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• Recueil des Procédés Pratiques Usités en Horlogerie: Formant la Deuxième Partie du Guide-Manuel de l'Horloger (in French; Paris: Bureau de la Revue Chronométrique, 1874), by Claudius Saunier
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• A history of Simon Willard, inventor and clockmaker, together with some account of his sons--his apprentices--and the workmen associated with him, with brief notices of other clockmakers of the family name, by his great grandson, John Ware Willard. ([Boston, Printed by E. O. Cockayne, 1911]), by John Ware Willard (page images at HathiTrust)
• An analysis of the lever escapement [electronic resource] / (Brantford, Ont. : Printed for E. & A. Gunther Co., [191-?]), by H. R. Playtner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Illustrated trade catalogue and price list : manufacturers, importers and jobbers of watchmakers', jewelers' and engravers' supplies of every description : optical goods, chains, charms, etc. : originators of the box matetial [sic] and makers of Swartchild's celebrated watchmakers' benches : 1897-1898 / (Chicago : Swartchild & Co., [1897?]), by Swartchild & Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• A worthy company of watchmakers : Gruen Watch Company, "Time Hill," Cincinnati. ([Cincinnati : Gruen Watch Co.], c1918), by Gruen Watch Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Terry clock chronology / (Bristol, Conn. : C.T. Treadway, c1948), by June Barrows Mussey, Charles Terry Treadway, and Ruth Mary Canedy (page images at HathiTrust)
• La tribune chronométrique, scientifique et biographique, à l'usage des membres de la Corporation des horlogers. (Paris, À l'Administration, 1852), by Pierre Dubois (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1982 census of manufactures. (Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1985), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1992 census of manufactures. (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census : For sale by Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1995]), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watchmaker's hand book : intended as a workshop companion for those engaged in watchmaking and allied arts / (Chicago : Hazlitt & Walker, 1903, c1892), by Claudius Saunier and Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horlogerie : contenant soixante-quatre planches. ([A Paris : Chez Briasson ... : [Chez] David ... : [Chez] Le Breton, MDCCLXV [1765]]), by Antoine-Claude Briasson, Louis Jacques Goussier, and Robert Bénard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vision of Anton / (Chicago : Brothers of the Book, Mdccccxiiij [1914]), by Walter A. Dyer, Susan K. Owen, Norman P. Eby, Laurence C. Woodworth, and Will Ransom, contrib. by Brothers of the Book (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watchmakers' handbook : intended as a workshop companion for those engaged in watchmaking and allied mechanical arts / (Chicago : G.K. Hazlitt, 1894), by Claudius Saunier and Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katechismus der Uhrmacherkunst, (Leipzig, J.J. Weber, 1901), by F. W. Rüffert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Watchmakers' and jewelers' practical receipt book : A workshop companion. Comprising full and practical formulae and directions... Compiled from private formulae. (Chicago : Geo. K. Hazlitt & Co., 1892), by Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch movements : report to the President (no. TEA-IR-4-66) under section 351(d)(1) of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962 / (Washington, D.C : U.S. Tariff Commission, [1966]), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / (Glasgow : Blackie and Son, 1852), by Thomas Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katechismus der uhrmacherkunst : Anleitung zur kenntniss berechnung, construction und behandlung der uhrwerke jeder art. (Leipzig, 1874), by Friedrich Herrmann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watches, movements, and parts; report to the President on escape-clause investigation no. 26 under the provisions of section 7 of the Trade agreements extension act of 1951. (Washington, 1954), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essentiality to the National defense of the domestic horological industry. Hearings before Preparedness Subcommittee No. 6 of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-third Congress, second session ... June 30, July 1 and 2, 1954. (Washington, 1954), by United States Senate Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1977 census of manufactures : industry series, medical instruments, ophthalmic goods, photographic equipment, clocks, watches, and watchcases., by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Uhrenindustrie des württembergischen Schwarzwalds ... (Tübingen, Druck von H. Laupp, jr., 1906), by Julius Kuckuck (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defense essentiality and foreign economic policy; case study: watch industry and precision skills, report. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horlogerie /, by Armand Séguier (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Workshop notes for jewelers and watchmakers : being a collection of the latest practical receipts on the manufacture and repairing of watches and clocks, and on the various processes entering into the manufacture and repairing of jewelry, as coloring, polishing, enameling, annealing, oxydizing, etc. ... / (New York : Jewelers' Circular Pub. Co., 1899), by Charles Brassler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Théorie et pratique de l'horlogerie a l'usage des horlogers et des élèves des écoles d'horlogerie. (Paris, Gauthier-Villars, 1906), by Emile James (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 1987 census of manufactures. (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1990]), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Some account of the worshipful Company of Clockmakers of the City of London / ([London?] : Privately Printed, 1881), by Eng.) Clockmakers' Company (London, William Henry Overall, and Samuel Elliot Atkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the American clock business for the past sixty years, and life of Chauncey Jerome, (New Haven, F.C. Dayton, 1860), by Chauncey Jerome (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice historique sur l'horlogerie suisse. (Paris, Exposition Universelle, 1878), by M. Thury and Paris Universal Exposition of 1878 (page images at HathiTrust)
• American clock making : its early history / ([sl. : s.n., 1885]), by Henry Terry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité d'horlogerie moderne : théorique et pratique / (Paris : Bureau de la Revue Chronométrique, 1869), by Claudius Saunier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Abbott's American watchmaker and jeweler : an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmith / (Chicago : Hazlitt & Walker, [©1898]), by Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'apprentissage industriel. (Paris : Imprimerie nationale, 1911), by France. Direction du travail and Arthur Fontaine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Precision time measures : their construction and repair : a manual of the theory and mechanical laws governing the construction of timekeeping machines and accepted methods of their maintenance and repairs / (Chicago : Hazlitt & Walker, 1913), by Charles T. Higginbotham (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire corporative de l'horlogerie, de l'orfèvrerie et des industries annexes, ([Genève, A. Jullien, George & co., 1916]), by Antony Babel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 1992 census of manufactures. (Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., [1994]), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• 1987 census of manufactures. ([Washington, DC : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1989]), by United States Bureau of the Census (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Deutsche Uhrenindustrie. Eine Darstellung der technischen Entwicklung in ihrer Volkswirtschaftlichen Bedeutung, (Leipzig, W. Klinkhardt, 1910), by Paul Dienstag (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Defense essentiality and foreign economic policy (case study: the watch industry and precision skills) : hearings before the Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy of the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, Eighty-fourth Congress, second session, pursuant to sec. 5 (a) of Public law 304, 79th Congress, case study: the watch industry and precision skills, June 4-7, 1956 (Washington, D.C. : United States Government Printing Office, 1956), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Foreign Economic Policy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Defense essentiality and foreign economic policy; case study watch industry and precision skills, report. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1956), by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Suggested related instruction for apprentices in watch and clock making. First year. ([Albany], 1948), by New York (State) Bureau of Vocational Curriculum Development and Industrial Teacher Training (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on clock and watch making, theoretical and practical. (Glasgow [etc.] Blackie & son, [1844]), by Thomas Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Horological and micro-precision project / ([Washington] : U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Office of Education, Bureau of Research, [1968]), by Jerry S. Dobrovolny, William O. Smith, Hugh C. Wales, and United States. Office of Education. Bureau of Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treatise on clock and watch making : theoretical and practical / (Philadelphia : Carey and Lea, 1832), by Thomas Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch movements; report to the President (1957) under Executive order 10401. (Washington, 1957), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watchmaker's and jeweler's hand-book : a concise yet comprehensive treatise on the secrets of the trade ... / (Louisville, Ky. : published for the author, 1866 (), by C. Hopkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Charter and bye laws of the Worshipful Company of Clock Makers : incorporated 1631, 7th Charles 1st. ([London] : The Company, 1825), by Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principes généraux de l'exacte mesure du temps par les horloges ... (Copenhague, N. Möller, 1805), by Urban Jürgensen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Essai sur l'horlogerie : dans lequel on traite de cet art relativement à l'usage civil, à l'astronomie et à la navigation, en établissant des principes confirmés par l'expérience / (A Paris : Chez J.Cl. Jombert, libraire, rue Dauphine à la belle Image : [Chez] Musier, libraire, quai des Augustins : [Chez] Ch.J. Panckoucke, libraire, rue & près la Comédie Françoise, 1763), by Ferdinand Berthoud, Charles Joseph Panckoucke, Jean-Baptiste-Guillaume Musier, J. Cl Jombert, Louis Jacques Goussier, and Pierre-Philippe Choffard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manuel de l'horloger, ou, Guide des ouvriers qui s'occupent de la construction des machines propres à mesurer le temps. (Paris, Roret, 1830), by Louis Sébastien Lenormand (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Locle et sa chronométrie. Notice publiée en 1900 à l'occasion de l'Exposition universelle de Paris. (Neuchâtel, Impr. Paul Attinger, 1900), by France) Exposition universelle (1900 : Paris (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wheels and pinions and how to determine their exact size / (Chicago : G. K. Hazlitt, 1896), by Theo. Gribi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watchmakers' lathe : its use and abuse. A study of the lathe in its various forms, past and present, its construction and proper uses. For the student and apprentice. / (Chicago : Hazlitt & Walker, 1903), by Ward L. Goodrich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Praktisches Handbuch für Uhrmacher. Anleitung zur Kenntniss der in Anwendung kommenden Metalle u. s. w., zur vortheilhaftesten Einrichtung der Werkzeuge und Maschinen, zur Anfertigung von Uhren und Uhrtheilen, und insbesondere zur Reparatur und genauen Regulirung der Uhren. (Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1879), by Hermann Grosch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Terminologie horlogère française et allemande. Deutsche und französische Terminologie für Uhrmacher. (Biel-Bienne, Magron, 1921), by Edward Heaton (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Clock cleaning and repairing; with a chapter on adding quarter-chimes to a grandfather clock; (London, Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1917]), by Bernard Edward Jones (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• New and complete clock and watchmakers' manual ... Comp. from the French. With an appendix containing a history of clock and watchmaking in America. (New York, J. Wiley, 1860), by Mary L. Booth, ed. by Mary L. Booth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Handbuch für Landuhrmacher; oder, Leichtfassliche Anleitung, wie man, vom geringsten bis zum schwersten Stücke, und stufenweise, bis zur Vollkommenheit eine Taschenuhr bauen muss ... nebst einer vollständigen Beschreibung der hierzu nöthigen Werkzeuge. (Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1858), by Jacob Auch and G. Maedler (page images at HathiTrust)
• A.B.C. de l'apprenti horloger; guide pratique conduisant l'apprenti par la main depuis son entrée en apprentissage jusqu'à sa sortie ... (Paris, H. Renaud, 1917), by Marcel Bourdais and G. Grall (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Catalogue of Waltham watch material. (Waltham, Mass., 1909), by Waltham Watch Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der Uhrmacherkunst von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf unsere Tage. Zum Behuf eines allseitigen Unterrichtes über die Erfindungen und Leistungen dieser Kunst. (Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1850), by F. W. Barfuss and Emanuel Schreiber (page images at HathiTrust)
• M. Grossmann's horological pocket-dictionary : containing the technical terms in use in watch and clockmaking, the indispensable denominations of the auxiliary sciences and a few expressions belonging to commercial pursuits and to workshops in general : English-German-French = Moritz Grossmann's Taschen-Wörterbuch für Uhrmacher : enthaltend die technischen Ausdrücke der Uhrmacherei, sowie das Nötigste aus den Hilfswissenschaften, dem geschäftlichen Leben und dem Verkehr in den Werkstätten : Englische-Deutsch-Französisch = Dictionnaire de poche de M. Grossmann pour l'horloger : contenant les termes techniques de l'horlogerie, et les expressions indispensables des sciences auxiliares, du commerce et des ateliers : française-allemand-anglais. (Bautzen : E. Hübner, 1908), by M. Grossman and M. Loeske (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Uhrmacherkunst und die Behandlung der Präcisionsuhren : Handbuch für Uhrmacher, Hydrographen, Nautiker, Techniker ... / (Wien : A. Hartleben, 1892), by Eugen Gelcich (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch and clock making / (London : Cassell, 1893), by David Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise on modern horology in theory and practice / (London : Crosby Lockwood, 1887), by Claudius Saunier, Edward Rigg, and Julien John Stanislous Tripplin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité d'horlogerie moderne / (Paris : Revue chronométrique, 1887-1889), by Claudius Saunier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watch and clock making / (London ; New York : Cassell & Co., 1885), by David Glasgow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Daniel Jean Richard : coup d'oeil sur l'origine et le développement de l'industrie horlogère dans les montagnes de Neuchâtel et dans le Jura / (Locle : Société locloise d'imprimerie, 1885), by Aug. Jaccard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern watch and clock repairing (Chicago, Nelson-Hall co., [1944]), by P. Buford Harris and Chicago Nelson-Hall Company (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Charter convention, commemorating 94 years of American horological progress; Chicago, Illinois, June 18-19, 1960. ([Chicago, 1960]), by American Watchmakers Institute (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Watches, watch movements, and parts of watch movements; report to the President on investigation no. TEA-I-7 under section 301 (b) of the Trade expansion act of 1962. (Washington, 1964), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die grundlehren der uhrmacherkunst. (Weimar, B.F. Voigt, 1864), by Jürgen Meyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lehrbuch der uhrmacherei nach den gesetzen der mechanik, (Bautzen, E. Hübner, [1904]), by Jules Grossmann, Louis Vilmar Arndt, and Hermann Grossmann, trans. by L. Defosses (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The watchmaker's hand book; intended as a workshop companion for those engaged in watch-making and allied mechanical arts. (Chicago, G. K. Hazlitt & co., 1894), by Claudius Saunier and Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The use of "low-labor" components in the insular possessions' watch industry [microform] : a compilation of written comments solicited by the Subcommittee on International Trade, Abraham Ribicoff, chairman of the Committee on Finance, United States Senate, Russell B. Long, chairman. (Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1978), by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade (page images at HathiTrust)
• A matter of time : the story of the watch. (New York : Harper, [1947]), by James Remington McCarthy (page images at HathiTrust)
• The American watchmaker and jeweler, (New York, J. Haney & co., [1873]), by J. Parish Stelle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Treatise on clock and watch making, theoretical and practical. (Glasgow : Blackie and Son, 1859), by Thomas Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of automatic machinery as applied to the manufacture of watches at Waltham, Mass., (Chicago, G. K. Hazlitt & co., 1896), by Edward A. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of automatic machinery as applied to the manufacture of watches at Waltham, Mass., (Chicago, G. K. Hazlitt & co., 1896), by Edward A. Marsh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal suisse d'horlogerie. (Genève.), by Société des arts de Genève. Classe d'industrie et de commerce (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• American watchmaker and jeweler; an encyclopedia for the horologist, jeweler, gold and silversmiths ... (Chicago, G.K. Hazlitt & co., [c1898]), by Henry G. Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal suisse d'horlogerie et de bijouterie. (Genève : [s.n.], 1921-1957.), by Swiss Federation of Watch Manufacturers, Société suisse de chronométrie, and Switzerland) Swiss Watch Fair (Basel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'art de l'horlogerie, enseigné en trente leçons ... (Paris, Chez Audin [etc.], 1827), by Abraham Louis Bréguet, Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy, and Ferdinand Berthoud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The watch factories of America, past and present. A complete history of watchmaking in America, from 1809 to 1888 inclusive... (Chicago, G. K. Hazlitt & co., 1888), by George Henry Abbott Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Watches, clocks, precision instruments and apparatus and reciprocal trade agreements. ([Washington], 1940), by United States Tariff Commission (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Practical course in adjusting, comprising a review of the laws governing the motion of the balance and balance spring in watches and chronometers, and application of the principles deduced therefrom in the correction of variations of rate arising from want of isochronism, change of position and variation of temperature ... (New York, The Jewelers' circular pub. co., 1901), by Theo. Gribi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les métiers dans l'ancienne Genève. Histoire corporative de l'horlogerie, de l'orfèvrerie et des industries annexes ... (Genève, Impr. A. Kundig, 1916), by Antony Babel (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tokei hattatsushi / (Tōkyō : Tōyō Shuppansha, Taishō 13 [1924]), by Hyōe Takabayashi (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung. (Berlin, Verlag C. Marfels [etc.]), by Gold- und Silberwaren Reichsgruppe Handel. Wirtschaftsgruppe Einzelhandel. Fachgruppe Juwelen and Deutscher Uhrmacher Bund (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Postwar watch markets. (Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1950), by Sidney Gertler (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology, by W. T. Lewis (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Treatise on Staff Making and Pivoting: Containing Complete Directions for Making and Fitting New Staffs from the Raw Material, by Eugene Edward Hall (Gutenberg ebook)
• The artificial clock-maker a treatise of watch, and clock-work, wherein the art of calculating numbers for most sorts of movements is explained to the capacity of the unlearned : also, the history of clock-work, both ancient and modern, with other useful matters, never before published / by W.D. (London : Printed for James Knapton, 1696), by W. Derham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A supplement to the treatise of watch & clock-work called The artificial clock-maker ... by W.D., M.A. (London : Printed for James Knapton, 1700), by W. Derham (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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