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	Practical Clock Repairing by Donald de Carle - 0719800005 The repair of clocks calls for a variety of skills and crafts, few of which can be picked up by benchwork alone. In the horological trade it is technical practice that the prentice hand is first tried out on clocks, before attempting work on watches. Clocks have the advantage of possessing sizable and robust parts and of being easier to handle. But there are the advantage for the repairer ends. The sizes, shapes, complications and even the nationalities of clocks appear to be without end. Eve... $24.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Precision Pendulum Clocks - France, Germany, America, and Recent Advancements - 0764320211 This long-awaited volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. In France, renowned clockmakers include the Berthouds, the Lepautes, Robin, Janvier, Lepine, LeRoy and Leroy, Bourdier, Jacot and Jarossay. In Germany the primary emphasis is on Riefler, Strasser, and Rohde, but the works of other important makers are also considered. America's contribution to precision timeke... $74.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Precision Pendulum Clocks: The Quest for Accurate Timekeeping - 0764316362 The incredible story of how leading clockmakers, primarily of England, struggled to control accurate timekeeping for over 300 years. A thorough yet concise text is accompanied by nearly 1,000 photographs of clocks which demonstrate each fascinating development. Georgian, Regency, and Victorian advances are shown to have contributed to the eventual success of accurately measuring time, that is so crucial to the success of todays highly integrated society. = = Chapters include: * Finding and Ke... $54.75     View Details Add To Cart
	Royal Clocks: The British Monarchy and its Timekeepers 1300-1900 - 0709195621 There has never before been a major work on British royal clocks. This book, based on years of research and written by one of Britain's leading horological historians, is magnificently illustrated with some 400 photographs, over half of them in color, making it the most complete and authoritative survey of its subject ever undertaken. Most of the pictures have been taken especially for this volume, in the royal palaces and residences, but they also include the world-famous 'Silver King' Tompi... $39.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Russell & Jones Clock Co. 1890 Catalog Reprint - PUB276 The Russell & Jones Clock Company is the successor to the Terry Clock Company. This is a reprint of their 1890 catalog. Is presents a large number of clocks, including novelty clocks, alarm clocks, carriage clocks, marine levers, pendulum spring clocks, regulators, marble finished mantle clocks and bronze side figures. A four-page history of the Terry Clocks Co. concludes the volume. $6.25     View Details Add To Cart
	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 Add To Cart
	Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements, 3rd Edition - 2 Volumes - 093016394X Tran Duy Ly's Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements has been regarded as the best singular company clock book every published. Until now the most recent edition was published in 1996 and has been long out-of-print. The few used copies that made it to the market has demanded astronomical prices as the information contained in this book is near priceless for the dealer and collector. The new 3rd edition is much improved over earlier editions. Volume one is a whopping 576 pages with Arlington Books ... $125.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements, 3rd Edition - Volume 1 - 093016394XA It is here! Perhaps the most popular company clock book, Tran Duy Ly's Seth Thomas Movements and Clocks has long been out of print. Used copies have demanded hundreds of dollars on Ebay regardless of condition or age. The new 3rd edition is improved over earlier editions. Now in two volumes, we are offering volume one here. Volume two is offered separately. Volume one is a whopping 576 pages with Arlington Books typical high quality paper and hardcover binding. Tran Duy Ly s important... $64.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements, 3rd Edition - Volume 2 - 093016394XB Tran Duy Ly's Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements has been regarded as the best singular company clock book every published. Until now the most recent edition was published in 1996 and has been long out-of-print. The few used copies that made it to the market has demanded astronomical prices as the information contained in this book is near priceless for the dealer and collector. This new 2005 edition of Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements has been expanded into a huge two volume set. The f... $64.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Striking Clocks: A Hands on Survey - PUB77 Joseph Baier's Striking Clocks: A Hands on Survey is an excellent practical and technical reference for anyone repairing clocks with strikework. It was designed as supplementary reading to Mr. Baier's seminars offered through the American Watchmakers Institute. The survey should be considered as a laboratory outline in that it is used during the actual hands-on approach to the learning process. $11.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Blodgett Signal Clock Catalog Reprint - PUB274 Blodgett Brothers & Company was an early electrical business started in Boston by two brothers, George and Aaron Blodgett in 1878. Both men were graduates of MIT. Their business consisted of a variety of electrical goods including bells, electric fire detector systems, electric batteries, watchmen's clocks, and an electrically operated program disc machine for the automatically operated ringing of bells for the starting of passenger trains in railroad stations. Around 1894, Blodgett Brothers... $4.25     View Details Add To Cart
	The Canada and Hamilton Clock Companies - 091978321X The Canada and Hamilton Clock Companies is a study of three early Canadian clock manufacturers - the Canada Clock Company or Whitby, Ontario, The Hamilton Clock Company of Hamilton, Ontario, and The Canada Clock Company, Ltd., also of Hamilton. The well-written book discusses the men involved in the companies and how the companies are related. The clocks are also addressed as is the question Are the clocks truly Canadian. Illustrated throughout, with a special picture presentation near... $45.00     View Details Add To Cart
	The Clock Book: An Overview of Heirloom & Contemporary Clocks in American Homes - 0962045632 Philip Balcomb's books are excellent introductions to the world of clocks. "The Clock Book" is no exception. It is a well-written overview of heirloom and contemporary clocks that one typically would find in an American home. In 179 pages, it introduces the reader to the history of timekeeping and the problems encountered in keeping time. It discusses the elements of a clock and clock case materials, construction and decoration. A broad survey of clock movements is included, as well as a chap... $18.79     View Details Add To Cart
	The E. Howard Clock Company 1923 Catalogue Reprint - PUB144 This 47-page catalog covers a broad range of products. Much of it is architecturally related and quite a few clocks are shown in actual settings. There is a two page list of banks that use The E. Howard Clock Company's clocks and a list of organizations that have time system installations. There is a large section dedicated to secondary clock systems, and sections on astronomical regulators, program clocks, marine and locomotive clocks, and post and sidewalk clocks. $12.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Horolovar 400-Day Clock Suspension Spring Guide First Editon Reprint - PUB128 In 1949, the Horolovar Company was founded by Mr. Charles Terwilliger. From its inception, the Horolovar Company dealt specifically with old and new 400-day clocks. The company also served as a repair station in the United States for several makers of 400-day clocks that had originally been purchased in U.S. Military Post Exchanges (PXs) operating all over the world. The 400-day clocks manufactured prior to the early 1950s were relatively poor time keepers due to the effects of temperature ch... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	The Leavenworths & Their Assoc., Mr Terry's Waterbury Competitors - PUB290 This 42 page essay on the Leavenworths and their associates was originally published in the Bulletin of the NAWCC in June 1979. Written by Chris H. Bailey, it is densely packed with information and numerous photographs of the watches and people involved in this Waterbury firm. $3.95     View Details Add To Cart
	The Terry Clock Co.'s 1875 Catalog Reprint - 0930476107 After nearly 40 years of struggles and failures, in 1867 Silas B. Terry formed the Terry Cock Company at Waterbury, Connecticut with the aid of his four sons. It was his final chance to achieve business success and financial security. Lack of operating capital spelled doom to his firm just four year after Terry's death in 1876. Though revived in Massachusetts for a few years, the firm disappeared forever in 1893. During September of 1875 the Terry Clock Company issued a small catalog of 24 pa... $7.00     View Details Add To Cart
	The Theory of Horology - 2940025126 The Theory of Horology is THE reference book on the subject - used in most Watchmaking Schools in Switzerland and worldwide. It covers everything from timekeeping in the age of Stonehenge to detailed sketches and explanations of minute repeaters and perpetual calendars. The book lays out all the information used in the industry today-everything a student of horology needs to know. It ends with an eight page section on exercises (with answers given, of course) which is quite interesting. $154.50     View Details Add To Cart
	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... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Trumbull County Clock Industry, 1812 - 1835 - PUB285 From 1812 until 1835, Trumbull County, Ohio was home to a large wooden works clock industry that produced at least 75,000 inexpensive luxury items to the many states west of the Allegheny Mountains. Clocks survive with dial inscriptions of L.W. Lewis, W. Lewis, G. Lewis, G. Lewis, C. Lewis, A. Merrell, P. Deming, A. Hart, D. R. Hartson, and Hart & Truesdale. Other factories or assembly shops were those of Abraham Lewis, Levi Lewis, McMaster, Hartson & Co., Thomas Lewis, Abel Tyler & Joel Huma... $11.25     View Details Add To Cart

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