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The Alarm Wristwatch by Michael Philip Horlbeck - New 2006 Book
Finally, alarm wristwatches are recognized for their mechanical ingenuity and the beauty of their design. This new book traces the development of mechanical wristwatches with an acoustic alarm function, one of the first wristwatch complications, and gives detailed information for collectors. Hundreds of watches are examined in 535 color images. In addition to the external design of the watch, special attention is paid to the movements and how their creators solved the multitude of challenges that confronted them. Michael Philip Horlbeck, a scholar and collector of alarm wristwatches, has written the standard work, a complete history of the alarm wristwatch. Nearly every model ever produced is chronicled, in words and pictures. The international array of companies include Eterna, Omega, Bruguet, Bulova, Citizen, Corum, Cyma, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Lemania, Pierce, Poljot, Ronda, Seiko, Venus, Vulcain, and Wittnauer, and many more. The technical data for each watch is recorded. This is required reading for all wristwatch fans and all who may become such. Whether you are interested in the design or the mechanics of these watches, you will not be disappointed.
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The Alarm Wristwatch by Michael Philip Horlbeck - New Book
Finally, alarm wristwatches are recognized for their mechanical ingenuity and the beauty of their design. This new book traces the development of mechanical wristwatches with an acoustic alarm function, one of the first wristwatch complications, and gives detailed information for collectors. Hundreds of watches are examined in 535 color images. In addition to the external design of the watch, special attention is paid to the movements and how their creators solved the multitude of challenges that confronted them. Michael Philip Horlbeck, a scholar and collector of alarm wristwatches, has written the standard work, a complete history of the alarm wristwatch. Nearly every model ever produced is chronicled, in words and pictures. The international array of companies include Eterna, Omega, Bruguet, Bulova, Citizen, Corum, Cyma, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Lemania, Pierce, Poljot, Ronda, Seiko, Venus, Vulcain, and Wittnauer, and many more. The technical data for each watch is recorded. This is required reading for all wristwatch fans and all who may become such. Whether you are interested in the design or the mechanics of these watches, you will not be disappointed. 535 color images, 232 pages, 9 x 12 inches.
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Seth Thomas Clocks and Movements - 3rd Ed. Volume 2
576 pages - 8 1/2 x 11 - Over 1718 quality illustrations and photographs.
Smyth sewn hardbound, with 2005 Price Guide.
OVERWHELMING! The third edition for Seth Thomas Clocks & Movements by Tran Duy Ly and his staff cannot be described in any less terms. Previously prepared editions by Tran represented the most comprehensive information published on Seth Thomas Clocks. The last was {2nd edition} published in 1996. This 3rd edition Volume 1 and 2 is so overwhelming in minute detail that it is a must-have for any collector of American clocks
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Vintage Rolex Sport Watches - 2nd Edition Revised
Description: Mint. Reference Book. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Atglen, PA, U.S.A.: Schiffer Publishing, Limited, 2002. Hard Cover. 8-1/2 x 11". . Illustrations: 250 color photos + drawings - Pages: 216 - Brand new long-awaited book! This comprehensive and detailed reference guide to Rolexs 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, Explorer, GMT-Master, Turn-O-Graph, Milgauss, and Cosmograph wat ches, 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 mod el, with hundreds of diagrams providing clear and useful information. Twenty-two rare Rolex brochures from private collections are shown, in addition to numerous catalog photographs and the sale price s of sports models sold at Christies and Sothebys over the last four years. Also included is a current price guide for every model shown in the book. At a time when Rolex watches dominate the collec ting market, this authoritative volume is an essential and timely addition to the library of the Rolex collector and dealer.
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Beautiful Vienna Regulators of the 19th Century by Victor Kochaver Signed
The ultimate Vienna Regulator book, illustrating and describing 101 shop-made Viennese Regulator clocks, published in conjunction with the much acclaimed 20th annual NAWCC seminar. Hardcover bound, with over 150 professionally photographed full-color illustrations, including a full page view of each clock, details of movements, dials, suspensions and cases, plus historical annotations, and forwarded by Dana Blackwell. This book is a must have for the serious clock collector as well anyone with a historical interest in clocks and horology.
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Rolex Wristwatches by James Dowling
The name Rolex is recognized around the world. As 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 90 years are celebrated in this lavishly illustrated classic, now in an expanded second edition. 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. Information for collectors and newly revised market values of the watches make this a truly useful volume, one that will be cherished by watch lovers around the world.
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PRECISION PENDULUM CLOCKS FRANCE, GERMAN, AMERIC AND RECENT ADVANCEMENTS
This long-awaited volume chronicles the horological work carried out in France, Germany, and North America and completes the fascinating history of precision timekeeping in recent time. In France, renowned clockmakers include the Berthouds, the Lepautes, Robin, Janvier, Lepine, LeRoy and Leroy, Bourdier, Jacot and Jarossay. In Germany the primary emphasis is on Riefler, Strasser, and Rohde, but the works of other important makers are also considered. America's contribution to precision timekeeping is chronicled including the works of Seth Thomas, Charles Fasoldt, William Bond and Son Co., E. Howard and Co. and others. Recent advancements in timekeeping include the W5, a clock created by Philip Woodward and the Littlemore clock created by Professor Hall, almost certainly the most accurate pendulum controlled clock the world has known.
Over 500 beautiful color and black-and-white photographs illustrate the historical contributions of these eminent clockmakers.
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The Illinois Watch: The Life and Times of a Great Watch by F. Friedberg
The Illinois Watch Company has long had an honored place in the annals of horological history. From their founding in 1869, through their commitment to timekeeping excellence in the early 20th century, to their development of many wonderful Art Deco/Moderne-inspired wristwatches in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Illinois was a leader in its field. Today their watches are highly sought after by collectors, both for their engineering and beauty. Here is the history of the company covered in great detail and with solid research. Included are historical documents, vintage photographs of the people and manufacturing processes at the Illinois Factory, old advetisements, and a compendium of their wristwatch production from their beginning until their sale to Hamilton Watch Company. But the best part for the collector and historian alike is a visual record of nearly every wristwatch design ever created by Illinois Watch Company, and their variations, in beautiful full color photographs. Each is accompanied by complete information about the watch and its production. In addition, scattered through the book are historical references that place the Companys evolution in the context of the general history of the period, and notes about the collectors of these fine timepieces and the adventures they have had in pursuit of them. Taken together this is an exciting and informative new volume for those who appreciate and cherish old timepieces.
Author: Frederic J. Friedberg
ISBN: 0-7643-2038-6
Size: 9" x 12"
Cover: hard cover
Photos: 800+ color photos
Pages: 288
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English Dial Clocks by Ronald E. Rose
The dial clock made its first appearance in the 1720s in the form of a simple round faced, black painted, spring driven clock.
In contrast the cartel clock, with a highly carved and decorated case, was taken from the French design but made only a brief impression on high fashion, A more successful form was the imposing tavern clock (often erroneously called an 'Act of Parliament Clock') which evolved through several very attractive forms, all of which are now much sought after.
While the need for a well made reliable clock was appreciated in the middle of the eighteenth century, it was the emergence of Britain as an industrial nation and the increasingly accurate timetables of the stage coach era, which placed importance on good time keeping and resulted in the growth of dial clock production in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The heyday of the dial clock was the Victorian period, when it was to be found in every office, factory, school and railway station.
The Bank of England alone had 400. An individual mechanism which required regular winding (often by a man paid to do nothing else) was bound to be superseded by the electric master clock and its innumerable slaves, Nevertheless, the dial clock is occasionally to be found still performing its function accurately. Increasingly, however, it is collectors who appreciate the simple elegant dials and the very fine workmanship of the movements.
The author is an experienced horologist who has acquired a specialised knowledge in the best possible way, by handling hundreds of examples and repairing a large number himself. The various types are carefully documented and beautifully photographed. The evolution is explained not only of the clocks themselves but also of their features, such as hands, bezels, pillars and dial surrounds, which are illustrated with clear line drawings and detailed photographs of mechanisms.
Now in its second edition, with additional illustrations and two new chapters, Unusual Dial Clocks and The Later Years , this invaluable book earns its place on the shelf of both the horologist, and the collector of these attractive timepieces.
Brand new book published by Antique Collectors' Club 2000.
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English Domestic Clocks by Cescinsky & Webster
English Domestic Clocks
Cescinsky & Webster
This classic work remains the best account of the development of the main types of clocks from the middle of the seventeenth century. It covers in depth available clocks accessible to collectors.
This book, written by experts who were themselves keen collectors, is one of the classic works on British clock making.
It is the best account of the development of the main types of cocks since the middle of the17th century.
There is in-depth coverage on the types of clocks available to collectors, and a lucid explanation just how clocks work, the results of the introduction of the pendulum and the subsequent development of grandfathers, bracket and lantern clocks.
'English Domestic Clocks' is an ideal companion for anybody interested in the subject, whether a serious collector, or indeed anyone wishing to further their knowledge on this subject.
Specifications
Size: 279 x 216 mm
Pages: 354
Illustrations: 407 b&w
ISBN: 0 902028 37 5
Price: $89.50
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The Georgian Bracket Clock by Richard Barder
This volume presents an overview of the business of clock making at a time when British clockmakers were acknowledged to be the best in the world. The majority of the many superior clocks made during this period were bracket clocks. In this superbly written book the author discusses case making and the specialists linked to the clock maker, the workings of the Clockmakers' Co,, the development of the bracket clock in the Georgian period, notable makers, lacquer-cased bracket clocks, the export trade, and the purchase, repair and restoration of bracket clocks.Size: 279 x 216 mm., 236 pages, 39 full color, 267 black & white illustrations
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Collectable Clocks 1840-1940 by Alan & Rita Shenton
Price Guide to Collectable Clocks
Alan & Rita Shenton
This third edition with updated prices is based on the Shentons’ popular The Price Guide to Clocks 1840-1940 which was first published in 1977 and greatly enlarged in 1985, when the main text was completely updated and expanded to include the authors continuing research.
Most books on clocks tend to deal mainly with the earlier types. or at least the high quality clocks made before the middle of the nineteenth century. Here is a book for those who enjoy clocks and are interested in the hundreds of varied types (many still dismissed by purists as having no horological interest) available at a low price to the collector who is prepared to learn what to look for. The Victorian inventiveness, the decorative types of the 1920s and technical clocks of the early part of the 20th century comprise areas about which little has ben written.
The authors are keen horologists and well aware of the questions that need to be answered. What is quality? What should one look for? What date is this clock?
Perhaps the most impressive feature of the book is the large amount of original research that has been undertaken. This unique work, with over 700 black and white and 34 colour illustrations is a ‘must’ for any collector of’ nineteenth century clocks or any horological student interested in the later periods of clockmaking.
Written by acknowledged experts in the fields of clock cases, horological history and clock movements respectively.
Examines the works and evolution in the thinking of the clockmakers
Photographs provide an unrivalled catalogue of the work of the earler makers.
Contains a large amount of original research. A 'must' for any student or collector.
The Authors
Alan Shenton a medical practitioner, now retired, is a long-standing and active member of the Antiquarian Horological Society. the British Horological Institute and the American National Association of Watch and clock Collectors. He held the office of Chairman of the Electrical Horological Group of the A.H.S. and President of the Antiquarian Section of the B.H.I. He is also the author of The Eureka Clock. His interest in horology ranges from research to the practical application of workshop techniques in the field of restoration and a few years ago he completed the making of a regulator — a precision timepiece with a dead beat escapement and Harrison gridiron pendulum.
Rita Shenton, a well-known contributor of articles on horology to many journals and periodicals. is also the author of a monogram on the eighteenth century clockmaking family of Christopher Pinchbeck. She runs a specialist horological book business. A licentiate of the B.H.I. and member of the N.A.W.C.C., she has served on the Council of the A.H.S. for a number of years.
Both were on the panel of consultants to the publishers of the Horological Journal, the official organ of the British Horological Institute.
Specifications
Size: 279 x 216 mm
Pages: 480
Illustrations: 34 col. 700 b&w
Publication Date: Available Now
ISBN: 1 85149 195 3
Price: $79.50
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The Camerer Cuss Book of Antique Watches by Camerer Cuss
Watches provide perhaps the finest examples of metalwork, while the enamelled, piqué and repoussé work, and later engine turning, provide an infinite variety of designs. The high quality of workmanship which most of these fascinating pieces attracted is apparent in all aspects from the attractive champlevé dials to the finely worked balance cocks.
For the more technically minded the struggle towards precision over some four hundred years provides an endless range and scope. There are expensive Breguet watches or inexpensive patented late watches which were provided for only a short while and sold for very little.
What the collector required, and this standard work (now re-edited and with a fine chronology of illustrations added) is perhaps the only book to provide it, is a text which takes the beginner through the development of the watch in a lucid and unpretentious style, provides an easily understood glossary of technical terms and answers the type of questions which a dealer learns to expect from the collectors.
The well-known firm of Camerer Cuss has just this experience and it is this together with the enthusiasm for the subject demonstrated by the two generations responsible for this book which makes it a firm favourite with collectors.
Brand new book published by Antique Collectors' Club.
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Early English Clocks by P. Dawson, C. Drover & D. W. Parkes
Early English Clocks
Percy G. Dawson, C.B.Drover and D.W.Parkes
This fine book covering the story of English horology into the first decade of the 18th century will be welcomed by horologists for it is written by three acknowledged experts in the fields of clock cases, horological history and clock movements respectively. It is rare that top practical men, who have between them handled thousands of examples and whose joint historical experience stretches well over a century, can be persuaded to provide so lucidly the distillation of their knowledge.
The major importance of this book lies in the minute examination of the work and evolution in the thinking of the clockmakers. Some 800 fine photographs (many of them details of the mechanisms), thirty-six colour plates and the careful descriptions provide not only an unrivalled catalogue of the work of the earlier makers, but also place their work within a carefully defined chain of development.
By this means the evolution of clocks is made easier to understand while at the same time there is a clear basis for comparing other clocks encountered. Certainly the reader will sharpen his awareness of what to look for in a clock; the odd mark, stopped hole, adapted or ‘married’ piece will be more readily identified and the clock’s previous history thus more readily understood.
The book breaks new ground too in the discussion of methods of production, the use of batch production and the degree of uniformity among influential makers. This book is a worthy companion to the other specialist books on horology published by the Antique Collectors’ Club, and is bound to become the standard work of reference on English horology up to the beginning of the 18th century.
Fine book covering the story of English horology into the first decade of the 18th century.
Written by three acknowledged experts whose experiences stretch well over a century.
Examines the work and evolution in the thinking of the clockmakers. 800 fine photographs, 36 colour plates and carful descriptions.
Breaks new ground in the discussion of methods of production, the use of batch production and the degree of uniformity among influential makers.
Bound to become the standard work of reference on English horology up to the beginning of the 18th century.
The Authors
Percy Dawson
The late Percy Dawson entered the family business which specialised in the restoration of clock cases. After service during the Second World War, he returned to his business and later acquired another dealing in antique clocks, which he continued until his retirement. In 1952 he was responsible for the domestic clock section of the British Clockmakers’ Heritage Exhibition at the Science Museum.
Over the years he contributed numerous articles on antique clocks and was the first editor of the journal of the Antiquarian Horological Society, of which he was also a founder member.
Charles Drover has been interested in clocks and watches ever since he can remember. During the war he bought a copy of Britten’s 6th Edition and from then on began to specialise in pre-pendulum clocks with a special inclination towards English, Flemish and French clocks. He was founder member of the Antiquarian Horological Society and a contributor to its journal. He has been Chairman since 1970. He is a liveryman of the Clockmaker’s Company and a member of their Collections Committee.
Daniel Parkes learned the practical side of the clockmakers’ trade under the watchful eye of his grandfather during the 1930s when as a young man he cleaned and mended the ‘Tulip’ and the ‘Sussex’ Tompions. After service with the R.A.F during the war, he became a journeyman and later a partner in a firm specialising in the restoration of antique clockwork.
He is a liveryman of the Clockmakers’ Company and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Manufacture and Commerce. Like his co-authors he is a founder member of the Antiquarian Horological Society.
Specifications
Size: 279 x 216 mm
Pages: 552
Illustrations: 36 col. 800 b&w
ISBN: 0 902028 59 6
Price: $89.50
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PAINTED DIAL CLOCKS 1770-1870 BY BRIAN LOOMES
Antique Collectors' Club - Title Information
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Painted Dial Clocks
Brian Loomes
No prior knowledge is assumed in the reader and the book explains how even the beginner can very easily learn to assess the style, age and quality and even the region of origin of any painted dial clock. The development of dial and case style is explained in non-technical detail with 44 colour plates and 275 black and white illustrations.
In particular, regional trends and tastes in cases are identified and explained in detail, a feature of no other book. Considerable attention is given to show how the trade worked in the past, including how the clockmaker and the customer selected their dials. The book is written in a manner which can easily be followed by the beginner or the inexperienced owner of a clock, but the expert will find much here that is new, including a fully-detailed list of every recorded dialmaker, essential for cross-checking the age of any clock. Required reading for the owner of any painted dial clock as well as collectors and dealers.
This is the only book dealing with antique British clocks with painted dials, also known as japanned or white dials.
The Author
Brian Loomes is Britain’s best-known and most widely-published author in the field of antique clocks.
He has written scores of articles and numerous books on the subject including several which have become standard texts and are used by collectors, dealers and museums throughout the world.
As a former professional genealogist and a Fellow of the Society of Genealogists, his familiarity with source material has enabled him to undertake his own researches into clockmakers of the past, their lives and work. Much of his writing is based on personal research and provides a new insight into the subject from an author who thinks for himself Since 1966 he has been a dealer in antique clocks in the Yorkshire Dales, where he and his wife run their specialist antiques business in a former farmhouse.
Specifications
Size: 279 x 216 mm
Pages: 350
Illustrations: 40 col. 200 b&w.
ISBN: 1 85149 183 X
Price: $69.50
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