Complete Price Guide to Watches
by Shugart, Cooksey; Engle, Tom; Gilbert, Richard E.; Shugart, MarthaEdition: 23rd
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-01-01
Publisher(s): Collector Books
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Summary
Thoroughly revised and updated, a comprehensive price guide for watch collectors features the current pricing and market value of more than ten thousand types of watches, including both American and European makes of pocket watches, wrist watches, and comic watches, along with tips on grading and appraising watches. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 5 |
| How to Determine Manufacturer | p. 9 |
| Appraising Watches (what's my watch worth) | p. 10 |
| Grading Watches | p. 12 |
| Collecting on a Limited Budget | p. 14 |
| Railroad Pocket Watches | p. 16 |
| Railroad Grade Watches | p. 24 |
| Railroad Approved Watches | p. 26 |
| Colonial Watchmakers | p. 28 |
| List of Early American Watchmakers | p. 31 |
| Sizes, How to Determine Watch Sizes | p. 34 |
| Solid Gold Marks | p. 35 |
| Gold Filled Marks | p. 37 |
| Nomenclature of Watch Parts | p. 42 |
| Case Prices | p. 44 |
| Watch Inspection | p. 46 |
| How a Watch Works | p. 50 |
| Regulator Id | p. 56 |
| Jewels and Pivots | p. 69 |
| Jewel Count | p. 71 |
| Judging Quality | p. 77 |
| Offer Versus Appraisals | p. 78 |
| Ebauches | p. 81 |
| Special Named or Private Label Watches | p. 89 |
| Swiss Fakes | p. 93 |
| Market Report | p. 96 |
| Abbreviations (used in this book) | p. 98 |
| American Pocket Watch Listings (begins) | p. 100 |
| Styles and Names of Hands | p. 359 |
| Comic & Character Watches (begins) | p. 415 |
| Early Antique Watches (European) | p. 433 |
| Watch-Makers | p. 435 |
| Clues to Dating Your Watch | p. 438 |
| Chronological Date List | p. 444 |
| Early European Watchmakers | p. 445 |
| Hallmarks of London | p. 450 |
| Repeating Watches | p. 454 |
| Tourbillon | p. 458 |
| Karrusel | p. 460 |
| European Pocket Watch Listings (begins) | p. 463 |
| Pre-1850 Repeaters | p. 550 |
| Pre-1850 Alarms | p. 557 |
| Tourbillon, Karrusel | p. 564 |
| Unusual | p. 580 |
| Nello Watch Cases | p. 590 |
| Enamel Watches | p. 604 |
| Match Serial Number and Date (Also Page 1,147) | p. 609 |
| A Bit of Wrist Watch History | p. 610 |
| Automatic Winding | p. 615 |
| Chronograph | p. 616 |
| Swiss Code Initials | p. 622 |
| Watch Consolidation (Who Owns Who) | p. 623 |
| Brand Names & Owners | p. 624 |
| Wrist Watch Listings (begins) | p. 626 |
| Watch Terminology | p. 1 |
| Word Pronunciation | p. 1 |
| European Terminology & U.S.A. Terminology | p. 1 |
| The Art of Micro-Mechanical Marvels | p. 1 |
| Match Serial Number and Date (Also Page 609) | p. 1 |
| Advertising Begins (where to buy and sell) | p. 1 |
| Advertising Ends (where to buy and sell) | p. 1,200 |
| Type or Style of Escapement | |
| Arnold Spring Detent Escapement | p. 562 |
| Auburndale Rotary Escapement (2 styles) | p. 143 |
| Breguet Hanging Ruby Cylinder Escapement | p. 60 |
| Bulova Accutron (Tuning Fork) | p. 676 |
| Chinese Duplex (Crab leg style) | p. 443 |
| Chronodrometer (Am. Waltham 8 tooth escape wheel) | p. 107 |
| Chronometer (G. P. Reed) | p. 340 |
| Chronometer Spring Detent Escapement | p. 61 |
| Co-axial Escapement (George Daniel - Omega) | p. 614 |
| Co-axial Escapement (Fasoldt Double Escape Wheel) | p. 204 |
| Coles Resilient Escapement | p. 251 |
| Counterpoised Lever Escapement | p. 71 |
| Crab Leg Duplex Escapement | p. 443 |
| Cylinder Escapement | p. 60 |
| Debaufre Escapement | p. 536 |
| Delong Escapement | p. 273 |
| Detached Escapement | p. 62 |
| Detent Escapement | p. 1 |
| Double Escapements ("Duality" by Philippe DuFour) | p. 1 |
| Duplex Escapement | p. 60 |
| Earnshaw Spring Dentent Escapement | p. 483 |
| Electric Escapement, "Hamilton" (Balance Wheel Motor) | p. 778 |
| English or Right angle Escapement | p. 62 |
| Escapements (5 styles with Modifications and Parts) | p. 62 |
| Foliot Balance & Verge Escapement (1550-1560) | p. 52 |
| Frictional Rest Escapement with Pirouette & Double Escape Wheel | p. 481 |
| Glashutte Escapement | p. 504 |
| Jacot 3 & 4 Star Duplex Escapement | p. 499 |
| Joseph Johnson 30 tooth escape wheel | p. 500 |
| Karrusel, Bonniksen's | p. 460 |
| Lever Escapement (Modern style) | p. 50 |
| Massey Escapement (type 1-5) | p. 453 |
| Mozart Chrono-Lever Escapement | p. 313 |
| Moustache Counterpoised Lever Escapement | p. 70 |
| Mudge Detached Lever Escapement | p. 60 |
| Mulford Escapement (Modified Verge) | p. 314 |
| Pin Lever Escapement (Dollar Watches, American) | p. 86 |
| Pin-wheel Escapement (S. D. French, American) | p. 209 |
| Pivoted Detent Escapement | p. 61 |
| Pouzait Lever Escapement (2 styles) | p. 587 |
| Rack & Pinion Lever Escapement | p. 63 |
| 1 Second Remontoir Escapement (by Derek Pratt) | p. 1 |
| Resilient Escapement | p. 61 |
| Right Angle Lever Escapement | p. 62 |
| Ruby Cylinder Escapement (Hanging) | p. 60 |
| Roskopf Pin Pallet Lever Escapement (Swiss) | p. 537 |
| Savage 2 Pin Escapement | p. 443 |
| Spring Detent | p. 61 |
| Straight Line Lever Escapement | p. 62 |
| Tourbillon | p. 458 |
| Verge Escapement (with chain drive = page 59) | p. 59 |
| Virgule Escapement (single & double = 61) | p. 61 |
| Worm Gear Escapement | p. 84 |
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