Watch Repair For Absolute Beginners!: How To Fix, Clean & Troubleshoot Timepieces For Fun & Profit Paperback – December 28, 2016

A repair for beginners book of any kind has step by step pictures for the majority of people who are visual learner's. To explain watch parts and not show the items appearance is not instructional. Look at any learning manual of any kind and see how it is done. I read this list of parts and wonder what they are and how they look. The half pages wasted on non-essential pictures of piles of watches and watch parts gives no help to the beginners. Might suggest a reprint with associated pictures because it is after all a book for absolute beginners.

Not much in the way of teaching here. No real depth on any single subject. Interesting read, but you will not be able to read this book and do any level of watch repair.

Waste time & money. You can get this general info from internet. The content is so simple. Crap book.

Terrible and useless book! I don't know how anyone can rate this book at higher than one star. It jumps around so crazily it will have your head spinning! Within the same chapter, it will tell you that a quartz watch has a battery in it and then tell you how to repair a broken jewel in a mechanical watch assuming you know how to use a staking tool! It looks like it was put together by pulling paragraphs from several books on watch repair and pasting them into a single manuscript. A completely useless book especially for the beginner!

This is a big help using my watch repair tools for changing batteries, watch straps, etc...Often, when you're sold a watch repair kit, there are no instructions or guidance included.

LEARN THE BASICS,& FUNDAMENTALS; GREAT!!!

Going to take me quite a while to absorb it

it mostly told about watches, not how to repair

This book was clearly written by an enthusiast, who I can tell has a lot of knowledge and experience... Sadly very little of that is shared in this surprisingly thin leaflet.I can see where the author was coming from but to be at all useful the book needs some photos and diagrams. It's also lacking the structure required for a reference book.The first half seems to be about teaching a few simple words and brands so you could pretend to know what you're talking about, but no where near enough detail to be actually useful; and to be honest, though this book is for begineers, if you don't have this knowledge already, I don't think you'd be buying the book.The last few pages start on watch repair, a lot is regarding quartz watches, and the most frequent advice is to take the watch to a professional for repair. The tiny glimmers of real watch repair advice, ultimately make very little sense without diagrams to support.Essentially this book is not ready for publishing, the author needs to spend a couple more years, with the help of someone else to get it ready for the public.Apologies for my review being almost as long as the book itself. I commend the effort of the author, but this shouldn't be available for people to waste their money on.

Probably -no, definitely- the worst "book" I have ever read. Badly written, contradictory and inaccurate.Leaps from insultingly simple to running quickly through some highly complex procedures, using terms not previously introduced, in a few sentences that explain nothing successfully.Riddled with omissions and errors.

I wasn't impressed with this book, for me it was too much waffling on and not enough informative text I have learnt far more from watching videos on you tube.

As others have said, there is only a handful of low res illustrations of generic jumbles of watches or watch faces and a few tools. No exploded diagrams here. Apparently, a watch escapement doesn't deserve a picture but a puffer duster does.Example text: "How to poise the balance: The only tool that you can use to get this done is the three-legged poising balance with two adjustable legs. Start by putting the balance on the attached roller table." The what? !!!. The first and only mention of a poising tool whatever one is. No description, no illustration and not the only example of inviting the reader to go away to learn a skill to complete the task the author can't be bothered to explain properly.Of absolutely no use whatsoever to beginning watch repairers. Total clickbait. Don't waste your time.

Not sure what I thought I was going to getBut soon found out, absolute twaddle learnt nothing! Keep your money.