The Watch Adjuster's Manual - A Practical Guide for the Watch and Chronometer Adjuster in Making, Springing, Timing and Adjusting for Isochronism, Positions and Temperatures (eBook)

Charles Edgar Fritts (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2017
380 Seiten
Read Books Ltd. (Verlag)
978-1-4733-3955-2 (ISBN)

Infos

This vintage book contains a complete guide to making, adjusting, springing, timing and adjusting a variety of watches. With simple, clear instructions and many helpful diagrams, this book will be of considerable utility to novice, apprentice, and amateur watch repairers. Contents include: "Suggestions to Workmen", "Preliminary Examination of the Movement", "Magnetism and Magnetized Watches", "The Demagnetization of Watches, Watch Parts, etc.", "Making Balance Springs", "Treatment of Steel for Making Hair Springs", "Making Cylindrical or Helical Springs", "Making Flat Spiral and Breguet Springs", "The Modern American Method of Making Hair Springs", "Watch Balances", "Balance Making", et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction. First published in 1904.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Kreatives Gestalten
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• Schlagworte: clock work construction • handbook manual guide how • history machinists course • mechanical horology home • repair tools function fix • watches watchmaking parts • wrist pocket movements
• ISBN-10: 1-4733-3955-3 / 1473339553
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4733-3955-2 / 9781473339552