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Wristwatch Annual 2009: The Catalog of Producers, Prices, Models, and Specifications
by Abbeville Press (Paperback)

Each year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited edition watches, and new producers, keeping this field exciting for collectors. Following the success of last year's book, this new annual features over 1,700 of the world's most luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and complete specifications for each watch. With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have a wealth of information close at hand: the book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and within each producer's section are specifications and materials for each watch, including price, movement, special features, complications, case, dial, band, and available variations of a particular model. A glossary and pronunciation guide help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces, and, for prospective buyers, the addresses of all featured producers are listed together. The elegant photography and layout will encourage people to peruse the ...

Donald de Carle
Practical Watch Repairing
by Skyhorse Publishing (Paperback)

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.

Tom Engle, Richard E. Gilbert, Cooksey Shugart
Complete Price Guide to Watches
by Collector Books (Paperback)

This annual book is a mini-encyclopedia with over 1,000 pages, over 10,000 watches listed with current values, and more than 7,000 illustrations. American and European pocket watches, wrist watches, Swatch wrist watches, and even comic watches fill this comprehensive guide.

Harold C. Kelly
Clock Repairing as a Hobby: An Illustrated How-To Guide for the Beginner
by Skyhorse Publishing (Paperback)

All of the precise and delicate gears and levers in a clock can appear dizzying to the amateur, but this guide, with its wonderfully detailed diagrams, can clear things up. It covers the theory behind clock movement and design, including the particulars of escapements, pendulums, balance wheels, and even the sheet music for popular chimes. The American striking clock, the 400-day clock, and the alarm clock receive special attention. The in-depth information, including explanations of clock repairing terminology and details on the tools, materials, and supplies that are needed for success, will benefit even skilled enthusiasts.

Steven R. Finz
The Finz Multistate Method (Strategies & Tactics)
by Aspen Publishers (Paperback)

Gene Stone
The Watch
by "Harry N. Abrams, Inc." (Hardcover)

The Watch is a survey of the best vintage and contemporary men’s wristwatches that is as visually compelling as it is informative to read. A well-made man’s wristwatch combines inspired design, technical innovation, and precise craftsmanship. Vintage watches are filled with sentiment and history, and are often passed from wrist to wrist across generations. Today, designers use cutting-edge techniques and materials to create some of the most complex miniature machines ever attempted. Ranging from Patek Philippe and Rolex to Seiko and Swatch, and covering fifty brands in depth, the book provides essential wisdom on buying, collecting, and maintaining these timepieces. Illustrating the text are more than 500 photographs of men’s watches, including remarkable details of dials and movements, selected for their beauty and diversity from collections around the world.

James M. Dowling, Jeffrey P. Hess
Rolex Wristwatches: An Unauthorized History (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
by Schiffer Publishing (Hardcover)

The name Rolex is recognized around the world. It has become an icon of beauty, quality, accuracy, style, and taste. While there are other fine manufacturers of timepieces, none has reached this pinnacle of public respect and acclaim. The watches produced by Rolex over the last 100 years are celebrated in this lavishly illustrated classic, now in a revised and expanded third edition. Over 30 newly discovered wristwatches are included in this volume, along with new information and a revised value guide. In addition there are detailed looks at some of Rolex's legendary movements. Dowling and Hess, both acknowledged Rolex authorities, have captured the watches' beauty in color photography and present the most thorough and extensive history written of the company. The watches and the extensive information this book offeres to collectors make it a truly useful volume, one that will be cherished by watch lovers around the world.

Wristwatch Annual 2008: The Catalog of Producers, Models, and Specifications
by Abbeville Press (Paperback)

The definitive book for the collector of mechanical wristwatches with complete information on over 1,700 models, including prices, made by more than 100 international brands.

Martin Skeet, Nick Urul
Vintage Rolex Sports Models: A Complete Visual Reference & Unauthorized History
by Schiffer Publishing (Hardcover)

This comprehensive and detailed reference guide to Rolex sports model watches is an indispensable asset to watch collectors and dealers. The only work of its kind, it covers the history of the Submariner, Sea-Dweller, Explorer, GMT-Master, Turn-O-Graph, Milgauss, and Cosmograph watches, from 1952 to 1990. The history of more than a hundred and forty vintage models is described in detail, with the watches shown in chronological order. Color photographs illustrate every watch model, with hundreds of diagrams providing clear and useful information about the development of each model. Twenty-two rare Rolex brochures from private collections are shown along with numerous catalog photographs and the associated sale prices of sports models sold at Christie¹s and Sotheby¹s worldwide from 1997 to 2007. Also included is a current price guide for every model shown in the book. Rolex watches continue to dominate the collecting market and this authoritative volume, now in its revised and ...

Cooksey Shugart
Instant Expert: Collecting Watches
by House of Collectibles (Paperback) (Release Date: 2004-09-14)

Learn to think, talk, buy and sell like an expert!• Learn what to collect, how to recognize a fake and how to evaluate the price of a watch.• All the information you need to understand the differences among watch brands, the different parts of a watch, and how a watch works.• Indispensable resource guide lists major auction houses, organizations and clubs, and how and where to buy and sell.

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