The watch /
Gene Stone.
- 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 251) and index.
Brief history of timepieces -- Fifty brands -- Buying, collecting, maintaining -- Horology from A to Z -- Miscellany.
A watch may be a practical device for the sole purpose of telling the time as accurately as possible, a complicated machine, a wearable design object, or a status symbol. This work introduces the fifty major brands and provides information on buying, collecting, maintaining and wearing watches.
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