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	1901 Goldsmiths Company Watch and Clock Catalog - 0930163494 This is a 1994 republication of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Ltd's 1901 Watch and Clock Catalog. The 52-page booklet depicts a broad range of pocket and wrist watches and clocks of sizes ranging from miniature carriage clocks to grandfather clocks. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A Guide to Complicated Watches by Francois LeCoultre - 288175001X LeCoultre's A Guide to Complicated Watches is considered by many to the best work available on complications. It addresses striking mechanisms, astronomical work, chronographs, jumping seconds, quarter repeaters, perpetual calendars, equation work, and more. The direct writing style and excellent illustrations provide the novice reader with a good understanding of the topics at hand. The more experienced craftsman will refer to it frequently. The author, Francois LeCoultre, was a profe... $69.50     View Details Add To Cart
	A History of Watch Companies of America - PUB62 "Watch Companies of America" is a self-published, spiral bound book compiled in 1978 by Jimmie C. Dixon. = = From the forward = = "The main objective to my writing this book was to assist the beginning collector or watches in learning all that he or she could about the companies that produced American watches. I was also disappointed in that there was no one publication to which I could turn to that would give me information about the names of the various American companies, the dates of thei... $47.50     View Details Add To Cart
	American Watch Co., 1884 Orleans Expo Catalog Reprint - PUB283 The American Watch Co., later known as the American Waltham Co., distributed this catalog at the Cotton Centennial Exposition, a World Fair held in 1884 - 1885. The 40-page reprint contains 14 pages of text that describe the operations in manufacturing at the Waltham Works at that date. Numerous interesting trade advertisements are presented. These concern both watch and clock firms, as well as many supporting industries. This catalog is a significant record concerning the technological devel... $2.95     View Details Add To Cart
	American Wristwatches, Five Decades of Style by Unger - 0764301713 Introduced into a skeptical American marketplace early in the twentieth century, the wristwatch soon caught the consumer's imagination. American watch manufacturers quickly adopted the form and brought their ingenuity and creativity to bear on the style and design of the wristwatch. Fifty years of innovation and beauty follow, and this beautiful book brings you the story in word and picture. Illustrated with over 600 full color pictures, the text brings life to many of the people who influenc... $58.35     View Details Add To Cart
	Automatic Wristwatches from Germany, England, France, Japan, Russia and the USA - 0764303791 This book is long overdue documentation on automatic wristwatches from countries other than Switzerland. These watches were always considered superior micro-mechanical products and posed a challenge to technicians. It was only a question of time, before the collectors' interest in these watches expanded from Swiss watches to those of other origins. A total of 123 watches are illustrated in three different views and are described in detail. $56.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland by Hampel - 0887406092 On the outside the Swiss automatic wristwatch is like its counterpart, but within the case lies an entirely different world. In Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland: Self-Winding Wristwatches over 200 watches are shown inside and out. Three photos are given to show the dial, and the complete and partly disassembled movement for each clock. The book discusses all the Swiss manufacturers and provides an historical overview of the development of automatic watches from 1926 to 1978. Inf... $57.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches - PUB268 Book of Enameled Watches and Brooches is The New England Watch Company catalogue, circa 1901, reprinted in full color for the 1998 by the Southern Ohio Regional, of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc. Very little is known about this short lived company which was famous for its enameled cases. The book concludes with a short 1962 interview with George Tetro, a former employee of The New England Watch Company. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Breitling Watches: The History of a Great Brand of Watches 1884 - Present - 0764310062 Breitling - one watch made this name famous worldwide, the Navitimer. In 1952 this watch was a sensation. The chronograph, along with the calculator, enabled airplane pilots to carry out all necessary calculations during flight. The Navitimer was a valuable on-board instrument, and remains a valuable collectible today. Breitling developed watches for more than just pilots and the aircraft industry. This book shows the whole spectrum of the firm's products since its founding in 1884, and gives... $40.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Busiest House in America 1889 Illustrated Catalogue - PUB148 This is a big catalog (472 pages) and it has a slew of products in it. Silver, particularly Rogers Bros, Clocks from Waterbury, Seth Thomas, Ithaca Calendar, and Gilbert Co., pocket watches with Waltham and Illinois Watch Co. movements, walking canes and fancy umbrellas, fountain pens by Peerless and Crown, pocket toothpicks, and lots of jewelry are all beautifully illustrated. Printed 30 years ago in 1974, the covers have faded somewhat. $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Centuries of Style: Watches - 1840131268 Personal timepieces did not exist until the 16th century when the mainspring was invented, enabling clocks to become portable. As the horological science became more sophisticated, moving parts of timepieces became smaller, and during the 18th century pocket watches became fairly commonplace among the richer members of society. With intricate movements and ever more elaborate cases, pocket watches were items of great beauty. in the early 19th century the first wrist watches were produced, but... $6.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Timepieces: Seven Decades of Memories - 088740426X In 1933, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company produced a round Mickey Mouse wristwatch that is considered to be the first comic character watch. It started a movement that has continued for ninety years and shows little sign of letting up. This delightful book covers the history of character timepieces from the earliest clocks to the present day quartz wristwatches. With hundreds of beautiful color photographs it is a celebration of American imagination and artistry. Nearly every character watch ... $62.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Comic Character Wristwatches - 0764313290 The first Mickey Mouse comic character wristwatch, introduced by Ingersoll-Waterbury Company in 1933, started a craze which continues to today. Comic Character Wristwatches includes advertising & movie promotion watches, as well as contemporary comic characters from such scripts and cartoons Peanuts, Looney Tunes, The Simpsons, South Park, etc.). Over 375 color photos, descriptions, and pricing are compiled in this guide. Most of the watches represented were manufactured between 1970-2... $14.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Complicated Watches and Their Repair by de Carle - 0719800900 Complicated Watches and Their Repair deals with all complicated work from the relatively simple automatic to the triple-complicated watch with chronograph, calendar and repeater work, and the very complicated clock watch. The action of each mechanism is briefly and clearly described. Dismantling and assembly instructions are given, oiling charts and, most important, hints on fault finding and their rectification. Exceptional care has been taken in the preparation of diagrams, which ha... $26.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Elgin Reminiscences - Making Watches by Machinery 1869 - PUB282 The Elgin National Watch Company was not incorporated until May 12, 1874. Originally the firm was organized as the National Watch Co. of Chicago Illinois. Consequently all of the reproduced data within this publication refers to the latter organization. The formation of this company with western capitalists in combination with Eastern technologists and a few English dial workers, represents an extremely story and industrial history. Most of the watch making talent came from personnel formerly... $4.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Elgin Time: A History of the Elgin National Watch Company 1864-1968 - 094396394X In the mid-1920s, the world's largest watchmaking complex was located in Elgin, Illinois. The huge factory enclosed more than 21 acres of floor space. Nearby was a school to train watchmakers, an observatory to calibrate timepieces by stars, plus a large boarding house and gymnasium for use by the employees. Over four thousand people were employed producing more than one million watch movements a year. The Elgin National Watch Company dominated the U.S. watch market, and its influence was fel... $35.00     View Details Add To Cart
	Helpful Information for Watchmakers from the Waltham Watch Co. - 0930163214 This booklet was originally produced by the Waltham Watch Co. to provide watchmakers with a brief explanation of certain improvements in the mechanical construction of Waltham Watch Movements. It's not brief; it offers much information in its 95 pages. Click on the above image of the Table of Contents to see full contents. $9.95     View Details Add To Cart
	Illinois Watch Co., Six Historically Significant Watches - PUB289 This small brochure was prepare by Bernie Levine in conjunction with a lecture in 1999. The six pocket watches presented her are very nicely illustrated and captioned. Included is the First 18 Size Open Face Stem Wind Lever Set Model in America, The First Open Face Stem Wind Lever Set Railroad Grade Model in America, and the First model with Elinvar Hairspring and Invar Balance. $4.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Illinois Watches & Their Makers Reprint - PUB287 Illinois Watches and Their Makers is a collection of talks, articles and letters which appeared in the factory paper as well as in the advertising literature. Originally published in 1920, the booklet was reprinted by the Southern Ohio Regional N.A.Q.C.C.in 1999. The articles are numerous and include, for example, Watch Dials Connect Us with Timekeeping Methods of Remotest Antiquity; A Timepiece of Three Hundred Years Ago: and Illinois Watch Company Wireless Time Headquarters for the Central ... $4.50     View Details Add To Cart
	Keystone Watch Case Co., 1919 Material Catalog - 0963166905 The Keystone Watch Case Co. s 1919 material catalog features materials from the Howard Watch Co., Crown Watch Co., and the New York Standard Watch Co. $9.50     View Details Add To Cart

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