The watch / Gene Stone.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Abrams, 2006Description: 254 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810930935
  • 9780810930933
Subject(s):
Contents:
Brief history of timepieces -- Fifty brands -- Buying, collecting, maintaining -- Horology from A to Z -- Miscellany.
Subject: 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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.W75 S76 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000058814
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room NK7500.W75 S76 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000080172

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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A coffee table book on contemporary wrist watches

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