Alan Shenton was a highly experienced and respected horologist with an immense knowledge of the subject. Anyone wishing to learn more about pocket watches, therefore, whether as a collector or through a general interest in the subject, will find this authoritative volume totally indispensable. Covering the later-than-usual period of 1800-1940, the book covers in depth every type of pocket watch produced, explaining in clear, uncomplicated language precisely what to look out for and, of equal importance, what to avoid. Unlike so many other books on horology, Pocket Watches in not concerned with largely unobtainable or outrageously expensive museum examples but concentrates on affordable watches which the reader is actually likely to come across in everyday situations. Illustrated throughout with hundreds of photographs, Alan Shenton provided not just portraits of watches but also numerous examples of their internal workings or movements. Nothing escaped his attention, from alarm to late verge, everything the reader could ever want to know about pocket watches, whether English, American or Swiss, is contained here.