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The watchmakers' hand book

Chapter 140: FOOTNOTES:
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A concise workshop manual that teaches the practical skills needed for producing, repairing, and regulating watches and related small machinery. It begins with essential arithmetic, geometry, and drawing techniques, surveys metals, alloys, heat treatments, and finishing processes, and gives guidance on healthful shop practices and precise hand manipulation. Extensive sections describe lathes, cutters, fixtures, measuring methods, and many small tools, followed by step‑by‑step procedures for cleaning, assembling, timing, and troubleshooting movements. The text mixes tested recipes and time‑saving makeshift repairs with instructions for making and testing parts, supported by numerous illustrations and an exhaustive index for quick reference.

FOOTNOTES:

[7] It may be well to point out that the above details relate to the case in which the stem-wind work is on the top plate. When it is under the dial, of course the corrections here given for a deep and shallow depth will be reversed.

[8] This contains about 1 part of pure acid and 2 parts of water.

[9] Taken from M. H. Robert’s Etudes sur diverses questions d’horlogerie.

[10] If a greater or less quantity of the solution is required, all these quantities must, of course, be increased or diminished proportionately.