Watches in the Ashmolean Museum / David Thompson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Ashmolean handbooksPublisher: Oxford, Eng. : Ashmolean Museum, [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Edition: [1st edition, paperback]Description: xx, 92 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 185444218X
  • 9781854442185
  • 1854442198
  • 9781854442192
Subject(s): Review: "The history and development of watch design and decoration is well served by the collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum. This handbook explores thirty of the best from the collection."--Jacket.
Holdings
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7482.5.G7 O94 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000057667

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The history and development of watch design and decoration is well served by the collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum. This handbook explores thirty of the best from the collection."--Jacket.

Curator of Horology at the Britsh Museum

31560000057667 12090

An illustrated (color)catalog of the watches in the collection of Western Art in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford University), stemming primarily from the bequests of Bentinck Hawkins (1894), John Francis Mallet (19470 and Eric Bullivant (1974). After a short synopsis of the history of the watch this book consists mainly of 31 double page (in rare cases 4 page) spreads, each describing a significant watch (up to 1870) including 3 to 5 photographs (usually including detailed movement and dial shots). Glossary, Bibliography, Index. ISBN 1 85444 219 8 is the hardback edition.

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