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Clock and Watch Books by Tran Duy Ly

Tran Duy Ly is perhaps the most respected author on clocks today. His books typically are organized by company and provide comprehensive, or close to comprehensive, coverage of its subject. His eight volume series on Connecticut Clockmakers is unparalleled in any collecting arena for its beauty and wealth of information. Each volume is quality bound, smyth sewn on white gloss enamel paper. A few titles are available in soft cover Perfectbound. The most recent Price Update booklet is always included.

Mr. Ly has also reprinted a number of classic books and booklets and a few of these are included here.

Remember, no matter how many books you buy, pay shipping for just one. International buyers add $1 or $2 per book, depending upon weight.
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American Clocks Vol 1 by Tran Duy Ly 0930163397 American Clocks Vol. 1 by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163397
American Clocks, Volume 1 is the first volume of a wonderful series of books on American clocks by Tran Duy Ly. This 1999 reprint edition features 1,159 items from 19 clock companies. The book is organized by manufacturer and includes sections on Ansonia Clock Co., Boston Clock Co., Chelsea Clock Co., Gilbert Clock Co., Howard Watch & Clock Co., Ingraham & Co., Ithaca Clock Co., Kroeber Clock Co., New Haven Clock Co., New York Standard Clock Co., Parker & Whipple Manufacturing Co., Rus... $48.95     View Details
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American Clocks Vol 2 Including Self Winding Clocks 0930163443 American Clocks Vol. 2, Including Self-Winding Clocks - 0930163443
American Clocks, Volume 2 is the second volume of a wonderful series of books by Tran Duy Ly. This 1995 second edition features 1,032 items from mostly the same 19 clock companies(some additional manufacturers are introduced) covered in volume 1. However, none of the 1,032 clocks are repeats from first volume. The volume is organized by manufacturer and includes sections on Ansonia Clock Co., Boston Clock Co., Chelsea Clock Co., Darche Electric Alarm Clocks, Gilbert Clock Co., Hatch Ma... $42.50     View Details
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American Clocks Vol 3 by Tran Duy Ly 0930163914 American Clocks Vol. 3 by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163914
American Clocks, Volume 3 is a wonderful continuation of Tran Duy Ly's earlier American Clocks volumes. All 992 clocks shown are new to Tran Duy Ly's books. Divided into two sections, the first is Clocks by Type and covers mostly handcrafted and early American clocks including Beehive, Column & Cornice, Column & Splat, Cottage, Hollow Column, Mantle, Mirror, Ogee & Bevel, Pillar & Scroll, Steeple, Torsion Pendulum, and Wagon Spring Clocks. Clocks made by the Ball Watch Company and The Lux Ma... $48.95     View Details
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American Clocks Volumes 1 3 by Tran Duy Ly SET1292 American Clocks Volumes 1 - 3 by Tran Duy Ly - SET1292
Tran Duy Ly's American Clocks is a monumental work covering 3,184 clocks from nearly 30 manufacturers, including numerous handmade and early American manufactured clocks, all in 1,024 pages. The breadth of these volumes is striking as are the illustrations. Volume 1 covers 19 American manufacturers. A history of the company and prime examples of the product from each are presented. Volume 2 again examines the clocks from 19 American manufacturers, introducing some manufacturers... $129.50     View Details
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Ansonia Clock Catalog 1895 Supplementary Catalogue 0930163079 Ansonia Clock Catalog 1895 Supplementary Catalogue - 0930163079
This Ansonia Clock Catalog 1895 Supplementary Catalogue is a 1988 reprint from Arlington Books. The booklet is 40 pages and must present around 200 clocks and clock dials. $12.50     View Details
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Ansonia Clock Co 1894 1895 Catalog PUB266 Ansonia Clock Co. 1894 - 1895 Catalog - PUB266
Nicely accomplished reprinting of Ansonia's 1894 - 1895 clock catalog. It's 168 pages includes Antique Hall Clocks, Automatic Novelties, Black Walnut Hanging Clocks, Black Walnut Mantel Clocks, Brass and Bronze Clock Sets, Brass Hanging Clocks, Bronze Figural Clocks, Bronze Candelabra, Bronze Figurines, Bronze Pitchers, Bronze Swinging Clocks, Cabinet Clocks, Clock Material, Enameled Iron Clocks, Marble Clocks, Marine Lever Clocks, Mercurial Pendulum, Office Clocks, Onyx Clocks, Porcelain Clo... $14.95     View Details
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Ansonia Clocks and Watches by Tran Duy Ly 0930163877 Ansonia Clocks and Watches by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163877
Ansonia Clocks and Watches is a spectacular book. Its 752 pages are crammed with 3,061 illustrations depicting every single type of clock ever made by Ansonia as well as many of their additional products - side pieces, top ornaments, candlesticks, watches, and more. The bulk of the text is divided into 48 sections that cover all the types of clocks made by Ansonia, as well as movements, movement parts, and electroliers. An extensive 49-page section on sidepieces, top ornaments and cand... $75.00     View Details
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Calendar Clocks by Tran Duy Ly 0930163435 Calendar Clocks by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163435
Calendar Clocks shows just how rollers and pointers move at the appointed hour in flawless fashion after 100 or more years. How this minor miracle is accomplished daily is explained in clinical detail using ample photographs and drawings of cases, movements, wheels, rollers, hands, dials, labels and how to do it instructions. These detailed drawings can be used for intricate repairs and the fabrication and placement of missing parts. This 360 page volume covers 51 manufacturers and inv... $67.95     View Details
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Compensating Pendulums and How to Make Them 0930163532 Compensating Pendulums and How to Make Them - 0930163532
Compensating Pendulums is a reprint of a 1905 booklet. It consists of four essays, Pendulums and Their Construction by J.L. Finn; A New Free Pendulum by Sigmund Riefler; Compensating Pendulums by J.L. Finn; and A Mercury Pendulum for Watchmakers' Regulator. $9.95     View Details
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Gustav Becker Clocks by Tran Duy Ly 0964740656 Gustav Becker Clocks by Tran Duy Ly - 0964740656
Gustav Becker (1819-1885) was a dedicated and successful German clockmaker. In 1850, after being thoroughly trained in clockmaking in Germany and Vienna, he established a small clockmaking shop in Freiburg, Silesia (not the Black Forest Freiburg.) He struggled to produce clocks with an unskilled labor force until a design award in 1852 gave him the prestige to attract the quality of workers needed for success in this new industry. The firm prospered, and won many quality and performance award... $40.79     View Details
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Gustav Becker Clocks by Tran Duy Ly PB 0964740664 Gustav Becker Clocks by Tran Duy Ly (PB) - 0964740664
Gustav Becker (1819-1885) was a dedicated and successful German clockmaker. In 1850, after being thoroughly trained in clockmaking in Germany and Vienna, Mr. Becker established a small clockmaking shop in Freiburg, Silesia (not the Black Forest Freiburg). He struggled to produce clocks with an unskilled labor force until a design award in 1852 gave him the prestige to attract the quality of workers needed for success in this new industry. Gustav Becker Clocks prospered, and won many quality a... $34.50     View Details
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Ingraham Clocks Watches by Tran Duy Ly 0930163833 Ingraham Clocks & Watches by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163833
Ly's splendid volume Ingraham Clocks & Watches is divided into two major sections. The first is a lavishly illustrated history of Early Ingraham Clocks by Thomas Splitter. These early Ingraham clocks were produced by various Ingraham firms, all prior to 1860 and are organized chronologically. Round Gothic, Steeple Gothic, Ogee, Column and Cornice, Gallery Timepieces, Banjo, Scroll Front, and many more styles are illustrated and discussed as are the all important movements behind the clock fac... $44.75     View Details
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Kroeber Clocks American Imported 093016380X Kroeber Clocks American & Imported - 093016380X
Kroeber Clocks is a much needed and long awaited addition to the horologist's library. Finally, in one volume and in the quality of presentation that we have learned to expect of Tran Duy Ly, are the numerous clocks manufactured and imported by Florence Kroeber. The book is divided into three parts: American, Imported, and Others. The American section comprises approximately two-thirds of the entire book and includes Tran Duy Ly's important tips in selecting and appraising a Kroeber clock. T... $66.95     View Details
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Longcase Clocks and Standing Regulators by Tran Ly 0930163605 Longcase Clocks and Standing Regulators by Tran Ly - 0930163605
Long Case Clocks and Standing Regulators takes the serious collector and investor through hundreds of clocks made by fifty companies from several different countries. There is no other work available that provides nearly the coverage of this excellent reference. This book not only covers the general description of the various pieces but also provides the technical information necessary to allow the collector to be thoroughly informed prior to making a purchase. More importantly, the subtle di... $57.95     View Details
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New Haven Clocks Watches by Tran Duy Ly 0930163753 New Haven Clocks Watches by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163753
Tran Duy Ly has produced New Haven Clocks and Watches to complement his other books on Seth Thomas clocks, Waterbury clocks, Ansonia clocks and Welch clocks. These five firms combined to produce over 75% of the clocks manufactured in America. This exciting volume on New Haven clocks is produced to the usual high standards of the Arlington Book Company. It contains an amazing 38 chapters and over 500 pages on different types of New Haven clocks and a supplementary 2000 price guide. The ... $46.95     View Details
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Practical Balance and Hair Spring Work 093016346X Practical Balance and Hair-Spring Work - 093016346X
This is a 1992 reprinting of the 1925 edition of Practical Balance and Hair-Spring Work. From the Preface, The watch repairer seeking improvement in any feature of balance and hair-spring work may find just the information that will enable him to master the particular point that causes more or less difficulty in getting a balance true and in poise or in fitting a new hair spring, reforming an overcoil or truing a spring that has been damaged.Demonstrations used in the text ha... $11.95     View Details
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Sessions Clocks by Tran Duy Ly 0930163930 Sessions Clocks by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163930
"Sessions Clocks" is a comprehensive collection of the clocks produced by the Sessions Company. Author, Tran Duy Ly has organized the various types of clocks into distinctive sections which include alarm, automobile, banjo, calendar, hanging, leather cased, long case and a variety of mantel clocks. An section on sidepieces is also included. Each piece is illustrated and valued in the price update booklet that is included with the book. = = The history of the Sessions Clock Company by Chris Ba... $46.95     View Details
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Staff Making and Pivoting by Hall 0930163737 Staff Making and Pivoting by Hall - 0930163737
A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material by Eugene Hall is a reprint of an 1896 booklet from Geo. K. Hazlett Co., Publishers. "To produce a good balance staff requires more skill than to produce any other turned portion of a watch, and your success will depend not alone on your knowledge of its proper shapes and measurements, nor the tools at your command, but rather upon your skill with the graver an... $7.95     View Details
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The Escapements Their Action Construction and Proportion 0930163222 The Escapements: Their Action, Construction and Proportion - 0930163222
This is an unabridged republication of F.J. Britton's original work. In separate chapters, the volume covers the Anchor Escapement, Cylinder Escapement, Chronometer Escapement, Dead Beat Escapement, Duplex Escapement, Lever Escapement, Pin Pallet Escapement, Pin Wheel Escapement, and Verge Escapement. $9.50     View Details
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The Tower Clock and How to Make It 0930163303 The Tower Clock and How to Make It - 0930163303
Originally published in 1903, The Tower Clock and How to Make It is a practical and theoretical treatise on the construction of a chiming tower clock, with full working drawing photographed to scale. The clock was built for the University of Chicago by pupils of the Chicago Manual Training School, boys ranging from 14 to 18 years of age. The theoretical and time calculations were made by the instructor; but the drawings, patterns and machines work are the work of the boys. A very inter... $7.50     View Details
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Waterbury Clocks Watches Second Edition Volume 1 by Tran Duy Ly 0930163907 Waterbury Clocks & Watches, Second Edition, Volume 1 by Tran Duy Ly - 0930163907
With over 2,300 quality illustrations and photographs, Waterbury Clocks & Watches is the definitive reference for the products of the Waterbury Clock Company and its later forms as Ingersoll-Waterbury and United States Time Corporation, the predecessor to Timex. The main text is a comprehensive collection of the products produced by the Waterbury Company. Tran Duy Ly has organized the various types of clocks and related Waterbury objects into distinctive sections including alarm, autom... $59.50     View Details
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Welch Clocks 2004 Price Up Date PUB67 Welch Clocks 2004 Price Up-Date - PUB67
For those of you that already own a copy of Welch Clocks by Trans Duy Ly, you will be pleased with this new price update from Tran. Updated values for all 712 clocks covered in the main book are included. $13.00     View Details
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