Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking
Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.
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Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking
Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.
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Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking

Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking

by Tourbillon International
Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking

Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking

by Tourbillon International

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Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780847837519
Publisher: Rizzoli
Publication date: 06/05/2012
Pages: 544
Sales rank: 879,295
Product dimensions: 9.32(w) x 11.28(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

Tourbillon International has published consecutive volumes of Watches International, Grand Complications, and Jewelry International and remains an expert in these fields.
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