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Rare Book - Viennese Clockmakers and what they tell - by Claterbos - This is a rare book on Vienna clockmakers written by F. H. van Claterbos and published by Interbook International in 1979.
CLATERBROS (F.H. van Weijdom):
Viennese Clockmakers and what they left us
336 pages, 82 figs, 1979. The first 112 pages chart the development of Viennese clocks from 1683 to about 1870; the remainder is a very useful and detailed list of Viennese clockmakers.
During WWII, the author, a pilot in the Royal Netherlands Navy, commanding long range flying boats, took an interest in clocks when during this period lives depended on knowledge of the exact time. Much later, the author became fascinated by the Vienna regulators, of which the gut strings and weights to him almost radiated precision. Searching for literature on these clocks, he found none, but noticed that in Vienna oral information is available if one knows his way.
The main purpose of this book is to present the existing information about Viennese clockmakers in an easy accesible manner. The book includes a dictionary in which English translations can be found for the words used in the orgininal German tests. Most illustrations have been photographed by the author.
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