From the endear: "Known for his excellent draftsmanship in addition to his skill, author Henry Fried, America's leading horologist and teacher, has used these skills to illustrate the methods of doing a job. In many cases he illustrates and explains how one job can be done a number of ways, allowing the reader to select the method best suited to himself and his available equipment. The hard-to-find instructions in all types of hairspring work are found here and make this a book in itself. the tricks in correcting bent hairsprings, selecting new ones and vibrating, collecting and studding them are made remarkably clear with illustration not founding any other text. Jewelling of all types, lathework, the use of various lathe attachments, crewmaking, pivoting of wheels and pinions, regulator repairs and the many uses of the staking set are explained with these and others in over three hundred and fifty beautiful drawings and illustrations. Repairs to wheels with missing teeth are covered in a separate chapter in fine detail showing how this can be accomplished in the manner done by craftsmen. Repairs to regulators, uses of the universal faceplate, pivoting, jewelling tools, slide rest as well as various hand tools make this book even more useful. To those who restore antique watches, this book is especially valuable as it not only truthfully pictures the proper tools but explains the procedures carried out by masters in restoration leaving nothing to the imagination nor taking it for granted that the reader has prior training. Thus to the student as well, this book can be used as a standard test. It usually offers more than one way of doing a job." This edition, published in 1997, is a republication of the work originally published in 1954. The second edition was been revised and updated to include new methods and tools in 1974.
Price: $17.95
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