Masters Of Contemporary Watchmaking

Author : Michael Clerizo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500514852
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking written by Michael Clerizo and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illuminates the craftsmanship and ingenuity of contemporary craft watchmaking. The advent of quartz technology had a huge effect on traditional watchmaking. In Switzerland, in the 1970s, tens of thousands lost their jobs in the watch industry, and for a time it looked as if a 500-year-long tradition of skills would be lost forever. Today, against the odds, artist craftsmen have triumphantly brought about the renaissance of the mechanical handmade watch. The aesthetic agenda is being set by a group of remarkable independents. This book tells their story, and it is beautifully illustrated with hundreds of examples of their virtuoso work. Here is George Daniels, who systematically set out to surpass the skills of the most celebrated watchmaker of all time, Abraham Louis Breguet. Daniels, the world’s most renowned watchmaker, has even improved upon those eighteenth-century skills by inventing a lever escapement requiring no lubrication. Svend Andersen (Denmark), Vincent Calabrese (Italy), Alain Silberstein and Vianney Halter (France), Aniceto Jiménez Pita (Spain), Marco Lang (Germany), Philippe Dufour, Antoine Preziuso, and Franck Muller (Switzerland), and Roger Smith (England) are among the other participants. In addition to the major interviews, other craftsmen and workshops from Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Holland, Finland, Ireland, and Hungary are introduced and illustrated.

Author : Michael Clerizo
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0500516367
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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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 : Elizabeth Doerr
Publisher : teNeues
ISBN 13 : 9783832793739
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelve Faces of Time written by Elizabeth Doerr and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Twelve Faces of Time' looks in-depth at the work of 12 master craftsmen in the field of horology.

Author : Maxima Gallery
Publisher : Antique Collector's Club
ISBN 13 : 9781851499076
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watchmakers written by Maxima Gallery and published by Antique Collector's Club. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Watchmakers: The Masters of Art Horology gathers the work of the most celebrated independent watchmakers in the world. Thirteen artisans, each a legend in the realm of haute horlogerie, tell their stories, describing the traditional working methods and prized watches upon which their reputations have been built. Photographs of the masters in their workshops bring their stories to life, along with detailed sketches and images of their watches in all their brilliant intricacy. Watchmakers also features insightful text from other leading figures of the independent watchmaking world, including Aurel Bacs of the Fondation Haute Horlogerie and Nicholas Faulkes, writer for Vanity Fair, The Telegraph and GQ, and author of the only authorised biography of Patek Philippe"--Provided by publisher

Author : Harry Lenga
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806541938
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Watchmakers written by Harry Lenga and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 National Jewish Book Award Finalist “Inspiring. Exhilarating. Astonishing. An epic tale of brotherhood, ingenuity, and survival.” —Heather Dune Macadam, International Bestselling author of 999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz Told through meticulous interviews with his son, this is an extraordinary memoir of endurance, faith, and a unique skill that kept three brothers together—and alive—during the darkest times of World War II. “A truly extraordinary book.” —Damien Lewis, #1 international bestselling author Harry Lenga was born to a family of Chassidic Jews in Kozhnitz, Poland. The proud sons of a watchmaker, Harry and his two brothers, Mailekh and Moishe, studied their father’s trade at a young age. Upon the German invasion of Poland, when the Lenga family was upended, Harry and his brothers never anticipated that the tools acquired from their father would be the key to their survival. Under the most devastating conditions imaginable—with death always imminent—fixing watches for the Germans in the ghettos and brutal slave labor camps of occupied Poland and Austria bought their lives over and over again. From Wolanow and Starachowice to Auschwitz and Ebensee, Harry, Mailekh, and Moishe endured, bartered, worked, prayed, and lived to see liberation. Derived from more than a decade of interviews with Harry Lenga, conducted by his own son Scott and others, The Watchmakers is Harry’s heartening and unflinchingly honest first-person account of his childhood, the lessons learned from his own father, his harrowing tribulations, and his inspiring life before, during, and after the war. It is a singular and vital story, told from one generation to the next—and a profoundly moving tribute to brotherhood, fatherhood, family, and faith. “Deeply moving.” —Jesse Kellerman, bestselling author “Vivid and compelling.” —Christopher R. Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History Emeritus, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and author of Ordinary Men

Author : Luana Carcano
Publisher : EGEA spa
ISBN 13 : 8823871999
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time to Change written by Luana Carcano and published by EGEA spa. This book was released on 2011-02-08T00:00:00+01:00 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insight into fine watchmaking that combines scientific rigor with industry expertise. Time to change is the first book to explore in depth the world of fine watchmaking from a 360Ą perspective. The book will help you to gain a comprehensive understanding of the unique rules to succeed in the market and the different values and cultures of fine watchmaking around the globe. Comprehensive and authoritative, it investigates every aspect of fine watchmaking, a core business of hard luxury, including: fine watch as a symbol with multiple meanings; Designing and implementing fine watchmaking strategies; Nurturing your company's profit engine; Learning from emerging, growing and mature markets; Facing upcoming challenges for local marketers and retailers; Fine watchmaking in the post-crisis landscape; Looking ahead to future challeng

Author : Gene Stone
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683353358
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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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 272 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 : Susan E. Klepp
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271041131
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Infortunate written by Susan E. Klepp and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rare memoir from the early eighteenth century by an Englishman who traveled to the New World as an indentured servant.

Author : Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science Richard Dawkins
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780613913812
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blind Watchmaker written by Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science Richard Dawkins and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 1996-09-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patiently and lucidly, this Los Angeles Times Book Award and Royal Society of Literature Heinemann Prize winner identifies the aspects of the theory of evolution that people find hard to believe and removes the barriers to credibility one by one. As readable and vigorous a defense of Darwinism as has been published since 1859.--The Economist.

Author : George Daniels
Publisher : Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780856677045
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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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.