George Daniels

Gebundenes Buch

Watchmaking

Beschreibung

Discribes and illustrates the making of the precision timekeeper, at each stage with line drawings and brief explanatory captions. This handbook provides an insight to the enthusiast and watch-collector who, until its publication, had often been able only to admire the superb craftsmanship of a fine watch without understanding how it works.

Autor

George Daniels, CBE, HON DSC, FSA, FCGI, FBHI, FAWI was a practising horologist with over fifty years' experience in both antiquarian and modern watchmaking and was a past master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In addition, he was an expert on the history and development of the watch, with special emphasis on the precision period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was unrivalled as a sympathetic restorer of important time pieces, especially those made by Breguet. Amongst his awards for his contribution to the art and science of watchmaking including the design of his own escapements were the Tompion Gold Medal, The British Horological Institute Gold Medal, The City and Guilds of London Gold Medal, The Arts Sciences and Learning Award of the City of London and the Victor Kullberg Medal of the Stockholm Watchmakers' Guild.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
• New ed
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 272mm x 205mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 1640g
• ISBN-13: 9780856677045
• ISBN-10: 0856677043
• Artikelnr.: 33247060