Taschenuhrständer - Porte-Montre - Pocket-Watch Stands

Taschenuhrständer - Porte-Montre - Pocket-Watch Stands
Author: Bernd Bauer
Publisher: Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt GmbH
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9783897906808
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- First overview of some 450 pocket-watch stands from a private collection showing the wealth of the designs - The history of European art and culture from the Baroque to the early 20th-century represented by pocket-watch stands - Indispensable standard work in this field thanks to scholarly texts on the history of the objects, their designs, and restoration issues For almost 300 years, pocket watches were important accessories for the nobility and middle-classes. In order to store the watches securely and stylishly, artfully designed stands that matched the wearer's interior were developed and were an impressive reflection of the history of European art and culture from the Baroque to the early 20th-century. The stands ranged from miniature versions of grandfather and mantle clocks to one-off works of art made from wood, ceramic or metal. Until now, research on pocket-watch stands has attracted little attention. This publication provides a first representative overview of some 450 objects from a unique private collection in southern Germany, documenting its wealth of designs, which encompass a large repertoire of Christian, mythological and political themes. Scholarly texts on the history of the objects, their designs, and restoration issues make this an indispensable standard work in this field. Text in English, German and French.

Collecting Rolex Submariner

Collecting Rolex Submariner
Author: Giorgia Mondani
Publisher: Guido Mondani Editore e Ass
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2015-01-01
Genre: Wrist watches
ISBN:
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COLLECTING ROLEX SUBMARINER: PRESENTATION OF SUBMARINER, SEA-DWELLER AND DEEPSEA Collecting Rolex Submariner is an updated and complete book about Rolex Submariner, Sea-Dweller and DeepSea. The strong importance of these models in the international market has given life to this important book, a true worldwide best-seller. During the years, these models have achieved an impressive collectable and economical value. Thanks to well documented and meticulous research, the authors have managed to create a real “Bible” of modern and vintage models. Are you a watch collector and want to know every minimum detail about these models? Have you recently approached the world of Rolex watches and are looking for assured answers to your doubts? Are you a watch dealer and want to know exactly what you are buying or selling? Do you want to know the real value of your watches? For all this and much much more, this book is perfect for you. TOPICS With over 800 highest quality photographs, this book describes in a highly detailed way: Submariner James Bond (ref. 6204, 6205, 6200, 6538, 6538 A, 6536, 6536/1, 5508, 5510) Submariner No Date (ref. 5512, 5513, 5514, 5517, 14060, 14060 M, 114060) Submariner Date (ref. 1680, 1680/8, 16800, 168000, 16803, 16808, 16610, 16610LV, 16613, 16618, 116610, 116610LV, 116613, 116618, 116619) Sea-Dweller (ref. 1665, 16660, 16600, 116660) All the possible variants are illustrated and described for all these references, as for example: 5 Marks of the “green bezel”, ref. 16610LV, Customized dials, 6 Marks of the ref.1680, Comex, 4 Marks of the ref. 1665 “double red”, 4 Marks of the ref. 1665, Faded, rare replacement dials, limited editions, bracelets and much more. The book also provides the updated estimates of all published watches. Many fine details are illustrated for each watch: the case number, the bracelet and its references, the winding crown, the case back, the dial, the caliber with its respective year of production and the various references.

Prize Essay On the Construction of a Simple and Mechanically Perfect Watch

Prize Essay On the Construction of a Simple and Mechanically Perfect Watch
Author: Moritz Grossmann
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9781020256912
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This seminal work by watchmaker Moritz Grossmann is an important milestone in the history of horology. In it, Grossmann lays out his design principles for creating a watch that is both simple and precise. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the art and science of watchmaking, as well as the history of precision instruments. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Breguet, 1747-1823

Breguet, 1747-1823
Author: Sir David Lionel Salomons
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2019-02-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789353299736
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This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.

Complicated Watches and Their Repair

Complicated Watches and Their Repair
Author: Donald De Carle
Publisher: The Crowood Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2020-01-31
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0719831091
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Dealing with a complicated watch used to be a rare job for the watch repairer, but with the popularity of the automatic, it is almost commonplace. Furthermore, the increased interest in calendar work, alarm watches, and chronographs will undoubtedly bring more and more complicated work into the workshop. This book deals with complicated work essentially from the repairer's point of view. The action of each mechanism is briefly and clearly described because understanding this is essential to proper servicing, repair and testing for functioning. Dismantling and assembly instructions are given, as well as oiling charts and - most important - hints on fault-finding and their rectification. Another essential feature of the book is that it deals with all complicated work - from the relatively simple automatic to the triple-complicated watch with chronograph, calendar and repeater work, and the very complicated clock watch. Exceptional care has been taken in the preparation of diagrams, which have been drawn from actual movements in various stages of assembly, so that the reader can actually work with the book illustrations beside the watch itself. As always with books by Donald de Carle, instructions are easy to follow and there is no reason why anyone well versed in ordinary work and able to use watchmakers' tools should not become a specialist in complicated watches and their repair.

British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records

British Clockmakers & Watchmakers Apprentice Records
Author:
Publisher: Mayfield Publishing Company
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2003
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:
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This work contains the apprenticeship detail of over 14,000 clockmakers, watchmakers and others involved in the horological trade, listed under both the apprentice and his master, extracted from tax records in the Public Record Office.

A Catalogue of Various Clocks, Watches, Automata

A Catalogue of Various Clocks, Watches, Automata
Author: Simon Harcourt-Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 206
Release: 1933
Genre: Art objects
ISBN:
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Taste for clocks and other mechanical curiosities of the West seems to have invaded the court of China at an early date ; already at the beginning of the fourteenth century a French ironsmith, Guillaume Boucher, probably a prisoner brought back from some Mongol raid into Hungary, had constructed for the first Yuan Emperor of China an elaborate clock with fountains ; and when, in 1599, the great Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci arrived in Peking he secured Imperial favour and an entry to the Court largely by a gift of clocks. It was, however, only at the end of the seventeenth century, in the reign of K'ang Hsi, that clocks in great numbers began to invade the Palace. This enlightened monarch, who was filled with an admiration, rare in his dynasty, for the arts and sciences of Europe, welcomed learned Jesuit mathematicians and philosophers to his Court, and formed a collection of scientific instruments and time-pieces of all descriptions. -- Introduction.