Horlogerie pratique
Subtitle: A l’Usage des Apprentis et Amateurs
Publisher: The author
Published: 1802
Place of publication: Toulouse, France
Language: fre
Number of pages: 435
Description: A detailed description of how to make a verge watch movement by hand (identical to the 1st edition).
To which is added and explanation of the quarter repeater and an examination of faults in repeater mechanisms.
Table of contents: title: Part 1 (60 pages, 14 chapters): A description of materials, tools and their use.; title: Part 2 (80 pages, 11 chapters): Workshop methods for making a verge watch ebauche.; title: Part 3 (78 pages, 12 chapters): Movement finishing.; title: Part 4 (68 pages, 9 chapters): Repairing watches.; title: Table of the equation of time (1 page).; title: Glossary (33 pages).; title: Table of contents (18 pages, actually an index).; title: Approbation and Privilége général du Roi (4 pages).; title: Part 5 (112 pages, 7 chapters): Repeater watches.; title: Table of watch trains (8 pages).