Watch Repair for Beginners: An Illustrated How-To Guide for the Beginner Watch Repairer Paperback – Facsimile, February 1, 2012

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.

First off this is a Primer / Textbook. If you are seriously interested in time peices as a hobby and you are thinking that you will pick this up as some light reading be warned it is dense and designed to be a begining text for someone studying to be a horologist (watch / clock repair expert)Pros:-Presents interesting information about the origin of time and its purpose in our lives.-Detailed pictures-if you are just starting out you can pick it up and won't be absolutely lost as to what they are talking about, if this were a textboox for a college course, the course would something like "Intro to Time Peices" and not "The psycology of the inter molecular study of the perpetual motion clock"Cons:-I was personally looking for something more casual such as "an idiots guide to" or a breif how to manual, and this is not written in that way.While this is a dense read i would still recomend picking it up if you are like me (wishing you know more about everything)

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

Yes, I know this might very well be the "go-to" book for beginning watch repair, but I found it to look, read, and seem very out of date and awkward. There are fewer illustrations than I expected, they are poorer quality than I expected, and I was overall disappointed.As a result, I've not delved into the meat of the writing very well, because I'm not sure it it will meet my needs. I urge readers to look through the "Look Inside!" images, and see the kind of hand-drawn images available. The ones farther in the book are of similar caliber.

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.

Has a little of everything you need to know.

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.

Worth the money. I learned a lot of how mechanical watches worked. It's a great book for beginners I'm glade I bought it.C.Culpepper