This Antique Collectors' Club edition of Britten's "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers" (3rd edition) adds 250 extra illustrations to the existing 800 photographs and drawings.

Based on a lifetime's experience in the clock and watch-making trade, the author provides detailed instructions for making all types of escapements and for the location and correction of faults. This book has proved invaluable to all who are interested in the mechanism of clocks and watches—both the craftsperson responsible for the upkeep and rep[Read More]

This book describes the theories and processes of repairing and adjusting the modern watch in precise and meticulous detail. De Carle takes his reader through every stage and operation of watch repairing, and with 553 illustrations, it can justifiably claim to be the best illustrated book on practical horology yet issued, and one of the best of it[Read More]

This is a reprint of the 11th edition, first published in 1907, and containing details of definitions, illustrations, tools, processes and theory.

Almost a companion to Donald de Carle's earlier work, Practical Watch Repairing, this book's contents include general condition of the movement; cleaning and oiling; balance pivots; fitting a flat balance spring; fitting a breguet balance spring; positional timing; further considerations when fitting a spring and observing the point of attachment; [Read More]