Watch and Clock Making

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This volume is considered one of the finest on the subject. It is certainly detailed and runs to 341 pages, covering all of the major inventions and innovations in depth, with illustrations and supporting mathematical proofs.

It doesn’t cover repair; although, to be fair, he writes in his preface that “Want of space has likewise prevented me from adding a few chapters on Watch-Jobbing.” but he claims that if you study the practical portions of the book “any workman” can repair or replace injured or broken parts of the mechanism in the proper way. Perhaps. On the plus side there is an enormous index at the back which runs to nine pages.

David Glasgow was one of the foremost Clerkenwell watchmakers during the second half of the Nineteenth Century. Born in Coleraine, Londonderry, he helped establish and was vice-president of the BHI. He worked for many years at 20 Myddleton Square. He died on 7th December, 1911.

This is the 1885 edition published by Cassell

There are 69 diagrams

It gives a detailed account of all the major innovations

David Glasgow, 1885