Pocketwatch: Restoration, Maintenance and Repair

Informationen zum Autor Chris Barrow was an electronic design engineer for thirty years. For the past thirty years or so, he has been restoring and repairing pocket watches, and for the last sixteen years has run a successful web-based business selling restored pocket watches. He is fascinated by the intricate and often beautiful mechanisms of the evolving pocket watch, from the eighteenth-century verge to the precision lever movements of the early twentieth century. He sees it as his mission to rescue these lovely things from the scrap heap and to restore them to working order for the enjoyment of others. Klappentext An updated and revised edition of this practical guide. Using as examples six of the most typical types of watch from a period spanning the late 18th century to the early 20th century, the author takes the intelligent enthusiast through the cleaning and repair process, step by careful step.An updated and revised edition of this practical guide. Using as examples six of the most typical types of watch from a period spanning the late 18th century to the early 20th century, the author takes the intelligent enthusiast through the cleaning and repair process, step by careful step.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Barrow, Christopher S Barrow, Christopher S. Barrow
• Publisher: Crowood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2011
• EAN: 9780719803901
• ISBN: 978-0-7198-0390-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 222 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques; ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Clocks & Watches, Antique clocks, watches, musical boxes & automata, Antique clocks, musical boxes and automata