Man has always valued time, but now the wristwatch is coveted as much for style reasons as for practicality. As a result, there are opportunities for collectors at every level, from watches worth a few hundred pounds to those reaching half a million. This is a growing collecting area, particularly for men, with many auctions and dealers fuelling the market. After looking at developments in watchmaking decade by decade, the book features nearly 50 colour two-page spreads in which pairs of related...
Each year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited edition watches, and new producers, keeping this field exciting for collectors. This twelfth edition of what has become a watch industry classic features over 1,400 of the worldGCOs most luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and complete specifications for each watch. With Wristwatch Annual 2010, collectors have a wealth of information close at hand: the book is ar...
From the Rolex Submariner, Omega Seamaster and Blancpain Fifty Fathoms to dive watches by DOXA, Tudor, IWC, Patek Philippe and TAG Heuer, SEA TIME: Watches Inspired by Sailing, Yachting and Diving takes a pinpoint-periscope look at more than 100 contemporary and vintage nautical-inspired mechanical timepieces. With a foreword by best-selling adventure novelist Clive Cussler and images by fine-art photographer Peter Eaton Gurnz, SEA TIME written by Aaron Sigmond and Mark Bernardo interweaves hist...
Die Uhr 2017 Wandkalender (Ausgabe Deutschland)
by Aberdeen Stationers Co
I Love You Most (Birthday Party Supplies)
by 16th Birthday Gifts for Girls
This second edition contains improved black and white photographs and a revised preface which comments on the market and the changes in it since the previous edition was published in 1976
The Appreciation and Authentication of Civil War Timepieces
by Clint Geller
The Development of Grandfather Clock Cases and the Men That Made Them
by Anon
Longcase clocks were invidually hand-made during the golden age of change that took place between the late seventeenth and mid-nineteenth centuries. Longcase clocks with their seventeenth century clock-making technology were innovative and incorporated an accurate pendulum clock within an attractive piece of domestic furnishing. This invaluable book is essential reading for all those who own and collect longcase clocks as well as clock repairers, horologists and conservationists.
WW2 Collecting German Military Timepieces WW2 (Collecting German Military Timepieces, #5)
Showcasing the latest masterpieces from leading watch manufacturers, this is the most comprehensive and current guide on watches available.
Looking at important brands, technical devel opments and materials, each book in this series shows 36 of the most significant designs from around the world. The Watc h provides a valuable source of reference to the best of 20t h century design. '
