So that was my first foray into writing and I felt quite a chap, you know, and I'd walk about knowing that I was a proper author, you know, got my name on a book. And then I was approached... you see, notoriety descended on me... and I was approached by Abelard-Schuman Publishers in America, would I write a book on watches for them. Well I couldn't write a book on watches, I'd just done a book on watches with Sam. So I wrote a book called English & American Watches, this was a slot of the market that hadn't been opened up before, and I found enough English invented devices and enough American mass produced watches to knit this book together you see. And it was received in... somewhat disdainfully by some members of the antiquarian society, but they couldn't deny the validity of this book. It was about English and American watches and it had covered every aspect of the development of the watch, so it could be justified. But obviously it wasn't academic enough for these people.