Antique clocks, musical boxes and automata

World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China.

Don't miss the newest book from The Repair Shop, coming September 2025'Heartwarming, magical and uplifting'In today's throwaway culture, there's a counter movement growing that urges us to 'make do and mend'.

We all have treasures hidden away in the attic, well-loved and well-worn belongings that have been passed down from generation to generation.

'Behind a watch there are often hidden stories.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Uhren, des Schmucks und der Antiquitäten – wo Handwerkskunst, Geschichte und Wertbeständigkeit aufeinandertreffen.

The Christchurch Fusee Chain Gang is a detailed study of poverty, survival and bygone trades.

Widely regarded as one of the most famous and useful encyclopedias on watch- and clock-making, this eleventh edition of the regularly updated guide was first published in 1907.

All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century.

Laurie Penman has written an indispensable guide for both the absolute beginner and the experienced clock enthusiast.

For more than a century, Rolex has stood apart as the most legendary brand of watch in the world.

The absorbing and everlasting subject of watch repairing has been dealt with in books in many languages throughout the years.

Rolex, seit über fünfzig Jahren die erfolgreichste Uhrenmarke der Welt, war noch nie Gegenstand einer unabhängigen historischen Studie.

Back in all its original prestige Abbotts American Watchmaker and Jeweler remains the ultimate resource for watchmaking and jewelry craftsmanship.

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This vintage book contains a complete history of watchmaking in America from 1809 to 1888.

This vintage text contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to cleaning and repairing clocks.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on antique clocks, with information on identification, history, development, popularity, and more.

This vintage book contains a reference book of recipes and processes commonly used by watchmakers, jewellers, silversmiths, etc.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to contemporary methods and techniques employed in horology and clockmaking.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocking making.

This vintage book contains a detailed treatise on the watchmakers lathe, with information on its origins, development, construction, and uses.

This vintage text contains a detailed guide to watch repair, with descriptions of the watch movement, parts of the watch, and common stoppages of wrist watches.

This vintage book contains a detailed history of the American clock business in the early to mid nineteenth century, with information on the development of manufacturing techniques, stylistic changes, important figures and companies, influences from abroad, and much more.

This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the history of clocks and timepieces.

This handy volume contains a comprehensive guide to cleaning, repairing, and adjusting watches.

This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive guide to clock repair, with information on barrels, fuses, mainsprings, balance springs, pivots, depths, train wheels, and common stoppages of watches.

"e;The Clockjobber's Handybook"e; is a 1889 work by Australian writer Paul Hasluck that focuses on the care and maintenance of watches and timepieces.

This vintage text contains an accessible and novice-friendly guide to cleaning and repairing clocks.

This antiquarian volume comprises a detailed guide to British clocks and notable clock makers.

A complete study of escapements in watchmaking, as well as a short account of the history and development of the escapement in horology.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive catalogue of books, articles, manuscripts, and other material related to watch making and maintenance up until 1875.

This vintage book comprises a guide to some of the world's most beautiful antique clocks, complete with detailed descriptions, interesting stories, and comments on the history of these wonderful pieces.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making, adjusting, springing, timing and adjusting a variety of watches.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to clocks and watches, with historical information, descriptions of their inner workings, details of notable horologists, and much more.

"e;Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World"e; is a comprehensive reference book of the most notable makers of clocks and watches in the world at the time when this book was first published.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to watch repair and maintenance, with information on the materials and tools used and directions for repairing, cleaning, altering, and adjusting all kinds of English and foreign watches, repeaters, chronographs, and marine chronometers.

This early collection is thoroughly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of all horologists.

This volume contains a fascinating treatise on the concept of time.

This vintage book contains a detailed guide to general clock maintenance.

This vintage book contains a handbook of watch repair and maintenance for ordnance maintenance personnel published by the American War Department in 1945.

This book, first published in 1887, contains a collection of anecdotes and reminisces of a late nineteenth-century fox hunter.

This antiquarian book comprises a comprehensive and practical handbook on modern watches, with information on the history and development of watches, on cleaning them, repairing them, and much more.

This volume contains a practical guide to repairing watches as a hobby, designed to furnish the novice enthusiast with an elementary understanding of watches that will enable them to clean them and make minor repairs.

This vintage book contains a complete guide to horology.

Exquisite, timeless and enduring, Rolex is one of the most recognizable and sought-after luxury watch brands in the world.

This antiquarian book contains an detailed and accessible guide to the inner working of watches, being a simple guide for enthusiasts of clockwork mechanisms.

This little book contains an alphabetical list of world famous watch and clock makers.