Richard Watkins, FNAWCC - Horological Books www.watkinsr.id.au
Transitional 3/4 plate watch (unrestored)
John Wood, Liverpool, circa 1823. Transitional 3/4 plate watches are full plate watches with the balance sunk below the surface of the plate and the cock flush with it, making a much thinner watch. All except one that I know of (only 11 including this one) have Massey escapements and are definitely dated between 1823 and 1830.This watch is very rare because it has centre sweep seconds; most have standard sub-seconds.
Horological Books
REVIEW Sabrier "The Self-Winding Watch"
NEW Watkins "Practical Watch Collecting", 2012
NEW Vigniaux "Practical Watchmaking", 1788, 1802
NEW Richard Watkins "Mechanical Watches" (2 vols), 2011
SECOND EDITION
NEW Watkins "The Repeater", 2010
Anon "Some notes on P.F. Ingold", 1932
Berner and Audetat "Pierre Frederic Ingold 1787-1878", 1962
REPRINTED Berthoud and Auch "How to Make a Verge Watch", 1763 and 1827
Borsendorff "History of a Watch", 1869
Borsendorff "Histiore d'un Montre", 1869 (Original French)
Buffat "History and Design of the Roskopf Watch", 1914
Buffat "Historique et Technique de la Montre Roskopf", 1914 (Original French)
Camus "A Treatise on the Teeth of Wheels", 1837
Crespe "Essay on Repeater Watches", 1804
Crespe "Essai sur les Montres a Repetition", 1804 (Original French)
David "American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876"
Favre-Perret "Report on the Philadelphia Exhibition 1876"
Fitch "Manufactures of the United States at the Tenth Census (1880), Watches and Clocks", 1883
Francillon "History of Longines", 1947
Glasgow "Watchmaking By Machinery", circa 1900
Graupmann "Finishing of the Watch Case", 1910
Graupmann "Le Finissage de la Boite de Montre", 1910 (Original French)
Grossmann "The Construction of a Simple but Mechanically Perfect Watch", 1880
Hillmann "The Keyeless Mechanism", ca1920
Houriet "The American Watchmaking Factories And Their Tools", 1895
Japy "Patents for watchmaking machines", 1799
Lalande "Diary of a trip to England 1763"
E.A. Marsh Two histories of the Waltham Watch Company, 1890 and 1921
Osterwald "Description of the Mountains and Valleys of Neuchatel and Valangin", 1766
Saturday Magazine "Manufacture of Watches in Switzerland", 1842
Watkins "Mainspring Gauges and the Dennison Combined Gauge", 2009
Watkins "Watchmaking and the American System of Manufacturing", 2009
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