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The watch obber's handybook
THE
WATCH JOBBER'S
HANDYBOOK.
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Practical
Manual on Mechanical Manipulation, embracing Information on various HandiUseful Notes and Miscellaneous Memoranda. By Paul N.
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craft Processes.
"
very clever and useful book, which should be found in every workshop
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'
Practical
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HANDYBOOK
Practical
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Manual on
Cleaning, Repairing and Adjusting embracing Information on the Tools, MateAppliances and Processes employed in Clockwork. By Paul N. Hasluck.
:
rials,
With about
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In 'preparation
Practical Manual,
LONDON
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THE
WATCH JOBBER'S
HANDYBOOK.
^
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ON-
PAUL
HASLUCK,
N.
f^ttnUaJJ Ellustrattottsf.
(Elfttion, 3SeSitSc&.
6?'V
LONDON
SON,
LATHE WORK
Recently published, crown 8vo,
5s. cloth.
By
PAUL
With numerous
N.
and
Art of Turning.
HASLUCK.
Illustrations
Engineering.
We
"
can safely recommend the work to young engineers. To
the amateur it will simply be invaluable. To the student it will
convey a great deal of useful inlormation." Engineer.
" A compact, succinct and handy guide to lathe-work did not
exist in our language until Mr. Hasluck, by the publication of this
treatise, gave the turner a true vade meciim.''
House Decorator.
Hill,
London, E.C.
PREFACE.
This handbook
their
is
many who
The
neglected
The
till
technical
somewhat
quite recently.
early chapters
intermittingly in a periodical.
The Glossary
of
Terms used
in
it
on
benefiii
a wide
large sale.
would
to
be a comprehensive
Practical Horology.
London,
March, 1887,
P.
N. HASI.UCK.
CONTENTS.
PAGli
CHAP.
I.
II.
it
Apart
ii
...
14
24
III.
2534
IV.
35
Glossary of Terms,
in Watchwork
49
Used
50140
..
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1
PAGE
IG.
1
2 Anvil
Mounted on Block
3 Plain Arbor
4 Split Arbor
5
6
7
8
g
10
II,
..
..
..
.
- -
53
53
57
58
61
6s
.68
..
.
Cement Chucks
Chuck
Chuck
32,33,34 Wire Chucks. Full
28
2g Section of Shoulder
30 Taper-mouth Screw
31,
58 Jewel Setter
..62
..62
..
..
17 Arbor Chuck
i3 Arbor Chuck
19 Hollow-cone Chuck
,.
20 Lap to fit Cone Chuck
2r Cone-point to fit Cone Chuck
12 Screw Chuck
..
..
23 Lap to fit Screw Chuck
24 Face Plate
25, 26, 27,
56, 57 Jacot-tool
..58
..59
..
13 Bumpine-up Stake
14 Plain Calioers
15 Gauge Calipers
16 Centring Tool
.,
.
trations
Chuck
69
69
69
69
70
70
70
..
.,72
Clamps
39
40 Counter-shaft
41 Counter-shaft
..
..76
42
43
44
Depthmg Tool
Dog
Douzieme Gauge
80
..82
83
85
45 Drill-stock
46 Eye-glass
47 48, 49 Filing Attachments
50 Fly-wheel
t
Hammer
Hand-tongs
Hand-vice
5?, S^
54
55 Jacot-tool
..
72
76
gr
,,
93
93
,.
..96
,.
!!
,.
!.
g6
97
g3
..
. .
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
..98
Centre
76 Mainspring Winder
77 Chucks for Mainspring
78, 7g Nippers
80 Pin Slide
71
71
72
..
60 Cutter Stock
61 Stop Collar
62 Jewel Cutter
63 Jewel Gauge
64 Mo3eley's No. i Hard Latlie
65 Section of Lathe-bed
66 Moseley's No. i Soft Lathe
67 Half-open Tail-stock
68 Traverse Spindle
69 Light-runnmg Spindle
70 Screw Tail-stock
71 Universal Head
..
72 Whitcomb Lathe
73 Universal Head
74 Screw Tail-stock
75 Mainspring Punch
Step Chucks
37 Universal Face-plate or
38 Pump Centre
59
Centres
69
6g
6g^
size
35i 36
PAGE
FIG.
51
51
52
..52
-.52
..
..
Archimedian Drill-stock
Balance Poising-tool
Balance Poising-tool
Bench-vice
Bow Pliers
Bow Saw
12 Bow Saws
..
loi
100
100
102
102
102
104
105
106
107
107
108
108
no
..
log
..
no
..
..
..
..
in
112
113
n?
Winder
.115
117
n8
Pin Vice
Pinion Gauge
Height Gauge
Pinion Stake
,.
..
n8
..
..
ii^i
,.
.
119
120
120
..
121
124
Pivot-drill
Pivot Polisher
Pivot Polisher
..
.
Pliers
go Screw-end Finisher
118
..
.,
..
g3 Slide-rest
..
g4 Slide-rest
gS, g6 Sliding Tongs ..
97 Stepping Appliance
98 Plain Swing Rest
99 Jewelling Rest
TOO Swing Rest
loi
Timing Stand
..
.,
..129
...
..
.,
..
130
132
.,132
133
135
..
105 Wheel-cutter
106 Wig-wag
12a
128
..
..
136
i37
138
139
THE
I.
MODERN
HERE
was
WATCHES.
effected,
first
When man
first
looked up
to
moon
were the
divisions of time,
first
These
A natural day is
of the earth on
relative
its
This
position.
is
sidereal
in accomplishing
sidereal
that
all
are 365'2422i6,
there
is
day
is
is
23
little
called
a solar day,
one absolute
average length of
day
technically
rotation.
the solar
solar
day
is
the
and
4'i
seconds
solar day.
practical
method of
indicating sidereal
to fix a wheel of
is
one having
same
axis
fifty
teeth to
Let
this
on the same
This
teeth.
and eleven
axis
last
is
will revolve
and
let this
The
two thousand
The
sidereal
day to within
last
places
of
one second in
years.
earliest
five
The
drive a
This
of a
the length
decimals.
one of
wheel must
wheel
axis
having on the
teeth,
ninety-six,
an
wheel drive
made
the
dial
divided
into
connection with
The
we read in
whose name was
Nebuchadnezzar's
dream.
Book
of
Daniel
" Then
Daniel,
It is probable,
The
we
it
to
call
a week, has no
be a perpetuation of the
It
is,
at
any
rate,
time immemorial.
Sundials were the
into smaller
From
first
portions .of
CLEPSYDRAS.
place of such instruments
made
Book
of
on the
Hezekiah, about
Kings.
asked for a
sign, the
B.C.,
Ahaz
but the
B.C.,
The Chaldees
Egyptians who dwelt in the
is
950
sick,
being
King Ahaz.
dial of
713
The
in the
Homer,
Abraham.
Sundials are
now
to
solar
time and not the mean time that a clock would indicate.
In
the time
by the
sun.
are
used in rural
home
all
his charge
show
by the shadow of a
solar time,
is
warned
districts.
to bring
These methods
stick.
times a year.
These were
name of
the
the next
the gradual flow of water from one to another, and thus the
flight
to the
common
domestic
articles
used
for
Thus equal
With sand
is
used,
quantities
this is different,
a head of
it,
and
to a uniform
flowed out in
equal times.
is
filled
head
it
may
have.
equal to
itself if
An
who
its
says
it is
now
Archipelago.
which
in use
is
of a well-scraped cocoa-nut
and gradually
So nicely
the shell.
fills
end of an hour.
In the
shell.
empty
to
bottom of
rises
it
unreplenished.
sinks exactly
sunrise,
and
empty
sets the
shell afloat
again.
is credited with having made a clepsydra about 370
They were introduced into Rome 157 b.c, and orators
were timed by them. It appears that clepsydras, having
wheels, were constructed and used about 245 b.c, and some
Plato
B.C.
and
to
evidence of considerable
Ctesibius, of Alexandria,
B.C.,
made a machine
of this
landing in Britain, 55
B.C.,
Caesar,
on
on the Continent.
It may
now some-
is
The
clock, sent
is
formerly
called,
were
next
Wheelwork set in
was known in the time of
undetermined.
DE WYCK'S
CLOCK.
b.c.
The
construction of
II.,
made a
Gerbert, afterwards
Pope
Magdeberg.
This
by which
it
was regulated.
The
knowledge.
It is the first of
oldest clock
mentioned
above,
the
England
is
is
one
Gerbert, mentioned
is
and from
in
in
was made
first
horologe
in clockwork.
commonly known by
seventeenth century,
his Christian
was used
name, early
hundred years
six
It would appear
pendulum was not used successfully,
and
its
that,
regulated
up
by means of
fly-wheels or fans.
fly.
An
oscillating
arm
century.
It
The speed
of the pulsations
acted
much
like the
modern balance-wheel
bar, or
by
This contrivance
oscillation.
of a watch, without
in 1601,
Several
Europe
The De Wyck
in Covent Garden,
London,
in 1641.
to a clock
on the isochronous
oscillations of
he published a small
years later his son
pendulum.
treatise
made
observations
suspended bodies.
In 1639
Ten
is
Christian Huyghens, a
about the same time designed improved mechanism for recordof a pendulum.
He
Many
hand and
experiments were
made about
He
lums to be used.
also
added a small
Watches were
teenth century.
first
between or
The
first
six-
determine
essential characteristics of
If
we
first
If
we
distinguish
Derham,
striking
watches as
Nuremberg Eggs,
on a
bell,"
time,
&c.
such movements
and clocks are such as publish it by
But commonly the name of watch is
EARLY WATCHES.
made pocket
Peter Hale
watch and
Nuremberg
pronounced them
quite new.
clocks at
to
in
1500 and
be something
it
to Peter Hale,
who
died in 1540.
(bom 1423;
cases.
died 1461),
is
observations.
The early watches had but one hand, showing the hours.
They required winding twice a day. Originally the main-spring
was a
The
click
the outer end of the spring was attached to one of the plates.
A guard
spring.
This arrangement
now used
is
American spring
in
clocks.
Barrels, to contain the mainsprings,
and
the metal
first
able.
dial
till
16 10,
when
modern
Watches were of an
brass
was
form,
fusees, to equalise
chain,
which was
egg-shaped
oval, or
became
fashion-
it
is
From
the writings
first
is
in
1635.
He
is
popularly,
having invented
it
previously.
Tompion
T.
by Barlowe
II.
In 1691 he
inscription
Hooke invt.
on a
1658.
1675."
fecit
An
in 1676.
Amongst
the compensation
of pendulums.
his
principal inventions
He
is
The
in watches
named
will
him.
after
He
for clocks,
with
the
which
name
perfection
is
that
time
of
measurers.
Large rewards were offered during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by the Spanish, Dutch, French and English
governments
for
many
offers led to
much
These
and
measurers.
granting the
prize
for
in a voyage
This
placed on board one of the king's ships, which sailed for Jamaica
in 1758.
On
JOHN HARRISON.
months,
much
it
showed an
He made many
journeyman carpenter.
ments
in
at
was
lie
Foulby,
originally a
valuable improve-
Having given
Kensington
Museum
is
all.
In the Patent
and, excepting
entirely of
the
wood.
He
died in 1776,
Museum
of the South
in 1715.
In 1764
in subsequent years
escape wheel,
all
its
made
it
The
of the ordinary
Thus a source
rate caused
of error,
till
marine
_;^ 2, 5 00,
He
timekeepers.
in addition to
in Exeter,
In
1793
Parliament
voted
him
This,
now
universal, escape-
being
those
of
Breguet, of
lo
Clocks and watches were taxed in 1797, and the tax was repealed in 1798.
in 1749,
Board
be
also
recommended
The
his timekeeper.
that an additional
sum of;^2,soo
Eamshaw's
case.
to him.
made
in 1744,
He
simpli-
and died
in 1799.
The
many improvements
measurers of
all
kinds that
in the
it
would
sonable space.
we can
it
arrived at
its
written
developments
of
Now
and
It will
certainty.
characteristics
of
as
(4)
open
(3)
by
their
by the escapements,
These
by the
It is
not
CHARACTERISTICS OF WATCHES.
difficult to
when
the Hall-mark
visible
is
but as
some
further guide
bare inspection
aqua
or
forth,
However,
is
necessary.
To an
nitric acid,
incontestably
will
exprerienced eye a
sufficient,
is
metal.
this subject
watch- work J as
verbial, has
own at corresponding prices, and it is only to overcome popular prejudice that the imitation is made. In foreign
watches the cases usually open at the back or dome whilst in
English the movement itself is jointed to the belly of the case,
with our
and
the
its
inspection
is
effected
movement may be
by opening the
bezel,
foreign.
ever been
made
movement
is
few,
old-fashioned, have
peculiar to
made
peculiarities
country.
in this
and then
lifted
fly
up
on the
cap.
three-quarter-plate
ment
is
in
screwed to
that
the one
its
The
skeleton,
or cock-movement,
essentially foreign.
is
case
make
is
full-plate or
of the move-
a portion of the
12
plate
this
is
way and
cut
made much
thinner.
A verge
watch
is
known by
its
at right angles to the axes of the other wheels, &c., the direc-
fourth pinion.
crown wheel
one
is
in
watchmakers
verge proper
two
That
wheel.
to the plates
capement
shaft having
this latter
is
its
made now,
difficult
it
badly,
movement
why
for a
this es-
full-plate,
may come
probably need
successfully,
runs with
of the watch
so
is
is
is
The
usually
is
pallets,
hands
it
but
into our
The
recognised by having
is
The
escape-wheel
watches are
made
their flatness,
Owing
to the small
wear are
delicate handling
age.
To
all
cylinders,
Very small
skill.
and they
by the inexperienced
flat
for the
watches
will require
very
They
and France.
by
are characterised
to produce.
principally in Switzerland
is
Cylinder
independent of
all
made
itself,
cylinder
is
and en-
movements
LEVER ESCAPEMENTS.
The
lever escapement
modem make.
The
used in
is
all
13
English watches of
watch
is
is
required,
and
watches
and the
one
is
sories,
be
lever
is
axis
readily seen in
of the
at
axis
its
axis
lever
and the
in the other
escapements, and
including
balance,
Thus the
The
no corresponding part
will
The
cylinder escapement.
it
place.
escape-wheel, which
finds
is
pallets
an
forms
all
it
its
This
largely.
bearings,
all
its
acces-
have to be
The
peculiarities
scribed under
its
CHAPTER
II.
greatest
of
mechanism
all
charm
that of
HOW
The
is
TO
small
indispensable in
all
reason for
its
turn of mind.
It
from books
"
the assertion
is
it is
almost as correct to
scientific,
is
is
quite as necessary as
It is
watch
their
workshop
tuition.
example
amongst
several
others,
good reasons
it is
larger
for following
is
usually the case with watches that have the cylinder or lever
therefore advisable
first
experiments
if
its
construction,
difficult
if
and we
will
any part
watch
It
for
and
or expensive to replace.
to
this.
TAKING APART.
they are not likely to
fall
into the
15
hands of a beginner
for
adjustment.
must be understood
use,
no matter what
in hand,
is
and these
escapement
it
instructions
watch in general
may
have.
Having
at the
right
we
although there
be
commence our
secret of
may be
success
Careful examina-
task.
in
watch-repairing,
and
in perfect condition,
we must
any defects
The
intention
taking a
is
common
now
made by
the beginner
may be
come
within
scope
the
of
beginner.
The
which
is
is,
ported by
this
numerous nor
its
to be sup-
made
is
specially,
may be
generally
used,
I6
The
plates, wheels,
had from
dealers in materials,
A piece of
upwards.
chalk,
and
is
Tissue paper
dirt.
ment
is
The
is
used to cover
enumerated
articles
all
watch
from grease
are
it
oil,
but one
may be
chanical manipulation.
made by one having any skill in meThe main shaft of the turnscrew may
be made from pinion wire or any cylindrical rod of about threesixteenths of an inch in diameter, having
its
surface facetted or
The
total
The button
is
about the
size of a
the end of the shaft, the pivot being riveted over to prevent
off.
The blade is similar to a bradawl in
may be about one half to three quarters of an inch
is, of course, hardened and tempered.
The screw-
shape, and
long.
It
driver
is
that practised
his right
rolls
by other craftsmen.
The watchmaker
finger
uses only
on the button, he
mode
finger.
thumb
practise
this
is
doing.
If the screwdriver
TOOLS USED.
slips
from the
slit
usually filed
is
fitted
is
When
17
down from
sure to follow
the shaft
is
made
equally good.
is
more screwdrivers
one
one
less than
The
&c.
to
and
may be
assumed
be provided.
Tweezers
quite plain,
for
made
tapering,
Do
The
a shiUing.
They should be
A good pair,
at
made
of
steel, will
cost about
vent such a mishap, but for the general run of work steel ones
The
are preferable.
and the
An
eyeglass
adjuster,
is
It
feat is
eyeglass if his
see properly.
With regard
results.
strongly
to the difficulty
it
is
which beginners
i8
To
skin just
of an inch
then
raise
let
Time alone
furmly gripped.
tomed
and the
will
to wearing an eye-glass
fall
glass will
upon the
be found
and
slight fold of
it
is
it
by no means an
in-
dispensable accomplishment.
for cleaning
should be
kept clean by
When
same purpose.
itself
is
it
must be thoroughly
For
some
cleaning
often used.
is
by material dealers.
The bench on which to make our
may be the drawing-room table, for
This
is
sold
in bundles
done to
use it
is
do
essay in watchwork
the
and
harm
that will
to prepare
it
be
for our
paper on
it
With the
position.
tial
Any
it.
first
all
tools
watch.
The
of the case.
first
thing to
This
by a
done
differently in different
movements
and bolt.
be found a small
makes of
At a point
steel projection,
just
under the
figure
VI.
bolt.
will
joint
is
figure
XII.
The
joint-pin should
t3rros
is
always
smallest
its
and must
the bezel,
19
therefore always
by
The
and
called a joint-pusher.
close
it
up,
and
lay
it
will
on one
side
till
the
movement has
to be
replaced.
Removing
the hands
This
is
movement
is
is
some-
is
the
movement
is
laid
on
its
any pressure
is
inadvertently
is
removing the hands, but not being yet provided with such a
tool
we must
we
men
minute-hand
first,
by
Take
off the
hand
is
very
When
it
is
fragile.
Take
off
the cap and lay the movement, dial downwards, on the eye-
20
glass, or
near
will
its
pinion to go free
pillar plate,
on.
trically across
it
The
and by a
feet,
twist
removed should be
put aside, and the movement and dial will come apart.
Under
must be looked
free to
after,
or
will
it
the cannon-pinion
is
probably be
arbor of the
is
centre-wheel,
The cannon-pinion
and then turning
it
quite free of
its
quite
tight,
yet free
much
as possible.
all
arbor,
likely to
is
come under
This
like
and so jambing
way
the while
It will
the notice of
file,
rotate.
soon be
and should be put with the hour and
This series of wheels and pinion forms coloff as
minute wheels.
lectively the " motion work," which
ciently tight
to
is
pinion,
being quite
lost,
Running loose on
removed.
is fixed,
order,
This minute-wheel
the hour-wheel.
to
it
on the
inside
arbor.
fitting suffi-
remedied by
is
the cannon-
more f^orkman-
a notch on two
sides
of the
will
make
the
fit
sufficiently tight.
The
dial
off,
lay the
move-
REGULATORS.
ment
face
When
downwards
side
movement
the
to
21
unscrew the
balance-cock.
is
That
it
may
get broken.
it
inserting
Lift the
The
aside.
it
lifting
to
and leave
and place
as
it
its
done by
is
and the
it
this
will
leave
At
one
this
point
fitted to
thing necessary
is
to
mark
end of the
and
is
fixed in
watch plate
it
by a brass
at the
pin.
end of the
Make
spring, so that
when
the watch
is
put together again you can be sure of repinning the spring in the
same
position.
watch
is
commence
and
is
disengaged
wheel by watchmakers.
holding
it
its
By
22
When
the balance
is
all
danger
be avoided.
will
full
down
the
On
spring.''
by a
comes
click
will
be found a
this is generally
on the
the click-screw half a turn, and note the tooth of the ratchet-
wheel which
it
engages
with a
towards winding
the spring up, and after disengaging the click let the spring
uncoU
at the
itself,
lie
loose
on the
barrel,
and
it
does so,
turn.
This
this latter
may
be taken out by removing the " name bar " held to the top
plate
arbor
bar, as
it is
on
maker.
it
This bar
off,
the barrel
it
is
name
is
be advisable
to the fusee
and
barrel ends
of the ostensible
the chain
It will
respectively.
is
barrel.
If there
remove
it,
leaving
all
to save
again.
The
top-plate
pillars,
off
be more
serviceable.
When
if
found to
each
one having
being interchangeable
its
23
all
known when
potence-cock
by the
verge pivot, and also of the wheel end of the escape pinion.
It is
be got asunder.
if
the crown
first
named
above, then the fusee, next the centre wheel, and finally the
third wheel.
It
lie
other in the order named, and thus they must be taken out in
The
that rotation.
pillar-plate will
now be
left
the technical
name
pendent
of the others,
and
positions of each
train
its
all.
it ;
This plug
out
removed
its
is
to
bearing.
is
release
entirely,
so that
it
called
the
still
may
Near the
fitted
the
follower,
scape-wheel.
but sufficiently
The
tried,
it,
pinion.
drawn
will
is
back in
and
and the
bare,
far to let
It
and must be
need not be
the pivot
fall
out of
to, is re-
24
moved by
on the same
removed
it,
and then
for cleaning,
is
pivoted.
all
This
is
is
which
often not
It will,
however, be
third
and
spring,
the
movement
in the case,
and
its
thoroughly apart,
we must
has been perused and then we will put the watch together again.
CHAPTER
III.
who have
absolutely
no experience
in
watch
work, directions are not here given for ascertaining and correcting faults which
to
comprehend or
rectify.
This
dirt,
dried
oil,
&c.,
is
Hold
removed.
simply done by
is
till
the adhering
The
plates, after
being
brushed, must have each hole cleaned out by the aid of peg-
No
removal of
some
to ensure the
trouble in putting a
and the
of pegwood.
When
be best adapted
pith will
oil are
removed
from every piece, and the pivot holes in the plates " pegged
out " until the
is
see
movement
are all tight in the frame, likewise the studs that secure the
when
the dial
is
not pinned on
26
upon a
tightened
it is
may be
and
filing block,
in
out, or the
two ways.
be
till
end of
pillar
and
drill
to use a smaller
Proceed
Hold
drill,
and
may be
fit
pillar
make a
repaired
till
little
mark
centre
form a new
may be
off, it
end of the
or
broken
and then
pillars
broken
pillar to
quite firm.
studs
on the top-plate
direct.
The
drilled.
pillar
way
other
is
in a screw.
on
their pinions.
old pliers (or preferably a pair brass or copper lined), and see
that the wheel has
no movement
must be
fixed securely.
backwards and
either
If a wheel
is
for-
found to be loose,
it
wheel
is tight
flat.
collets, like
in the vice,
the contrate-wheel
The
in the lever,
collet
must
rest
rivet
burred over
slightly.
In
being
made
true
flat,
and
it
will
not admit of
The
By
this
REPLACING A TOOTH.
means the wheel
is
thrown out of
rarely
27
Ordinary
flat.
flat,
perfectly
bumping-up
hammer
To do
flat.
stake,
until the
be examined
this the
wheel
it
run
end of a
true.
further
to see if
penknife, or sometimes
broken
is
make
is
flat
then,
wheel runs
frequently be prized to
If a tooth
and
If a
tooth
by means of the
off,
bent,
is
may
it
its
tweezers.
but
it
is
be
carefully burnished
till
If
quite smooth
tended
to,
way rough
When
all
its
and
straight,
and the
flat
is
upright.
signs
if
the
other words,
or, in
First, try
the
great wheel depth with the centre pinion, observing particularly at the
same time
if it
the chain will not run on properly, but slip up the fusee.
not, alter as
may be
the centre-wheel
depth
size,
Try
necessary.
with
and endshakes
the
in the
third
correct
same manner
pinion,
the third
wheel depth with the fourth pinion, and the fourth wheel
depth with the escape pinion, taking care to observe the
pivot-holes
and
endshakes.
See,
also,
that
the
centre
28
wheel
free of its
is
plate.
To
wheel are placed within the frame, and the top-plate pinned
The
on.
chain
is
round the
The
by turning the
latter
ratchet
is
The
fusee
to see
as
it
is
it
the arbor
The
to the fusee.
however,
it
is
The
is
then
moved along
first,
less
mark
filled
till
the spring
power
is
is
is
made upon
last turn
If,
than at the
first,
When
up too much.
set
weight
first.
shows
slight
is
then turned
did at the
it
is,
if
found a
is
that
more than
adjusting rod
tight
bench key.
is
wound up
is
of
the
is
may
be.
it
The
which
it
we assume
The
must now be
greatest care
it
clean until
the
cleaned.
To
first
the barrel
and
MAINSPRINGS.
by
29
be found
at the
which
will
The
firstly
unhooking
it
it
As soon
as
it
two
out of themselves,
fly
and allowing
cleaned by drawing
it
mop
do
to
it is
far
The
spring
gradually.
comes out
is
how
will
come out
to
it
when
more
is
barrel
oil.
difficult.
is
by hand, the
in
is
small enough to go
done.
must be held
rotated by turning a
till
is
barrel
is
up
coiled
it
when
the spring
in such
and the
eye will catch on the hook, then by coiling the spring slightly
it
may be
apt to
the
fly out.
way
and
do
be careful to hold
place, or the
whole
explained,
be found
its
and
which
it
no
in
lot is
very
by hand
in
difficulty will
works in the
lid
and
barrel,
put
30
spring,
fingers
alone, or
Do
it
and the
and not
barrel,
The
when
in the barrel
coils, it
wUl
The chain
running
When
uncoiled again.
hooked
is
is
at
round a
stick of
lay
it
oil
when
the barrel
it
on the
this is
oiled, see
is
cleaned by wiping
to
be well oiled
when cleaned
The
slip,
it
and not
wound up and
chain
must be applied
it
down.
pegwood; no
put to the
oil is
be cleaned.
is
screwed into
its
place again
no chance of getting
a small quantity of
oil
be used
to flow
on
to the
is sufficient
is
it.
That only
most important,
for if there
The escape-wheel
itself
at
teeth,
is
sure to
oil will
be con-
it
must be placed
in
its
bearings,
and
these have to be oiled before the pivots are put into the holes.
ment
is
The
oil
when the
move-
it is
quite
made
dealers.
of brass,
is
To
used,
apply the
oil
a very fine
much
oil
in practice
PUTTING TOGETHER.
small quantity
from
where
and
sufficient,
is
its
presence
its
if
more
is
31
put
it
is
away
some part
runs
will
trouble.
The
cated, and
This
properly cleaned.
which
is
must be
lubri-
it
is
pin,
it
pivot.
This pin
its
side being against the base of the scroll part of the fusee
The
clickwork
is
is
free to revolve
moved ;
clicks engaging in
it
on opposite
sides, together
with their
it
that
collet
At
this stage
the
is
we
it
to see
first
built up,
The
and
were taken
asunder.
may go
is
pUlar-plate
this is
Clean
re-
is
through
fireely.
is
Have a
glass at
To
to
movement
32
as
it is
ever, generally
not,
how-
is
first
item to attend
movement
is
together.
dovetail hole,
barrel turns,
in the frame
stones or cover-pieces.
The
which
first
lies
piece to be put
next to
it,
on the
pillar-plate is the
first,
that
is,
wheel.
is
in
its
These being
all
hole
finally
and then
will
pivot,
the
pillars.
its
pinion that
carefully
minent
so high up on
and
is
the crown
and the
staff.
ling, as
wheel
it
it
comes
to
care in hand-
breakage.
It
the top pivot gets away from the hole in the top-plate; the
interchangeable as a rule.
ADJUSTING MAINSPRING.
The
barrel
found here.
is
now
with
its
two screws.
much on
now be put
the
movement
which
is
on,
the barrel-hook
may be
is
slightly
all right.
out,
will
hold
up
on
fit
down
chain must
fix
even project
long, or
The
in the circular
are covered
be
difficulty will
down
and no
to be put in,
33
by turning
the
:
hook
at
which do.
is felt
be made to
turn,
and
made
The spring must be set up as much
will at once indicate this.
as necessary, which will be known by remembering how much
it was set up before taking the movement apart, screw the
click down firmly, and that part is done.
the whole train of wheels will run round rapidly
In verge watches
it
is
the noise
is
indicated would vary with the force that reached the escape-
ment.
In other escapements
is
a kind or
34
verge are
cock, allowing
to fall
it
now
by
its
own
when
pinning.
in
its
hole,
in
first,
Be
flat,
when
pin
this
it
is
it is
in
is
its
and
slight oscillatory
the fusee,
on the barrel so
it
will, as
as to
now be
is
motion,
screwed on.
on
be
all
Once having
it,
the chain-
the
chain
re- wound
in going order,
is
may run up
watch should
as
this
wound on
As soon
if it
is
to the fusee,
itself
not distorted
and the
end of
to project to the
the verge
freely,
quite
is
to go in.
again correctly.
and commence
The
ticking
Then put on
the three pins, taking care to see that these do not project too
far
and become
foul of
any going
part.
put the
go
fairly
it is
is
near to time.
CHAPTER
IV.
watch
will
now be
dealt with.
It
commonly found
then distinguish
To
becomes
it
familiar with
is
what
determine
to
in a verge
it is
only after
is right,
and can
wrong.
know know
do
a treatise on depthing
call
gearing
and yet
as watch-
is
sufficient
for
part, is
watch-jobber; but
how
becoming
foul of
any adjacent
to an experienced
it,
many seconds
The
right,
faults in
manner
we need not
trouble about
36
claims our
part of a whole,
attention.
first
and
its
may be
less.
We must
treat
it
as forming
though perfect in
itself,
the
sometimes so much
affect the
relationship of a verge
The
all
as a
The Opening
of the Pallets.
That
is,
more than a
The
Lift.
That
is
is
will
it
of Vibration.
lift,
we
trifle
plementary arc
be a
right angle,
That
is,
the vibration
its oscillation,
By adding
lift.
This
depend
this
lution.
The
pallets,
is
is
against
moving
in the
backwards in
spite of the
motive power.
The
pallet,
VERGE ESCAPEMENT.
a proper proportionate length, and this
37
is
little
more than
the
On
lift
will
also
With
this to rotate,
is
controlling or regulating
when
whilst
is
the
lift
is
made
difficult.
The
to the axis, so that during the recoil that part of the verge
pallet
which
be
shall
is
And
free.
here
may be
it
as well to
on the verge
recoil motion.
examination of
it
p'lj it
pallet
>
is
out
the
principles of the
may proceed
to a
careful
palpable errors.
considered
it
The
a variety of skew-gearing, at
and
is
rendered
the parts.
conical,
all
the
more
Thus we use a
all
it
loss of
straight pinion
straight teeth
where
it
contrate pinion.
as
we have
should be
is
power and
lie
diametri-
to avoid the
amount of recoil,
38
and
to
an appreciable
extent.
It is
peculiarities
tions of gearing
say
to
suffice
that
and the
difference
also, that
a wheel and pinion have the teeth shaped very differently according as the one or other
to act in
driver
is
is
at aU.
if
only accomplished at
We
and from
trived in a
ble
and a most
con-
watch
should be
possible.
an end-stone
pivot,
is
as almost incredi-
is this
found.
it
is
it
is
This
is
tested
is fully
an
wound
by means of an adjusting-
it
the
fiisee,
and the
and pieces of
The
when
this is fully
brass, acting
adjusting-rod
is
fixed to
an equilibrium
39
is
felt at
spring
is
is
it
stronger at the
is
not set-up
fully-
suffici-
ently,
it
Suppose
thus gauged.
coils is
tightly
wound
is
the best
A long spring,
between
act half-way
in
by central
fully
down and
A large portion
length.
and of the
coils
showing where
it
and every
friction occurs,
and sometimes
the spring,
is
When
wasted through
the source of
often
By examining
power
is
it.
this gets so
places,
made
effort
should be
Oil
put to lubricate
is
gummy
that a lot of
it.
power
fairly
is
constant in
action
its
it
train
value
if
the train
is faulty,
taken in
practical
little
mean
to
separately,
and on
their
own
merits
latter are
In
all
When
a hole
is
40
and requires
pitched,
re-drilling,
and the
must be
be paid
special attention to
The verge
Of
its
sufficiently far
itself
coming in contact
with
it.
enough, or the
oil will
and be apt
collet,
pallet
between
and the
it
balance-cock.
The
when
potence, and
all
removed, and be
is
adjacent parts.
The
much
when
the watch
is
and
this
The
on the
verge,
may be from
give such
by
good
that
results,
six to eight, as
is,
those with
The num-
spring.
found in practice
it is
more
a circumstance which
coils
may be
do
not
explained
is
may be caused by
weak
spring, or through
not
ber of turns
flat,
as possible
at a place
The
and
in a direction
friction or
when
it
applied to
insufficiency of motive
by the excessive
is
this difficult to
becomes
move.
impede the
BROKEN MAINSPRINGS.
and
lift,
41
oil
and hence
all,
a stronger reason for seeing that the lower pallet does not
gather
oil
verge which
is itself
body
wheel axis
is
other, the
greater,
lift
If the escape-
side of the
of
and
tear.
The breakages
noticed,
and
now be
will
common
of breakages.
What
and the
serious
is
same
This mishap
is
number
accompanied by a broken
often
by the
failing.
A
if
barrel running
backwards
near to the outer end, and the length of the spring not
shortened by the piece broken.
soften the extreme
hook on
ming
its
spring,
and usually
it
will
much
off the
place,
end of the
It is
is
in
it
to
After trim-
put back in
If a
new
42
same width.
how much
length, or
proportion
is this
of the space
it
and notice
its
The proper
On
it
more than
barrel,
occupies.
is
hot,
attained
it
now
it.
till
three-eighths
of an inch from the end, then taper off the point of the spring,
leaving
it full
is.
spring.
you
will
hook
to rivet the
to the spring
if
you have
The
it
is
first
consideration
is its
bottom of the
it will
ness,
and
its
it
may
working
it
is
reach
will
it
fully.
be irregular;
The
when
next point
this
If
if
liable to
the thick-
is
the spring
break
is
too thick
its
rate un-
when
The
is
too wide
hooked in the
be such
barrel
al-
that,
and wound
GAUGING A MAINSPRING.
up,
may
it
turn
make about
more than
three-quarters of a
is
when
43
fully
about one-third of
length of a spring
in the barrel
should occupy
it
diameter.
its
The
wound.
wound
springs,
one
the proper
of
is
little
if it
were wound
in,
and
Having
is
it is
may not be
the
This applies
full.
selected
shortened as
must be
so that
larger
fill
much
as
finally tested
is
by holding the
must be
it
in,
when
it
pair of sliding
tongs attached to the squared end of the barrel arbor, and observing
how many
makes an
if
times
it
number
insufficient
it is
Although
too thin.
this
If
it
too thick
is
may be
stated
as a general rule,
it is
in verge watches
it
is
will
only
make
the proper
of
methods of hooking
barrel,
number
in mainsprings
hook
is
in one the
it
hook
is
in the
it.
it
must be
carefully
tempered
its
44
The
length.
and prevent
It is usual, after
its
making the
hole,
which
file
is
punched
lightly across
the end of the spring and round off the comers, giving
When
tempered
is
the
hook
is
then
fitted to the
manner
spring,
that a pivot
may be
on
filed
be
manner
in the
it
to
is
it.
sliding-tongs in such a
to
it
fit
The hooking-in
wire
is
wire
is
cut
off,
it
by
riveting,
when
The
is
The breakage of a
spring
it
is
is
pivots, or
damage
To
^A
it
required.
is
neatly
is
the
and strongly
One end
of
the broken chain must consist of a double, and the other end
of a single
link.
slightly raise
one
end of the outside (double) link nearest the end of the chain,
keeping the thumb-nail of the
ner that only one rivet
is
left
hand upon
loosened in the
link.
it
in such a
man-
in
REPAIRING CHAINS.
45
broken link with a pair of pliers in the other, and give a sharp
pull,
when
come
ends
of the link ready to receive the inside link of the other part
Take a piece of
of the chain.
such as a sewing-
steel wire,
smooth
until
file
it
up with
Press
the pin.
down
with a
it
it
wood and
join
off the
rough projecting
file
hammer
complete the
will
job.
mending of a chain
is
side.
Though easy
by no means easy
an experienced hand
will
to de-
to do,
and
To remedy a
chain running
on the
barrel, or slip
run
flat
must be
carefully examined,
chain nmning
flat
on the
flat
If a
chain
barrel
is
generally caused
by a
it
The
out.
faulty
and
fusee.
The
is
and the
axis
and
that
it
fills it
entirely
It
is
may
result
bad one,
it
will
it
goes into
then
and
it
if
it is
along the
the
only
rivets,
flat.
a new chain.
It
may be found
on
the fusee, which separates each turn of the chain from the
next, has
become bent
or
If the
safe
damage be
46
by
sible to its
should be recut
end
for end, or
To
When
proper position.
but
if trifling,
may be
it
it
may
by taking a very
little off
entire length.
its
When
a barrel cover
is
loose,
it
To
little,
without marking
it.
put in a
carefully,
it
be accurately
arbors can be
fitted,
and give
made from
will
it
is
better
done on the
screw ferrule
foot-lathe
is
is
or
for the
exact,
satisfaction.
some-
steel
turns.
first
until
it fits
The arbor
is
by
down
tight, when
then turned
a round broach passed lightly into the holes will give the
necessary freedom.
If
and
wards
file
fit it
the ratchet.
If a
Geneva
will
and
be
after-
to receive
must be made
for
47
also
receives the
ratchet.
In
filing
them
The
really square.
is
to end,
and
The ends
centres.
file
them up
steel,
is
which
made by
is
A hole
it is
necessary
is
then screwed on
ratchet polished.
good thread
and
if
plates,
it
will
kind
fit
on the body
This
generally found
is
it
To
is
not likely to
new
put in a
necessary, as
it
ful
make
barrel.
a good job of
^When
hook
is,
material dealers,
make
and
is
to
it is
much
be
better
by
unskil-
finishing,
fine
a new one.
new
fitting
to
is
and the
to
of tempered
is
in the
squares and
of the
make
size.
and a
The
little
one.
may be
THE WATCH JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK.
48
quired.
re-
pliers,
is
may
steel in,
which
is
ceeds thus
first
the end
on
it,
is
is
made
watchmaker pro-
T rest
across the
up the old
To
drilling
brought against
is
circum-
its
A broken
is
its
that
gut.
tial
is
one,
this
on the verge,
tool, called
to polish
and
a " Jacot,"
when
the wheel
is
is
almost essen-
It should
bottom
just sufficiently to
in,
without
top pallet
first
be of such a
The
length that,
Having found a
upon
it
suitable verge,
mount
it
on the
and
pair of turns
and a proper
on which
thing
is
new
practice.
and
skill
turns,
and see
must
With a pinion-
If bent,
it
REPLACING A VERGE.
gauge take the
to
fit
on
verge
tight,
and proceed
to turn
till
49
down
on very
brass that
on
in
its
firm rivet
proper place.
fit
just suffi-
to the
bottom
pallet, slightly
and
is
fit it
advisable
verge in
as
in
it
its
its
now
easily let
shorten
till
correct,
file
if
little
its seat,
is
file,
pivot.
It
and burnish
is
till it
correct,
goes in
its
hole
finally,
on
the balance
on a
the endshake
quite smooth.
place, to see
may be
it
make a
cient to
may
as
be necessary
tight
new
pallets
to the necessary
width and
of
GLOS S ARY
Of Terms,
Tools, Materials,
tised
in Watchmork.
Adjusting Rod.
This
employed
is
The
is
steel
Near one of
an inch diameter.
ends
its
it
may be
fixed at
is
set-
fixed
That
is
escapement.
Alarm Watch.
additional
watch which
mechanism necessary
so arranged that
for
may be
instrument
is
alarm
after
commonly
it
is
sounding an alarm.
set to
The
sound the
ARBORS.
same purpose are seldom
SI
possession
of
collectors of curiosities.
called, the
appears to
pallet
Used
is
was on both
one
escapement
are
called
pallets
they are
In the early
now made
with
in clockwork.
Anvil.
Fig.
In
1.
Anvil to Hold
in
Fig. a.
Bench-vice.
is
aU ordinary
The
sufficient for
occasions occur
when
Anvil Mounted
on Block.
small stake
most purposes.
Some
is
peculiar
useful,
and
for the
purpose of turning
collets,
and wheels, and any other objects that are most conArbors are comprised in
veniently mounted on a mandrel.
rings
sets,
THE WATCH JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK.
52
and graduating
in size
from
The
PLAIN Arbor.
Fig. 3.
in watchwork
is
Fig. 4. Split
Arbor.
employed
largest size
Each arbor
long.
slightly tapering.
Those axes
Archimedian
Drill
Stock.
e.g.,
pointed at
is
in a
watch which
These
stocks
drill
are
made
it
The
to revolve.
stock usually
is
=eSSS^2ZZz;z:
Fig.
5.
Archimedian Drill-stock.
The nut
screw-like form.
stock.
is
held in the
One end
left
of the stock
is
provided
Balance.
drill
The
which
is
The
its
diminished, to
make
of a balance
made
is
increased or
BALANCE SPRING.
53
Steel is
making balances, as
in
it is
now
of
more
liable to
become magnetised.
be
to
much
as
if
now
and the
are
the form
Balances
this the
Fig.
6.
this tool is
usually
made.
made
its
Fig. 7.
axis will, if
it
is
rest.
In
effects
is
used to
set in vibration
it
effect
its
is
on the
when once
having
supported
spring
to rest with
Balance-Spring.
but
two
show a disposition
is
Balance Poising-tool.
noticed.
by
Balance Poising-tool.
may be
balance
its
this
point of rest,
rest,
THE WATCH JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK.
54
There are
spring,
felt
as
Watches were
first
synonymous to balance
spiral-spring,
&c.
the
pendulum-spring,
hair-spring,
made
its
much improved
that a
keepers.
A.
balance-spring
effected
from the
fit
may
collet
the centre
and place
coil.
to pass freely
it
thinner.
between the
oil,
coils,
will serve as
may soon be
reduced.
be
it
Operations
coil, for
little
wood to
suffice.
The
to
will
require to be
enable
it
to
effect will
be
be
may be made
Balance-Staff.
The
In the
first
model, unless
knocked
as follows
on the old
staff
These
The balance
and a rough
staffs
is
staff
are sold in
the rough by all watch material dealers, but one may be made
by driving a steel arbor into a collet of hard brass. The steel
should be hardened and tempered just sufficient to allow it to
BEAT.
be turned with the
staff
and
screw ferrule
The
balance-spring
itself is
brass
collet,
then turned
down
to
reduced to
then turned to
is
fixed to the
is
size,
the brass.
is
trifle
graver.
mounted
is
it
55
fit
is
fit
made
The
right.
staff
The
roller.
The diameter
of the
is
measure by.
The body
made
specially
workmen
tumbench with
by
staff to
is
Very
careful handling
partly-finished staff
sufficient
heed
Banking
making a
requisites for
is
failing the
balance-staff;
to the latter
Pins.
is,
Another name
Barrel. The hollow
Bar.
on
it
for bridge,
it is
cost
When
said to
and
which
Beat.
barrels,
snap in
its
The
tick or
escapement
action.
see.
fusee,
the pallets
mainspring.
principal
former the
chain, &c.
lid, is
One
movable, being
place.
is
said to
be
in
56
beat.
In
all
whether
staff,
has to be
moves
the escapement.
it,
When
it
it is
said to
This position
is
its
The
neutral position.
pin
is
practical
method of
and with
it
the arbor, to
watch in beat.
An
explanation of the
watch in beat
will, to
moderately
tight,
its
and pin
correct position,
movement in the
left
flat,
Hold
observe
how much
the balance
is
if
be
is
If
left.
in beat
little,
to
drawn
make
must be pressed in
tight,
When
this is
finally the
flat,
cock
screwed on firmly.
BENCH
Bench Vice.
VICE.
As watchwork
is
57
vice
inches wide.
In the left-hand
are
taking
for
the
bow drill
The top of
when
drilling.
the claw
is
generally provided
and
Bench
riveting
flattening drills,
&c.
vices frequently
and
are
anvils
small
Fig.
some
parallel,
with
fitted
Bench-vice.
8.
swivel round to
Blowpipe.
The
ordinary blowpipe
a tapering tube
is
The
The
small end
in hardening
Boiling Pan.
frying
principally used
in soldering.
like the
domestic
is
By
dissolved.
Bolt.
usually
made
it
passes.
is
by having a
slot
58
Bow
that
it
Pliers.
may be
Used
Bows.
when
Generally
of a watch so
be seen by the
Bow Pliers.
Fig. g.
bow
It will
opening the
for
They
are the
They
hook.
given
for turning.
for
is
bows used
watchwork.
for
The
largest are
about
a single horse-hair
and about
and very
slight.
Bows were used for driving lathes long before the application
of fly wheels. The bow of a watch is the ring affixed to the
pendant to form a means of attaching the watch to a guard
the long steel screw by which the
bow
is
secured
is
called the
bow-screw.
Fig. 10.
adjustable
bow saw
Bow
is
an
Saw.
saw blades
BREGUET SPRING.
used
for piercing
greater width,
Saw
mounted
bow
a rigid
in
59
and miniature
also used.
Bow
much
blades, of
frame,
always be
Saws.
mounted in its frame to cut when pulled, not when being pushed
away, that
is
Brass Edge.
is
pinned by
its
three feet
on which the
is
The
dial
brass edge
lifts
held in
edge by
and
is
unnecessary, and
pillar plates
that
is,
those
having a raised rim, for the dial to rest on, solid with the
plate.
Breguet Spring.
spiral,
spring
is
is
fixed, so that,
it is
its
inventor,
and
during the
named from
coil
is
one.
The
spring
watches.
Bridge.
A piece
resting
on the
and
more bearings
for pivots.
class,
and
and
6o
on,
and secured
at
When
synonymous term.
it
is
called
cock.
wood
The
slip.
surface of the
work is
first
prepared by greying
Plain cylindrical
finally.
Brushes.
work
is
useless, a
is
fine
work
is
Some
a nuisance.
soft
ruinous,
and a dirty
paper across the wide-open jaws of the bench vice, the sharp
corners formed by the jaws taking off on the paper a
the
dirt.
a brush
Wet two
is
plenty of water
method
is
till
little
An
perfectly clean.
of
Much
objection
injury
is
in
to this
done to the
old in looks
by such
treat-
ment.
Buff Sticks.
and used
material
hand.
in
Slips
being
spread
on them
suited
to
the
work in
BUSH.
Bumping-up Stake.A
6i
arms require
slightly
bending by a gentle
Burnishers.
Tools
name more
particularly
^'S- '3applied
to highly
pieces
of steel
^^
D J polished
jr
r
BuMPiNG-op Stake.
used on the surface of pivots, and which
Burnishers must be
lustre.
results.
tin,
is
The
plain,
round
They
are particularly
as they
good
A material
Burnt Bone.
and so cleaning
Bush.
of
may be
it.
in quantities
They
are
made
The bushes
usually
at
is
drilled up,
and the
THE WATCH JOBBER'S HANDYBOOK.
62
when
known by
best
made
their continental
it is
pressed into a
it.
name, bouchons
they are
The
movements.
and
for large
and small
to jewel holes.
The mechanism of
Calendar Watch.
watch is so
far
this description of
sometimes
The most
show the
days, the
mechanism
and the
at the
dial
set right
In perpetual calendars
the entire records of the days, months, and years are kept
automatically
are
i.e.,
this involving
is
the use of a
Fig. 14.
and jointed
Plain Callipers.
in the middle.
Fig. 15.
It is
made of
brass,
Gauge Callipers.
A wheel to be tested
is
ot
CAP.
63
The wheel
held near
angles to
is
its
concentric
an object
its
axis
Cannon
it is
said to
be "
Pinion.
fingers,
and a
the wheel
said to be " in
When
" in round."
it is
is
When
periphery.
flat,"
is
and when
both in
flat
and
in
it
edge
and
perfectly
round
in
true."
The
steel
straight
perfectly at right
fits
minute-hand
on
is
fits,
Where the hands are set from the front, the top of the cannon
made square to take a key ; in those watches set from the
is
is
fitted
with a square
at the back.
Cap.
and so protect
it
from dust,
on the
Src.
precisely
pillar-plate,
fit
is
a round
edge
Case Stake.
A kind of
watch cases
used.
Case-Winding Watch.
64
it
may be
actuated by revolv-
mechanism
Centre Seconds.
In
these watches
the
train
dial.
is
in
so
is
is
This
latter is
so that
trains,
driven independently
when
by one train,
fact,
pendent train
position,
through
stopped or going.
is
centre seconds
in
in the usual
hole
its
cannon-pinion
is
The motion
is
usually im-
set-
Centre Wheel.
That
is
the
Though displaced by
wheel retains
its
name.
its
arbor
the exigen-
seconds watch,
still
the
is
not driven
extra wheel
and
pinion.
to the turns.
having the
general.
fits
fitted
Nearly
all
watchwork
CHAIN.
is
65
employed.
Centring Tool.
A tool
for centring
It usually consists
for turning.
work
be mounted
to
of a cone, in
Work
to
be centred
is
A method
turning
is
centre.
by means of a
tool
made by
in
file
grind-
three
Fig
16.
facets
to
Chain.
spring to
Used
the
to
fusee.
links
flat
strung
punched out of
Steel
size.
is
rivets.
put,
one to catch
wire
is
steel
flat
hook
over a pin in the fusee. Chains for pocket watches vary in size
considerably, but the average length
is
about
and
six inches,
than two
fusees.
grains.
less
The method
is this
Get the barrel and fusee in such positions that the holes for the
chain hooks are towards the outside edge of the
movement
then put the ratchet-wheel on the barrel and pass the chain
through from the fusee side, under the
in the hole in the barrel.
Now
pillar,
wound on
the barrel
let
the click
fall
and when
in the ratchet,
all
is
and hook
There should be
just
66
sufficient tension
coils
slipping
its
and
off,
so that the chain will lead properly on to the groove cut in the
Then
fusee.
a turn
set
required to
make
Now
if
up a spring
is
who does
Chain Guard. The
it.
The
pared chalk.
done. Setting
The
Chalk.
is
it
perienced person
overwinding.
in the
requisite, so that
chalk
is
is
usually pre-
gallon.
and
let it
In
Pour
Let stand
settlings.
The
as before.
settlings in the
stir
up the
second vessel
will
this
off
be your pre-
Spanish whiting
treated in the
ing powder.
powder a
tiated.
colour,
and adds
to
its
gives the
it
may be
is
Chalk
by adding a solution of
cheap
salts)
so long as a precipitate
solutions should
be
carefully
is
thrown down.
and when
carefully
falls
down
is
The
filtered
The
it
CHAMFERS.
polishing
powder
for the
softer
67
The
metals.
are
particles
little
that
form or sharpness
its
is
not injured to
Chalk Box.
This
upon which
chalk,
is
little
box
holding a lump of
for
It
dirt.
may be made by
up a
nailing
wood
to prevent the
or by fixing a piece of
wood
when
purpose.
Chamfers.
These are
making hollows
The
in
around
is
of a properly
when
oil
the tool
made
is
The wheel
shaft.
projects slightly,
and
Two
For
cutting, the
when rounded
it
is
serves as a burnisher.
mounted
one
shaft.
Chronograph.
by means of
dots,
registers
on the
dial,
is
In the usual
its
point a
68
is
on
it
an ink
On
ink.
pressing a
is
hand immediately
spot, the
is
Chronographs some-
not impeded.
times take the place of split-seconds, but they are not generally
used.
Chronometer.
Strictly
of
modem
The term
is,
however,
The
latter received
Arnold
is
is
not suited
it
is
Chucks.
These are
tool.
Fig. 17.
is
restricted
Arbor Chuck.
which are
shown below.
Fig. 17 shows an arbor chuck for
holdmg
CHUCKS.
69
which are fixed by the nut on the end. Fig. 18 shows a similar
chuck, but longer and having a milled nut.
Fig. 18.
chuck constructed
Fig. 19
Arbor Chuck.
Fig. 19.
Hollow-cone
Fig. 20.
Lap to fit
Fig. 21.
Cone Chuck.
Chuck.
shows a
fit
Fig. 22 is a
Cone-point to
Cone Chuck.
screw chuck, having a thread cut in the outer end with which
Screw
Fig. 22.
laps
Fig.
Fig. 23.
Chtjck.
24.
used to drive
for turning.
chuck,
work
turned
shown
Fig.
at
43
to
fixed
it.
The
four
ustrations
accompanying
ill-
of cement chucks.
Figs.
26
and
Figs. 27
and
The
faces
of
tliese
chucks
Fig. 24.
Face Plate.
70
bedded and so
Fig. 29
may be
Cement Chocks.
is
im-
fixed.
This
is
is
re-
forms a step
Section of Shoulder
pieces.
In
Chuck.
for
holding short
stepping appliance
stead.
It
has
wire
in
many
of being
it
is
and
chucks
the advantage
cases
be
the
used
adjustable
to
in-
any
depth.
30 shows
Fig.
taper-
chucks and
Wire
^^^^^^^
pjg^_
and
^^
split
^^^ ^^
chucks, are
several illustrations
show
these chucks.
They
are
difference
made
in a range of sizes
of xtoo of ^"
i'^''^
size
CHUCKS.
The
common
smallest size in
71
known by
certain
numbers according
^Mo
inches in
to their size
all
the numbers
three
of
y'-g-
chucks
radial
the
The
may be
slots
mandrel,
seen by the
illustrations.
firmly
the
gripping
thus
number
construction of
There are
in
the
end
wire perfectly
true.
and have
may be
held.
The chucks
are
made
which
fci
Kgs.
hold
all sizes
from
35, 36.
mm.
Step Chucks.
to 22-5
mm.
The
times turned specially for any piece which they do not exactly
fit,
necessary.
this
should not
be
72
Fig.
37
shows a universal
face-plate
or
chuck, which
may be
and used
in the
Fig. 38.
Pomp Centre.
The
of the chuck.
left-hand
end
Universal Face-plate
right-hand end has a knob for
OR Chuck.
The centre can
taking hold of.
be used
Clamps. A
tended.
To give
many methods
Cleaning.
pearance
Dipping
removal of greasy
wine
facilitates the
good
dirt.
cleansed by rub-
-p-
ci^ps
will
it
Romans.
It
is
ment of
flowing
now used
small intervals
from a vessel
of
at
this fluid.
for
time.
a known
the
is filled
Modifications
accurate measure-
stream of mercury,
COLLETS.
lation
73
in
may be
elapsed
reckoned.
Clicks.
These are
ing arbor.
drawn
clicks,
made from
wire
opposite points.
the side click,
is
its
free
one,
end shaped
is
its
is
work by a
a short
circular
in fusees
these
latter are
time, as does an
automatically,
strikes
to strike the
and
is
thus
distinguished
from
the
so
Cock.
A piece serving
ing only on one end, and held by one screw, as the balance-
cock of
all
watches.
The
they appertain.
Collet.
Any
a brass
spring
of
is
pinned.
Collet Arbors.
adapt
it
Near
74
that
and beyond
this the
handed.
cone
steel
a flange of brass,
ferrule is
on
it,
usually
left-
this screw,
will
fit
and the
same
office flatways.
is
in
holding collets that are too thin to afford a good hold for an
ordinary arbor.
Compensation Balance.
make
ture.
The
variations
is
ordinary
annular
expanded, and
The
balance
usual
to
balance
on increase of temperature.
its
constructed to
two
to
and,
compound
subject
is
First,
steel
is
latter
by a
is
fixed.
The
ring
is
cut
free ends
Then
balance.
more or
less
some heavy-
composed being
bowed, and
balance-spring
radially into
is
practically,
when
become
the same
The
cause,
isochronous under
the vibrations of
all
becoming weakened by
the
balance are
made
COUNTERSHAFTS.
75
It is curious
of the rim,
been
have
place,
trials,
relative
Crown
Wheel.
wheel having
periphery;
the fourth
in
wheel.
effected.
is
pinion,
by the
Contrate Wheel.
wheel
years,
for
and long
but Earn-
some compensation-balances
they
its
rivets,
its
that
The
to
where
division
The
first
is
is
in verge
Conversion.
escapement
lever,
A verge
fitted to
though
it
intrinsic value
and
is
Cork Arbors.
arbor, but in two,
The
now
is
it
to
speak of
verge watches,
made somewhat
and each
discs
objects
These
arbors
Counter-shafts.
Some
Arbors
lever
it is
is
may be
to
may be
hold watch-glasses on
slightly reduced.
They
are usually
indis-
76
Figs.
Fig. 40.
Counter-shaft.
Fig. 41.
Counter-shaft.
shafts.
slightly different
torms of counter
CYLINDER ESCAPEMENTS.
Countersinking Tool.
This tool
undesirable to
The
its
is
flat
cannon made of
and
tool consists of a
lower surface
drill is
steel,
foot
and the
When
plate.
77
boring of the
This cannon
and
drills,
The
Numerous
used.
is
attachments
applied
are
to
simple
the
The
drill
bow
Crossing
Files.
These
finger.
are taper
curvature, so as to
Curb
Pins.
be suitable
The
two
sides,
and
The
each of a difierent
pins,
in
the
ordinary index or
the spring
is
fixed
by
pinning.
similar
escapement.
This
now
almost exclusively
employed
in foreign watches,
and
78
ments of the
The
flattest
is
It is
be made very
the watch to
Though
flat.
excellent for
and some
racy
is
much
The drop
required.
of the escapement
correct.
how
tooth to escape
how
means
slightly
a tooth
falls
any inequality
is
a fine
;
now
all
To
all
will
far
to see
the cause of
is
try
others,
expert
correct
hand, and
When
the
and
heel, there is
no
internal drop
when
the
tooth has escaped, and the cylinder shell rubs on the point
of one tooth and the heel of the next, then there
drop.
The
internal
drop
When
the drop
no outside
is
is
is
very
the watch
slight,
is
very liable
drop the rate of a watch cannot be maintained, and occasionally stoppages will occur.
This fault
is
balance with spots of rouge and carefully noting the oscillations, which, if unequal, indicate
this is the usual cause, the
some
teeth lifting
by badly polished
same
more than
surfaces,
others.
and
Though
unequal drops.
effect
may be
the result of
noisy drop
is
caused
If the
escape-wheel
DEAD-BEAT ESCAPEMENTS.
79
immense amount
of trouble will
be caused, and,
and side-shakes of
An
excess of
carefully
may
sometimes
left at
and rounding
This
points
of
This
in perfect beat.
on the spring so
that
it
is
would
is
the
off
arise,
points of
escape-wheel
the
capement
The
guarded against.
The
is
es-
is
teeth.
have the
to
marked
in the
Sometimes
may be
defects
is
seen, or rather
felt,
by careful
But
trial.
all
these
If
there
Cylinder Gauge.
This
is
it
touches.
sizes of
shell.
The
longitudinal
The edge
tapering.
ing
is
graduated, and
when
slot, is
shown
by the
no
and
narrow
slot,
correct depth.
In
escapements of
this
concentric with
is
other,
in the
is
wheel drops
the
cylinder
to
its
centre of motion,
and hence
recoil
remains at
is
effected
rest,
or dead,
8o
is
point of the tooth, and then the power from the train acts on
the escapement.
an instrument used to
is
test
the
escapement.
The
tool consists of
moved by
The
a fine screw.
Fig. 42.
Depthing Tool.
is
already mentioned.
free,
till
the depthing
correct.
is
Detached Escapement.
This
escapement
any one
is
that leaves the balance free of the train excepting at the time
is
given.
detached lever
is
Detent.
Very
often
is,
on the
and kept
pillar-plate
and
to
its
The
detent
which
pivoted
in a chronometer escapement
is
is
that piece
lifted aside
The
detent
by the
roller.
DIAL.
Dial Wheels.
beneath the
The
8l
wheels which
on the
lie
pillar-plate
dial.
see),
Dial.
silver,
The
or
Thin sheet
made and
feet soldered
copper
is
punched
The
on.
made of gold
surface
is
An
enamel
dial
made
expressly for a
may be purchased
have very small holes. The
to the contrary.
Foreign dials
at tool-dealers' shops,
these
object
is
and
probably to allow
ment
to
may be
which they
ultimately
fitted.
made
This will
drill-bow.
upon with a
a tedious
It is
to
do
being
it
Careful treatment
file.
way
is
necessary to guard
Old copper
new
dial-plates
it
To
who do not know anything of the process of dial-making,
may not be superfluous to tell how to proceed if a new dial
is
wanted.
dial is
made.
those
entirely apart
put the
without
Leave
and
pillar-plate
be
finished,
The hole
for the
and you
will
have to
hour-hand socket
drill
small holes
dial.
probably be large
82
dial
may be
made
If
specially
far superior to
is
made.
Diamantine.
Diamantine
By
crystals
merce
is
the
obtained,
so-called bort,
made of brass,
broaches are
Having
oiled
diamond dust
them
slightly, their
Place the broach on the face of an anvil, and tap with a light
hammer
till
imbedded
in the brass.
Great
Some
Very
roll the
used
in
much
all
dust.
It is
the
more
blows are
light
be driven
steel to
Broaches made on
this
plan are
Dog.
Used
to
grip
work
for
on page
the
at Fig.
43
is
intended
work
The
69.
is
cut
is
half size,
and
shown
at the
Dog.
to
face-plate.
Double-Bottom
Cases.
is
Those
The
tail
having the
"dome"
movement cannot be
DRILLS.
Douzieme Gauge.
thickness
in
Spring
callipers
The douzieme
especially plates.
used
for
gauging
of watch-work, but
parts
all
83
is
jointed
line,
lines,
six
mdex shows
Douzieme Gauge
Fig. 44.
by
filing
The
drills
hammer.
by a
Using a
series
of
light
hammer and
gentle taps
will
mering, provided
it
is
moderately
For
soft.
all drills
ham-
up to
is
Pivot
certainty.
drills
can be made from good sewing-needles, which are of convenient form to be readily converted into a
needle must be
tiU
it
made
be made
and
filed, slightly
tapering to a
The
drilled.
hammer
not by
used for
made more
For
trifle
point
up
the
Firstly,
drill.
working by heating
is
less
now
a series of
and
filed
drilling
tempered
steel
84
much
less
The
than usual.
Arkansas stone, a
work. It
file
is
it
made from
is
burned
tools uncertain,
in the material,
it
often happens
that
difference being
drills
their surface,
heating the
drill
how hot
they are
By
This does
by the colour of
size to show,
it is
and
drills
but
hot
which
and plunging
it
difficult to
body of a
into the
flame,
manage.
tallow
candle the hardening will be effected, but the steel will not
it
will
drill
be hardened and
tempered.
method which
some
it
There
is
is
another
to envelope the
drill
of
inside being,
metal
is
the whole
is
oil
or water.
Still
there
of burning
is
avoided
burnt steel
is
of no use for
tools.
The
best plan
is
heat the
drill,
DRILL STOCKS.
hardening process
85
as sold, they
will
By means
ness.
broach which
and break
hole,
used
it
of the
must be broken
by
drill-stock
split
is
shellac
and cemented
an ordinary drill-stock
Soft solder
may be
if
is
into a
temper
will
end of the broach forms the cutting end, and the ordinary
taper of a broach will be quite sufficient to give clearance to
the
is
drill,
whole
until the
used.
Drill-stocks.
such
drills
when used,
drills
drill
end, which
pointed.
is
Ordinary drU-lstocks,
furnishes.
The
steel with
other end
is
for use
cut about half through the diameter to afford a hold for the
The
drills.
have
be
drills
are each
first fitted
fitted to
sizes are
to their stock,
Any number
drill stock.
rom two
The
usual sizes
^^
tsst-'
F'S- 45-
are
drills
diameter.
->
drill-stock.
take
may
Stocks of different
mjs.
and then
of drills
and bored to
centre punch
mark
of
86
and the
tool
drill-stock
Emery
and
Grinders.
Shellac, melted
thumb and
Archimedian
is
An
is
its
The
forefinger,
used
grinder
and water
open-
for
is
generally
used to
is
The grinder
whilst
it is
in a plastic condition.
Endstones.
The
is
on the jewel-
laid
end-
and
Escapements.
that portion of
train.
its
The
escapement that
this is effected.
converted into
is
it
is
is
through the
varieties of
The
object of
same time
at the
train rotates.
it is
obvious that
The balance
going of a watch.
that
makes
Many
its
vibration per-
Isochronism, or
by an
effective
escapement with a
good balance.
Some
and become
useless
when
misapplied.
Obviously
all
escape-
ESCAPEMENTS.
ments used
for
87
Some account
be placed.
of temperature which
The
and commendable
liable to
is
properties of various
tions
is
It
ments generally.
Neither
is
it
peculiarities
Upwards of a hundred
different
The
will suffice.
and
The
specimens of each.
action
less
it
marked.
escapement
is
make a
in
so
recoil,
above comprise
retrograde motion
to this class.
is
in
more or
The dead
beat
perfectly at rest,
also,
is
given.
this class.
The
cylinder and
Detached escapeits
rests against
an interme-
horological
art.
made, but
still
was the
only escapement
century.
earlier
now
class.
Lever
The
ments.
It
is
this
very
many watches
first
employed
known up
in time-keepers,
forms
88
bottle
Very
roasting-jacks.
good
results,
but
it
too,
has
have been
now been
sur-
passed and
it.
it
This escapement
art.
is
necessary,
that
and most
keeping
qualities.
Owing
is
thick,
and
this
good time-
requisite to get
be
fiisee is
it
by
largely affected
When
escapement
is
at
become but
the pivot-holes
is
much
Also owing to
altered considerably.
when both
and
the wheel
tions,
is
better advantage.
is
For
need of constant
in
repair.
The
It is
the one
is
commonly
ployed
vented the
century,
escapement
cylinder
extensively em-
early
in
the
Graham
wheels were
made of
it
into use.
brass,
At
first
in-
eighteenth
adopted
is
thick.
It
is
now
made
very
flat.
It is called a frictional-rest
escapement, owing
ESCAPEMENTS.
to the fact that during the
is
From a
89
a tooth
is
If the motive
so resting,
by the force of
going of
power of the
friction is increased,
The
is
will
the tooth
The amount
momentum.
alternately
When
it
checked
is
slower.
extent,
have a
reduce
friction,
and material
the verge,
it
escapement
is
perfect
Charles
II.,
to
Hooke.
superior to
from the
it
answers.
first
ideas
but the
modified
is
In order to
of ruby
Though much
would be wrong
is
made
for
modem
escape wheels, but now, the peculiar double set of teeth are cut
The duplex-escapement
on one wheel.
a
great
nicety of workmanship,
excellent qualities,
it
is
The duplex
cylinder.
The
thus
resembling the
is
variation of temperature.
has a frictional
peculiar
power
sort of
exists,
and,
compensation for
on the
oil
in
go
sation.
other there
no ground
is
require a
it is
ment.
Owing
is liable
to set or stop
when
carried,
escapement
renders
The
it is
lever-escapement
and
particularly
it
is
for this
The dead
now
suitable
The
of the
is
essential.
English lever
This
is
it
the modifications
all
is
perhaps
a right-angle escape-
positions
relative
pallets,
dead
The
been introduced.
high-class watches.
for
varieties
some
it is
chiefly used.
it is
ment.
reason
beat action ot
that have
each
absolutely neutralise
efifects
is
used in
indicative of the
escape-wheel,
the
important
was the
in clocks,
to
watch-work several
were necessary.
Thomas Mudge
In order to a:pply
modifications
it
worked
satisfactorily,
about
the
close
of the
eighteenth
century.
but occasionally of
The form
wheels.
shaped
is
ment.
Club
steel,
though
the purpose.
is
of the teeth
made
The
of brass,
is
wedge-
form usually
teeth, as those
the
FILING BLOCK.
91
points
of
Foreign
action.
escapements
on the
frequently have
be seen.
A magnifying
glass,
The
Eye-glass.
by
all
drical case,
which
lens
so shaped that
is
which
is
it
The
allowed to
that
is,
lie
just
is
placed
lifted
is
then
eye-glass will
a cylin-
eye-glass, as
designated,
opposite circumference
below the
greatly affected
fitted in
may be
is
is
These
where
will catch,
it
be held securely.
for polishing the ends or faces of
made
of soft iron
oilstone
dust and " red-stuff" being used to grind and polish with.
shape a facing-tool
is
similar to the
punches used
In
for driving
Ferrules.
may
many
made
in the edge,
Screw
by which work
ferrules are
of brass,
cement them
ivory,
and other
to the object to
material,
be turned.
wax
used in
They
are
serving
to
Filing Block.
on.
On
used
is
The
pin-
92
vice
is
twirled
file.
on the lathe
to guide the
file
in the operations
named.
Three
Fig. 47
shows a
filing
in place of the T.
Filing Attachments.
It is
The
useful
is
in
which
fastens
worn by
the division-plate
Fig.
directly
if
squares on
filing
48
is
made by
Fly.
ance
axis
fly
&c.
the American
used to divide
The
on the lathe-bed.
Fig.
height
49
is
An
to
file
held be-
This
use.
arbors
is
being
may be
is
filing
The
adjusted
the
and thus
atmosphere,
impede
the revolution
control the
velocity
of
the
of
mechanism
the
;
FRAMES.
Fly-spring. This
93
is
up.
fly
drill-stocks
continuous rotation
rection
cal
di-
produced by a
shows a new
commended
bow.
drill
Fig. 50
style of
on page
illustrated
104.
one
in
more economi-
necessarily
is
general construction
It
lathe
has a
and
stirrup,
may be
in-
(See "Potence.")
The notch the end
Follower.
Fork.
in
ilisFiit'
of
Fig. 50.
Fly-wheel.
Fourth Wheel.
That
Frames.
affixed to
The two
smooth, are
gilt for
being
finally finished
Frame Saw. A
commonly known
small saw,
and made
as a
fret
is
brass,
employed
appearance sake.
the saw.
Hard
is
is
at its
held
is
bowed end
affords a shght
94
" Bow-saw.")
Full-plate
top plate
the plate
Watch.
Movements
are so called
is
is
cut
lies
above
when the
it
when
;
movement becomes a
to
three-quarter or half-
Fusee.
The cone-shaped
the chain
wound
is
ofif
the barrel on to
wound
compensated
further, is
for
by
acting
it
is
on the smaller
is
by the
production of springs of uniform strength, so that by the judicious selection of the middle coils, the action of the two ends
is
made
to trans-
mit a tolerably uniform force, and thus the fusee has fallen into
disuse,
watches.
It is
stUl
but
made
when properly
sufficiently accurate
and
less liable to
adjusted,
is
one
The
split
other piece
down
is
its
entire length.
The divided
HAIR-SPRING.
part
is fitted
The
square.
95
other end
is fitted
way
By
when a
Geneva Stop;The
this
arrangement,
true.
all
attached
fiisee is
applied to
is
that the
Glossing.
stuflf.
Scrupulous cleanliness
red-stufi'
oil,
used
is
The
especially in glossing.
and
is
mixed with
applied,
these means.
Going
its
is
more
Barrel.
A mainspring
will
not be so durable.
on
fiisee
it is
Gravers.
same
tools
These
is
for the
The
largest used
in
Great Wheel.
same purpose.
form.
employed more
named
They
after their
flat.
fusee which
Greying,
Ayr
stone.
A process of
The
stone
is
is filed flat
attained
by water-of-
by a polishing process.
oil
Bright
grey finish
is
on a wood
slip.
Hairspring.
96
Half-plate Watches.
Those
wheel
is
in
circle;
in
them the
The term
is
fourth
used analo-
Hammers.
Those
used in watch-work
except in
size,
difter
but
little,
The
Hammer.
largest
hammer heads
are
to
bench.
mon
Steel
riveting.
used
for
that are
The handle
to
be used on
is
finished work.
and
so as to
make
it
springy.
similar to slid-
Hand-tongs.
structed
they
may be
conveniently shaped to
fit
One
slits
to
sizes.
The
to hold the
hands.
Hand-vice.
This
tool
is
but a
dimi-
by many workers
in metal.
It is
seldom
54.
hand-vice.
INDEX.
97
Hardening.
is
generally available.
C are must be
which
will
be
it.
commonly used
which process
is
described
under
its
to
&c.
effective.
tempered,
tools,
will injure
for cooling,
property
It is this
making cutting
become
heading.
heat causes
soft.
fits
on
Hunting Cases.
Those
This
One
train drives
a seconds-hand,
watches are
made
quently fourths or
at
train
at
which drives
most
fre-
(See
" Centre
also
Seconds.")
Index.
The
point
of
and
the
fast
and
is
moved
to
slow, or
advance
letters
of these
initial
used to indicate
is
Any
pointer
98
Jacot Tool.
after they
turns.
is
size
Fig- 55-
With
this
made
the pivot
is
centre, of
is
file.
JACOT-TOOL.
reduced in
is
and
size,
A similarly shaped
quite parallel.
burnish or polish
it
them with
at the
same time
file,
for treating
the diameter of the pivots only, the other for reducing their
length and rounding up the ends.
jACOT-TOOL Centres.
it,
watch
In use,
pivots.
it
first
uppermost ; then
left
female centre,
file
on the pivot
to
keep
it
in the groove,
same time
JACOT TOOL.
moving the
till
99
file
is
on which the
This
reduced to a
file rests
and
the pivot
file is
desired
be
and
size smaller,
file
left
square
and
after
pivot with.
file
if it is
is
the
still
so on
continued
is
When
is
small,
and the
file, it is
This
is
close against
fixed
on
its
The
cases.
tool
is
use
its
sold with
is
to the centre,
slips
may be
file.
it
work
in a hole
which nearly
fits
it,so that
is
put
centre bears against the shoulder, and the point of the pivot
thus
small half-roimd
small.
This
is
is
files,
projecting
left
tool.
specially
made
it,
horse-hair,
and
for pinions
make the
tool,
use a
100
a plain brass
better
still,
side, will
ferrule,
one of
ivory, with
little
enough
pressing it
on to the
Such a
furrule is
by simply
Jewel Holes.
bearings of watches
usually jewelled,
Ruby
wheel.
in the
and the
delicate
friction in
all high-class
Jewel
made of
more
Jewelled bear-
ings are
use in
all
hardest,
less
this
be of the
work.
Jewelling Cutter.
This
Fig. 59.
Fig. 60.
tool,
shown
at Figs. 58 to 63,
is
Centre.
Cutter Stock.
adapted
for
JEWEL SETTER.
loi
^iMmisffsgf
Fig. 58.
sharpened when
drill,
first
dull.
1^
Jewel Setter.
The
tool
is
used
like
made,
large
an ordinary
A small
hole
cutter,
work.
Stop Colllar.
Fig. 6i.
Fig. 62.
Jewel Cutter.
Joint Pusher.
A round
Fig. 63.
steel
Jewel Gauge.
through the
joint,
and having
is
it
duated in
largest
size,
size,
sizes are
its
end
filed flat.
now
or 00,
sizes of
and
commencing
as the
as this size
is
purely arbi-
This
is
which
is
connect
The most
key
sizes.
Keyless Mechanism.
is
gra-
value of key
usual
steel
radially.
which may be
trary, it is
a very
Twelve
pipes.
It is
tool,
it
fitnger
and thumb.
is
fitted
by which
The
end,
with gearing to
LATHES.
determined by many reasons.
it
103
same gearing
Invariably the
is
When
as the winding
The advantages
it
tighter,
fit
making them
Lathes.
The
lathe to watch
work
now
is
much
and
show
The accompanying
may be inferred.
The machines
are
which
particularly useful.
made
lathe, as
useful information
of
used in general
little
is
somewhat
be found
costly,
being
though
first-rate material,
The Moseley
lathe
is
in
watch work.
Mr. C.
S.
Moseley has
its
sulting
Elgin,
and
its
111.,
U.S.A.
He
in three sizes
and two
first
present form
tools.
qualities.
and con-
Watch Company, of
The Moseley
The sizes are
appli-
lathe
is
made
No.
i,
length
J04
LATHES.
quarter inches
No.
2,
length of
No.
3,
105
bed eleven
The No.
inches, height of
(Fig.
64), has
lathe
a bed nine-and-a-half
it
by
The
special machinery.
and
tailstock, spindles
ground to
In the
their bush-
size
and shape
is
with four speed changes, and indexed with sixty holes, that a
circle
2
may be
The
equal divisions.
oil
bearings on
all
6, 5, 4, 3, or
have
lathes
oil holes
and
chips
flying
oil.
An
by a
where
is
it is
its
cover, which
The headstock
is
in combination with
by a bolt
at
each end
The
it
very
tailstock is fitted
rear
end mounted
with hard rubber knob, and taper hole in front for centres,
drill
Fig. 65.
SECTION OF Lathe-bed.
which are
The screw
for binding
T in rest is tapped
in
steel
lOo
LATHES.
ring,
which can be
set in
107
all
all clear
metal bearings,
steel
work
By
soft,
The
pulley indexed
twenty-four holes.
the use of a
tail- stocks
No
bed they
matter which
the
Fig. 67.
shows a half-open
tail-stock.
Half-open Tail-stock,
away so
that spindles
passed through.
This
may be
is
The upper
Fig. 68.
half is cut
Traverse Spindle.
very convenient
when a number of
chamfering, &c.
Fig. 68 is a traverse spindle tail-stock
useful
for straight
I08
drilling.
Fig.
74 shows a screw
Fig.
heavy wor
Fig. 71,
at
and
has
the
half-
face-plate
Fig. 69.
Light-running Spindle.
slots will
The pump
j
and
is
centre
is
tools,
operated from
a spring.
Fig. 70.
They
and
Screw Tail-stock.
it
embraces
all
the
American
It is
claimed
All
LATHES.
Strength
solidity
and convenience.
which prevents
Whitcombe
to
Its
size
vibration.
109
The
production of the
in three sizes.
No.
The
eighty-five in 1881.
lathe is
No.
made
2 has the
inch,
No. i|
an inch.
These
no
made
to
shown
in
metric measurements.
Universal Head.
Each
Fig. 73.
qualities are
made, a
about
J[,X2.
soft
is,
and
with the
hand-rest, as
size.
Universal Head,
and a hard
lathe.
The
about
,i,
price of the
and
for the
LATHES.
Fig. 73
in
may be
This
observed.
a decided advantage.
is
is
similar to that
The method
adopted in Swiss
Screw Tail-stock.
Fig. 74,
Fig. 74
shown
is
a screw
in Fig. 72,
tail-stock,
and
Lepine Movements.
cocks.
So called from
their originator
and
principal manufacturer.
flatness,
it.
Lepine dispensed
Lever.
receives
pallets,
The piece
its
and the
pallet staff
which
it
is
is its
lever watch
It is fixed to the
centre of motion.
The end
pallets.
spring to be partially
wound
up.
112
and
is
Locking Faces.
it
has no
pallets in all
Mainspring.
barrel,
A long ribbon of
steel,
The introduction
may be
would appear
sixteenth century.
middle of the
Gut
lines
simultane-
produced were
were originally
Mainspring Punch.
A tool
for
affix
a hook.
The
Fig. 75.
sizes,
is fitted
made somewhat
Mainspring Punch.
One jaw
tool is usually
steel plate
dies.
Mainspring Winder.
up
This
it
instrument
in the barrel.
nose
fitted
with a
and
hook
is
used to
coil
It consists of
MAINTAINING POWER.
The
and the
shaft is turned
by
is
is
the winch
put over
hooked on
till
to the nose,
the spring
The
it.
113
entirely
is
Fig. 77.
.76.
Mainspking Winder.
is
of the fusee
is
reversible,
fusee watches,
when
the arbor
is
is
backwards but
maintaining power.
Some
still
met with
The
between the body and the fusee and the great wheel.
steel
This
fusee-ratchet wheel,
its
is
which
is
circular in form,
The
eifected.
power
spring,
wheel, the other free end engaging with the steel ratchet wheel
the action of this spring being restrained by a slot cut in the
great wheel.
The power
of the mainspring
power
first
overcomes the
drawn
this as far as the slot will allow, then causes the fusee to rotate.
I
114
The
wheel
steel
is
steel
when
that
wheel
is
power spring
is
exerts
The
keep the
sufficient duration to
again
is
of
and each time that the power turning the fusee arbor is
power spring
and
its
exert
wound up
its force,
the maintaining
The going
fully.
relaxed,
fusee, or
Going
barrels require
no such contrivance,
is
as in
winding the
in
of the barrel.
Mandrel.
for holding
in jaws
is
is
trade.
The
mandrel
quite in
it
head-stock
plate,
flat.
is
which
The
is
is
con-
arranged
gripped
centre of the
pointed end.
is
This
watchmaking
fined to the
This point
desired to turn,
is
and the
plate
and 73
Minute Wheel.
to
clamped
is
it
in that position.
of a mandrel.
Motion Wheels.
The
set of wheels
The cannon-pinion
on
it
drives
is
the
minute-wheel,
and
from the same centre and in the same direction, the relative
PALLETS.
lis
The
Movement
movements
close
Holder.
on the
pillar-plate
and grip
tightly,
it
is
Three jaws
ling by.
Nippers.
and many
too long.
joint,
Oil
Cups.
Receptacles
Nippers.
oil,
made
for oil
at
an angle with
Only
Oiler.
A small
wire a handle.
It
it.
should be
filed
down, very
quantity of
oil,
dial,
fine
and then
up a very minute
it.
is
which have a
any way.
Pallets.
fall.
That piece in a lever watch which embraces some of the escapewheel teeth, and translates the circular motion of the escapewheel, through the lever, into the vibratory motion of the
ii6
balance.
The
Those
the
Pegwood.
in
small
is
silex
and
pith.
its
being
make
are taken to
are made,
commencing
at
Three cuts
by the
fingers
precisely
as in
The
other end
sunk
thus
The wood
oil-holes.
new and
the stick
is
is left,
and
made
till
it
and the
is
wood
and
only an inch or so of
for further use.
to a sharp point
is
The
not to
fine,
and
still
used
first
Pendant.
and
to
hole
is
when
discoloration
case,
A freshly-sharpened
is
till
is
can be got
generally
is
repeated
it
peg
larger,
till
resharpened
fails
to
show
is
is
attached.
The pendant
usually
is
PIN
communicated to the lock
allows
it
VICE.
117
spring,
to fly open.
The
enables a
of
of the
which
It usually consists
inner end
is
connected
push
piece, or in
be actuated instead.
By adopting
is
this
itself,
Pendulum
Spring.
Pillar Plate.
The
keyless
case need
chance of
better
class
mechanism (which
see).
next the
dial,
less
the
all
is
Most of the
watches are
The
avoided.
may
the hands
mechanism,
entire
at a
by screws put
The
in
pillars serve to
Pin Slide.
tool
Fig, 80.
Pin Slide.
by a
Pin Vice.
tive
The jaws
are held
sliding ring.
This
tool
may be
vice,
commonly used by
ii8
The pin
vice is
usually about five inches in length, with jaws that are gener-
winged
by which
is
the vice
held.
making pins
is
nut.
watch together.
The tail
or handle
Fig. 8i.
to receive
a supply of
is
Pin Vice.
wire,
block.
common
to
most
steel,
filing
about three-quarters
vices,
of an inch wide, but more often they are " dog-nosed," only
wanted
There
all
An
central.
expert
left
hand
whilst the
Pinion Gauge.
Fig. 82.
adjustable
file is
that
generally a small
is
is
held
rotated
by
by means
Pinion Gauge.
Fig. 83.
Height Gauge.
nut.
The
too
PIVOT DRILLS.
bow compass,
shaped
119
It is
used
measuring
for
process of turning.
Pinion Stake.
holes through
formed so that
may be
it
The
size.
stake
is
generally
held conveni-
it is
though
strip
graduating in
it
,_!
bench.
a pinion,
its
i.
Fig- 84.
Pinion Stake.
is
size,
being
performed.
Pivot Broaches.
Very
Pivot
Drills.
Very
small
human
drills
Fig. 85.
ferrule
Pivot drill.
is
shaped
like
as
those
for
the
drill,
and
pivots
of a steel
shaft
hair.
consisting
used to
is
of
the
drill
The end
smaller
in
watch
work.
slit
between them.
Pivot Polishing.
Some
fitted to lathes.
Fig.
It
86
used
rest,
is
is
for grinding or
also
useful
for
fit
on the
slide-
snailing
and
drilling.
The base
is
I20
may be
set
any required
at
angle.
Fig. 86.
Fig. 87
shows another
Pivot Polisher.
and
bed
as a slide-rest,
The
vertical adjustments.
ment
is
do
all
It is
illustration
half-size,
It will
drilling.
for
its
use.
the spindle being parallel with the lathe-bed, and the lap to
Fig. 87.
the rear.
for
Use a
square shoulders, or
shoulders.
smooth.
The
Pivot Polisher.
cast-iron lap
lap itself
must be
perfectly true
with a
first,
boxwood
lap
it
laps.
oil,
When
and uniformly
or No.
crocus,
the pivot
is
ground
for conical
lap.
Polish
POTENCE.
121
pliers, their
Pliers,
nosed
nosed
and
inside
work
Round-
respectively.
tapering.
Polishing Blocic.
A box
about four or
forming a
with
oil, is
kept.
it
consists of a series of
six
iron siurface
fitted
Usually
A tier
it,
material,
made
glutinous
Potence.
balance
staff or verge.
It is
in the verge watch also forms the bearing for the front pivot of
The
potence
is
sometimes set in a
The potence
follower,
used
slip
This
of brass, and
is
in the top
a dove-
fits
slip.
the bear-
It passes
through
potence
and
By
122
made
For
regulated.
is
purpose specially
this
pliers,
follower pliers.
Pump
Dividers.
The
or compasses.
A somewhat
may be
that
pumps.
is, it
may be
The
other
by means of a
adjusted to
regulated to great
exactness.
Punches.
Innumerable
some
are bored
up
and
for riveting,
It is
Raci< Lever.
having the end of the lever cut with teeth, the balance axis
being a pinion gearing into the segment.
invention of the
Berthoud used
keepers.
Abb^
this
Hautefeuille, in
It is said to
be the
F.
This form
is
now
obsolete, being
superseded by
were made.
Two
Ratchet.
ally
made
The wheel
of
steel,
in
acts.
English fusee
made
of brass,
by which motion
It is gener-
arbor,
and secured
and
in the
to the base of
RUBY
Recoil Escapements.
This
backwards by the
is
describing
pallet
class of
escapement
differs
wheel
driven
as the escape
supplementary arc
its
made
cannot be
123
when
concentric with
its
is
of the
the face
is
with.
Repeating Watches.
the repeating
or
is
recoil escapement, of
met
PIN.
moving a
movement
Some
by blows
indicated
is
on a
bell
to effect this
slide
wound up by
is
strike
;
and quarters
case, and,
as
on
above men-
The
who
is
blind
is
to
but the
which
of comparatively
is
Riveting Tool.
make
little
This
is
a tool
made
be applied
to the
Roller.
The
duplex
staff,
work
&c.,
and
is
is
may
for
is fitted
to a level
ruby pin.
rounding up
rather machine,
and
which
carries the
that they
quite vertically.
staff,
manner
that
The
tool,
is,
or
watch-jobber.
Ruby
Pin.
The
escapement.
glass.
To
Ruby
pins are
commonly made of a
species of
124
varnish.
firmer
It will
become hard
Screwdrivers.
These
The
inches in length.
shaft
is
more
desirable.
A collet is
work.
The
middle
finger,
a good grip
shaft
is
between which
is
are
it
is
its
In order to afford
rolled.
very like
the
The
shaft.
blades of
ordinary carpenter's
kept up to
corrugated material
is
these
bradawl.
screwdrivers
made of pinion
some hard wood, is
frequently
wire,
and be much
in a few minutes,
shaft,
and some-
For
very small screws, such as jewel screws, the width of the blade
is
about
one-fiftieth
The
of an inch.
Between these
limits there
different sizes,
Screw-end Finisher.
Fig. go.
may be
Screw-end Finisher.
finished or polished.
Fig. 91.
Screw Extractor. A
tool for
so that their
its
The
tool
arms near to
the ends, two screws with their ends precisely opposite each
SCRE W FERR ULES.
The ends
Other.
they are
Screw
Ferrules.
obtained
when
other
bow
works.
steel,
of screws.
The
turns.
ferrule
work
is
be gripped.
to
apart,
is
easily
fail.
for screwing
By
are screwed
methods
25
flat
is
On tightening
above mentioned.
come
if
there
is
difference
between the
central hole
not
diameter
much
of
p.
The two
'^
screw
ferrule.
the
always more or less separated, and the edges cut and fray the
cord.
Some screw
ferrules
centre,
are
made
used
all sizes
from about
quarters ot
heaviest
one-fifth of
and such
light
work
that
is
usually
is
Screw ferrules
an inch in diameter
work
to about three-
large
enough
for the
mounted on watchmakers'
turns.
clamped
The
in the bench-vice,
the screws.
various purposes.
sliding ring; their
Some
differently
which
shaped to
purpose
is
to clip screws
is
for holding
suit
by a
by the thread
126
polished.
in
The frame
of the tool
is
clamped
in the bench-vice
holding a screw
is
and
it is
turned to and
which
tool,
is
By rabbing
fro.
The
right
hand holds a
By
of the frame.
this
means the
on the
file
or other
may be
fitted
the palm
steel pin.
These
flat
lapidaries
steadied and
For polishing
Screw
The
Plates.
Used
and construction
to those
commonly used
in
same
on screws.
in principle
Screws are
corre-
made by
now an
form
tial.
is
The
is
Most of
the screw-plates
requisite
is
walking.
fail
wound should
for
a day, a circumstance of
it
remain
still
Occasionally such
SLIDE RESTS.
a watch
is
The term
curios.
127
is
erro-
Sizes of Watches.
large watches have
lady's
watch
is
very doubtful
It is
about a ten
size,
and the
a twenty-two
size.
limits of size in
com-
mon
All
use, but
Geneva watches
are sized
by
lent to "oSSS of
an inch
diameter,
eighths of an inch;
lines,
one twenty-two
The
case
ten lines in
is
The movements
inches in diameter.
ber of
'888
therefore
is
watch-plate.
lines,
size
is
'1954, say
two
num-
may be extended on
the edge to
make
sized.
A number
pillar-plate, in the
The
punched
dial.
They
to recommend
a human hand. The construction may be seen
The saddle slides along the
to Figs. 93 and 94.
instead of
by
reference
and the
work
set to
is
entire
and top
angles to
slides
When
is
is
In
The method
somewhat noticeable.
128
eccentric elevator
and
let it rest
on the
Fig. 93.
collar,
suit.
Then by holding
Slide-rest.
Fig. 94.
elevator, point
When
using tools
Slide-rest.
of square steel
lower gib,
Sliding Tongs.
These
made
They
the link
is
are
when
SPUING OVER.
By
jaws are
especially for
made
to grip.
129
Sliding Tongs.
fit.
Slitting Files.
files,
used
for slitting
Split Seconds.
heads of screws.
This
is
Two
events
hands,
on pressing a
other, and,
stop-piece,
on the push-piece
one hand
is
stopped, the
till
two hands shows the interval that has elapsed between the two
pressures on the stop-piece; a third pressure wUl set both
resume
other, appearing as
a single hand.
is
plate of the
is
If sprung under,
the balance.
movement
is fitted
lies flat
on the
the balance-spring
to the balance-cock.
Staff.
staff
of a watch, which
pivots
formed
at either
is
axis,
end
steel with
and
pallets
I30
is
when undistinguished by an
the balance-staff
is
and
fit
is
its
to
cock
is
'^|f
concerned,
but
or foot of the
ing
adjective
it
do with steady-
position otherwise.
Stem
watches,
which a stem or
Mechanism
"
and
arbor
"
keyless
through
passes.
Pendant Winder.")
Stepping Appliance.
This
is
used on hollow
The
from the
left
is
passed through
"*
slit-
The
The
collar,
<!
il
slips
is
Stop-finger.
top-fingers
There
is
a jointed
lever,
in fusee
which
is
In the going
Stop Watch.
for
One
dependent Seconds.")
in
which there
mechanism provided
See (" Centre Seconds " and " Inis
S UNK
Stopwork.
This
is
SE CONDS.
13
is
entire force
thus a
is
its
obtained, the
Stopwork
especially
is
entirely in
its
construction
or Geneva stopwork
is
spring,
and
in fusee
to prevent overwinding.
for
watches
each
in
differs
This consists of a
employed.
disc,
wound
when fuUy
butts
fully
on the
solid edge.
wound, and a
the chain
on the
when making
fusee,
steel finger
its last
and so prevent
is
raised
by
further winding.
Supplementary Arc. Is
the balance performed after the impulse has been given and
due
to
which
itself,
ultimately
is
is
then changed.
below the
circle in
kind of watch
is
reduced.
The
figures
or
of the
main
dial indifferently.
The seconds
is itself
divisions
on the edge
dial is always
and
in
some
cases
for the
132
minute-hand.
it
Such a
Swing-Rests.
will
be
dial
is
Fig. 98.
slide-rests,
98
next, but
i:ecess,
be caught by the
in their purpose to
Plain jwing-rest.
accompanying
Fig.
less liable to
is
it
illustrations
show.
and the
It is
cutters wings
Fig. gg.
to allow
JEWELLING Rest.
to the
cutter.
Fig. 99
is
made
SWING WHEEL.
133
As
swing-calliper.
registers
it
and
and
Fig. 100.
just
the
midway between
these
callipers,
cutter does.
By
move
this
Swing-rest.
amount
twice the
and
that
the
fit
calliper.
Swing-wheel.
Taps.
For
are used.
screw-plates
made
used
for
to cut threads
the
exterior
on the
thread.
a piece of
steel, specially
Machine-
accompanied by
interior, as
filed
to shape,
The
hardened and
134
Third Wheel.
That one
its
coming next
in the train
pinion
is
to the
driven.
Three-quarter-plate Watches.
be placed on the
the entire circle
about three-quarters of
pillar-plate, leaves
is
called a three-quarter-
watch has
must be much
three-quarter-plate
though
its
cost
is
This
is
the process of
Steel
made apparent by
is
first
this
heated.
The
is
chiefly a process
effect
when
a great
somewhat reducing
is
is
not to be recommended,
is greater.
Tempering.
in tool-making.
centre-
In a given
it
through oxidation
if
the
first,
and
heating
is
continued.
Timing-screws.
is
in
removing some
screws.
still
all
is
corre-
loses, it is altered
by
TURNS.
1 35
The
an alteration
Timing-stand.
Used to hold
may be
it
a watch
movement
in
any
adjusted
and
and
pinions,
all their
pinion.
repairer,
bench.
The form
of the tool
is
pjg.
^^
Timing-stand.
modified
it
The
Continental form
is
A small
The
The ends
it,
T-rest,
also forms
and
are fixed
of these centres
are shaped to suit various purposes for which the turns are
employed.
The work
to
be turned
Tweezers.
all
These
is
steel,
centres.
made
ferrule,
generally of
provided with a
The
of two blades,
136
may be
thumb and
with the
made
finger.
may be made
of any shape.
of brass, so as not to
Sometimes they
damage work by
scratch-
ing.
Uprighting Tool.
Used
Fig. 102.
for
Upright Tool.
pivot-
circular base-plate
mounted on
The
three feet,
tool
and
cannon
is
also fixed.
must be perfectly
The
straight with
Pointed rods,
WHEEL CUTTING.
137
The watch
movement
is
laid
down, and
it
it will
hole.
be upright to the
lower hole.
Verge Stake.
piece of
steel,
on when
to rest
slit
to allow the
free
otherwise treating
it.
Wheel
Cutting.
This
making
the
process
of
teeth
of
made
large
wheels.
Wheel-cutting
sHde-rest
Some
They go on
The
The work, blank wheels
cutter can
shaft.
to
and are
numbers of wheels.
making
Wheel-cutters.
is
suit.
or pinions,
is
held on
spindle.
Fig.
138
Each
spindle, with
its
and
is
105
is
It is
all
kinds
Fig. 105.
Wheel-cutter.
Wheel-cutting Engine.
The
machine used
It consists of
for cutting
an apparatus
for
holding the wheel blanks firmly, and which also allows them
to
number of
teeth.
The
certain points
at
according to the
is
is cut.
The blank
is
a cut
is
number
is
of teeth, and
till
the entire
WIG- WAG.
Wheel Stretcher. A
ing wheels, that
This
is
effected
circumference.
enlarging
Frequently this
hammer on a plain
is
is
139
When
a depth
is
de-
shallow,
Wig-wag.
This
is
not to be commended.
is
the
Fig. io6.
WiG-WAG.
&c.
is
staffs,
pivots,
It is chiefly
used in watch
factories.
It is
used
foi
pinion-leaves,
I40
Wire.
work
is
The
commonly used
The
in watchsizes
the diameters
are
sixty
of the wire in
sizes.
....
..
..
.,
INDEX.
PAGE
ROD
ADJUSTING
Alarm Watch
Anchor Escapement
51
51
Anvil
Apparatus, Filing
Appliance, Stepping
Arbor Chuck
Arbors
..
38,50
50
..
.92
130
6g
Collet
Cork
Fusee-turning
..
Plain
Split
Squaring Apparatus
Archimedian Drill-stock
Arnold, John
Automatic Calendars
..
5^
73
75
94
52
53
68
63
iig
41
Burnt Bone
18,
..
..
84
61
Watch
CALENDAR
Callipers
.
..
..62
. .
62
. .
63
63
82
Cannon Pinion
Cap
Case, Double Bottom
Hunting
Open Face
Poising Tool
53
53
54
55
55
7, 55
.
95
Spring
Staff
Banking Pins
Bar
..
Barrels
Going
Beat
..
"55
Keys
56
57
41
Vice
Bent Verge
Berthoud, Ferdinand
Black Gloss
Block, Filing
Pohshing
Pan
..
..
Pliers
. .
Saws
Bows
Box, or Barrel
Chalk
Brass Edge
..
..
Spring
Bridge
Bright Grey
Broach
. -
Diamond
. .
Replacing
Chalk
Box
..
..
..
Brush
14,25,72
60
..51
,.
,.
..73
Clicks
Cock
55
Collet
67
Arbors
Compensation Balance
..
3,
..
Clocks Taxed
Clock Watch
. .
..
..
..
Contrate Wheel.
Depth
Conversion
Cork Arbors
Countershafts
Countersinking Tool
64
64
9a
65
65
30
66
33
66
67
67
^y
68
68
72
..
Clepsydra
63
70
..
62
58
58
58
60
82
. .
. .
, .
61
59
59
Clement
69, 95
Cleaning
Guard
57
g6
9
. .
Tool
Chain
f>7
..59
Hammers
Breguet, A.
Centring Tool
Cleaning
. .
..64
for Jacot
..57
..
Bone
Bouchons
Wheel
Centres
Chamfers
Chronograph
Chronometer
Chucks
Clamps
Spring
. .
Centre Seconds
88 122
95
91
izi
Bow
Winding Watch
Cement Chucks
..18
Bench
Boiling
Bolt
52
74
..
97
115
63
Stake
BALANCE Compensation
60
60
61
61
..61
Steel
Bush
92
..52
lOj
PAGE
Broach, Pivot
Broken Spring
Brushes
Buff Sticks
Bumping-up Stake
Burnishers
,.
..
.,
..
72
10
73
73
73
73
74
69
75
37
75
75
-75
77
..,
..
.
...
.
...
..
.,
INDEX
142
PAGE
PAGE
Crossing Files
77
".75
Crownwheel
"5
. .
Wheels
..
Cylinder Escapement
. .
. .
. .
77
100
..
77
137
77> ^7
Gauge
Follower
Foot Wheel
-
81
82
82
122
82
82
83
83
53
58
Diamentine
Diamond Broaches
Pump
Dog
.
Douzidme Gauge
Drills
.
Bows
-
Pivot
Stocks
Pinion
Pivot
Geneva Stop
Glossing ..
Going Barrel
..
..5.6
..
,.
..
79
83
102
118
119
95
95
95
..
.
.
..
Graham, George
8,77, 88, go
..
95
Gravers
Great Wheel
.
31,95
Grey, Bright
Greying
..
Grinders,
Emery
..
Guard, Chain
..
85
87
Duplex Escapement
-AIRSPRING
H'
95
7
Hale, Peter
96
96
96
96
Hammers
Thomas
10, 68, 74
59
81
Enamel Dial
Endshakes
Endstones
35
Cylinder
Dead Beat
86
Hautefeuille,
51
Holder, Movement
Holes, Jewel
..
-Wheel Teeth..
Equation Watch
Examining
Extractor, Screw
Eye-glass
Plate Chuck
FACE
Facing Tools
..
..
Screw
. .
, .
6, 7, 8,
.
....
100
6g
51, 54, 8g
87
. .
4
. .
Wheel
INDEPENDENT Seconds
91
91
125
114
90, 122
115
. .
..69
Index
. .
. .
. ,
. .
g7
97
6
. .
. .
97
97
Mean
Time
77
129
Slitting..
Filing Apparatus
Block
Finger, Stop
Finisher Screw End
First Divisions of Time
Fly
_
Spring
Wheels
8, 9, 68,
Abb^
Hunting Cases
Huyghens, Christian
..
Harrison, John
124
17,91
Ferrules
Crossing
123
37
91
14
..
Files,
77
79
80
19
104
97
Drills
138
81
Detached
Vice
Hands, Removing
Hard Lathe
Hardening
Hand-Tongs
,.
Escapements
Anchor
Recoil
60
95
86
66
ng
EARNSHAW,
Edge Brass
94
94
94
Douzi^me
Dial
Dial Wheels
Archimedian
--93
7,
Turning Arbor
Key
Depths
Detached Escapement
Detent
..
Fusees
Dividers,
58, 93
-
GALILEO
Gauge, Cylinder
Clock
Dead-beat Escapements
Depthing Tool
93
-93
Frame Saw
Frames
Full Plate Watch
79
DE WYCK'S
93
93
Fork
Fourth Wheel
92
91
130
124
i
-92
93
93
Tool
JACOT
Jewel Holes
Screwdrivers
Jewelling Cutters
Rests
Joint Pin
Pusher
. .
. .
.
98
104
100
100
135
18
102
.
.
..
..
.
.
...
INDEX.
143
PAGE
KEY, BenchG^HS^
56
102
..
...
.
;^;;
Keyless Mechanism
. .
.102
PAGE
Pinion Stake
Pivot, Broaches
Drills
..
,.
..
..52
Gauge
AP Chnck
69
Lathes
103
105
iii
Bed
Lepine Movements
Section..
Lever
..
m
m
..
Escapement
. .
. .
i3) 87
Rack
122
36
112
..
Locking Faces
Polishing
Plain Arbor
,.
112
. .
..
..28
112
28
112
113
25, 130
114
61
.
Replacing
Winder
Maintaining Power
Maltese Cross
Mandrel
Mean Day, A
..
Minute Wheel
114
114
.Motion Wheels
Work
. .
20
Movement Holder
Lepine.,
-Mudge, Thomas.
m
115
,.
.
..
..
Potence
Preparing Chalk
Noisy Drop
Nuremberg Eggs
..
..
. .
77
56
53
6
121
119
.121
66
122
122
. .
Closing
Mainspring
.,
..
.-73
112
Purbach
7
102
Pusher, Joint
Lever
RACK
Ratchet
122
122
59
36
Rebushing
Recoil
Escapements
123
Red-stufif
Repeating Watch
Replacing Balance-staff
Barrel
Barrel Arbor
Pivots
115
Verge
Riveting Tool
Rod, Adjusting
Punch
78
Broken Spring
Chain
Day
NATURAL
Nippers
. ,
Dividers
90
9)
28
. .
Cleaning
Punch
117
121
Cutting
Pump
MAINSPRING
Adjusting
rig
Plate, Pillar
Pliers
Bow
91-95
. ,
123
54
. .
. .
47
46
.,
..41
44, 65
. .
. .
..
..
..48
50
123
Roskell
Oilers
Oiling
H5
..
..115
..
. .
115
PALLETS
Pan, Boiling
..
Pendulum, Invention of
..
..116
.117
, .
Spring
Pillar
Plate
..
.,
Ruby
Steady
Vice
Pinion Cannon
Gauge
. .
..
..
..
117
117
117
55
yy
123
..117
130
117
63
118
Frame.
Screw Chuck
End Finisher
Extractor
Ferrule
..
57
116
Pegwood
Winder
^5
115
Pendant
Slide
9
.
O AW, Bow
36
7
Oval Watches
Banking
Curb
Rounding-up Tool
Ruby Pin
123
123
30
Pin,
48
123
Roller
OIL Cups
119
119
119
ijg
..
..
Head Tool
Plates
Screwdrivers
..
Seconds, Centre
Split
.
..
..
124
124
125
125
126
16, 100, 124
,,
64
..
..129
,,
..
131
126
Sunk
Self-Winding Watches
Setting
40
70
Shoulder Chuck
Sidereal Time
,
Sizes of Watches
.
Slide, Pin
Tongs
Rests
Slitting Files
..
59
93
69
127
117
12S
127
129
..
INDEX,
144
PAGB
PAGE
Soft Lathe
Solar Day
Split
..
io6
. .
53
22
117
Arbor
Spring, to let
down
, .
Spring
Balance
Breguet
^Fly
Over
Under
Staff
Balance
Stake, Case
Bumping Up
Pinion,.
Verge
.,
..
. .
Stand
Steady Pins
53
59
93
129
129
129
54
63
61
119
137
135
130
Appliance
Sticks, Buff
Stop Finger
..
130
60
130
130
130
47
139
73
..
..
..
Watch..
Straight Teeth
Stretcher, Wheel
Striking Watch
,
Supplementary Arc
Sunk Seconds
..
. .
..
7
72
Universal Chuck
-
Head
110
Uprighting Tool
ERGE
13&
Escapement
36,87
Stake.
Vice,
137
Bench
57
96
117
Hand
Pin
ATCH
Alarm
50
Calendar
Case Winding
Clock
Described
Equation
10
..
..91
Full Plate
Half Plate
Independent Seconds
.,
Introduction of
..
2
36, i3r
131
Lid Winding
Repeating
133
133
Self-winding
Sizes of
. .
Swing Rests
Wheel
129
Unequal
71
Work
57
I35
i7 i35
UNDERSPRUNG
Drop
..130
Stem Winder
Step Chucks
Sundials
Turning Collets
Turns
Tweezers
Tycho-Brahe
Stop
..
..
in
..
..
Taxed
TAIL
Stocks..
. .
Drills
Third Wheel
Three-quarter-plate
Timing Screws
Watch
..
.,
Stand
Tightening Barrel Cover
Ruby Pin
. .
, .
. .
. .
Depthing
Facing
Jacot
Riveting
Rounding Up
Screw Head
. .
Uprighting
Tooth, Replacing Broken
Tongs, Hand
Shding
Traverse Spindle
. .
. .
70
133
134
84
134
.. 134
75) 134
135
Tompion, Thomas
Tool, Centring
Countersinking
Three-quarter-plate
..
. .
124
77
64
75
Contrate
Crown
75
Cutting
Engine
'
Dial
Fly
..
,.
, .
..
Motion..
Stretcher
.,
. .
93
93
38
95
Hour
Minute
. .
.
..
.,
,.
..
,.
..
.,
..
..
Swing
Third
137
138
81
Fourth
Gearing
Great
77
80
91
98
"
123
126
127
130
10
134
Wheel, Centre
65
97
114
114
139
13s
123
123
125
136
27
Wig- Wag
Wild Cornel
Winder, Mainsprin
Pendant
96
128
Stem
Wire Chucks
Gauge
107, 108
..
Water Clocks
46
94
96
97
6
..
134
139
116
112
117
130
71
140
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