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.

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)

Pretty Basic

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.

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.

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

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

A LITTLE TO HARD TO FIGURE OUT FOR BEGINNERS BUT A GOOD DETAILED BOOK