Carriage and Other Traveling Clocks - Hardcover

Roberts, Derek

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0887404545 ISBN 13: 9780887404542

Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Roberts Derek

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Reseña del editor:

The beauty of carriage clocks and their accompanying cases is an integral part of their design, but one aspect-their intricate movements-also displays solutions to mechanical problems that only the genius designer could solve. In this major new work by an expert clock historian and restorer, the reader will find over 400 exquisite color and 285 black-and-white photographs of hundreds of traveling clocks, as well as the explanations of all the major designers' work from the 17th century forward. Special chapters present the work of noted clockmakers Breguet, Garnier, Vulliamy, Cole, Frodsham, McCabe, Dent, white and more. Swiss, Austrian, French, English, and a few American traveling clocks are included. Since these clocks were technically advanced, scientific instruments of their day, they first were made for royal and wealthy patrons with the finest gilt, porcelain enamel, and jeweled materials. The book displays these fantastically beautiful works of art-miniature clocks as well as full-size ones-and more common popular styles available today.

Biografía del autor:

Derek Roberts is the author of British Longcase Clocks and Continental and American Skeleton Clocks, as well as other books and numerous horological catalogues and articles. He is a lecturer and runs a specialized clocks business in Tonbridge, Kent, England.

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• Verlag: Schiffer Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0887404545
• ISBN 13: 9780887404542
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368