It's that time of year again! No new books to tempt you with this month but we have put together a list of some interesting recent publications which will all make good Christmas presents. Print off the list, mark up the books you really want, and leave it where your nearest and dearest are sure to find it!

Watchmaking
George Daniels

Sadly George Daniels died peacefully at home in the Isle of Man on 21st October 2011. Daniels' legacy to the world is the co-axial escapement and his books will be a lasting memorial to a great horologist. This is a superb book, which explains in detail how to design and make all the parts of a watch. Daniels' aim in writing the book was to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking - the aim has been achieved as the book has been constantly in demand since it was first published in 1981. This edition has an additional portrait of Daniels and 3 new plates (numbered 0, 23 & 24). With dust jacket.

New copy. 420 pages, portraits, 25 plates, 777 figures, 4th edition, 2011

£50.00                Order Here 

Rabushka (J.): Repair and Restore Your 400-Day Clock                   
New copy. 92 pages, 68 figures, 2010.                       £19.50                Order Here 

Savoie (D.): Sundials - Design, Construction, and Use                         
New copy. 181 pages, illustrated, 2009.                      £19.99                 Order Here 

Synchronome - Masters of Electrical Timekeeping
Robert H A Miles

A well researched and comprehensive work on the Synchronome company, their master clock in all its forms and variants, and their slave dials and ancillary equipment. The book also has chapters on the development of the precision clock by William Hamilton Shortt with a list of all known Shortt clocks, the detail of their order-book specification, original location and subsequent history where known. This will be the standard reference on Synchronome and Shortt clocks for many years to come. With dust jacket.

New copy. 274 pages, over 300 illustrations, 1st edition, 2011.

£65.00     Order Here 

Alpern (A.) & O'Gorman (J.F.): Catalogue of the Andrew Alpern Collection of Drawing Instruments                         
New copy, illustrated, 2010.                             £43.00                  Order Here

Baker (G.L.): Seven Tales of the Pendulum                         
New copy. 227 pages, illustrated, 2011.           £25.00                  Order Here

A Dial in Your Poke
Mike Cowham

A new enlarged edition of a good book about pocket sundials of all types with detailed explanations of how to use them. The book has around 25% new additional content and is now A4 in size, with useful appendices on caring for dials, fakes, magnetic deviation and museums with sundial collections. In case you are wondering 'he drew a dial from his poke' is a quotation from Shakespeare. With dust jacket.

New copy. 208 pages, over 300 colour illustrations, 2nd edition, 2011.

£49.50      Order Here       

Marmottan (P.): A.-L. Breguet son génie, sa légende, son oeuvre / his genius, his fame, his work                         
New copy. 72 pages, illustrated; plus 20 pages, illustrated; no date.                             £50.00                  Order Here

Treffry (T.) & Treffry (A.) (editors): BHI 150                         
New copy. 248 pages, well illustrated, 2010.                             £52.50                  Order Here

Riefler Präzisions-Pendeluhren von 1890 - 1965
Riefler (D.)

The book commences with the inventions of Siegmund Riefler, which resulted in the production of precision clocks from 1890 onwards, and charts the development and production of precise regulators by the firm of Clemens Riefler up to 1965. An excellent book, with lots of technical information, Riefler produced some of the most accurate pendulum clocks of the 20th century. A fine copy, with fine dust jacket. [German language]

200 pages, 183 illustrations, 2nd edition 1991.

£230 less 10% discount     Order Here     

***** We only have 1 copy in stock *****

Betts (J.): Harrison                         
New copy. 96 pages, over 60 illustrations, enlarged edition, 2007.                         £8.00                  Order Here

Jendritzki (H.) & Matthey (J.P.): Repairing Antique Pendulum Clocks                         
New copy. 96 pages, lots of figures, 1973                     £45.00                  Order Here

Comtoise Clocks - The Morbier, the Morez
Maitzner & Moreau

A very good book about the clocks from the Franche-Comté region of eastern France, near the Swiss border. The book opens with a history of Comtoise clocks and their development with details of escapements and striking mechanisms. Many different mechanisms, from many periods, are described and illustrated which will be of great help to restorers. The book concludes with a detailed listing of Franche-Comté makers, a guide to dating clocks from their features and a bibliography. Long out of print. A fine copy with fine dust jacket, still in publishers cardboard box.

449 pages, 22 colour plates, 474 b&w photographs, 1st English language edition, 1991.

£220.00 less 10% discount     Order Here    

***** We only have 1 copy in stock *****

We wish you all a very Happy Christmas and New Year and thank you for your valued custom over the last 12 months.

Please see the main website for full details of all the above books and for our full range of new and out of print titles on clocks, watches etc.