Watches - Rilegato

Thompson, David

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 071415055X ISBN 13: 9780714150550

Casa editrice: British Museum Press, 2008

Riassunto

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.

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Product Description:

Il British Museum Watch collezione racconta la storia dell' orologio che abbraccia un incredibile 500 anni. All' interno della collezione sono esempi vanno da sixteenth-century precoce stackfreed orologi Made in Germania meridionale per squisite decorative orologi del xvii secolo.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: British Museum Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 071415055X
• ISBN 13: 9780714150550
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 176