Collecting (Vintage) Watches

Wristwatches, antique- and vintage pocket watches

Thomas M. Meine, Matthew Stannard (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

148 Seiten

2021 | 12. Auflage
BoD – Books on Demand (Verlag)
978-3-7448-9492-0 (ISBN)

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The authors of this book are neither watchmakers nor specific watch specialists, just dedicated watch collectors.A book for the friends of watches and a guide for the collector or the possible collector-to-be, giving some advice and guidelines, certainly also expressing very subjective opinions.Specific subjects of interest from the multi-facetted mosaic of time, watches and watchmaking as a whole: collecting watches, watches and time, the quartz crisis, the revival of mechanic watches, clocking of watches and the corresponding amplitudes from the pendulum to the atomic clock, adjustment and regulation of a watch, time as a standard unit, changing of the time itself, technical features, magnetism and watches, radium contamination, watch dials, hallmarks, the 'gold rush', things to watch out for when collecting watches and more.Mechanical watches hand wind, mechanical watches automatic, electric watches, electronic watches, quartz controlled electric watches, tuning fork watches, quartz controlled tuning fork watches, quartz watches, watches - radio controlled by an atomic clock.Also including antique- and vintage pocket watches.Over 300 pictures (black and white) of original watches, tools, equipment and others.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.08.2017
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	223 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Antiquitäten
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
Schlagworte	Antiquitäten und Sammelobjekte • Collecting • pocket watches • Pocketwatches • pocket watches and wristwatches • Tima and Watchmaking • time and watchmaking • Vintage • Watches • watchmaking • Wristwatches
ISBN-10	3-7448-9492-4 / 3744894924
ISBN-13	978-3-7448-9492-0 / 9783744894920
Zustand	Neuware