Author: David GlasgowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch industry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Watch and Clock Making
Author: David GlasgowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch industry
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Make Your Own Working Paper Clock
Author: James Smith RudolphPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0060910666
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Cut this book into 160 pieces, glue them together, and have a paper clock operated by weights that keeps perfect time and can be rewound and regulated.
The Horological Journal
Author: The Clock and Watch Makers Guide to Gear Making...
Author: Robert D. PorterPublisher:
ISBN: 9780960080953
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Clock and Watch Escapements
Author: W. J. GazeleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780709047384
Category : Clocks and watches
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book includes detailed instructions for making all types of escapements and for the location and correction of faults. The book is designed to appeal to those interested in the mechanisms of clocks and watches.
A Man & His Watch
Author: Matt HranekPublisher: Artisan
ISBN: 1579658199
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
“I’ve paged through stacks of books on the history of watches. . . . But I hadn’t come across a book that actually moved me until I picked up A Man and His Watch. The volume is filled with heartfelt stories.” —T: The New York Times Style Magazine "There are a bunch of beautifully illustrated watch books out there, but A Man & His Watch by Matt Hranek is more than that. It speaks to the nature of watches as deeply personal items." —Gear Patrol, Coffee Table Books Our Staff Can’t Live Without Paul Newman wore his Rolex Daytona every single day for 35 years until his death in 2008. The iconic timepiece, probably the single most sought-after watch in the world, is now in the possession of his daughter Clea, who wears it every day in his memory. Franklin Roosevelt wore an elegant gold Tiffany watch, gifted to him by a friend on his birthday, to the famous Yalta Conference where he shook the hands of Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill. JFK’s Omega worn to his presidential inauguration, Ralph Lauren’s watch purchased from Andy Warhol’s personal collection, Sir Edmund Hillary’s Rolex worn during the first-ever summit of Mt. Everest . . . these and many more compose the stories of the world’s most coveted watches captured in A Man and His Watch. Matthew Hranek, a watch collector and NYC men’s style fixture, has traveled the world conducting firsthand interviews and diving into exclusive collections to gather the never-before-told stories of 76 watches, completed with stunning original photography of every single piece. Through these intimate accounts and Hranek’s storytelling, the watches become more than just timepieces and status symbols; they represent historical moments, pioneering achievements, heirlooms, family mementos, gifts of affection, and lifelong friendships.
Watch and Clock Making
Author: David GlasgowPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clock and watch making
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Watchmaking
Author: George DanielsPublisher: Philip Wilson Publishers
ISBN: 9780856677045
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
The first and most comprehensive step-by-step guide on the subject, Watchmaking has become a classic in its own right. This new edition is updated to include a new section which discusses and illustrates a variety of the author's own watches. The author's principal aim in writing this book has been to inspire and encourage the art of watchmaking, especially among a new generation of enthusiasts. The making of the precision timekeeper is described, step by step, and is illustrated at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. Great care has been taken to ensure the text is easy to follow and to avoid complicated technical descriptions.
Handbook of Watch and Clock Repairs
Author: Henry Gordon HarrisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258812164
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
About Time
Author: David RooneyPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1324021950
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best History Books of 2021 A captivating, surprising history of timekeeping and how it has shaped our world. For thousands of years, people of all cultures have made and used clocks, from the city sundials of ancient Rome to the medieval water clocks of imperial China, hourglasses fomenting revolution in the Middle Ages, the Stock Exchange clock of Amsterdam in 1611, Enlightenment observatories in India, and the high-precision clocks circling the Earth on a fleet of GPS satellites that have been launched since 1978. Clocks have helped us navigate the world and build empires, and have even taken us to the brink of destruction. Elites have used them to wield power, make money, govern citizens, and control lives—and sometimes the people have used them to fight back. Through the stories of twelve clocks, About Time brings pivotal moments from the past vividly to life. Historian and lifelong clock enthusiast David Rooney takes us from the unveiling of al-Jazari’s castle clock in 1206, in present-day Turkey; to the Cape of Good Hope observatory at the southern tip of Africa, where nineteenth-century British government astronomers moved the gears of empire with a time ball and a gun; to the burial of a plutonium clock now sealed beneath a public park in Osaka, where it will keep time for 5,000 years. Rooney shows, through these artifacts, how time has been imagined, politicized, and weaponized over the centuries—and how it might bring peace. Ultimately, he writes, the technical history of horology is only the start of the story. A history of clocks is a history of civilization.