500 Years, 100 Watches
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From two of the world's leading experts on watch collecting, this
supremely elegant and informative selection of one hundred watches
traces the timepiece's evolution as it highlights unusual,
important, and beautifully crafted watches of the past half a
millennium. For centuries people have been captivated by
watches-whether for their technical precision, their unique design,
or their historic importance. Each of the one hundred watches
profiled in this elegant book stands out for one or more of these
qualities.Organized chronologically and divided by century, the
watches are presented in spacious, double-page spreads, featuring
exquisite photography with engaging, incisive texts. Readers will
discover examples of the earliest watch forms, an astonishing
Elizabethan-era watch with astrolabic dial, an early 17th century
watch encased in a single emerald, two of the earliest watches to
incorporate the balance spring-a feature that revolutionized the
portable timekeeper, and some of the first repeating and perpetual
calendar watches. These are followed by the first lever watch,
invented by Thomas Mudge, important precision watches, early 19th
century enamel and automaton watches, highly complex watches by
Breguet and Patek Philippe, Sir Winston Churchill's yellow gold
World Time Victory watch, a Rolex wristwatch made to commemorate
Indian Republic Day, an Omega Speedmaster that went into space, and
a Roger Smith wristwatch completed in 2023.Featuring exquisitely
reproduced photographs that are appearing for the first time
together in book form, this historic collection will appeal to
sophisticated collectors, amateur watch enthusiasts, and anyone
with an interest in the art and science of horology.
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