Maintaining and Repairing Mechanical Watches A Practical Guide By: MARK W. WILES
This invaluable, practical book is written by a watch repairer with over twenty years' experience. It is aimed principally at the novice mechanical watch repairer, although those with more experience will also find it most useful.• Covers the essential requirements of a workspace.• Discusses basic tools, and how to use and care for them.• Illustrates how to take a mechanical watch apart and re-assemble it.• Examines types of watch cases, case backs and how to open and re-fit them.• Considers the movement and removing the movement from the case.• Demonstrates how to remove the hands and the dial, and discusses motion work and the removal of the cannon pinion.• Pays attention to keyless-work, the mainspring and the barrel, the balance wheel, the escapement, the gearing and the gear train, pivots and arbours, bearings and jewels, and much more.• Shows the reader how to service, clean and oil a watch, and how to successfully complete common repairs and make basic adjustments. About the Aut