La montre : principes et méthodes de fabrication

Ce livre retrace les travaux de George Daniels. This horloger without a community, renowned and respected by his partners throughout the world, realises each of the parts of the watch himself. Today, everyone knows that the manufacture of a classic watch is divided between several different trades. George Daniels brought them together in his atelier, where he did not only design his watches, but also manufactured all the components, from the assembly to the fitting.In this unique work, the author exposes and presents to us the techniques required, often perfected by himself, as well as all the tools and instruments necessary for working on the hand and on the machine. He gives a description of the ideal atelier and its contents, and phase by phase, step by step, George Daniels details the confection of a high-precision garde-temps. He illustrates the majority of the work involved in each stage of production with illustrations accompanied by vivid explanatory texts. The text is clear and concise, easy to follow and avoids - without falling into vulgarisation - descriptions of techniques that are too complex.Passionate about the development of the application, the author describes many of them, including several of her own design, and invites the reader to pursue his own research in this field.This manual, which one can qualify as magisterial, is indispensable to all horlogers-rhabilleurs who aspire to their profession. For the profane, who until now had to limit himself to admiring the beauty of the movements without always understanding how they work, for the amateur, l'amoureux de belle horlogerie et pour le collectionneur, ce livre compose un aperçu passionnant de la merveilleuse exécution et du fonctionnement d'une montre d'art.