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I started with Greg Daniel's masterpiece: Watchmaking. https://www.amazon.com/Watchmaking-George-Daniels/dp/0856677043 https://www.amazon.com/Watchmaking-Georg

• dutchbrit 4y ago
  I was about to post the same book. Pretty much a must have if you get into watchmaking.
  • eggy 4y ago
    My late Uncle Vic taught me how to repair clocks and pocket watches when I was young. I let it go, and returned to re-learning it with this book. I still dream of completing my first, from scratch, pocket watch.
• anfractuosity 4y ago
  I've heard of that book before, it sounds really interesting too! Creating your own mechanism sounds extremely complex, is that what you're doing?
• mananaysiempre 4y ago
  Linked at the very end of the long, long page (which, incidentally, is long).
• wrycoder 4y ago
  That is an absolutely amazing book - how to design and make the highest quality watches from scratch. At the time, all watch fabrication was by division of labor, no one made an entire watch from scratch. Daniels also wrote a riveting autobiography. He rose from the most abject poverty to world eminence, largely because of the British guild system. He also collected, restored, and raced old cars. He used to drive his Blower Bentley to his gentlemen's club (!) in London[0]. All this is described in his autobiography. He needed to do business in Switzerland, so he simply drove his restored Rolls-Royce across the Continent. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Blower_No.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentley_Blower_No.1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Daniels_(watchmaker)