Watchmaking / George Daniels ; drawings by David Penney ; photographs and additional drawings by the author.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Philip Wilson Publishers, an imprint of I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd., 2011Edition: Updated 2011 edition; Third editionDescription: xvii, 420 pages, xxiv pages of plates : illustrations (some color), plans ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780856677045
  • 0856677043
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
1.Workshop and Equipment -- Workshop Specification -- Drawing Methods -- Visual Aids -- The Lathe -- Lathe Types -- Steel -- Brass -- Binding Wire -- Shellac -- Measuring Tools and Gauges -- Pointing and Boring Machines -- Optical Measuring -- 2.Hand Tools -- General Bench Tools -- Drills and Drilling -- Screws and Threading -- Shoulder Screws -- 3.Finishing Steel and Brass -- Hardening Steel -- Finishing Materials -- Polishing -- 4.Turning -- To Make a Balance Staff -- Turning and Fitting Pinions -- 5.Wheels and Pinions -- Wheel-Tooth Forms -- Pinion Cutters -- Wheel Cutters -- Train Design -- Depthing -- Wheel Cutting -- Topping Tools -- Pinion Cutting -- Hardening and Polishing -- Escape Wheels -- 6.Making Small Components -- Square Holes -- Barrel Arbors -- Ratchet Wheels -- Pawls -- Stop Work -- Barrels and Covers -- Balance Rollers -- Levers and Pallet Frames -- Chronometer Detents -- Hands -- 7.Jewelling -- Standard-Sized Jewels
Note continued: Cutting and Shaping Stones -- To Make a Jewel Hole -- To Fit the Jewel -- The Ruby Cylinder -- To Shape Pallet and Locking Stones -- 8.Escapements -- General Principles -- Verge Escapement -- Cylinder Escapement -- Duplex Escapement -- Lever Escapement -- To Set Out an English Escapement with Ratchet Wheel of 15 Teeth -- To Set Out a Semi-Equidistant Club-toothed escapement with Wheel of 15 Teeth -- Chronometer -- To Set Out the Chronometer Escapement -- The Further Development of the Escapement -- Echappement Naturel -- Detached Escapements Without Lubricant -- Independent Double-Wheel Escapement -- Double Radial Impulse with Single Wheel -- Co-Axial Escapement -- Extra Flat Co-Axial Escapement Action of the Revised -- Co-Axial Escapement -- Symmetrical Co-Axial Escapement -- 9.Mainsprings and Accessories -- Power Variation -- Mainspring Dimensions -- Spring power Available -- Type of Mainspring -- Equalizing the Force of the Spring
Note continued: Constant Force Escapements -- Making the Fusee -- Winding Indicator -- Stop Work -- Winding -- Equation of Time -- 10.Movement Design -- Historical and General -- Planning the Movement -- Detail Design of a Tourbillon Movement -- Planning the Carriage -- Making the Frame -- Supporting the Carriage -- Tourbillon Carriages -- Making a Tourbillon Carriage -- 11.The Balance and Spring -- Temperature Compensation -- Balance Wheels -- Balance Springs -- Springs Studs and Collets -- To Fit the Balance Spring -- 12.Casemaking -- Soldering -- Watch Glass -- 13.Engine-Turned Cases and Dials -- Dial Making -- Dial Feet -- Seconds Circle and Sector Index Plate -- Finishing the Dial -- Cleaning and Oiling.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS545 .D36 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 31560000002523
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First published: 1981.

Includes bibliographical references (page 405) and index.

1.Workshop and Equipment -- Workshop Specification -- Drawing Methods -- Visual Aids -- The Lathe -- Lathe Types -- Steel -- Brass -- Binding Wire -- Shellac -- Measuring Tools and Gauges -- Pointing and Boring Machines -- Optical Measuring -- 2.Hand Tools -- General Bench Tools -- Drills and Drilling -- Screws and Threading -- Shoulder Screws -- 3.Finishing Steel and Brass -- Hardening Steel -- Finishing Materials -- Polishing -- 4.Turning -- To Make a Balance Staff -- Turning and Fitting Pinions -- 5.Wheels and Pinions -- Wheel-Tooth Forms -- Pinion Cutters -- Wheel Cutters -- Train Design -- Depthing -- Wheel Cutting -- Topping Tools -- Pinion Cutting -- Hardening and Polishing -- Escape Wheels -- 6.Making Small Components -- Square Holes -- Barrel Arbors -- Ratchet Wheels -- Pawls -- Stop Work -- Barrels and Covers -- Balance Rollers -- Levers and Pallet Frames -- Chronometer Detents -- Hands -- 7.Jewelling -- Standard-Sized Jewels

Note continued: Cutting and Shaping Stones -- To Make a Jewel Hole -- To Fit the Jewel -- The Ruby Cylinder -- To Shape Pallet and Locking Stones -- 8.Escapements -- General Principles -- Verge Escapement -- Cylinder Escapement -- Duplex Escapement -- Lever Escapement -- To Set Out an English Escapement with Ratchet Wheel of 15 Teeth -- To Set Out a Semi-Equidistant Club-toothed escapement with Wheel of 15 Teeth -- Chronometer -- To Set Out the Chronometer Escapement -- The Further Development of the Escapement -- Echappement Naturel -- Detached Escapements Without Lubricant -- Independent Double-Wheel Escapement -- Double Radial Impulse with Single Wheel -- Co-Axial Escapement -- Extra Flat Co-Axial Escapement Action of the Revised -- Co-Axial Escapement -- Symmetrical Co-Axial Escapement -- 9.Mainsprings and Accessories -- Power Variation -- Mainspring Dimensions -- Spring power Available -- Type of Mainspring -- Equalizing the Force of the Spring

Note continued: Constant Force Escapements -- Making the Fusee -- Winding Indicator -- Stop Work -- Winding -- Equation of Time -- 10.Movement Design -- Historical and General -- Planning the Movement -- Detail Design of a Tourbillon Movement -- Planning the Carriage -- Making the Frame -- Supporting the Carriage -- Tourbillon Carriages -- Making a Tourbillon Carriage -- 11.The Balance and Spring -- Temperature Compensation -- Balance Wheels -- Balance Springs -- Springs Studs and Collets -- To Fit the Balance Spring -- 12.Casemaking -- Soldering -- Watch Glass -- 13.Engine-Turned Cases and Dials -- Dial Making -- Dial Feet -- Seconds Circle and Sector Index Plate -- Finishing the Dial -- Cleaning and Oiling.

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