NAWCC Members may check out items from our Library. Museum visitors, NAWCC members, and scholars are welcome to visit the library and take advantage of the library’s resources or just check out the kid’s corner and the clocks and other items that are on display. NAWCC members are welcome, either in person or via our mail service, to check out the books and videos that make up the circulating collection. The archives contain company information from several American watch and clock companies, collections of advertisements and postcards featuring timepieces, and the papers of prominent horologists.
With more than 30,000 books, catalogs, and periodicals, the Library and Research Center’s resources are used to document timepieces around the world. The library specializes in reference services.
The library’s holdings include books that are over 450 years old and contemporary materials are constantly being added. The subjects covered range from the repair of clocks and watches to the philosophy of time and a small collection of fiction books whose stories revolve around clocks, watches, or horology. The library’s collection covers all aspects of horology and includes books and periodicals in numerous languages, including, among others, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Latin, Swedish, Finnish, and Italian. We've also seen it at the local Barnes & Noble bookstore in the "collectibles" section, so you can also check there.Īnother resource is the Pocket Watch Database, an ever-growing online listing of movement grades and serial numbers to aid in pocket watch identification.The Fortunat Mueller-Maerki Library & Research Center is located at the National Watch and Clock Museum. There is extensive information about different makes of watch, along with nice histories about the companies themselves. (ISBN 978-0982948774 for the 2018 edition) for more information about your watch.
You might also try looking in the book "The Complete Price Guide to Watches" by Richard M. These tables are only accurate for the movement serial numbers. Please note there is a difference between the number marked on the movement and the one marked on the case. Remove or open the back cover from your watch and look for a number engraved into the movement this is the serial number for your watch, and by using it, you can find the closest years it was made on these tables. Some American watch brands did not use a consistent series of serial numbers, but most of the big. Please use the following tables to help determine the approximate age of your watch. Not all vintage watches can be dated using the serial number.
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