Richard Watkins Horological Books

• Transitional 3/4 plate watch, John Wood, Liverpool, circa 1823.
  Transitional 3/4 plate watches are full plate watches with the balance sunk below the surface of the plate and the cock flush with it, making a much thinner watch. All except one that I know of have Massey escapements and are dated between 1823 and 1830. This watch is rare because it has centre sweep seconds.

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New and Recent Additions

• Mechanical Watches, An Annotated Bibliography Of Publications Since 1800, Fourth Edition, 2023




• A Simple Energy Tunnel For Free Electricity

• Samuel G. Jones of Baltimore and Edward Massey

• A Review of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Dekalog

• Domestic Sewing Machine Attachments (Third Edition)

• Watchmaking, the American System of Manufacturing and Mass Production

• The Gospel According to Joshua

• The Book of Livvéd

• Why did the Lancashire Watch Company (England) Fail?

• Meditations on Breguet and Mathematics

• The Repeater, second edition

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Illustration: Transitional 3/4 plate watch, John Wood, Liverpool, circa 1823.
Transitional 3/4 plate watches are full plate watches with the balance sunk below the surface of the plate and the cock flush with it, making a much thinner watch. All except one that I know of have Massey escapements and are dated between 1823 and 1830. This watch is rare because it has centre sweep seconds.