Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches:  A Practical Guide 

Livre en anglais

This invaluable, practical book is written by a watch repairer with over twenty years' experience. It is aimed principally at the novice mechanical watch repairer, although those with more experience will also find it most useful.

• Covers the essential requirements of a workspace

• Discusses basic tools, and how to use and care for them

• Illustrates how to take a mechanical watch apart and re-assemble it

• Examines types of watch cases, case backs and how to open and re-fit them

• Considers the movement and removing the movement from the case

• Demonstrates how to remove the hands and the dial, and discusses motion work and the removal of the cannon pinion

• Pays attention to keyless-work, the mainspring and the barrel, the balance wheel, the escapement, the gearing and the gear train, pivots and arbors, bearings and jewels, and much more

• Shows the reader how to service, clean and oil a watch, and how to successfully complete common repairs and make basis adjustments