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European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Author : Clare Vincent
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 1588395790
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book European Clocks and Watches in The Metropolitan Museum of Art written by Clare Vincent and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the world's greatest technological and imaginative achievements is the invention and development of the timepiece. Examining for the first time The Metropolitan Museum of Art's unparalleled collection of European clocks and watches created from the late Renaissance through the nineteenth century, this fascinating book enriches our understanding of the origins and evolution of these ingenious works. It showcases fifty-four clocks, watches, and other timekeeping devices, each represented with an in-depth description and new photography of the exterior and the inner mechanisms. Among these masterpieces is an ornate sixteenth-century celestial timepiece that accurately predicts the trajectory of the sun, moon, and stars; an eighteenth-century longcase clock by David Roentgen that shows the time in the ten most important cities of the day; and a nineteenth-century watch featuring a penetrating portrait of Czar Nicholas I of Russia. Created by the best craftsmen in Austria, England, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland, these magnificent timepieces have been selected for their remarkable beauty and design, as well as their sophisticated mechanics. Built upon decades of expert research, this publication is a long-overdue survey of these stunning visual and technological marvels.

Complete Price Guide to Watches

Author : Tom Engle
Publisher : Tinderbox
ISBN 13 : 9781574325539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Complete Price Guide to Watches written by Tom Engle and published by Tinderbox. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete Price Guide to Watches is the most reliable and convenient guide available. This annual book is a miniature encyclopedia with over 1,200 pages, over 10,350 watches listed with current values, and more than 7,850 illustrations. American and European pocket watches, wrist watches, and even comic character watches fill this comprehensive guide. It also includes tips for collectors and historical information, as well as guidelines for grading and appraising watches. There are thousands of price changes, and once again a handy index that appeared for the first time in the 2006 edition. With this handy pocket reference, collectors can make on-the-spot judgments about identification, age, quality, and value. Complete Price Guide to Watches has become the professional standard for watch collectors and dealers. 2007 values.

F. A. Jones : his life, legacy and watches

Author : David Seyffer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783952389898
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book F. A. Jones : his life, legacy and watches written by David Seyffer and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Grand Complication

Author : Stacy Perman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439190100
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book A Grand Complication written by Stacy Perman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two wealthy and powerful men engage in a decades-long contest to create and possess the most remarkable watch in history. James Ward Packard of Warren, Ohio, was an entrepreneur and a talented engineer of infinite curiosity, a self-made man who earned millions from his inventions, including the design and manufacture of America’s first luxury car—the elegant and storied Packard. Henry Graves, Jr., was the very essence of blue-blooded refinement in the early 1900s: son of a Wall Street financier, a central figure in New York high society, and a connoisseur of beautiful things—especially fine watches. Then, as now, expensive watches were the ultimate sign of luxury and wealth, but in the early twentieth century the limitless ambition, wealth, and creativity of these two men pushed the boundaries of mathematics, astronomy, craftsmanship, technology, and physics to create ever more ingenious timepieces. In any watch, features beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds are known as “complications.” Packard and Graves spurred acclaimed Swiss watchmaker Patek Philippe to create the Mona Lisa of timepieces—a fabled watch that incorporated twenty-four complications and took nearly eight years to design and build. For the period, it was the most complicated watch ever created. For years it disappeared, but then it surfaced at a Sotheby’s auction in 1999, touching off a heated bidding war, shattering all known records when it fetched $11 million from an anonymous bidder. New York Times bestselling author Stacy Perman takes us from the clubby world of New York high society into the ateliers of the greatest Swiss watchmakers, and into the high-octane, often secretive subculture of modern-day watch collecting. With meticulous research, vivid historical details, and a wealth of dynamic personalities, A Grand Complication is the fascinating story of the thrilling duel between two of the most intriguing men of the early twentieth century. Above all, it is a sweeping chronicle of innovation, the desire for beauty, and the lengths people will go to possess it.

"Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity"

Author : Catherine Pagani
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112081
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book "Eastern Magnificence & European Ingenuity" written by Catherine Pagani and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries

The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy

Author : Jacopo della Quercia
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250025729
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy written by Jacopo della Quercia and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Science fiction, action . . . comedy, and suspense combine in this delightful steampunk romp” as an adventuresome President Taft solves a global conspiracy (Booklist). In this dizzyingly inventive steampunk world, President William Howard Taft is a secret underground boxing champion who routinely evades his official duties by spiriting away on the dirigible Airship One. But now Taft and his good friend Robert Todd Lincoln must race to solve a mystery stretching back to the Civil War and the Lincoln assassination. Soon they are swept into a vast conspiracy spanning four continents and three oceans. In the course of remarkable events, fascinating technologies will be harnessed, dark secrets revealed, true villains exposed, and some of the most famous figures in history will take the stage. With surprises lurking around every corner, and a vast cast of characters to root for, Jacopo della Quercia’s The Great Abraham Lincoln Pocket Watch Conspiracy is a heart-pounding adventure that only a historian of ingenious imagination could have written.

Pocket Watches

Author : Alan Shenton
Publisher : ACC Distribution
ISBN 13 : 9781851492114
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Pocket Watches written by Alan Shenton and published by ACC Distribution. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alan Shenton was a highly experienced and respected horologist with an immense knowledge of the

Science between Europe and Asia

Author : Feza Günergun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048199689
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)

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Download or read book Science between Europe and Asia written by Feza Günergun and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical, physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective, namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine, and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly investigated material for historical studies on the cross scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.

Timex

Author : Kathleen McDermott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967508702
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Timex written by Kathleen McDermott and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

COMPLETE PRICE GUIDE TO WATCHES

Author : COOKSEY SHUGART, TOM ENGLE, RICHARD E. GILBERT
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1202 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book COMPLETE PRICE GUIDE TO WATCHES written by COOKSEY SHUGART, TOM ENGLE, RICHARD E. GILBERT and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The European Experience

Author : Jan Hansen
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1800648731
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The European Experience written by Jan Hansen and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today’s history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European’ analyses of the continent’s past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.

Voyage Through Time

Author : Richard Chadwick
Publisher : Unicorn
ISBN 13 : 9781913491024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Voyage Through Time written by Richard Chadwick and published by Unicorn. This book was released on 2021-02-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Masis Collection is one of the most comprehensive privately owned assemblages of pocket watches in the world. Focusing on the watch as a work of art, it encompasses over four hundred years of the watchmaker's, enameller's and goldsmith's craft. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader not only on a journey through the development of the mechanical watch, but for the first time, shows the artistic progression of watch case decoration in the fashionable styles that walked hand in hand with wider European artistic movements. Beginning with some of the earliest surviving portable timepieces, the Masis Collection includes watches that can be considered among the greatest European miniature works of art to ever be created.The collection is particularly rich in examples of gloriously painted Geneva enamels, particularly those of the Huaud family working in the baroque period. Its strength also lies in the breathtakingly beautiful enamel watches made for export to China and Turkey in the early years of the 19th century. This book aims to inform the reader not only of the richness and diversity of the Masis collection itself but to adequately display some of the watchmaking masterpieces that have enthralled their owners down the centuries.

Ten Centuries of European Progress

Author : Lowis D'Aguilar Jalkson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ten Centuries of European Progress written by Lowis D'Aguilar Jalkson and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Official Price Guide to Watches

Author : Cooksley Shugart
Publisher : House of Collectibles
ISBN 13 : 9780876378083
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Official Price Guide to Watches written by Cooksley Shugart and published by House of Collectibles. This book was released on 1990-03-17 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here's an up-to-the-minute guide to the ever-expanding collectors' market for pocket- and wristwatches. For nine years, considered the best guide to this subject in the field. More than 2,200 photographs.

A General History of Horology

Author : Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198863918
Total Pages : 777 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 777 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamamental, new and original research.

National Repository

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1224 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book National Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914

Author : Jonathan Sperber
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351106597
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914 written by Jonathan Sperber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-19 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its second edition, Bourgeois Europe, 1850–1914 is a general history of Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War, a successor to Revolutionary Europe: 1780–1850, also available from Routledge. The book offers wide geographic coverage of the European continent, from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean and from the Atlantic to the Urals. Topical coverage is equally broad, including major trends and events in international relations and domestic politics, in social and gender structures, in the economy, and in the natural and social sciences, the humanities, religion and the arts. For this second edition, the text has been completely revised, the latest directions in historical research considered, the further reading brought up to date and special attention has been paid to Europe’s global interactions with the rest of the world and the structures and norms of gender relations. Tables, charts, maps and other explanatory features help students explore further in the areas that interest them. Written in sprightly, jargon-free clear prose, the book is ideal for use as a text in secondary school or university courses, as well as for general readers wishing to gain an overview of a crucial era of modern European history.