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Watches provide perhaps the finest examples of metalwork, while the enamelled, piqué and repoussé work, and later engine turning, provide an infinite variety of designs. The high quality of workmanship which most of these fascinating pieces attracted is apparent in all aspects from the attractive champlevé dials to the finely worked balance cocks.
For the more technically minded the struggle towards precision over some four hundred years provides an endless range and scope. There are expensive Breguet watches or inexpensive patented late watches which were provided for only a short while and sold for very little.
What the collector required, and this standard work (now re-edited and with a fine chronology of illustrations added) is perhaps the only book to provide it, is a text which takes the beginner through the development of the watch in a lucid and unpretentious style, provides an easily understood glossary of technical terms and answers the type of questions which a dealer learns to expect from the collectors.
The well-known firm of Camerer Cuss has just this experience and it is this together with the enthusiasm for the subject demonstrated by the two generations responsible for this book which makes it a firm favourite with collectors.
Brand new book published by Antique Collectors' Club.
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