Supplement No 20

[Mike Bonner]

I am getting interested in old English pocket watches.
As a result of an enquiry to an English authority, he advised me to obtain a copy of Supplement No 20 from this site. Can anyone assist me?.

Thanks very much,

Mike Bonner

[Mike Bonner]

I am getting interested in old English pocket watches.
As a result of an enquiry to an English authority, he advised me to obtain a copy of Supplement No 20 from this site. Can anyone assist me?.

Thanks very much,

Mike Bonner

[doug sinclair]

Mike,

Supplement # 20 is Phillip Priestley's excellent reference on English watch case makers. It should be available from the NAWCC bookstore which you can find at www.nawcc.org. (http://www.nawcc.org.) It deals primarily with cases, so you will have to look elsewhere for material on English watchmakers. Brittens Old Clocks & Watches is one I would recommend, but perhaps someone can recommend other good references for Mike?

Regards,
Doug S.

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[Tom McIntyre]

I would recommend Watches by Clutton and Daniels and The CamererCuss Book of Antique Watches by T. P. Camerer Cuss. Both of these are generally available from old book dealers.

If you want to learn about specific "great families" of watches, there are a series of books by Vaudrey Mercer on the Arnolds, Dents and Frodshams. There is also an excellent book and supplement by Cedric Jagger on the Barraud family. These latter books tend to be rather expensive.

If you are interested in fine watches in general, the best book ever written in my opinion is It's About Time by Paul Chamberlain. It has both Swiss and English watches with biographies of famous horologists. There is a copy of it for sale on the Chapter 174 eMart (http://www.pocketwatch.org/cgi-bin/Ultimate.cgi?action=intro). :smile:

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Tom McIntyre
President, NAWCC Chapter 174
Pocket Horology Web (http://www.pocketwatch.org)
Tommy the JOAT's Web (http://www.mcintyre.com/McIntyre)

[hc3]

The best general book on watches and clocks- not the technical minutiae, but as an overview- is Davis Landes' REVOLUTION IN TIME. It sold well and is probably at your local library, or it's available cheaply on the web at used book stores.

Enjoy- I was seduced away from the true path of English watches by the lack of good examples to be found locally, now that I go to the U. K. regularly, who knows? Good luck!