20.00 Order Here

Collins (P.R.): Barographs
NEW. £12.95 Order Here

Cologni (F.): Vacheron Constantin - Artists of Time
NEW. £80.00 Order Here

John Whitehurst: Innovator, Scientist, Geologist and Clockmaker
Maxwell Craven

NEW. The author's previous book on Whitehurst is long out of print, so this new book with up to date information is most welcome. Whitehurst of Derby was a very talented man - instrument maker, mechanical engineer, clockmaker, the father of modern geology, and a member of the Royal Society. The book has very detailed information on the clockmaking activities of John Whitehurst and his successors. With dust jacket.

288 pages, illustrated, 2015.

£30.00 Order Here

Cuss (T.P. Camerer): The English Watch 1585 - 1970
NEW. £95.00 Order Here

Daniels (G.): The Art of Breguet
NEW. £95.00 Order Here

Dzik (W.H.): Engraving on English Table Clocks: Art on a Canvas of Brass, 1660-1800
NEW. £75.00 Order Here

Galizia (M.): Military Wristwatches - Sky, Land, Sea
NEW. £90.00 Order Here

Gould (R.T.): The Marine Chronometer its History and Development
NEW. £65.00 Order Here

Higgitt (R.) editor: Maskelyne: Astronomer Royal
NEW. £15.00 Order Here

Humbert (B.): Modern Calendar Watches
NEW. £52.50 Order Here

Viennese Timepieces
Frederick Kaltenböck

NEW. A comprehensive description of clock and watch production in Vienna from the 17th century up to the second half of the 19th century. The book, which has excellent photographs, has chapters on watches, zappler clocks, bracket clocks, wall clocks, longcase clocks, and a listing of Viennese clock and watch makers. For collectors of true Viennese regulators this is the best book on the subject. With dust jacket and slipcase.

263 pages, 527 illustrations, 1993.

£19.50 Order Here

Knirim (K.): British Military Timepieces / Uhren der britischen Streitkräfte
NEW. £125.00 less 10% Order Here

Loomes (B.): Clockmakers of Britain 1286 - 1700
NEW. £65.00 Order Here

Loring (J.): Tiffany Timepieces
NEW. £30.00 Order Here

Ly (Tran Duy): Kroeber Clocks - American & Imported
NEW. £65.00 Order Here

Marozzi (D.) & Toselli (G.): Longines
NEW. £135.00 less 10% Order Here

Marshall (T.): Buckinghamshire Clock & Watchmakers
NEW. £48.00 Order Here

Harrison Decoded - Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock
Rory McEvoy & Jonathan Betts editors

NEW. A thorough study of Harrison's pendulum clockmaking from a practical perspective and the story of around forty years of collaborative research into John Harrison's complex and surprising pendulum clock theory. An unofficial test of Martin Burgess's 'Clock B' at the Royal Observatory, made from modern materials and following the perceived format laid out in Harrison's convoluted text 'Concerning such mechanism ...', showed exceptional timekeeping and proved that Harrisons ideas were sound. With dust jacket.

183 pages, 82 illustrations, 2020.

£53.00 Order Here

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

Osterhausen (F. von): Paul Ditisheim Chronometrier
NEW. £55.00 Order Here

Penney (D.): English Wristwatches: The Untold Story
NEW. £15.00 Order Here

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

Radage (D.), Meinen (W.) & Radage (L.): Charles Gretton - Clock & Watchmaking - Through the Golden Age
NEW. £75.00 Order Here

Schaaf (B.): Schwarzwalduhren
NEW. £60.00 Order Here

Trueb (L.F.), Ramm (G.) & Wenzig (P.): Electrifying the Wristwatch
NEW. £95.99 Order Here

White (I.): The Majesty of the Chinese Market Watch - The Life and Collection of Gustave Loup of Tientsin and Geneva, Watch Dealer and Collector (1876-1961)
NEW. £30.00 Order Here

Another year is coming to an end so it's time again for me to thank you all for your business throughout the year and to wish you a happy festive season and a healthy and prosperous new year.

There will be no newsletter in January 2022, our horological books newsletter will recommence in February.

With best wishes, Jeff & Ros Formby

Jeffrey Formby Antiques
Specialist in Horological Books & English Clocks
www.formby-clocks.co.uk
Phone UK: (0) 1608 650558