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Watches. Their History, Decoration and Mechanism. By G.H. Baillie.

Watches. Their History, Decoration and Mechanism. By G.H. Baillie.

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[Baillie, Granville Hugh].
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London, Methuen & Co., Ltd., 1929. 4:o. Frontispiece, xxiij, 383, (1) pp., 75 plates. Publishers red blindstamped cloth with ornate gilt spine lettering and decorations, some pages uncut. Lightly bumped outer corners. Outer edges somewhat foxed. 2 Book-plates ‘Percy W Weston’ & ‘Thomas Henry Abraham’.

1 500 kr

The Connoisseur’s Library. First edition. Contents: Preface; List of illustrations; Bibliography; Time; Time measurement before clocks; The invention of clocks; The invention of watches; The early watch movement; Watch-cases to 1675; The pendulum and balance spring; The later wathc movement; Watch-cases 1675 to 1725; Watch-cases from 1725; The Chinese watch and the cheap watch; The history of watchmaking; Watch escapements; Alarum and striking movements; Repeating and musical watches; Second hands and chronographs; Keyless watches; Calender and equation work; The Tourbillon; The chronology of watches; Index.

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