Customer Reviews

Complicated Watches and Their Repair

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I don't agree with the last review. This book has to be viewed as a complement, a second volume, to Practical Watch Repairing of the same author. You have to read the first book to fully understand it. If you look at this book as a second volume of the classic Practical Watch Repairing, it deserves 4 stars. It does not cover new automatic movements from the 70s and 80s, but every automatic system used by the industry is documented. Well, if you can repair an ETA or Omega from the 50s or 60s, you can repair a movement from the 80s and 90s. That's my point of view.

This book cover the maintence of several automatic movements, chronographs, split seconds and repeaters. Unfortunately it dont't cover the tourbillon. Whereas the book was written in 1956, there are no mention for the Valjoux 7750 movement series nor the new complicated movements such as the IWC Da Vinci caliber with perpetual calendar.

Purchased this book for a friend who is very interested in watches particularly pocket watches. He totally enjoys referencing this book for ongoing knowledge.

I knew the book was going to be out of date. But, with that said, it's a true classic, and should be on every watchmakers bookshelf.

Not a very up to date book on watch repair. There are also very few pictures/diagrams available. For those wanting to buy a book about watch repair at a beginners level, I'd suggest you look elsewhere.