The Complete Price Guide to Watches is the most reliable and convenient guide available. This annual book is a miniature encyclopedia with over 1,200 pages, over 10,350 watches listed with current values, and more than 7,850 illustrations. American and European pocket watches, wrist watches, and even comic and character watches fill this comprehensive guide. It also includes tips for collectors and historical information, as well as guidelines for grading and appraising watches. With this handy pocket reference, collectors can make on-the-spot judgments about identification, age, quality, and value. The Complete Price Guide to Watches has become the professional standard for watch collectors and dealers.
I was a little dissapointed by this book. I know vintage watches were made by 100s if not thousands of manufacturers, with multiples of that number in watch models built, so it is impossible to cover them all. But this book goes on for pages and pages about some relatively mundane watchmaker, while skipping over or only covering a watch or two from another one. Also seems to be a lot of emphasis on the old rectangular watches, and less on the mid century round classics.