Swiss Wristwatches

Author : Gisbert L. Brunner
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887403019
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Wristwatches written by Gisbert L. Brunner and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1991 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of Swiss wristwatch designs in the 20th century with nearly 650 photo illustrations. The many forms and styles of casings, dials, and hands are covered, along with manufacturers' literature, advertising, and catalogs. The firms of Omega, Longines, Tavannes-Cyma, Breitling, Doxa, Universal, Movado, and Zenith are represented, and a price guide makes it a valuable reference for collectors of wristwatches.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Watches, Adjustments written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates allegations of Treasury Dept failure to enforce Swiss watch import tariffs.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Watches--adjustments. 1956. 84-2&1 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Government Operations and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bruce Shawkey
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0692746048
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamilton Wristwatches A Reference Guide written by Bruce Shawkey and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide for Hamilton wristwatch collectors to identify watches made between 1917 and 1969.

Author : Dr Andreas Zangger
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814385689
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Swiss in Singapore written by Dr Andreas Zangger and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the founding of colonial Singapore, the Swiss have been active on the island, whether as traders, naturalists, or tourists fascinated by the exoticism of the East. Discover the stories of Swiss-made sarongs, of Swiss globetrotters in Singapore and of the evolution of the longstanding Swiss Club from its early days as the Swiss Rifle Shooting Club. Historian Andreas Zangger also provides the background to the close economic and diplomatic relationship between the two countries today. This fascinating history is accompanied by an assortment of contemporary and archival images, photographs and documents. The Swiss in Singapore is the perfect guide to the past, present and potential of the small but important Swiss community in the country that is often described as the 'Switzerland of the East'.

Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000571904
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930 written by Alun C. Davies and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-04-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.

Author : Amy Glasmeier
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572305892
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Manufacturing Time written by Amy Glasmeier and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2000-08-10 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems, and cultures. This book recounts the story of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches--from the cottage industries of Britain; to the preeminence of Switzerland and, later, the United States; to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong. Glasmeier examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such varying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war, and national trade policies. In so doing, she delineates a cohesive framework within which to address such broader questions as how sustained regional economic development takes place (or starts and then stops); how decisions made by corporations are structured by internal and external forces; and the ways industrial cultures with different strategic learning capabilities facilitate or thwart the pursuit of technological change.

Author : Anthony Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019260936X
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A General History of Horology written by Anthony Turner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamental, new and original research.

Author : Heinz Hampel
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887406096
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland written by Heinz Hampel and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1994 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exciting area of collecting for clock and watch enthusiasts is literally opened up with this book. On the outside the automatic wristwatch is like its counterpart, but once the case is opened a different world appears. Here 200 watches are shown, each with three photos to show the dial, and the complete and partly disassembled movement. The book introduces all the Swiss manufacturers and provides an historical overview of the development of automatic watches from 1926 to 1978. Information on the functioning mechanism and construction of each design is offered along with the data needed to locate the watches chronologically.

Author : Thomas M. Meine
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3744894924
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Collecting (Vintage) Watches written by Thomas M. Meine and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.