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Watches
David Thompson
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Description for Watches
Paperback. Tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. This book offers a collection of pin-pallet lever watches made for the mass market during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by companies such as Waterbury and Ingersoll. Num Pages: 176 pages, 270 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AGC; TDPB1; WCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 245 x 16. Weight in Grams: 906.
The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. Within the collection are examples ranging from sixteenth-century early stackfreed watches made in south Germany to exquisite decorative watches of the seventeenth century. Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made chronometers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are included, as are examples from the modern era. All the major makers of Europe and America will be represented, including Thomas Tompion, whose reputation stretched far and wide even in his own time, and the Swiss-born Abraham ... Read more
The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. Within the collection are examples ranging from sixteenth-century early stackfreed watches made in south Germany to exquisite decorative watches of the seventeenth century. Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made chronometers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are included, as are examples from the modern era. All the major makers of Europe and America will be represented, including Thomas Tompion, whose reputation stretched far and wide even in his own time, and the Swiss-born Abraham ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
British Museum Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780714151106
SKU
V9780714151106
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99-2
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