TY  - BOOK
AU  - Clutton,Cecil
AU  - Daniels,George
TI  - Watches: a complete history of the technical and decorative development of the watch 
SN  - 9781781301135
PY  - 2022///
CY  - London
PB  - Philip Wilson Publishers
KW  - Clocks and watches
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - 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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