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Richard Watkins Horological Books

  * transitional 3/4 plate watch 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 Livved

  * 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.