Watchmaking

Previous edition: 1981

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 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 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 Select Bibliography