Practical Watch Repairing by Donald de Carle
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Book Reviews of Practical Watch Repairing
Book Review: Practical Watch Repairing
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a very detailed book with good drawings and explainations of proceedures and tools to help you understand what it takes to do watch repair. It's taken me a little effort to understand his style of writting, I think you could call it old english, considering the time and place it was written. A very good book for someone who wants to do any level of watch repair. This book will stay in my library.Book Review: pocket watch repair
Summary: 5 Stars
This is an excellent instruction manual for the beginner who enjoys the hobby of horology,it is lavishly illustrated with many practical tips to enable even the absolute novice to gain a proficiency in watch repair.Book Review: Cost efective solution
Summary: 5 Stars
Paying 5-6 dollars for a 50 cent battery is ridiculous. Buy the tools, and the battery packs for 50 to 75 cents each, and put them in yourself. It's easy to do, just a little practice, and it's a piece of cake.Book Review: so much detailed information
Summary: 4 Stars
I'm just getting into watch repair. Two weeks ago I knew absolutely nothing about watches.
I think I read somewhere that this book focused only on pocket watches but that's not the case. I bought a few Westclox pocket watches, hoping to use them to learn with. I soon discovered that Westclox watches are terrible for repair because most weren't meant to be disassembled.
This is not a perfect book - and it's not easy to understand but it is a terrific read and it has a wealth of information. There are many illustrations, but only a 30th of the number of illustrations that would really be necessary to see what the author is referring to in most cases.
My biggest complaint so far is that the author jumps into the most intricate minutia almost immediately, yet he says that he assumes we know absolutely nothing about watches.
I haven't finished this book, but really think that I'm going to need another more general book that explains how to take a watch apart - clean it - and put it back together. This book doesn't do a good job of explaining the big picture before diving into the details.
There are many, many tips and conversations based on determining if each part of your watch is absolutely perfect long before more general understanding of the parts has been offered.
Some of the illustrations are out of order and many illustrations are missing (not because of error - just omitted).
The author says that his publisher wanted a book that would teach even people who couldn't read how to repair a watch. Trust me, you have to know how to read to even start understanding this book.
Book Review: Very good resource but you will need more
Summary: 4 Stars
Mechanical watches are precision micro machines. It is unrealistic for anyone to think that it is possible to learn to repair mechanical watches just by reading books. There are drawn illustrations through out the book. However; the illustrations do not show step by step of the operations being discussed. On the other hand,in the age of the internet it is not difficult to overcome this problem. There are plenty information that can be found on the topic on the internet. There are documents showing step by step instructions to disassembled and reassembled a simple mechanical watch. However, even with these step by step instructions the only way to learn is through practicing. Together with information that you can find on the internet, you will then realize the gold that is hidden between the pages of this very affordable book. To Work on a mechanical watch you will need time, patience, steady hands and the right tools. The purpose of this book review is to help the interested readers to set realistic expectations of any book on watch repairing. Should you buy this book? If you are interested in mechanical watch repair then you must.