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Volume 1 - Bibliography

Preface

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Introduction

...............vi

Why have bibliographies?

?e bibliography........................................................................ viii ?e indexes ...........x

Buying books

.......xi

Acknowledgements

Addendum

..................xv

Bibliography

................1

Volume 2 - Indexes

Full Title Index

........811

Title Key Word Index

Author Index

...........991

Date First Published Index

Subject Top-Level Index

Subject Index

.........1127

Preface

Preface to the First Edition

... the author's excuse for what is to follow before list guidance

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the ?ird Edition

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Introduction

Why have bibliographies?

?e man who prides himself on the fact that he can learn nothing from others has a perfectly just estimate of

his own abilities, and he can learn nothing, simply from a de?ciency of brains.

Purpose

reason

Editions

General content

Detailed content

Price Scope

Sources

?e bibliography bibliographic data printing information contents reviewremarks

Bibliographic data

Reference Number

Author

Titles

Subtitles

Publishers

Dates circacirca

Formats

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General subjects covered

Printing information

Contents

Review, remarks and quality

opinions author responsibility grading poor mediocre fairgoodvery goodexcellentbad remarks ?e indexes

Full title index

Title key word index

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Author index

authors

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Publication date index

Subject top level index

Subject index

Reviews

Reviewer

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Buying books

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A short list

Acknowledgements

Reviewers

Addendum

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Aubry, Sylvian; Landwerlin, P

?éorie des montres compliquées

"?e work "?eory of watchmaking" (by Reymondin et al), intended for apprentices at the start of their training, focuses

on the basic components and mechanisms, quite naturally leaving aside the most learned constructions. It therefore deals

only slightly with the aspects that make up the richness and reputation of modern Swiss watchmaking: the complications.

?is is why, in 2018, the FET set itself the challenge of providing young people in initial and higher education with a

book for teaching modern complicated watches.

After more than 5 years of multiple contacts, methodical work and diligent follow-up, the author, Mr. Sylvian Aubry,

assisted by Mr. Pascal Landwerlin for the historical aspects, enabled the publication of "?eory of complicated watches".

A reference work designed speci?cally for people in training, it is also aimed at amateurs wishing to deepen their

knowledge of watchmaking."

Davies, AC

?e rise and decline of England's watchmaking industry, 1550-1930

"?is survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking ?lls a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell

in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking

hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. ?e English industry led European watchmaking in the

late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also

made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later

hegemony of Britain's navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking

industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free

Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to

watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. ?e Swiss watch industry adapted

itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world's markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory

foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial

production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed."

[Remark} Also see House of Commons "Report from the committee on the petitions of watchmakers of Coventry, etc."

R1020

Evans, J; Carter, J; Wright, B

?omas Tompion 300 Years

Prince, Bill

Royal Oak, from iconoclast to icon

"Royal Oak: From Iconoclast to Icon retraces how the Audemars Piguet's Royal Oak created a stir upon its release in

1972, with its armor of hand-?nished stainless-steel encasing the thinnest self-windin

g mechanical movement of its era

and has shone around the world in the decades that have followed. For the ?rst time, steel was ennobled to the same

status as gold. Inspired by the profound cultural, artistic, and industrial changes of the 1960s and early 1970s, this

forward-looking timepiece anticipated a more active yet casual lifestyle, while heralding the beginning of a new high-end

watchmaking era combining sportiness and re?nement.

Although an outsider at birth, the Royal Oak soon found an audience among the free-spirited youth, who recognized

the watch's audacious blend of technological advances and ancestral craftsmanship. ?e Royal Oak has been a canvas of

innovation ever since, conversing with art, music, architecture, and sports. Today, a cultural artifact beyond watchmaking,

the Royal Oak is an object of permanence in a world of obsolescence, embodying the creative freedom and the youthful

spirit of those who have contributed to writing its story.

?e book presents the Royal Oak's history from a broader cultural perspective, while shedding light on new archival

materials uncovered by Audemars Piguet's Heritage department alongside exclusive testimonies of long-standing friends

of the brand."

Singer & Cie

Centième

"Hundredth.

?is work testi?es to the love of the TRADE OF CADRANIER throughout this beautiful adventure. One hundred years

have passed since Jean Singer, enamel dial painter, opened his small studio in La Chaux-de-Fonds." R3054

Turner, A; Nye, J; Betts, J

A general history of horology

[1st edition review by Michael Schwartz] A "General History of Horology" sets out to explain the evolution of

timekeeping from antiquity to the current day and to examine the importance of each development in geographical,

technical, and societal terms. It is a monumental e?ort to provide an overview of such a colossal subject, and much of it

is well done and engaging. A sizable chunk of the content, however, would have been better placed in a di?erent book

without "general" in the title. More than a few contributors dive deep into technical minutiae or niche topics that are

beyond the ken of a lay reader and in no way "General". A multi-author, multi-editor work can provide a wealth of

expertise in many subsections of a ?eld; in this case it also produces a kind of literary cacophony, like an orchestra without

a conductor and the oboes all improvising in di?erent keys.

It's not encouraging for a reader when a book's ?rst paragraph trips you up: "To write the history of horology before

Antiquity is next to impossible," declares Jérôme Bonnin. He then spends the next 200-odd words regurgitating variations

on this simple thesis before starting the next paragraph with another clear, and by now painfully familiar assertion: "?e

origin of time measurement is an insoluble question."

Reading "A General History of Horology" left me with two other insoluble questions: Who is this book for? Why is there

such a gulf between the thought and dedication that it clearly took to assemble the book, and the less-than-stellar quality

of the ?nal product?

Unfortunately, that ?rst encounter with "A General History of Horology", edited by Anthony Turner, James Nye, and

Jonathan Betts, is of a piece with what follows: "A General History" is a book undermined by own-goals and unforced

errors that distract from - or completely overwhelm - what otherwise could and should be engaging and enlightening

content complemented with ?ne photographs.

Too often, photographs are grainy, a jarring sight in a book of this heft and cost, and bearing the imprimatur of Oxford

University Press. Including subpar images is a basic oversight that should never have made it past the proo?ng stage.

Besides lending the tome an incongruous amateurishness, these blurry images also deprive the reader of the enjoyment

and edi?cation the depicted subjects were included to provide.

Ironically, for a primer on horology, the chapters don't proceed in a logically linear way. For example, we jump from

Chapter 14: "Precision Attained: ?e Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" to Chapter 16: "Eighteenth-Century Clock

Exports from Britain to the East Indies." ?e latter, by Roger Smith, reads more like a 20-page aside than an article

meant to increase the generalist's knowledge of horology. Smith's entry leaves one with more questions than answers, and

one big question in particular: Why is this topic important? It would make sense as an article in a horological journal,

as a niche scholarly work. Smith focuses largely on the what, how, and why of the motives and mechanisms of British -

Chinese trade. Totally missing is any attempt to connect this side street of clock history to the main road of humans and

timekeeping down the years.

Having said that, my knowledge of this corner of the horology world is greater than when I started. But how and where

this corner ?ts into that wider world remains a mystery. ?is subject may be catnip for members of horological academia,

but presumably they're beyond an entry-level reference book, and the intended audience of lay readers is left feeling adrift.

Smith answers many questions in his piece, but is silent on the largest ones: Why is it in this book and who does he suppose

is its audience?

More disappointing was "Electricity, Horology, and Networked Time," by James Nye and David Rooney. ?e shame of

this chapter is the shame of the whole book: it could be excellent if it got out of its own way. It starts brilliantly, reading

like a lucid, persuasive, and interesting encyclopedia entry. It introduces nuance to long-held beliefs, pushing back on

the idea that railroads alone drove the standardization of time and suggesting that the real story is bigger and more

complicated.

Nye and Rooney soon commit the ?rst of what will become a repeat o?ense: wandering from the subject (regulators,

atomic clocks, electric movements) into an abstruse technical tangent on how these devices work. Consider this paragraph

on atomic clocks on page 508:

"When the caesium atoms emerge from the oven, they enter a tubular vacuum chamber and pass through a magnetic

?eld, then through a cavity, and then through another magnetic ?eld. ?e ?rst magnetic ?eld has the e?

ect of de?ecting

the atoms in two opposite directions, dependent on the direction of rotation of their electrons when they enter the ?eld.

One of the two sets of atoms will continue through a further ?ne slit in the cavity in the centre of the vacuum chamber,

and from there pass through the second (identical) magnetic ?eld, where once again, those electrons that have changed

polarity will be de?ected away. Atoms that successfully pass through the centre line then reach a detector, formed of a hot

platinum or tungsten wire, which gives up an electric charge before emitting the atoms again, which are now drawn to

an electrode, allowing for the measurement of a resulting electric current."

It's only in passing after 20 more pages that the authors mention how these ultra-precise clocks form the backbone of

modern communications networks, GPS satellite navigation, and, basically, the bulk of our modern, digital existence.

While these ?aws and missed opportunities are unfortunately prominent, they aren't representative of the whole book;

some chapters of A General History are simply excellent.

Marisa Addomine's "Public Clocks in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" lays out a fascinating history in clear and

crisp prose peppered with colorful anecdotes and factoids that give the text a conversational - but no less authoritative -

tone.

David Boettcher's "Wristwatches from ?eir Origins to the Twenty-First Century" delivers a similarly satisfying

experience, capped o? with his playfully cheeky observation that "the future for an obsolete piece of technology has never

looked brighter!"

"Women in Horology" by Joëlle Mauerhan also deserves special mention. Her writing ?ows, ?lled with revealing examples

as she unspools a story that has gone largely untold in earlier horological histories.

If all of "A General History of Horology" were written to the same standard as these scholars' chapters, the only fair

criticism of the book would be its blurry photos. Unfortunately, "A General History" seldom meets that standard. ?is is

all the more perplexing because the book's editors are as expert as expert gets. Oxford University Press markets the book

as being "accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader," but it strains credulity to think the average

general reader would choose "accessible" if asked to sum up the book in a word.

"A General History of Horology" could have been great, because indeed some of it is. Some of it is decidedly not great,

and that portion is the proverbial bad apple spoiling the bunch. It's unfortunate that a book with so much promise falls

short of what it could have been. Originally published in the NAWCC Watch & Clock Bulletin, May/June Volume 65/3 Number 463, pp 69-70; reproduced with the pernission of the NAWCC. BIBREV

Stark, Aaron

Disrupting time:, industrial combat, espionage, and the downfall of a great American company

"It was a fascinating read. Aaron has an intriguing take on the trajectory of American watchmaking and the Swiss

response to the American challenge that is distinctly di?erent from earlier writers like Moore, Landes, and Watkins.

Aaron's unique perspective is not surprising, since he is neither a horologist nor a Waltham watch product a?cionado per

se. Rather, he is a West Point graduate, which comes through in his frequent "battle" and "combat" metaphors, and more

importantly, a Harvard MBA, which comes through in his understanding of business practices and his analyses thereof.

One may be skeptical or even disagree with some of his contentions, and a few of his facts probably need more context,

but his book is extensively referenced and loaded with interesting facts. I consider it an insightful and provocative work

as well as a very absorbing and enjoyable read, which I am still digesting." 3 R1

Abbott, Henry G

A pioneer, a history of the American Waltham Watch Company of Waltham, Mass USA: Adams Brown Co (Chicago: Hazlitt & Walker), 1968 (1905), 19.5 x 13.5 cm, 109 pp, 35 plates.

Biography, history (English).

?e text of this book was originally produced about 1888 as a series of articles for the "American Jeweler" and

the revised edition was printed in 1905. ?ere is a Google book pdf (available in USA only?).

17 chapters. ?e book begins with a short history of the company followed by biographies, with portraits, of the

major managers and tool makers involved with Waltham. It also includes photographs of the development of the

factory and ends with a description of the clock room and observatory reproduced from the Scienti?c American

of April 1905. ?e forward says this "work presents nothing that is new or startling, but is simply a collection of facts ...".

?e title is somewhat misleading because it is essentially a biographical work with the history to be gleaned indirectly

from it. At times fascinating, but too factual and lacking interpretive commentary. It has been superceded by Moore

"Timing a century" and other books.

I wonder if George Hazlitt chose his pen-name so that he would appear at the start of bibliographies.

R2

Abbott, Henry G

American watchmaker and jeweler

an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, goldsmith and silversmith

USA: Arlington Book Co (Chicago: Geo. Hazlitt & Co), 2012 (1883), 22.0 x 15.5 cm, 378 pp, 288 ill, 2 ?d

plates (354 pp, 288 ill).

Repair, tools (English).

Tardy indicates 12 editions up to 1908 with at least two modern reprints; one of the 1898 edition, published

in 1989, and one of the 1893 edition. Bromley lists the 1898 edition as having 2 folding plates.

Reprinted in 2012.

?ere is a Google book pdf of the 1898 edition (available in USA only?). Alphabetical entries containing descriptions of American tools, descript ions of escapements and some repair suggestions. Also included are short biographies of horologists and other people. ?ere is an index. ?e preface states that there is a need for "a book that would furnish some information in regard to tools of American manufacture ...".

Abbott has achieved this by pillaging sections from Britten "Watch and clockmakers' handbook, dictionary and guide"

(with some acknowledgement and a few changes) and adding descriptions of American tools and techniques. Most if not

all of the escapement material is from Britten and most if not all of the tool descriptions are Abbott's contribution. At

least on this occasion the source is mentioned, unlike in some other books by Hazlitt and Walker.

Like all encyclopaedic works the level of entries is variable. Some are just de?nitions or far too brief biographies, while

others contain useful detail. Overall it is quite a good collection of information, probably most useful for the descriptions

of tools. ?e repair topics only cover a few areas, many relating to basic activities such as hardening and soldering.

R3

Abbott, Henry G

Antique watches and how to establish their age

USA: Cooksey Shugart Publications (Chicago: Geo. Hazlitt & Co), 2014 (1897), 19.5 x 13.5 cm, 204 pp, 170 ill.

Identi?cation, makers, biography (English).

Reprinted in 1965, circa 1993 and 2014. ?e 1993 reprint appears to be in both hard back and soft cover.

?e book begines with a 14-page introduction: English hallmarks, followed by summary of styles of pillars, hands,

balance cocks and pendants.

?e body of the book consists of a list of over 6,000 names of makers interspersed with portraits and illustrations

of watches. Covering watchmakers up to 1850, most entries consist of just name, city and dates, but the more

famous have short biographies. ?e book concludes with a page-and-a-half appendix of additional names , which only goes as far as "Graupner". ?e summary of styles is good. After providing a table of English hallmarks for the London assay

o?ce, Abbott discusses how to date a watch by examining its features. He begins with a chronology of the ?rst use

of di?erent features (from 1550 to 1810). ?en he examines the di?erent styles of pillars, hands, balance cocks and

pendants. ?is section primarily aids with dating pre 1700 watches. Abbott's approach is far more sensible and more

useful than that of Camerer Cuss in "?e English watch 1585 - 1970".

?e remainder of the book, the list of makers, has been superseded by Baillie, Loomes, Pritchard and Tardy. However

there are some long and reasonably interesting biographies for John Arnold, Berthoud, Caron (Beaumarchais), Earnshaw,

John Ellicott, ?omas Grignon, Moritz Grossmann, Ingold, Saunier and Tompion, as well as a few shorter ones. ?e

author shows his personality by including a couple of avowed clockmakers (such as Chauncey Jerome and Eli Terry) and

authors; plate 127 of a clock movement looks distinctly out of place.

?is would have been a useful book, but now it is primarily a collector's book rather than a helpful tool.

4R4 Abbott, Henry G

History of time measurement and of time-measuring instruments

New York: ?e Calculagraph Co., nd (1913), 38 pp.

History (English).

Reprinted from the Keystone Magazine, March, 1913. R5

Abbott, Henry G

?e art of hard soldering Chicago: Geo Hazlitt & Co, 1971 (1895), 16 x 12 cm, 69 pp, 29 ill.

Repair (English).

Lamps and blowpipes; Soldering appliances; Fluxes; Practical work. R6

Abbott, Henry G

?e watch factories of America past and present USA: Adams Brown Co, 1981 (1888), 19.5 x 13.5 cm (8.5 x 6 inch), 145 pp, 50 ill.

History (English).

First published in 1888. ?ere are at least two reprints; a numbered limited edition of 500 copies in boards,

and an unnumbered reprint (also marked "limited reprint"). My reprint has poor illustrations and page 80 is blank (a missing illustra tion?). ?ere is a Smithsonian Institution pdf of the book (available worldwide?).

27 short chapters: Aaron L. Dennison (6 pages); Luther Goddard, Pitkin bros., ?e American Horologe Co., the

Warren Mfg. Co., N. B. Sherwood, the American Waltham Co. (18 pages); ?e Nashua Co. (4 pages); Edward

Howard, E. Howard Watch and Clock Co. (8 pages); ?e Newark Co., the Cornell Co. (6 pages); ?e United

States Co. of N.J., the Marion Co. (4 pages); ?e Elgin National Co. (12 pages); J. C. Adams (2 pages); ?e

Tremont and Melrose Cos. (2 pages); ?e Mozart Co. of Providence, the New York Co. (4 pages); ?e Mozart Co.

of Ann Arbor, the Rock Island Co., the Freeport Co. (4 pages); ?e Illinois Co. (4 pages); ?e Rockford Co. (2

pages); ?e Adams & Perry Mfg Co., the Lancaster Co., ?e Keystone Co. (6 pages); ?e Fitchburg Co, (2 pages);

?e Aubuendale Co. (4 pages); ?je Waterbury Co. (8 pages); ?e Independent Co., Freedonia Co. (4 pages);

Bowman (2 pages); Columbus Co. (4 pages); Aurora Co. (4 pages); Trenton Co. (4 pages); Charles Moseley, P.

S. Bartlett (6 pages); Cheshire Co., Manhattan Co. (4 pages); ?e Self Winding Watch, the United States Co. of

Waltham (4 pages); and ?e Peoria Co., N. Y. Standard, Seth ?omas and Wichita Cos. (5 pages). Abbott (together with Crossman "?e complete history of watchmaking in

America") provides a very good, contemporary account of the American watch industry. However, Crossman is better

and to be preferred.

I am fascinated by the migration of people, machinery and watches from one failed company to the next. One gets the

feeling that, outside the few major concerns, the companies played "pass the parcel" with the occasional watch actually

being made and sold. R7

Abbott, Henry G

?e watch factories of America past and present

USA: , nd (1888), 11 x 8 inch, 44 pp, no ill.

History (English).

A typescript, presumably a reprint of some part of Abbott's book. A photocopy? R8

Abbott, Henry G

?e watch factories of America past and present ... and more USA: Greg Frauenho?, 2003, 28.0 x 21.5 cm, 64 pp, 40 ill.

History (English).

Facsimiles of the original articles from which the book "?e watch factories of America, past and present" was

produced, together with some additional facsimile extracts from contemporary journals. ?e additional material

is: Arthur Wadsworth, Trenton, Cheshire Watch Co advertisement, Advertisement for "?e watch factories of

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