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Watches : a complete history of the technical and decorative development of the watch / Cecil Clutton and George Daniels.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Clutton, Cecil, author.
- Daniels, George, 1926-2011, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Clocks and watches--History.
- Clocks and watches.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 311 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
- Edition:
- Revised and enlarged edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Philip Wilson Publishers, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: HISTORICAL
- Mechanical 1500
- 1750
- The invention of watches
- Fusee and stackfreed
- The movement and its decoration up to 1675
- Mean time regulation before the balance spring
- General characteristics and national styles
- The balance spring 1675
- 1700
- The movement 1675
- The movement 1700
- Decoration of the movement 1675
- The beginnings of the precision watch and the modern watch
- The formative years of the precision watch
- John Harrison
- Pierre Le Roy
- Ferdinand Berthoud
- John Arnold
- Thomas Mudge
- Josiah Emery
- Abraham-Louis Breguet
- Thomas Earnshaw
- The birth of the modern watch: Lepine and Breguet
- The development of the watch since 1800
- Decorative
- Types of decoration
- Enamel
- Styles of watch cases and dials up to 1750
- Some unusual forms of dial
- Styles of watch cases and dials 1750
- 1830
- Performance of early watches
- TECHNICAL
- Introduction
- Shock-proofing
- Tourbillons
- Escapements
- Verge
- Cylinder
- Virgule
- Duplex
- Chronometer
- `Echappement naturel'
- Lever
- Robin
- Debaufre
- Fasoldt
- J. F. Cole rotary detent
- Repeaters
- Clock-watches
- Self-winding watches
- Stop-watches and chronographs
- Monochrome plates
- APPENDIX.
- Notes:
- First published in Great Britain in 1965 by B.T. Batsford Ltd.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781781301135
- 1781301131
- OCLC:
- 1260819379
- Publisher Number:
- 99991365760
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