Watches a complete history of the technical and decorative development of the watch
Machine generated contents note:HISTORICAL --Mechanical 1500 -- 1750 --The invention of watches --Fusee and stackfreed --The movement and its decoration up to 1675 --Mean time regulation before the balance spring --General characteristics and national styles --The balance spring 1675 -- 1700 --The m...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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London, Dublin
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2022
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| Ausgabe: | Revised and enlarged edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note:HISTORICAL --Mechanical 1500 -- 1750 --The invention of watches --Fusee and stackfreed --The movement and its decoration up to 1675 --Mean time regulation before the balance spring --General characteristics and national styles --The balance spring 1675 -- 1700 --The movement 1675 -- 1700 --The movement 1700 -- 1750 --Decoration of the movement 1675 -- 1700 --The beginnings of the precision watch and the modern watch --The formative years of the precision watch --John Harrison --Pierre Le Roy --Ferdinand Berthoud --John Arnold --Thomas Mudge --Josiah Emery --Abraham-Louis Breguet --Thomas Earnshaw --The birth of the modern watch: Lepine and Breguet --The development of the watch since 1800 --Decorative --Types of decoration --Enamel --Styles of watch cases and dials up to 1750 --Some unusual forms of dial --Styles of watch cases and dials 1750 -- 1830 --Performance of early watches --TECHNICAL --Introduction --Shock-proofing --Tourbillons --Escapements --Verge --Cylinder --Virgule --Duplex --Chronometer --`Echappement naturel' --Lever --Robin --Debaufre --Fasoldt --J. F. Cole rotary detent --Repeaters --Clock-watches --Self-winding watches --Stop-watches and chronographs --Monochrome plates --APPENDIX. |
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| Beschreibung: | First published in Great Britain in 1965 by B.T. Batsford Ltd Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | 311 Seiten Illustrationen 34 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781781301135 978-1-78130-113-5 1781301131 1-78130-113-1 |