Watches - Hardcover

David Thompson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 071415055X ISBN 13: 9780714150550

Verlag: British Museum Press, 2008

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El Museo Británico Reloj Collection cuenta la historia de El reloj que cubre un increíble 500 años. Dentro de la colección son ejemplos que van desde Sixteenth-Century temprana stackfreed Watches fabricado en Alemania del Sur a una decorativa relojes de la Seventeenth Century.

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Reseña del editor:

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 of mass-produced watches from the modern era. All the major makers of Europe and America will be represented, many of them with multiple examples. There are, for example, thirty-one genuine watches from the London workshops of Thomas Tompion, whose reputation stretched far and wide even in his own time. Another famous maker is 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.

Biografía del autor:

David Thompson is the Curator of Horology at the British Museum. His previous publications include Clocks (British Museum Press, 2004)

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• Verlag: British Museum Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 071415055X
• ISBN 13: 9780714150550
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 176