Complete Price Guide to Watches

by Shugart, Cooksey; Engle, Tom; Gilbert, Richard E.; Shugart, Martha

• ISBN13: 9781574323375
• ISBN10: 1574323377
• Edition: 23rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Collector Books

Summary

Thoroughly revised and updated, a comprehensive price guide for watch collectors features the current pricing and market value of more than ten thousand types of watches, including both American and European makes of pocket watches, wrist watches, and comic watches, along with tips on grading and appraising watches. Original. 25,000 first printing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 5
How to Determine Manufacturer	p. 9
Appraising Watches (what's my watch worth)	p. 10
Grading Watches	p. 12
Collecting on a Limited Budget	p. 14
Railroad Pocket Watches	p. 16
Railroad Grade Watches	p. 24
Railroad Approved Watches	p. 26
Colonial Watchmakers	p. 28
List of Early American Watchmakers	p. 31
Sizes, How to Determine Watch Sizes	p. 34
Solid Gold Marks	p. 35
Gold Filled Marks	p. 37
Nomenclature of Watch Parts	p. 42
Case Prices	p. 44
Watch Inspection	p. 46
How a Watch Works	p. 50
Regulator Id	p. 56
Jewels and Pivots	p. 69
Jewel Count	p. 71
Judging Quality	p. 77
Offer Versus Appraisals	p. 78
Ebauches	p. 81
Special Named or Private Label Watches	p. 89
Swiss Fakes	p. 93
Market Report	p. 96
Abbreviations (used in this book)	p. 98
American Pocket Watch Listings (begins)	p. 100
Styles and Names of Hands	p. 359
Comic & Character Watches (begins)	p. 415
Early Antique Watches (European)	p. 433
Watch-Makers	p. 435
Clues to Dating Your Watch	p. 438
Chronological Date List	p. 444
Early European Watchmakers	p. 445
Hallmarks of London	p. 450
Repeating Watches	p. 454
Tourbillon	p. 458
Karrusel	p. 460
European Pocket Watch Listings (begins)	p. 463
Pre-1850 Repeaters	p. 550
Pre-1850 Alarms	p. 557
Tourbillon, Karrusel	p. 564
Unusual	p. 580
Nello Watch Cases	p. 590
Enamel Watches	p. 604
Match Serial Number and Date (Also Page 1,147)	p. 609
A Bit of Wrist Watch History	p. 610
Automatic Winding	p. 615
Chronograph	p. 616
Swiss Code Initials	p. 622
Watch Consolidation (Who Owns Who)	p. 623
Brand Names & Owners	p. 624
Wrist Watch Listings (begins)	p. 626
Watch Terminology	p. 1
Word Pronunciation	p. 1
European Terminology & U.S.A. Terminology	p. 1
The Art of Micro-Mechanical Marvels	p. 1
Match Serial Number and Date (Also Page 609)	p. 1
Advertising Begins (where to buy and sell)	p. 1
Advertising Ends (where to buy and sell)	p. 1,200
Type or Style of Escapement
Arnold Spring Detent Escapement	p. 562
Auburndale Rotary Escapement (2 styles)	p. 143
Breguet Hanging Ruby Cylinder Escapement	p. 60
Bulova Accutron (Tuning Fork)	p. 676
Chinese Duplex (Crab leg style)	p. 443
Chronodrometer (Am. Waltham 8 tooth escape wheel)	p. 107
Chronometer (G. P. Reed)	p. 340
Chronometer Spring Detent Escapement	p. 61
Co-axial Escapement (George Daniel - Omega)	p. 614
Co-axial Escapement (Fasoldt Double Escape Wheel)	p. 204
Coles Resilient Escapement	p. 251
Counterpoised Lever Escapement	p. 71
Crab Leg Duplex Escapement	p. 443
Cylinder Escapement	p. 60
Debaufre Escapement	p. 536
Delong Escapement	p. 273
Detached Escapement	p. 62
Detent Escapement	p. 1
Double Escapements ("Duality" by Philippe DuFour)	p. 1
Duplex Escapement	p. 60
Earnshaw Spring Dentent Escapement	p. 483
Electric Escapement, "Hamilton" (Balance Wheel Motor)	p. 778
English or Right angle Escapement	p. 62
Escapements (5 styles with Modifications and Parts)	p. 62
Foliot Balance & Verge Escapement (1550-1560)	p. 52
Frictional Rest Escapement with Pirouette & Double Escape Wheel	p. 481
Glashutte Escapement	p. 504
Jacot 3 & 4 Star Duplex Escapement	p. 499
Joseph Johnson 30 tooth escape wheel	p. 500
Karrusel, Bonniksen's	p. 460
Lever Escapement (Modern style)	p. 50
Massey Escapement (type 1-5)	p. 453
Mozart Chrono-Lever Escapement	p. 313
Moustache Counterpoised Lever Escapement	p. 70
Mudge Detached Lever Escapement	p. 60
Mulford Escapement (Modified Verge)	p. 314
Pin Lever Escapement (Dollar Watches, American)	p. 86
Pin-wheel Escapement (S. D. French, American)	p. 209
Pivoted Detent Escapement	p. 61
Pouzait Lever Escapement (2 styles)	p. 587
Rack & Pinion Lever Escapement	p. 63
1 Second Remontoir Escapement (by Derek Pratt)	p. 1
Resilient Escapement	p. 61
Right Angle Lever Escapement	p. 62
Ruby Cylinder Escapement (Hanging)	p. 60
Roskopf Pin Pallet Lever Escapement (Swiss)	p. 537
Savage 2 Pin Escapement	p. 443
Spring Detent	p. 61
Straight Line Lever Escapement	p. 62
Tourbillon	p. 458
Verge Escapement (with chain drive = page 59)	p. 59
Virgule Escapement (single & double = 61)	p. 61
Worm Gear Escapement	p. 84
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