Watchmaking Hardcover – May 3, 2011

Here, the making of the precision timekeeper is described step-by-step and illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. The text is easy to follow and care has been taken to avoid complicated technical descriptions. As Daniels is particularly interested in the development of the escapement – many are described in this book, several of his own design – the reader is encouraged to explore this aspect of watchmaking in even greater detail.

About the Author

George Daniels, CBE, HON DSC, FSA, FCGI, FBHI, FAWI was a practicing horologist with over fifty years of experience in both antiquarian and modern watchmaking and was a past master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In addition, he was an expert on the history and development of the watch, with special emphasis on the precision period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was unrivaled as a sympathetic restorer of important timepieces, especially those made by Breguet.