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==Further reading== * [[Edmund Beckett, 1st Baron Grimthorpe|Beckett, Edmund]], [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17576 ''A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches and Bells''], 1903, from [[Project Gutenberg]] * Berner, G.A., [http://www.fhs.ch/berner/?l=en ''Illustrated Professional Dictionary of Horology''], [[Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry]] FH 1961–2012 * Daniels, George, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZWq8c0xvGxsC ''Watchmaking''], London: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1981 (reprinted 15 June 2011) * De Carle, Donald, (Illustrations by E. A. Ayres), [https://archive.org/details/practicalwatchre0000deca ''Practical Watch Repairing''], 3rd edition, New York : [[Skyhorse Pub.]], 2008. {{ISBN|978-1-60239-357-8}}. Significant information on watches, their history, and inner workings. * Denn, Mark, "The Tourbillon and How It Works," ''IEEE Control Systems Magazine'', June 2010, [[IEEE Control Systems Society]], DOI 10.1109/MCS.2010.936291. * Donzé, Pierre-Yves. "Dynamics of innovation in the electronic watch industry: a comparative business history of Longines (Switzerland) and Seiko (Japan), 1960-1980." ''Essays in Economic & Business History'' 37.1 (2019): 120-145. [https://www.ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/download/6/6 online] * Donzé, Pierre-Yves (2022). ''The business of time: A global history of the watch industry''. Manchester University Press. * Grafton, Edward, [https://books.google.com/books?id=GlIEAAAAQAAJ ''Horology, a popular sketch of clock and watch making''], London: Aylett and Jones, 1849 * [http://www.watkinsr.id.au/david.html American and Swiss Watchmaking in 1876 by Jacques David] * [http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/HistoryCultureCollections/SIL-029-015/pdf/SIL-029-015.pdf The Watch Factories of America Past and Present by Henry G. Abbott (1888)] * [http://www.fhs.ch/ Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH] * [http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=EPODOC&IDX=GB218487&F=0 UK patent GB218487, Improvements relating to wrist watches], 1923 patent resulting from John Harwood's invention of a practical self-winding watch mechanism.
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