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Watchmaking – George Daniels

George Daniels was the most famous British watchmaker of the modern era and blazed a trail for independent watchmaking. This book is an important part of Daniels’s legacy, helping fulfil his desire to pass on his knowledge and skill to other aspiring watchmakers.

Daniels’s understanding of watchmaking was almost unique. His rare ability to make almost every component of a watch himself meant that he was perfectly positioned to write this extraordinary and unrivalled text book on watchmaking.

From the inside cover: “The making of the precision timekeeper is described, step by step, and is 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.”

This book will appeal not only to aspiring watchmakers, but all those with a love and appreciation of the watchmaker’s art. All aspects of watchmaking are described, including all major types of watch escapements.

With drawings by David Penney and additional drawings by George Daniels.
Detailed colour illustrations of George Daniels’s workshop and watches in various states of assembly.

Hardback with dust jacket.
464 pages, approx. 130 colour illustrations and 777 line drawings.
Published by Philip Wilson Publishers a division of Bloomsbury.
Revised 2011 edition reprinted in 2014 (first published 1981).
27cm x 20cm x 3.5cm