Wristwatches: A Handbook and Price Guide

I am very appreciative of books such as this one. There is no way the book can picture & describe the tens of thousands of watches made throughout the 20th Century, especially prior to Seiko hitting stride with the quartz movement. But, the book has many representative pictures and descriptions. Of greater value to me were the chapters discussing different aspects of watches, history, and introductory portions of the remaining chapters.At this point in my life, and with this sort of sprawling subject area, anything that makes me sound like I almost know what I'm talking about, is great. And appreciated!

Really ood book...

Great reference material.

Some outdated pricing information

Was hoping this book would be more up to date, but it covers older watches.

The title says it all - lots of nice pictures of watches but no "contents" list by watch maker. The book is in sections such as "early wristwatches" or Calendar Watches" and so on with a few pages devoted to each style with various makers models shown.Useful only inasmuch as it does give perhaps an indication (but only just) of the style of that period, but little else.The price indications listed against each watch maybe OK for the USA but outside the States seem to have little relevance to good condition watch prices (in most cases optimistically low!!). In fact it is easier to simply change the figure range quoted from Dollars to Pounds (say $350 - change to £350) and you would be nearer the mark.In it's defence the book does offer pretty good photographs of each of the watches listed and is useful as an indentification or dating of unknown watch models and so on, so I do find it useful in a general sense, but no more than that.It seems like always to get a comprehensive knowledge base of watches it is necessary to get yourself a good few of these watch books around you and use them all as a collective database. So I don't expect this will be the last book on watches I'll buy!!

The recipient of this book was delighted with the book and the detailed information that was included. A good buy for those interested in watches and collecting them.

Bought it for my son who says it is a very informative book

Excellent price and service

Everything perfect