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Pennsylvania Clocks and Watches
A history of timepieces made in Pennsylvania from William Penn's time to the present, this book is more than a compendium of clock and watchmakers and their work. With abundant illustrations and lore from historians in every part of the state, it recreates a time when clock and watchmaking was not a mere occupation: it was truly a craft. The author attributes this characteristic to the Keystone State's unusually varied population, and explores the various "old world" influences affecting the design and style of timepieces. The story of clock and watchmaking from colonial Philadelphia to Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle is a major chapter in the history of industry, trade, tastemaking, and crafts...
Complete Price Guide to Watches
Includes descriptions and prices for American and European pocket watches; American and European wrist watches; and, comic and character watches.
The Complete Guide to Bulova Accutron Watches
In the 1960s, Bulova introduced tuning fork technology into their Accutron watches. Instead of a balance wheel, a tuning fork controls the watch timing mechanism. This improves timekeeping accuracy without daily watch winding.Millions of Bulova Accutron watch styles were sold from 1960 to 1977 through retail channels. A watch style defines the watch including the movement, case, dial and band.This Guide is the first comprehensive book on the over 1,100 styles of Bulova Accutron watches. Each watch style in this book is pictured and may include the original sell price and Bulova description.This authoritative work also documents Accutron competitor watches such as: Citizen Hisonic, Cosmotron, Universal Geneve, Russian Slava, Esa F300, Swiss Beta 21, Omega Megasonic and Longines Ultra-quartz.
The American Clock
"The most of all encomposing work on the subject to be published in many years, The American Clock is certain to become a standard reference work in this important and ever-growing field of collecting. The book is not intended to be a history of clockmaking in America; instead, its purpose is to collect into one volume a very large number of significant clocks of all types so that the collectors will have a substantial pictorial reference with which to compare their own acquisitions and to extend their knowledge of the field. ..." --Taken from the front jacket flap.
Practical Watch Collecting for the Beginner
Originally written in book format, Practical Watch Collecting was published as a 10-part series in the Watch & Clock Bulletin, ending in February 2010. The full-color, 130-page book, which returns the series to its original form, has been carefully reviewed and updated. Both beginning and advanced watch collectors will enjoy learning about the attributes and idiosyncracies of watches from Richard Watkins’ unique perspective.
Dixie Clockmakers
The first in-depth study of Southern clockmakers and the magnificent artistry they brought to eighteenth- and nineteenth-century timepieces. Entitled Dixie Clockmakers, this volume traces the development of clockmaking and horological history below the Mason-Dixon line and documents the works of those artisans who designed and constructed some of the world’s finest timepieces. Author James W. Gibbs focuses primarily upon clockmaking in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and the District of Columbia, but attention also is given to eight other states. Included are some sixty photographs illustrating outstanding examples and details of Southern clockmaking. Dixie Clockmakers also lists every known clockmaker and watchmaker in the South during the two centuries, along with nomenclature common at the time, and advertisements used by individual craftsmen.
The Appreciation and Authentication of Civil War Timepieces
Non-fiction book about timepieces from the American Civil War
Passing Time Across the Water
This book identifies clock and watch makers from Ireland, documenting their biographical details and their artefacts.
