Urn:lcp:treatiseonmodern0000saun:lcpdf:fb891ba7-18fb-4dc6-8324-3605488148d8 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier treatiseonmodern0000saun Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s24f6cffkn1 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0707100690 Ocr tesseract 5.3.0-1-gd3a4 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9760 Ocr_module_version 0.0.18 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000853 Openlibrary_edition For newbies or seasoned watch lovers alike, a great book (or many) awaits you.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 16:20:31 Associated-names Tripplin, Julien Autocrop_version 0.0.14_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA40852218 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier If you’re just getting into watches, welcome to the world of watch books. Or to while away a long flight reading about luxury watches on your phone. It’s so rewarding to lose yourself in a classic hardback book on the history of timekeeping. Be warned as with watch collecting, it’s highly addictive territory. So that’s our brief introduction to reading about wristwatches and the watch industry. Watch books – you’re entering addictive territory Start with the likes of QP, Revolution, Watchtime, Hodinkee, Chronos, Europa Star and the British Horological Institute’s Horological Journal – according to the BHI, ‘ the oldest continuously published technical journal in the world.’ My recommendation for choosing watch magazines? Read as many as possible, then settle on your favourites. Modell des Kosmos, Watchprint will surely delight.Ī selection of top magazines - Image Credit: WatchGecko Online Magazineįinally, it’s worth mentioning some watch industry magazines to complement your book reading. From an introduction to vehicle-inspired watches ( Aaron Sigmond’s Drive Time: Watches Inspired by Automobiles, Motorcycles and Racing) to pinnacles of esoteric watch reading such as Das Unikat. Then there are specialist watch book shops such as Suzanne Wettstein and Fabrice Mugnier’s – they travel the world promoting books on horology with event-based bookshops at shows such as Baselworld.
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If buying new, any source of new books is worth exploring. Horology: An Illustrated Primer on the History, Philosophy, and Science of Time, with an Overview of the Wristwatch and the Watch Industry by Barry Kaplan 2 Hardcover £2815 £31.99 Pre-order Price Guarantee. So, from studies of American watchmakers to the history of Patek Philippe, where will you buy your books? It’s an encyclopaedic visual exploration of German military timepieces, supported by basic bi-lingual commentary and images giving valuable historical and operational context from before WW1 to post-WW2 Germany. 150 Jahre Zeitmessung beim deutschen Militär. Heuer Chronograph: Fascination of Timekeepers and Motorsports 1960s|1970s - Image Credit: WatchGecko Online MagazineĪnd if German military watches are your thing, you’ll want Dr Konrad Knirim’s Militäruhren: Military Timepieces. Of course, as with all such books, product coverage inevitably cuts off just before publication – an occupational hazard of buying books about constantly evolving brands. HOROLOGY, POCKET WATCH, CLOCK, WRIST WATCH, SUNDIAL, WATCH REPAIR, WATCH MAKING, ENGRAVING, HISTORY & MUCH MORE This is Volume 3 of 3 Make sure to check Volume 1 & 2 as well It is nearly impossible to find all these rare & old books in their original form and if found they would cost a fortune Great Reference Books. It gives a satisfying, richly illustrated, overview of Breitling history up to 2009. Though long out of print, Breitling The Book ( Hervé Genaud), is still available second hand if you search. Here are a couple more of my favourite brand-specific books. Once you start specialising in a particular brand, your choices range from the most basic introductions to massive tomes that explore brands from Chopard to Zenith in minute detail. The jury’s out, but for Rolex fans it looks promising and is surely worth investigating. I’ve found Heel’s book useful.Īt the time of writing, Hoy and Frost’s The Book of Rolex has just been published. At least one Amazon reviewer, while liking this book, commented that there’s more detail in The Rolex Story by Franz-Christoph Heel. The Rolex Story - Image Credit: WatchGecko Online Magazineįor Rolex books, Gisbert Brunner’s The Watch Book Rolex follows the usual teNeues coffee-table format with lots of nice photography and basic multilingual text.
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