Watch Repair for Beginners: An Illustrated How-To Guide for the Beginner Watch Repairer

This is a book for beginners, not novices. I tried reading it before ever taking a watch apart and didn't understand a blessed thing in the bike. I used YouTube to struggle through a couple mechanical watch repairs (disassemble, replace broken parts, lubricate, reassemble) and now this book is a GEM. Great history and theory to provide a beginner with deeper knowledge to understand the watches they are working on, taking the beginner to the intermediate level of horology.

Not what I expected. Didn't show much watch repair. Mostly talked about parts.

Great quality, great price, item as discribed. Great book to learn watch repair. Will recommend.

I recently bought this book because I am just getting into the hobby of watch repair. I figured a book entitled "watch repair for beginners" would be a good place to start. Upon receiving the book, I have discovered almost 2/3rds of it is about the abstract concept of time and clocks. That last 1/3 is about watches, but is very technical. I wouldn't recommend this for beginners. I gave it three stars because while the book is well written and informative, a book entitled "watch repair for beginners" should mostly be about watches and basic information.

I bought this book after I got lost reading Practical Watch Repairing. This book really is good for beginners. While you can get lost in the technical explanations, the book really does approach repair from a beginner's level. Hell, the book starts with a history of time keeping...starting with the rotation and orbit of the earth. So this book really does start from the beginning. I like this book also because it has a LOT of well drawn diagrams with lots of descriptions. You can know the main parts of a watch by looking at two diagrams and have it memorized in twenty minutes. With the help of memorizing those diagrams and understanding them, I have actually successfully theorized and did a couple of easy/simple fixes on eBay purchases that weren't running based on the item descriptions! The book has large print which is nice and everything is explained in a easily comprehensible fashion. The Practical Watch Repairing book was definitely more difficult to comprehend. Get this book, it's a good one.

Pretty Basic

This is an excellent intermediary book for the blossoming horologist. It covers both clocks and watches in rather specific details. However, many of the terms used and items referenced will not be known to the novice. It also has the book structured such that the basics of horology are not introduced until later in the book. If you have an earnest desire to learn about horology I wouldn't dissuade you from reading this book. Just know there are better choices for someone who wants to dip their toes in the shallow end, as it were.

This is an informative book, but I'm not sure it is really for beginners. There is a lot of technique that is not covered in a way that a true beginner can grasp. It is a good one for someone who has a little knowledge of watches, though.

Articolo solo in inglese, ovvio se non conoscete la lingua non è molto utile per voi. Vi garantisce una lettura di facile comprensione che permette di approcciarsi al mondo dell'orologeria senza alcun problema consiglio magari di avere un orologio non molto costoso su cui praticare o anche visionare i vari pezzi che vengono indicati nelle tantissime immagini disegnate a mano su tutto il libro. Come primo passo ottimo non aspettatevi un enciclopedia sulle orologeria perché non lo è, è semplicemente un approccio al mondo

very detailed and extensive book on time pieces and time keeping. Introdcution very interesting on the concept of time.

歯の角度のことから 書いてあり 素人には 理解がけっこう困難 理解しようとせず斜め読みには 面白いかも

Es una buena guía para resolver problemas que pueden surgir en relojería. Bien explicado e ilustrado.Además da trucos muy útiles.

Not for beginners