Struthers, Rebecca, <br/><br/>
Hands of time :  a watchmaker's history / 
Rebecca Struthers ; with illustrations by Craig Struthers ; and photographs by Andy Pilsbury. 
 - First U.S. edition. 
 - xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :  illustrations (some color) ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> "Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK"--Title page verso.  "How humanity's most profound technical achievement tells the story of time itself"--Jacket. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-232) and index. 
<br/><br/>A backward-facing foreword -- Facing the sun -- Ingenious devices -- Tempus fugit -- The Golden Age -- Forging time -- Revolution time -- Working to the clock -- The watch of action -- Accelerated time -- Man and machine -- Eleventh hour -- How to repair a watch. 
<br/><br/> An award-winning watchmaker chronicles the invention of time and human society through the centuries-long story of one of mankind's most profound technological achievements: the watch.  Timepieces have accompanied human society from the depths of the oceans to the summit of Everest; the ice of the Arctic to the surface of the moon. Struthers provides a history of watchmaking, describing our earliest attempts at timekeeping and the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes to work, leisure, trade, politic, exploration, and mortality. -- Adapted from jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780063048706 0063048701 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Clock and watch making--History.<br/>Clocks and watches--History.<br/>Time--Social aspects.<br/>Horology.