The classic watch : the great watches and their makers from the first wrist watch to the present day / Michael Balfour.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: [Secaucus, N.J.] : Wellfleet Press, [1989]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 192 pages : color illustrations ; 34 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1555214010
  • 9781555214012
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.W75 B34 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009197
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.W75 B34 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000009536
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.W75 B34 1989 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000029021

Author's name from spine.

Includes index.

31560000029021 7093

31560000009197 11061

Coffe tabel book, really an amalgam of publicity pieces by contemporary watch brands on their "history" and how great their products are, richly produced and illustrated

A coffee table book, supposedly on the history of the wristwatch, but in reality primarily a vehicle to publish self-serving short corporate histories of 29 upscale brands a(mostly swiss).

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