Antique Clocks & Watches Books

Features over 1,700 of the world's luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and specifications for each watch. This book features specifications and materials for each watch, including price, movement, special features, complications, case, dial, band, and available variations of a particular model.

Evaluating wristwatches from vintage to modern, this book looks at a range of examples and identifies the factors affecting the value. It also demonstrates how to assess value: not only individual market values, but also why one watch is more valuable than another.

Internationally, there are 27 watch-related magazines. There has been a resurgence of interest in watches with the Swiss watch market up by 30 per cent year on year. In May 2006, watches accounted for one billion Swiss francs of export. The US is the industry's largest single export market. This title is suitable for those who love watches.

There are table clocks, astrolabic and astronomical clocks, monstrance clocks, ship's clocks, long case clocks, travelling clocks, organ clocks, observatory regulators, marine chronometers and even a cuckoo clock.

The British Museum watch collection 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.

The collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum are largely as a result of three major bequests, including Bentinck Hawkins collection of 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallett in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising of 120 watches. This handbook explores 30 of the best from the collection.

The collection of watches in the Ashmolean Museum are largely as a result of three major bequests, including Bentinck Hawkins collection of 1894, the bequest of J Francis Mallett in 1947 and the collection of Eric Bullivant in 1974, comprising of 120 watches. This handbook explores 30 of the best from the collection.

Features over 1,700 of the world's luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and complete specifications for each watch. This book is arranged alphabetically, and within each section are specifications and materials for each watch, including price, movement, special features, case, dial, band, and variations of a particular model.

A watch may be a practical device for the sole purpose of telling the time as accurately as possible, a complicated machine, a wearable design object, or a status symbol. This work introduces the fifty major brands and provides information on buying, collecting, maintaining and wearing watches.

The Mechanical Poetry of the Iconic Watch Brand.

This study has been revised with additional illustrations. The evolution is explained not only of the clocks themselves but also of their features, such as hands, bezels, pillars and dial surrounds, which are illustrated with line drawings and photographs of mechanisms.

During the 1860s and 1870s, Tiffany Timers, as they were called, were made at Tiffany's own Geneva manufacturing shops along with the superb watches it imported as the exclusive American representative of Patek Philippe.

A revised edition of this guide which specialises in later clocks. Virtually every known type is illustrated and discussed, from alarm, bracket and carriage to skeleton, tension and wall clocks. It also describes what a buyer should look for, discusses quality and shows how to date clocks.

A reference work in English horology, up to the beginning of the 18th century, examining the work and evolution of the the clockmakers' craft. Illustrations and descriptions of early clocks are provided.

A revised edition of the standard work of reference. It contains new information to take account of recent finds and research with added colour and black and white illustrations.