TY - BOOK AU - Jaquet,Eugène AU - Chapuis,Alfred TI - Technique and history of the Swiss watch SN - 0600036332 PY - 1970///] CY - London, New York PB - Spring Books KW - Clock and watch making KW - Switzerland KW - Clocks and watches KW - fast KW - Watchmaking industry Switzerland, 1510-1968 KW - Technical KW - Watch (general) KW - History N1 - 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 ER -