Great timepieces of the world / by Caroline Childers and Roberta Naas.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : BW Publishing Associates in association with Rizzoli International Publications, 1998Description: 209 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0847820939
  • 9780847820931
Subject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Marching through time: Time immemorial -- Swiss preeminence -- Welcomed complications -- Split-second timing -- Art in time -- Enchanted elegance -- Secrets of time -- Rulers in time -- Masters of time: Blancpain -- Breguet -- Breitling -- Chaumet -- Chopard -- Concord -- Franck Muller -- Girard-Perregaux -- Harry Winston -- Jaeger-LeCoultre -- Omega -- Patek Philippe -- Piaget -- Robergé -- Vacheron Constantin -- Van Cleef & Arpels.
Review: "Masterful timepieces, made by the hands of craftsmen in the mountains of Switzerland, are increasingly drawing the attention of collectors and connoisseurs around the world. The timepieces are fascinating not only because they keep precision time with engines built by man, but often because they offer more than time-telling features, such as mechanisms that record the times of athletes in competition, tell the lunar phase, signal the hour with a gong, or tell the time in several places over the world, all smoothly and intricately finished inside small cases that fit on the wrist."--BOOK JACKET. "This book features full-color photographs of these treasures and traces man's obsession with time to today's present leaders in the watchmaking industry, including Breguet, Breitling, Blancpain, Franck Muller, Patek-Philippe, and Piaget."--BOOK JACKET.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room TS543.S9 C55 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009387

Includes bibliographical references (page 208).

Marching through time: Time immemorial -- Swiss preeminence -- Welcomed complications -- Split-second timing -- Art in time -- Enchanted elegance -- Secrets of time -- Rulers in time -- Masters of time: Blancpain -- Breguet -- Breitling -- Chaumet -- Chopard -- Concord -- Franck Muller -- Girard-Perregaux -- Harry Winston -- Jaeger-LeCoultre -- Omega -- Patek Philippe -- Piaget -- Robergé -- Vacheron Constantin -- Van Cleef & Arpels.

"Masterful timepieces, made by the hands of craftsmen in the mountains of Switzerland, are increasingly drawing the attention of collectors and connoisseurs around the world. The timepieces are fascinating not only because they keep precision time with engines built by man, but often because they offer more than time-telling features, such as mechanisms that record the times of athletes in competition, tell the lunar phase, signal the hour with a gong, or tell the time in several places over the world, all smoothly and intricately finished inside small cases that fit on the wrist."--BOOK JACKET. "This book features full-color photographs of these treasures and traces man's obsession with time to today's present leaders in the watchmaking industry, including Breguet, Breitling, Blancpain, Franck Muller, Patek-Philippe, and Piaget."--BOOK JACKET.

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