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Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781781301074
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Art of Breguet written by George Daniels and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emmanuel Breguet
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791354671
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)
Download or read book Breguet written by Emmanuel Breguet and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-10-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling exploration of the work of renowned horologist Breguet is also a fascinating look at what makes watches and other timepieces tick. Abraham-Louis Breguet invented many of the standard components of today’s most prestigious watches, earning the title "The Father of Modern Horology." The self-winding watch, the gong spring, the first shock-protection device, and the enameled dial—all were created by Breguet. In addition, he invented the first travel clock, sold to Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798, and the first wristwatch, delivered to Caroline Murat, queen of Naples in 1812. Perhaps Breguet’s most famous timepiece is the "Marie-Antoinette" pocket watch, which took forty years to make and was the most complex watch of its time. This fascinating, elegantly designed volume features more than seventy watches and clocks that were constructed by the Breguet company, and it contains many insights into the inner workings that made these objects so innovative and valuable. Engaging essays explore Breguet’s personal history, the technologies he perfected, and his vast international reputation—which survives to this day. This beautiful overview of Breguet’s achievements will speak to anyone who treasures their watch—whether as an indispensable daily accessory, or as a prized piece of jewelry.
Author : Emmanuel Breguet
Publisher : Alain de Gourcuff
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Breguet written by Emmanuel Breguet and published by Alain de Gourcuff. This book was released on 1997 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1775 by Abraham-Louis Breguet, the firm of Breguet has occupied a unique position in the field of prestige watchmaking. Considered the greatest watchmaker of all time, Abraham-Louis Breguet was the father of modern watchmaking, an innovator in both the technical and aesthetic fields. A work of reference containing a wealth of previously unpublished information, this is also a sumptuous art book, distinguished by the elegance of its design and the excellence of its illustrations. In addition, the author skillfully combines the histories of art, technical developments, politics and economics to create an appealing and accessible narrative. Over 500 illustrations present a visual history of the principal creations produced by the Breguet workshops over the last two hundred and twenty years. Many of the pieces illustrated are held in private collections and are photographed here for the first time.
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857732846
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book All in Good Time written by George Daniels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels (1926-2011), the master craftsman, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stands alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantial advance in portable mechanical timekeeping over the lever escapement, which has dominated ever since its invention in 1759. Daniels's love of mechanics embraced not only the minute, however - he was also a passionate collector and driver of historic motorcars. This revised and expanded edition of his autobiography also contains a new section that illustrates and discusses over thirty of the pocket and wrist-watches Daniels himself made over the years. Witness here the triumph of intelligence, ingenuity, matchless skill and singularity of purpose over the most unpromising of beginnings.
Author : Sir David Lionel Salomons
Publisher : Alpha Edition
ISBN 13 : 9789353299736
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Breguet, 1747-1823 written by Sir David Lionel Salomons and published by Alpha Edition. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Michael Clerizo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500516367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)
Download or read book George Daniels written by Michael Clerizo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The watch must be original in design and conception and, when completed, beautiful in appearance.” —George Daniels, Watchmaking Master watchmaker and inventor George Daniels (1926–2011) was regarded as the finest exponent of his craft in the world. Over the course of his career he laboriously constructed twenty-five mechanical watches using antiquated tools and creating almost every component by hand. Each is a work of great originality and exceptional beauty, and his creations are appreciated as milestones in the art of watchmaking. While admired for their lucidity of appearance and unadorned dials, Daniels’s watches feature a raft of exquisite complications, such as chronographs, thermometers and power reserve indicators. His more intricate designs also incorporate perpetual calendars and minute repeaters, as well as indictors displaying mean solar and sidereal time, the age and phases of the moon, and the equation of time. Most significant of all Daniels’s contributions to the field of mechanical horology is his revolutionary invention: the co-axial escapement. This, the first noteworthy advance in practical watch design since Thomas Mudge’s lever escapement of 1754, helped to save a mechanical watch industry in danger of being overwhelmed by mass-produced quartz wristwatches. Detailed photographs of all of Daniels’s unique watches (both dial and movement) can be seen here, along with rare and previously unpublished images from Daniels’s own archive of photographs and working drawings. Michael Clerizo worked closely with George Daniels in the preparation of this book, the artist recounting episodes from his life and career over their innumerable conversations at his home on the Isle of Man. That biography helps ensure the book is a fitting and authentic tribute to the greatest watchmaker of the modern era.
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780856677045
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Watchmaking written by George Daniels and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first and most comprehensive step-by-step guide on the subject, Watchmaking has become a classic in its own right. This new edition is updated to include a new section which discusses and illustrates a variety of the author's own watches. The author's principal aim in writing this book has been to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among a new generation of enthusiasts. The making of the precision timekeeper is described, step by step, and is illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. Great care has been taken to ensure the text is easy to follow and to avoid complicated technical descriptions.
Author : John Biggs
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781511773997
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (739 download)
Download or read book Marie Antoinette's watch : adultery, larceny and perpetual motion written by John Biggs and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marie Antoinette's Watch is a wonderful book."- William Gibson, author of Neuromancer.Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world's greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette's watch, the "160," worth an estimated $40 million in today's dollars. Perhaps the most sought after personal technology device of the last 200 years, the timepiece, designed by the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, is the launching point for a thrilling and fluidly woven set of narratives that are, in part, forbidden love story, historical document, and police procedural. Marie Antoinette's Watch also deftly lays out the history of horology and the 18th Century engineering feats attained in Paris's answer to Silicon Valley, the �le de la Cit�, that made the watch the most intricate and prized personal device of its time - something that's come full circle today. In the hands of Techcrunch's East Coast Editor, John Biggs, Marie Antoinette's Watch is by turns edifying and lurid, historical and utterly modern. Culminating in a heist in a Tel Aviv antiquities museum in the 1980s, Biggs tells the story of how one object can transform countries, cultures, high technology, and time itself.
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085667687X
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (566 download)
Download or read book The Practical Watch Escapement written by George Daniels and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of George Daniels's central contributions to horology is is co-axial escapement. This book explains the action of the escapement in terms accessible to both expert and layman, and is accompanied by a series of detailed line drawings.
Author : Nicholas Foulkes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1471170659
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Time Tamed written by Nicholas Foulkes and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Downright fascinating...indispensable reading' Daily Telegraph 'Nicholas Foulkes' excellent...book is beautifully illustrated. Captivating' Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes' lavishly illustrated book, the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a workable train timetable across the vast, open expanse of the United States have inspired new developments. In Time Tamed, Nicholas Foulkes reveals how we have done this by focusing on some of the most significant developments in timekeeping across the ages. He also highlights the most stunning and lavish clocks and watches in history - from Big Ben to Rolex - for telling the time has never been purely about function, but also about design. The book is filled with remarkable tales, from the 14th century monk in St Albans who created one of the first mechanical clocks to the Holy Roman Emperor who built a clock into an automated ship that fired a cannon to summon guests to dinner. More recently, there was the Surrey woman who used a Napoleonic era watch to 'deliver' the accurate time to London shopkeepers in the wartime era of Churchill, or the Swiss denture maker who solved a tricky problem for the Indian Raj's polo players. Time Tamed is a book you'll want to spend many hours enjoying.
Author : Gene Stone
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353358
Total Pages : 1477 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)
Download or read book The Watch, Thoroughly Revised written by Gene Stone and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 1477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Watch is the most popular book on vintage and contemporary mechanical watches, appealing to both beginners and experts. In the decade since it was published, the international audience of watch lovers and watch collectors has grown exponentially. It’s time for The Watch, Thoroughly Revised. For this new edition, the original author, Gene Stone, is joined by Stephen Pulvirent of Hodinkee.com. Together, they have thoroughly revamped the book to reflect the current state of the watch world, with the addition of new brands, new models, and more focused and nuanced coverage of the traditional brand leaders, including Rolex, Patek Philippe, Omega, and TAG Heuer.
Author : Technical College of the Vallee de Joux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782940025497
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (254 download)
Download or read book The Theory of Horology written by Technical College of the Vallee de Joux and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Daniels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Art of Breguet written by George Daniels and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1781301131
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Watches written by George Daniels and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-awaited reprint of an important illustrated reference work on the general history of the watch from 1500 to 1980. When Watches was first published in 1965 it quickly gained for itself a reputation as the foremost general history of the subject and, following the expanded edition in 1979 which covered recent years past 1830, this has remained unchallenged in horological history. In this long-awaited reprinted edition, collectors and horological students can again make use of the reference illustrations and history in this work as approached by the leading horology historians and clockmakers of the twentieth century. Clutton and Daniels write expertly on the vast history of watches, through the changing tastes and styles of collectors and makers, as well as imparting their own knowledge on various technical aspects within the watches. The expansive historical section encompasses both decorative and mechanical aspects of mid-sixteenth to late twentieth century watches, including those by George Daniels himself, detailing the rich history behind more modern designs and fascinations. These later years include a variety of semi-experimental escapements, as well as covering the development of the precision watch and work leading to it by Ferdinand Berthoud and Pierre Le Roy, discussed alongside John Arnold in England, to satisfy the technical-minded collector. Horology and collecting have grown with the changing technologies, and watches continue to be produced to an exceptional technological standard. Precision watches from the 1730-1930 period are covered in detail, as well as high standard Swiss and American watches of the last hundred years; these highly complicated watches benefit greatly from having both colour and mono illustrations to clarify the details. For a truly comprehensive understanding of escapements, photographs of these have been included alongside a critical approach to this essential mechanism. Since its first publication, Watches has provided an essential work of reference and history behind some of the most renowned minds and creations. Now reprinted for a new generation of collectors and students, and featuring over 600 illustrations, the technical and decorative elements of historical watches can be studied and enjoyed once more.
Author : Jack Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788857224596
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Cartier - Time Art written by Jack Foster and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From their forms to their movements, Cartier watches are unique. They are an enduring combination of the unexpected and the classical. This book chronicles Cartiers constant quest for excellence in the manufacture of complicated watches. From a Tortue single push-piece chronograph, created in 1929, to a contemporary Santos 100 skeleton watch, Cartier interprets complications in its own inimitable way, always with a sense of design. Laziz Hamanis photographs capture these objects of exceptional technicity while author and expert Jack Forster shares the spirit that motivates each craftsman, engineer and artist to create the most stunning complicated watches.
Author : François Chaille
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 2080236520
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Beauty of Time written by François Chaille and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beauty of Time, published in partnership with the prestigious Fondation de la Haute Horlogerie, presents a panorama of the most beautiful timepieces from the Middle Ages to the present. The book contains a thoughtfully curated selection of nearly two hundred wonders--from mechanical and pendulum clocks to pocket- and wristwatches.
Author : MC Reitz
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
ISBN 13 : 9789793780702
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Museum Pasifika written by MC Reitz and published by Equinox Publishing (Indonesia). This book was released on 2009 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has lived 75 years has done a whole lot of thinking and for some a whole lot of writing. I have done both. The thinking was done in moments that have long since passed, decisions made and musings forgotten unless written and saved. Of course over the years much that was written was deemed unimportant at the time and destroyed. I have taken the scraps that remain, edited out bunches and compiled them into this book. Penumbra Smiles contains excerpts from journals, essays, and contemplative thought over the years that for some reason were retained in my files. The "penumbra" is the shadowy area between light and dark as you might see around the moon. It represents for me the uncertainty of neither being fully knowledgeable, aware and awakened nor completely cut off from some understanding of our experience of life. About the Author Michael Reitz attended John Carroll University where he studied sociology and speech communication, played football and acted in theatre productions. After college, his variety of employment experiences include teaching on the Navajo Nation as well as in inner city, suburban public and private schools, Officer of the U.S. Coast Guard, ADC Caseworker, Hospital Staff Educator, Administrative Officer in local government and other assorted short time employments. He fathered and raised five well-educated and successful children and has travelled to Haiti, India and Indonesia. Penumbra Smiles is his third book.
