Download or read book Watch Repairing, Cleaning and Adjusting - A Practical Handbook written by F. J. Garrard and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Written in plain language and full of invaluable tips, this timeless volume will be of considerable utility to the modern reader wish an interest in watch maintenance. Contents include: “Description of a Watch Movement”, “The Escapement and Balance”, “The Motion Work”, “Steel”, “Hardening Steel”, “Tempering Steel”, “Brass”, “Hardening Brass”, “Tempering Brass”, “Gold”, “Silver”, “German Silver”, “Platinum”, “Palladium”, “Aluminium Bronze”, “Invar”, “Red-Stuff”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches.