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 many views provided will help identify correct dials, hands, pendulums, weights, gongs, movements and trim.
New Haven Clocks and Watches starts with an 11-page history and chronology written by the noted horologist Chris Bailey. Chris clearly develops the story of the giant of American clockmaking, Chauncey Jerome, and his relationship with Hiram Camp, the first president of the New Haven Clock Company. Perhaps if Camp had named the firm the Chauncey Jerome Clock Company he would have captured its true identity in the way the Seth Thomas Clock Company did. But this did not happen. This caused problems for the fledgling New Haven Clock Company when it tried to sell its products in England. The British identified the name Jerome with quality American clocks and were willing to accept no substitutes. To overcome the situation New Haven used the name of their independent British sales firm, Jerome and Co., and New Haven clocks with the Jerome and Co. label were successfully sold in England from 1856 to 1904. Even today the name Jerome in England is bigger than Seth Thomas and E. N. Welch combined.
New Haven Clocks and Watches, like Tran Duy Ly's other books, is well-written and easy to use. It contains over 2,200 quality illustrations and photographs. The section on kitchen clocks contains the most models ever seen in print. In addition to hundreds of pages of clocks there are 24 pages of New Haven watches. The 50 pages of movements and parts have extremely clear and detailed illustrations of 61 New Haven movements. Most of these pages show a front and rear view of the movements and each movement part is clearly identified. For the repairman, these 50 pages alone are worth the price of the book.
Price: $47.50
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