TY - BOOK AU - Stone,Gene TI - The watch SN - 0810930935 PY - 2006/// CY - New York PB - Abrams KW - Wrist watches KW - Collectors and collecting KW - fast KW - Wrist Watch KW - Watch N1 - Includes bibliographical references (page 251) and index; Brief history of timepieces -- Fifty brands -- Buying, collecting, maintaining -- Horology from A to Z -- Miscellany N2 - 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 ER -