The self-winding watch : 18th-21st century / Jean-Claude Sabrier ; translated by Sharon Kerman.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: Paris : Cercle d'Art, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Edition: [1st edition]Description: 307 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cmContent type: - text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9782702209820
- 2702209823
- Montre à remontage automatique. English
- Clocks and watches, Self-winding -- History
- Clocks and watches, Self-winding -- History -- Pictorial works
- Clock and watch makers -- History
- Clock and watch makers
- Clocks and watches, Self-winding
- History
- Global
- Perrelet, Sarton, Recordon Breguet
- Self-wind/automatic watch
- Kerman Sharon [Translator]
- Watch (general)
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Includes index.
Originally published in French under title: La montre à remontage automatique : XVIIIe-XXIe siècles.
Origins and Development of the Invention -- Abraham Louis Perrelet (1729-1826) -- Earliest Developments -- Louis Recordon (1728-1824) -- Abraham Louis Breguet and his Students -- The Jaquet Droz and their Circle -- Organisation of Production in Switzerland -- Organisation of Production in France -- Organisation of Production in Germany -- Contemporary Self-Winding Watches -- Self-Winding Wristwatches -- New Developments in Self-Winding Watches.
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The first truly new book on the (mainly early) history of the automatic, id est selfwinding wristwatch since Chapuis/Jaquet was published in 1952. CXomprehensive, scholarly and torough. Copiously illustrated. English languageedition of the originally French tile: Les montres automatiques. Well indexed.
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