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Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches A Practical Guide By: MARK W. WILES

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Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches A Practical Guide By: MARK W. WILESThis invaluable and practical book is written by a watch repairer with over twenty years of experience. It is aimed primarily at novice mechanical watch repairers, though those with more experience will also find it highly useful. Key Features: Workspace Essentials: Covers the essential requirements of a workspace. Tools: Discusses basic tools, their usage, and maintenance. Disassembly and Reassembly: Illustrates how to take a mechanical watch apart

This invaluable and practical book is written by a watch repairer with over twenty years of experience. It is aimed primarily at novice mechanical watch repairers, though those with more experience will also find it highly useful.

Key Features:

  • Workspace Essentials: Covers the essential requirements of a workspace.
  • Tools: Discusses basic tools, their usage, and maintenance.
  • Disassembly and Reassembly: Illustrates how to take a mechanical watch apart and reassemble it.
  • Watch Cases: Examines types of watch cases, case backs, and how to open and refit them.
  • Movement Handling: Considers the movement and how to remove it from the case.
  • Hands and Dial: Demonstrates how to remove the hands and dial, and discusses motion work and the removal of the cannon pinion.
  • Components: Pays attention to keyless work, the mainspring and barrel, the balance wheel, the escapement, the gearing and gear train, pivots and arbours, bearings and jewels, and much more.
  • Servicing: Shows the reader how to service, clean, and oil a watch, and how to successfully complete common repairs and make basic adjustments.

About the Author:

Mark Wiles runs the workshop at Antique & Modern in East Barnet (an Omega accredited service center). After passing his Final British Horological Institute (BHI) examination in technical horology, he was granted a three-year apprenticeship by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (WCC). He thus maintained a proud family tradition dating back to the eighteenth century, as two of his ancestors, Steven and Edwin Wiles, were both distinguished clockmakers based in central London. In 2010, Mark became both a Freeman of the WCC and the BHI's youngest accredited Fellow.

Book Details:

  • ISBN: 9781785001550
  • ISBN-10: 1785001558
  • Audience: General
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Language: English
  • Number of Pages: 208
  • Published: 17th June 2016
  • Publisher: The Crowood Press Ltd
  • Country of Publication: GB
  • Dimensions (cm): 24.6 x 18.9 x 1.27
  • Weight (kg): 0.77
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