Henry B. FriedThe Watch Repairer's Manual: Second Edition

Very nice. The author does a wonderful job of taking one from the place of knowing nothing about watches to being able to work on them.This book is truly for beginners, but is definitely useful for the intermediate and advanced students as well. Every page has diagrams that make it easy to follow along. The information is laid out in a logical, orderly manner, which greatly aides in understanding the concepts as well as the procedures.In addition, the back of the book has a chapter about troubleshooting watch issues. This alone makes this book highly valuable to the student / professional, and well worth the cost of the book. I highly recommend this book to anyone who’s interested in watch work.

Very well written book with easily understood concepts and great illustrations showing how it actually works. You get the excellent reference text and reference drawings Perfect for anyone who wants to learn watch repair.

Love this book, it takes many books to learn watch repair on your own this book is a great start. As soon as I flipped through it l learned how to tighten watch hands. Not covered in any other book I have. Suddenly that stockpile of old watch hands has become more useful. Plan to purchase the newest version but you can't go wrong with this as a starter.

A classic watchmaker book, written by arguably the best US watchmaker. To me is not a repair book, is more a fabrication book. The way things were done 60 or so years ago. If you really want to learn watchmaking get it, if you plan to change a battery on a watch don’t.

If your looking to start this as a hobby for repairs/servicing and need an actual teaching aid to get you started this is it. Exactly what I was looking for. Between this and Wristwatch Revival on YouTube I have no fear or trepidation anymore. I have the tools, now it’s time to get to work.

The watch content is good. However, the entire first third (more than 100 pages) is comprised of 1. Substance abuse treatment, 2. Today I’m a princess coloring book, and 3. An 1815 oration by George Washington Stanley.

I recommend this book to people that wants to start in the watchmaking.

very useful for the serious amateur