Classic Watch: The Great Watches & Their Makers From the First Wristwatch to the Present Day

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Year: 2002
Pages: 191
Binding Paperback
ISBN 1861604238

Product Code: 756769272

Description

Michael Balfour (au). This authoritative illustrated volume presents the great watches & their makers from the first wristwatch to the present day. In it are the great names of watch-making, with in-depth accounts, explanations & assessments of their specific achievements. There is also extensive coverage of the essential technical background & down-to-earth, practical advice on how to go about starting an actual collection. The full-color illustrations -- many from the makers’ personal archives -- provide a fascinating backdrop, showing, in instantly accessible visual terms, the greatest classics of wristwatch history, the one-offs, the legendary “sports” watches of the 1950s & much more, down to the quartz & digital watches of today. Oversize. Spectacular!!

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