Technique and history of the Swiss watch [by] Eugène Jaquet and Alfred Chapuis with the cooperation of G. Albert Berner and Samuel Guye.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London ; New York : Spring Books, [1970]Edition: [Revised edition.]Description: 272 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0600036332
  • 9780600036333
Uniform titles:
  • Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
The beginnings of watch-making in Switzerland -- The introduction of the watch industry to the Jura, and its development -- The eighteenth century -- Decoration of the watch and of the movement from 1750 to 1850 -- The commerce of watch-making -- The nineteenth century and the beginnings of the mechanical manufacture of the watch -- Chronometry -- The later evolution of the modern watch -- Development of the Swiss watch industry from 1945 to 1968 -- Index of Swiss watchmakers and other craftsmen up to 1900.

Translation of Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours.

The beginnings of watch-making in Switzerland -- The introduction of the watch industry to the Jura, and its development -- The eighteenth century -- Decoration of the watch and of the movement from 1750 to 1850 -- The commerce of watch-making -- The nineteenth century and the beginnings of the mechanical manufacture of the watch -- Chronometry -- The later evolution of the modern watch -- Development of the Swiss watch industry from 1945 to 1968 -- Index of Swiss watchmakers and other craftsmen up to 1900.

Translated from the French.

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Reprint of the standard Work on History of Swiss Watch published many times

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