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| I am happy to offer this great book on watches. The 597 illustrations have been planned to cover all the important and many less important types of watch, and are about equally divided between their exteriors and interiors.<p> <p> The reader may be surprised not to find more line-drawings of escapements, but the authors decided on the bold step of replacing these by large-scale photographs of the escapements, separately mounted, which they believe will give a better idea of the mechanism." WATCHES by Cecil Clutton and George Daniels, The Viking Press, NY, 1965 First Edition. "The historical section of the book gives equal importance to the decorative and mechanical aspect of watches, presented in a way which will appeal to a wide range of readers; and it cover their whole history from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century. But whereas the previous generation of collectors was most interested in decorative verge watches, the trend today is towards the precision watch, especially of the 1780-1830 period. While the earlier periods have by no means been neglected, it is in the later ones that the reader will find most that is likely to be new to him. For the growing class of technical-minded collectors, the technical section of the book seeks to five an insight into the minds of the great makers of the past in a way that perhaps has never been attempted before, by its critical approach to the various escapements." <p> <p> This authentic and comprehensive book is in-depth and will certainly satisfy the collector, dealer, or historian of antique watches. <p> <p> 9.1" x 12" hardback with dust cover in very good+ condition. 159 pages plus 621 black-and-white photographs in separate chapter. |
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