A Guide to Complicated Watches - Pre order - Delivery June 2020

4th Edition - Revised and expanded

par François Lecoultre

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4th edition, revised.

The most comprehensive and detailed book on complicated watches which is and always will be essential to all who work in the field of horology.

In order to make the volume easier to read and use, all the plates containing drawings have been moved to the end of the book. The figures are clearly referred to in the text and the technical details and functions of the various mechanisms can be consulted on the numbered, fold-out plates.

Various improvements have been made, including the revision of the chapter on the equation of time.

The other chapters:

Independent seconds-beating movements

Jumping seconds watches

Chronographs - Simplified chronographs - Split-seconds chronographs

Minute recording mechanisms - Continuous-type minute registers - Semi-instantaneous minute registers - Instantaneous minute registers

Double-button chronograph

Hour recorder

Repeating watches - Old repeating watches - Modern quarter repeaters

Gearing and escapements

Hammers and hammer trips

Winding

Release mechanism

Snails

Simplified repeaters - Half-quarter repeaters - Breguet half-quarter repeaters - Five-minute repeaters - Minute repeaters - The minute snail

Clock watches

Simple calendar mechanisms - Continuous-type perpetual calendars - Instantaneous perpetual calendars - Perpetual retrograde calendars

Equation watches

The Buttex recording chronograph

The Glucydur balance

The Bovet single fly-back hand chronograph20

Nombre de pages
160
Hauteur (cm)
21
Largeur (cm)
14
Illustrations
illustrations n/b
Reliure
relié
Langue
Anglais
Numéro d'article Watchprint
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75.00 CHF
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