Complicated watches and their repair

by Donald De Carle

Book Overview

Dealing with a complicated watch used to be a rare job for the watch repairer, but with the popularity of the automatic, it is almost commonplace. Furthermore, the increased interest in calendar work,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517292521
• ISBN13: 9780517292525
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Bonanza Book
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great horological book

This book cover the maintence of several automatic movements, chronographs, split seconds and repeaters. Unfortunately it dont't cover the tourbillon. Whereas the book was written in 1956, there are no mention for the Valjoux 7750 movement series nor the new complicated movements such as the IWC Da Vinci caliber with perpetual calendar.

A complement to Practical Watch Repairing

I don't agree with the last review. This book has to be viewed as a complement, a second volume, to Practical Watch Repairing of the same author. You have to read the first book to fully understand it. If you look at this book as a second volume of the classic Practical Watch Repairing, it deserves 4 stars. It does not cover new automatic movements from the 70s and 80s, but every automatic system used by the industry is documented. Well, if you can repair an ETA or Omega from the 50s or 60s, you can repair a movement from the 80s and 90s. That's my point of view.