Watch and Clock Making and Repairing - Dealing with the Construction and Repair of Watches, Clocks and Chronometers (Second Edition, Second Impression)

425 pages with more than 300 illustrations. Subject covered include: Tools and Equipment; Materials; Watch Movements; Clock Movements; Filing and Making Drills, Taps, and Screws, and Methods of Polishing; Turning; Gearing and Making Wheells and Pinions; Watch Escapements; Clock Escapements; Keyless Work, Self-Winding Mechanisms and Motion Work; Balances and Balance-Springs; Pendulums; Striking Mechanisms, Repeaters, Clock-Watches, Musical and Alarm Watches; Chronographs and Stop Watches, Calendar Watches and Clocks; Chronometers, Tourbillons and Karrusels; Cleaning Clocks and Watches, and Practical Hints; Appendix: Causes of Failure and Bad Timekeeping in Watches and Clocks; Index.