The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and 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. Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made chronometers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are included, as are examples from the modern era. All the major makers of Europe and ...
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The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and 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. Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made chronometers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are included, as are examples from the modern era. All the major makers of Europe and America will be represented, including Thomas Tompion, whose reputation stretched far and wide even in his own time, and the Swiss-born Abraham Louis Breguet, who lived and worked in Paris supplying the best that money could buy to the crown heads and aristocratic families of the western world. In contrast to the high precision of the horological giants, the Museum has a growing collection of wristwatches, including those with automatic winding systems. There are also extensive collections of pin-pallet lever watches made for the mass market during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by companies such as Waterbury and Ingersoll. The collections are brought up to the minute with the inclusion of early examples of electro-mechanical watches and the quartz revolution.
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Add this copy of Watches (Hardback) /Anglais to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by Lee Jones-Hubert, Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Richmond, VA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by BRITISH MUSEUM.
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New. Tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. This book offers a collection of pin-pallet lever watches made for the mass market during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by companies such as Waterbury and Ingersoll. Num Pages: 176 pages, 270 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; AGC; TDPB1; WCJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 245 x 16. Weight in Grams: 906. 2014. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
Add this copy of Watches (Hardback) /Anglais to cart. $50.76, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by BRITISH MUSEUM.
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