Practical Watch Repairing

Practical Watch Repairing
by Donald de Carle

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Author: Donald de Carle
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-09-17
ISBN: 1602393575
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing

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Book Review: Incredibly useful book for watch hobbyists.
Summary: 5 Stars

This has been a very useful reference book for the various (and sadly often lost) tricks and secrets of the watchmaking trade. It's a bit dated, but then again so are the antique windup watches that a collector is likely to confront trying to make run again.

I just wish the book came with its own live watchmaker from 1946 to actually demonstrate the various techniques described in the book. I learned a lot anyway.

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Summary of Practical Watch Repairing

Horology expert Donald de Carle reveals how to repair and adjust the modern watch.

The absorbing and everlasting subject of watch repairing has been dealt with in books in many languages throughout the years. But when de Carle first set out to write Practical Watch Repairing in 1946, it was with the intention of creating a textbook "that a watchmaker can understand, even if he can't read." With over 550 instructional black-and-white illustrations and an approach that assumes no prior watch-repairing experience, this book achieves and surpasses that lofty mission, and has been touted as "the best illustrated book on practical horology" (Horological Journal) ever written. For the readers in his audience, de Carle has provided well-informed discourse on every topic a watchmaker, or aspiring watchmaker, needs to know. With Practical Watch Repairing, even a layman can become a watch-repair specialist.
553 b/w illustrations

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