Watches : a complete history of the technical and decorative development of the watch / Cecil Clutton and George Daniels.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: Revised and enlarged editionDescription: 311 pages : illustrations ; 34 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781781301135
  • 1781301131
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Contents:
HISTORICAL -- Mechanical 1500 -- 1750 -- The invention of watches -- Fusee and stackfreed -- The movement and its decoration up to 1675 -- Mean time regulation before the balance spring -- General characteristics and national styles -- The balance spring 1675 -- 1700 -- The movement 1675 -- 1700 -- The movement 1700 -- 1750 -- Decoration of the movement 1675 -- 1700 -- The beginnings of the precision watch and the modern watch -- The formative years of the precision watch -- John Harrison -- Pierre Le Roy -- Ferdinand Berthoud -- John Arnold -- Thomas Mudge -- Josiah Emery -- Abraham-Louis Breguet -- Thomas Earnshaw -- The birth of the modern watch: Lepine and Breguet -- The development of the watch since 1800 -- Decorative -- Types of decoration -- Enamel -- Styles of watch cases and dials up to 1750 -- Some unusual forms of dial -- Styles of watch cases and dials 1750 -- 1830 -- Performance of early watches -- TECHNICAL -- Introduction -- Shock-proofing -- Tourbillons -- Escapements -- Verge -- Cylinder -- Virgule -- Duplex -- Chronometer -- `Echappement naturel' -- Lever -- Robin -- Debaufre -- Fasoldt -- J. F. Cole rotary detent -- Repeaters -- Clock-watches -- Self-winding watches -- Stop-watches and chronographs -- Monochrome plates -- APPENDIX.
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First published in Great Britain in 1965 by B.T. Batsford Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: HISTORICAL -- Mechanical 1500 -- 1750 -- The invention of watches -- Fusee and stackfreed -- The movement and its decoration up to 1675 -- Mean time regulation before the balance spring -- General characteristics and national styles -- The balance spring 1675 -- 1700 -- The movement 1675 -- 1700 -- The movement 1700 -- 1750 -- Decoration of the movement 1675 -- 1700 -- The beginnings of the precision watch and the modern watch -- The formative years of the precision watch -- John Harrison -- Pierre Le Roy -- Ferdinand Berthoud -- John Arnold -- Thomas Mudge -- Josiah Emery -- Abraham-Louis Breguet -- Thomas Earnshaw -- The birth of the modern watch: Lepine and Breguet -- The development of the watch since 1800 -- Decorative -- Types of decoration -- Enamel -- Styles of watch cases and dials up to 1750 -- Some unusual forms of dial -- Styles of watch cases and dials 1750 -- 1830 -- Performance of early watches -- TECHNICAL -- Introduction -- Shock-proofing -- Tourbillons -- Escapements -- Verge -- Cylinder -- Virgule -- Duplex -- Chronometer -- `Echappement naturel' -- Lever -- Robin -- Debaufre -- Fasoldt -- J. F. Cole rotary detent -- Repeaters -- Clock-watches -- Self-winding watches -- Stop-watches and chronographs -- Monochrome plates -- APPENDIX.

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