Watches - Pocket Watches

Abbott (H.G.): The Watch Factories of America
NEW. 145 pages, 50 illustrations, 1981. A reprint of a book first published in 1888 which claimed to be "a complete history of watchmaking in America from 1809 to 1888 inclusive, with sketches of the lives of celebrated American watchmakers and organisers". Card covers, some copies with slight fading to covers.
(Ref: N2111)
Price: £15.00

Alft (E.C.) & Briska (W.H.): Elgin Time: A History of the Elgin National Watch Company 1864 - 1968
NEW. 120 pages, illustrated, 2003. A good history of the Elgin Company with lots of information about the company, its products and the people who made them. Hardback with gilt tooled cover. (Ref: N1421)
Price: £38.50

[American Waltham Watch Co.]: Materials
NEW. 112 pages, illus., 1971. A reprint of the American Waltham Watch Company's watch materials catalogue for 1885 with prices. The catalogue claims to identify every part of every watch then in production. Card covers.
(Ref: N1330)
Price: £12.00

Aubert (D.): Montres et Horlogers Exceptionnels De La Vallée De Joux Volume I
NEW. 203 pages, illustrated, 1993. The first volume of a detailed history of watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux area of Switzerland from its origins to the present time. The industry's innovations and achievements are described in detail. This volume includes chapters about Aubert Frères, Emile Lecoultre, François Lecoultre, Charles-Ami Lecoultre-Piguet, astronomical watch Dent No. 32573 and equation watch Breguet No. 4377. [French language] (Ref: N1296)
Price: £67.50

Aubert (D.): Horlogers et Montres Exceptionnels De La Vallée De Joux Volume II
NEW. 215 pages, illustrated, 1997. The second volume of a detailed history of watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux area of Switzerland from its origins to the present time. The industry's innovations and achievements are described in detail. This second volume includes chapters on musical watches, John-César Piguet, Charles Piguet, Paul Piguet-Capt, Alfred Aubert and Louis-Benjamin Audemars. [French language] (Ref: N1297)
Price: £67.50

Aubert (D.): La Vallée des Montres et des Horlogers exceptionnels Volume III
NEW. 231 pages, illustrated, 2006. The third volume of a detailed history of watchmaking in the Vallée de Joux area of Switzerland from its origins to the present time. The industry's innovations and achievements are described in detail. This volume includes chapters on Samuel-Oliver Meylan, Louis Piguet, Nicole et Capt and their successors of London and the Joux Valley and Edmond Audemars. [French language] (Ref: N1298)
Price: £50.00

Bacon (D.H.): Watchmaking in Llangollen by Robert Hughes - a Genuine late-Nineteenth Century Welsh Watch Manufacturer
NEW. 111 pages, illustrated, 2000. A detailed study of the business of Robert Hughes, based on original documents and record books, which manufactured and retailed watches in the second half of the 19th century. The book shows the difficulty faced by British manufacturers caused by large scale importation of low cost watches. With dust jacket. (Ref: N394)
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Price: £27.00

Baillie (G.H.): Watches Their History , Decoration and Mechanism
NEW. 383 pages, 75 plates, facsimile reprint, 1979. Written in 1929 this is still a respected reference book on the subject and well worth reading. The book covers the history of 4 centuries of watch development with 189 b&w and 35 colour photographs, together with 82 line drawings of mechanisms. Essential reading. With dust jacket. (Ref: N506)
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Barrow (C.): The Pocket Watch: Restoration, Maintenance and Repair
NEW. 190 pages, 92 figures, 2009. A practical guide to cleaning and repairing pocket watches, using as examples six of the most typical types of watch from a period spanning the late 18th century to the early 20th century. The author takes the intelligent enthusiast through the cleaning and repair process, and aims to equip the reader with a sound basic knowledge of the process and all the tools and materials required.

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(Ref: N1906)
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Price: £18.99

Carrera (R.): Les Heures de L'Amour / Hours of Love / die Stunden der Liebe
O/P. 143 pages, illustrated (mostly in colour), no date. A short history of horological automata followed by descriptions and illustrations of enamelled and engraved watches with erotic automata. Excellent copy with very good dust jacket and card slipcase. [French, English and German language] (Ref: K1105)
Price: £95.00

Chaille (F.): Girard-Perregaux
NEW. 224 pages, well illustrated mainly in colour, English language edition, 2004. A well produced account of the famous Swiss firm of Girard-Perregaux from it origins in 1791 to today. The book opens with a brief history of time and continues with the history of the company illustrating fine examples of pocket watches and wristwatches made during the last 200 years. With dust jacket. (Ref: N704)

Clerizo (M.): Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking
NEW. 292 pages, 493 colour and 179 b&w illustrations, 2009. An interesting new book about 11 independent master watchmakers including George Daniels, Vincent Calabrese, Philippe Dufour, Franck Muller and Roger Smith. The author interviewed all eleven and records their enthusiasm, passion and motivation in designing and making superb watches, each chapter beautifully illustrated with photographs of their work. The work of an additional 18 fine independent watchmakers is also discussed and illustrated. With dust jacket.
(Ref: N2160)
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Price: £55.00

Cologni (F.): Jaeger-LeCoultre The Story of the Grande Maison
NEW. 381 pages, over 600 illustrations, 2006. A high quality, reference work on this famous company with details of its history and its watches from 1833 to today. The book includes an exhaustive list of the more than 1,000 calibres created by the firm since its inception. With dust jacket and smart slipcase. [English language edition]

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(Ref: N1341)
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Price: £120.00

Daniels (G.): The Art of Breguet
O/P. 394 pages, well illustrated with 427 b&w illustrations and 12 colour plates, 1st edition, 3rd impression, 1986. A magnificent volume, now the standard reference work, about the life and work of Abraham Louis Breguet and his successors. A pristine, unused copy with excellent dust jacket.

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(Ref: K950)
Price: £160.00

De Carle (D.): Complicated Watches and Their Repair
NEW. 174 pages, 217 figures, 2005. First published in 1956 this book has been reprinted many times as it is an essential reference book for the watch repairer and restorer. The book covers automatic watches, chronographs, alarm watches, calendar watches and repeaters from all the major manufacturers. With dust jacket. (Ref: N646)
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Price: £18.50

De Carle (D.): Practical Watch Adjusting & Springing
NEW. 150 pages, 4 plates, 186 figures, reprinted 2006. Writing in 1977, Donald De Carle observed that watch adjusting and springing had reached its peak - quartz watches being superior timekeepers. If you work on watches with balance springs then you need this book, it will enable you to get the best out of a mechanical watch. With dust jacket. (Ref: N513)
Price: £17.50

Edgcumbe (R.): The Art of the Gold Chaser in Eighteenth-Century London
NEW. 197 pages, 25 colour and 139 b&w illustrations, 2000. This is an excellent book and is the first detailed study of the chasing of watchcases and gold boxes in the eighteenth century. This book charts the international origins of the chasers, their training and techniques, the engraved sources for their designs, and their relationships with the patrons and watchmakers who commissioned their work. The chasers worked for all the leading watchmakers of the day including George Graham, the Ellicotts and Thomas Mudge. With dust jacket. (Ref: N703)
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Price: £50.00

Fallet (E.): Tissot: 150 Years of History 1853 - 2003
NEW. 351 pages, well illustrated, 2003. A detailed history of the Tissot company from its founding in Le Locle to the present day. The book includes information on the Tissot family, the growth of the firm, manufacturing, sales and marketing, etc. The appendices include a list of calibres produced and a list of manufacturing year by watch serial number. Essential reading for Tissot enthusiasts. [English language edition] (Ref: N990)
Price: £65.00

Hoke (D.R.): The Time Museum Historical Catalogue of American Pocket Watches
NEW. 330 pages, illustrated, 1991. An important book on American pocket watches, describing the 374 items in the Time Museum collection, many of them illustrated. The book opens with two historical essays: A Survey of the American Watch Industry and The Development of Watch Manufacturing at the Waltham Watch Company 1849 - 1910. The watches are described in five sections: Pre-Factory production 1771 - 1850; Jeweled Watch Manufacturers; Dollar Watch Manufacturers; Cheap Watch Manufacturers and Experimental and Independent makers 1850 - 1972. (Ref: N1885)
Price: £85.00

LeCoultre (F.): A Guide to Complicated Watches
NEW. 217 pages, 54 figures, 3rd edition, English language, 2004. A good book by a former professor at the Geneva School of Watchmaking. All types of complication are discussed in detail - striking mechanisms, astronomical work, chronographs, jumping seconds, quarter repeaters, perpetual calendars, equation work, etc. A useful book for enthusiasts and restorers. (Ref: N953)
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Price: £37.50

Leiter (A.) & Helfrich-Dörner (A.): Email-Uhren
O/P. 275 pages, well illustrated, 1977. The subtitle of the book is The History and Technology of Enamelling on Pocket Watch Cases which is described, in English and German, in the first 40 pages. The remainder of the book contains excellent photographs of enamelled pocket watches and a few clocks together with explanations of the mythology which inspired the decoration. Excellent copy with very good dust jacket. [English and German language] (Ref: K1944)
Price: £24.00

Levenberg (J.): Russian Wristwatches, Pocket Watches, Stop Watches, Deck Watches & Marine Chronometers
NEW. 96 pages, 505 items illustrated, 1995. With an increasing number of Russian watches and chronometers arriving in the West this book is a useful guide for collectors. The book includes a guide to Cyrillic inscriptions and a price guide in US dollars, the prices now somewhat out of date. Card covers. (Ref: N1282)
Price: £16.95

Linder (P.): At the Heart of an Industrial Vocation - Longines Watch Movements (1832 - 2007)
NEW. 621 pages, illustrated, English language edition, 2007. A massive new tome published to celebrate Longines 175th anniversary of its establishment in 1832. The book is a summary of all the watch calibres produced together with a technical analysis of the evolution of the watch movement during the different phases of organisation within the Swiss watch industry. A very large book measuring 30.5 x 30.5 x 6 cm and weighing 4 kg, with dust jacket. (Ref: N1514)
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Price: £65.00

Marti (L.): A Region in Time
NEW. 382 pages, illustrated 2007. A socio-economic history of the Swiss valley of St. Imier and the surrounding area, from 1700 to 2007. Published to celebrate the 175th anniversary of Longines this excellent new book traces the history of watchmaking and other industries in the Jura region where watches have been manufactured for over 300 years. Many great watchmaking names are mentioned including Longines, Blancpain, Chopard, Minerva and Reymond. With dust jacket. (Ref: N1518)
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Price: £65.00

Osterhausen (F. von): The Movado History
NEW. 234 pages, 270 illustrations, 1996. The Movado Company, of La Chaux-de-Fonds, was founded in 1881 by the Ditisheim family. This is a high quality book, produced with the cooperation of Movado, with excellent illustrations and detailed information. With dust jacket and card slipcase. (Ref: N1528)
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Price: £67.50

Pfeiffer-Belli (C.): Die Taschenuhrensammlung von Gerd Ahrens
NEW. 2 volumes, 655 pages, about 1250 illustrations, number 187 of 1200 copies, 2006. An excellent reference book, describing and illustrating the Gerd Ahrens collection of 538 pocket watches with escapement drawings by David Penney. Each watch is described and illustrated with at least two colour photographs and a drawing of the escapement. The watches are grouped by their escapement type into 7 chapters (verge, cylinder, duplex, chronometer, tourbillon/karrusel, lever, miscellaneous). With dust jackets and slipcase. [German language] (Ref: N2110)
Price: £175.00

Rössler: Zenith - Precision Watches Since 1865
NEW. 328 pages, illustrated, English language edition, 2008. George Favre-Jacot founded this famous watchmaking business in 1865, the Zenith brand name was used from 1897 onwards. A history of the firm and a well illustrated detailed survey of the pocket watches, deck watches, chronometers and wristwatches produced. The company also made a small number of clocks and precision pendulum regulators which are also documented here.
(Ref: N1934)
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Price: £80.00

Sabrier (J.-C.): Fredéréric Houriet - The Father of Swiss Chronometry
NEW. 227 pages, well illustrated, 2006. An excellent monograph on Jacques-Frédéric Houriet (1743 - 1830) who was born in Neuchâtel, trained in Paris from the age of 16, and returned home to live in Le Locle at the age of 25. Houriet spent the next 60 years researching and making discoveries of great use to the watchmaking industry. [English language edition.] (Ref: N1295)
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Price: £80.00

Schaeder (A.): The Proletarian Watch
NEW. 215 pages, illustrated, [ 2006 ]. An interesting book about Georges Frederic Roskopf and his idea to produce a reliable and affordable watch, thus making a pocket watch available to the masses. This well researched book has notes about the family written by Roskopf's great great granddaughter, details of Roskopf's patents and details of Roskopf watches made by several different companies in the 19th and early 20th century. (Ref: N1515)
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Price: £34.50

Shenton (A.): Pocket Watches of the 19th & 20th Century
NEW. 431 pages, well illustrated, reprinted 2008. A detailed account of pocket watch manufacture from 1800 to 1940, including English, American and Swiss examples. These watches were made in significant numbers hence are affordable as well as collectable. With dust jacket. (Ref: N280)
Price: £45.00

[Smiths] compiled by Smith (B): Smiths Watches
O/P. 277 pages, illustrated, 2009. A history of watch production by the Smiths group of companies with details of the pocket and wristwatches produced at the factories in Cheltenham and Ystradgynlais (Wales). The wide range of watches produced between 1947 and 1974 is shown in the 16 surviving catalogues reprinted here. Card covers. (Ref: N2146)
Price: £18.00

Thompson (D.): The British Museum Watches
NEW. 175 pages, 270 illustrations, 2008. A new book telling the story of the watch, describing and illustrating 77 watches selected from the magnificent collection of watches held by The British Museum. The earliest example was made circa 1560, the latest in 2007. Each watch is illustrated in colour with excellent photographs of dial, movement and case. With dust jacket. (Ref: N1749)
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Price: £25.00

Thompson (D.): Watches in the Ashmolean Museum
NEW. 92 pages, illustrated in colour, 2007. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has one of the most important collections of watches outside of the national collections in London. This book illustrates and fully describes 31 pocket watches which show the history and development of watch design and decoration, with examples of the art of the goldsmith, engraver, chaser, enameller and lapidary from the mid-16th to the mid-19th century. The hardback edition. (Ref: N1751)
Price: £11.95

Zantke (H.): Louis-Benjamin Audemars - Sein Leben und Werk / His Life and Work
NEW. 507 pages, 169 b&w & 434 colour illustrations, 2003. The sub-title of the book is: The Rise and Fall of a Watchmaking Dynasty. The story of Louis-Benjamin Audemars (1782 - 1833) and his sons, arguably the most important Swiss watchmakers of the 19th Century. The firm designed and made watches with as many new and different complications as possible and won awards at many International Exhibitions. With dust jacket and card slipcase. This is a large heavy book, 3.8 kg when packed. [English and German language] (Ref: N2192)
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Price: £85.00