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	BREGUET, EMMANUEL ET AL Breguet - Un Apogee De l'Horlogerie Europeenne Paris, France, Somogy. 2009. (ISBN: 9782757202678) pictorial hardcover-, 29 x 28 cms. 264 pages - in French - over 500 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2009 showing at the Louvre Museum in Paris of fine watches made by Breguet of Geneva - contributions by Nicolas Hayek, Arlette-Elsa Emch, Marc Bascou, Emmanuel Breguet and Rodolphe De Pieri - a history of Breguet's founder, industrial showings, international network, favored watches, political relations, mentions in literature, patents, 2000-2008 innovations and more - chronology, glossary, list of pieces on display, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 US$ 73.65 \| £UK 44.25 \| JP¥ 6550] Book number: 009392 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BRUNNER, GISBERT L./PFEIFFER-BELLI, CHRISTIAN Wristwatches Cologne, Germany, Konemann. 1999. (ISBN: 3829006608) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 512 pages - in English, German and French - over 2,100 color illustrations - a description of the century of the wristwatch, featuring the stories of 84 of the century's most famous watch producers - manual winding, automatic winding, collecting, time signals, movements, dates, design, repeating wristwatches, vortex, the chronograph, IWC chronograph, cosmopolitan time and more. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25 US$ 117.84 \| £UK 70.75 \| JP¥ 10480] Book number: 008715 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE ET AL Horlogerie Dans l'Histoire, les Arts et les Sciences (L') Lausanne, Switzerland, Scriptar. 1983. (ISBN: 2880120160) , 30 x 30 cms. Square. no.1,119 of an edition limited to 1,400 - signed by the author - bound in gilded padded silk taffetas with a color pastedown on the front cover - in a cardboard slipcase - designed by Franco Maria Ricci - 128 pages - in French - 42 color tip-in plates and over 50 b/w illustrations - photographs by W. Abplanalp - a handsome book featuring 16th to 19th Century masterpieces of clockmaking in the Museum of Watchmaking in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - history, evolution and descriptions - notes, biblio. and index. As new-. CHF 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 145.25 US$ 216.04 \| £UK 129.75 \| JP¥ 19213] Book number: 005330 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE ET AL Montre (La) - Des Origines Au XIXe Siecle Fribourg , Switzerland, Office Du Livre. 1985. (ISBN: 282640024X) Cloth, 11 By 10 Inches. 240 pages - in French - signed by the author - 180 color and duotone illustrations - a history of pocket and other watches from the earliest ones in the 16th Century to 19th Century French, Swiss and English ones - special emphasis on the decorative aspects - bibliography, documentary archives and index. New -/New -. CHF 76.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 US$ 74.63 \| £UK 44.75 \| JP¥ 6637] Book number: 003699 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE Montres et Horloges De Table Du Musee Du Louvre (Les) Paris, France, Reunion Des Musees Nationaux. 2000. (ISBN: 2711840387) softcover-, 27 x 22 Cms. 262 pages - in French - 339 b/w illustrations - a chronological description of the extraordinary collection of 339 French, English, Swiss, German and Dutch 16th to 19th century mantel clocks donated by Jules-RenÃ© Olivier to the Louvre Museum in Paris - vanished clocks, bios. of the clockmakers, biblio. concordances, hallmarks, enamellers and general index. New-. CHF 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53 US$ 78.56 \| £UK 47.25 \| JP¥ 6986] Book number: 008232 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAILLE, FRANCOIS Girard-Perregaux Paris, France, Flammarion. 2004. (ISBN: 2080304658) Cloth-, 29.5 x 26 cms. 224 pages - in English - over 100 color plates - a history of Genevan watchmakers Gerard-Perregaux, their many innovations and the watches that they have produced over the years - index (for version in French of this book, see ISBN 8843542761). New-/New-. CHF 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.75 US$ 157.12 \| £UK 94.25 \| JP¥ 13973] Book number: 008230 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAPIRO, ADOLPHE French Clocks (the most beautiful) Paris, France, Tardy. 1994. Hardcover, 32.5 x 24.5 cms. 400 pages - in French, English German, Spanish and Italian - translated with the help of Alexander Ballantyne - over 1,000 illustrations, incl. 82 color plates - the 2nd vol. in Tardy's series on French clocks, featuring mid-18th Louis XVI to late 19th Century Charles X masterpieces - clocks, dials, hands, pendulum bobs, cabinet making, marble work, bronze work, protecting globs, striking mechanisms, musics, movements and more - recap of other related volumes. Book. CHF 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 145.25 US$ 216.04 \| £UK 129.75 \| JP¥ 19213] Book number: 004921 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAPIRO, ADOLPHE Montre fancaise Du XVI Siecle Jusqu'a 1900 Paris, France, Editions De L'Amateur. 1991. (ISBN: 2859171207) Clothbound, 11 1/2 x 9 3/4". 463 pages - in French - over 882 illustrations in color and b/w - An in-depth study of the French watch dating from 1500 to the modern times - List of the names of watchmakers in France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and England - list of museums displaying French watches - Glossary - Bibliography - Alphabetical Index - Index. New -/New -. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 196.4 \| £UK 117.75 \| JP¥ 17466] Book number: 004569 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHILDERS, CAROLINE Designers of Time New York, Rizzoli. 1999. (ISBN: 0847821927) Wrappers-, 28 x 28 cms. square-. 142 pages - in English - around 400 color and duotone illustrations - a celebration of watch design and designers - history, pre-1970s designs, Pierre Balmain, Boucheron, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Chopard, Piranesi, Verdura and Versace. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008218 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COLOGNI, FRANCO ET AL Montres et Merveilles De Piaget Paris, France, Bibliotheque Des Arts. 1994. (ISBN: 2850472557) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 29 x 25 Cms. 264 pages - in French - around 300 color illustrations - a history of Swiss watchmakers Piaget and a description of their many models throughout the years - essays by Franco Cologni, Giampiero Negretti and Franco Nencini - early years 1874-1945 - birth of a myth 1945-1960 - the boom years 1960-1970 - haute couture, haute technology 1970-1980 - the luxury years 1980-1988 - great and unique models - 1988 a new era begins. New-/New-. CHF 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 109 US$ 162.03 \| £UK 97.25 \| JP¥ 14410] Book number: 008225 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GORDON, GEORGE Rolex, Timeless Elegance Hong Kong - China, Zie Yongder. 1988. (ISBN: 9627359017) Hardbound in a Slipcase, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 350 pages - in English - 292 color illustrations - An entire volume dedicated to the famous Swiss watch manufacturer Rolex presenting the entire collection of the brand from the very beginning in 1905 with full details for each piece - The advertisements, honours, wristwatches, dials, cases, movements and references are fully assembled with the reproduction of the original designs of Rolex at the end of the book. New -. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 196.4 \| £UK 117.75 \| JP¥ 17466] Book number: 001612 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	KJELLBERG, PIERRE Pendule Francaise (Encyclopedie De La ) Paris, France, Editions De L'Amateur. 1997. (ISBN: 2859174125) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 28 x 24 Cms. 528 pages - in French - around 1,000 color illustrations - a majestic encylopaedia of French clocks, from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century - annexes: the French clock, museums, main clockmakers, main bronze workers, biblio. and index of names. New-/New-. CHF 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 US$ 294.6 \| £UK 176.75 \| JP¥ 26199] Book number: 008709 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PATRIZZI, OSVALDO Patek Philippe Wristwatches (Collecting) Turin, Italy, Guido Mondani. 2004. (ISBN: 8890051426) Hard Cover in a Slipcase, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 2 vols. each has 320 pages - in English, Italian and French - a sumptuous book with 1,272 dazzlingly sharp color photo. repros. incl many plates - attached booklet with price estimates - one of the key gurus of the watchmaking industry presents 1,272 models of wristwatches made by Patek Philippe of Geneva, Switzerland - Patek Philippe chronology - complicated watches, simple calendar and moon phases, astronomic, perpetual calendar, gold, platinum, jewel-encrusted, chronographic, hand-painted, unique and many, many other P.P. wristwatches - index of references. New -. CHF 480.00 [Appr.: EURO 317 US$ 471.36 \| £UK 282.75 \| JP¥ 41919] Book number: 003347 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PATRIZZI, OSVALDO Rolex - Collecting Modern and Vintage Wristwatches Genoa, Italy, Guido Mondani. 2006. (ISBN: 8890051434) Cloth in an Illustr. Slipcase, 31.5 x 26 cms. 2 vols. 848 pages - accompanied by a 50-page booklet of price estimates and useful addresses for the collector - in Italian and English - over 2,000 color illustrations and figs. - one of the world's foremost experts on watches describes over 2,000 models of vintage and modern Rolexes in an updated edition of his classic work. Weighs 8 kilograms. New -/New -. CHF 700.00 [Appr.: EURO 462.25 US$ 687.4 \| £UK 412.25 \| JP¥ 61132] Book number: 004188 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK English Precision Pendulum Clocks Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2003. (ISBN: 0764318462) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 296 pages - in English - over 700 mostly color illustrations - a history of English precision clocks between 1720 and the 19th Century, featuring works by 18th Century horologists Shelton, Ellicott, Arnold, Cumming, Earnshaw, Vuilliamys, Reid and Hardy and others - glossary and index. New-/New-. CHF 180.00 [Appr.: EURO 119 US$ 176.76 \| £UK 106 \| JP¥ 15720] Book number: 008802 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK Precision Pendulum Clocks - the Quest for Accurate Timekeeping Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2003. (ISBN: 0764316362) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 224 pages - in English - nearly 300 color, duotone and b/w illustrations - a description of the struggle by clockmakers for over 300 years, mainly in England, to develop accurate timepieces - essays on early pendulum clocks, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Mean and other times, factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum, compensated pendulums, escapements, electric clocks, pendulum clock precision 175-1960, Thomas Tompion, George Graham, John Harrison, and, more - glossary of terms and index. New-/New-. CHF 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 99.25 US$ 147.3 \| £UK 88.5 \| JP¥ 13100] Book number: 008878 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK Precision Pendulum Clocks - France, Germany, America and Recent Advancements Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2004. (ISBN: 0764320211) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 288 pages - in English - over 500 color and b/w illustrations - a history of precision pendulum clocks, from 18th France to 19th Century Germany and the U.S.A. to F.M. Fedchenko's pendulum astronomical clock and the Littlemore clock - glossary and index. New-/New-. CHF 170.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.94 \| £UK 100.25 \| JP¥ 14846] Book number: 008216 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	SABRIER, JEAN-CLAUDE/RIGOT, GEORGES Montres En Acier - Naissance D'une Industrie Geneva, Swirzerland, Georges Naef/Editions De l'Amateur. 2006. (ISBN: 2831303966) hardcover-, 30.5 x 22 Cms. 312 pages - in French - over 700 mostly color illustrations - a work on the 1847 birth and the evolution of the steel watch industry as reflected in the collection of over 225 pocket watches assembled by a collector which today are part of the Journe Watch collection in Geneva, Switzerland - materials, decorations, regulating watches, monthly watches, chronographs, universal time watches, special indication watches, long-winding watches, alarm watches, watches with visible moving parts, wind-up watches, automatic and other watches - annexes, incl. technical details, prices and more - bios. of the authors and bibliography. New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 98.2 \| £UK 59 \| JP¥ 8733] Book number: 006362 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	STURM, XAVIERE F./GOUTEN, FRANCIS Montres et Merveilles Milan, Italy, Electa. 1992. (ISBN: 8843542761) Wrappers-, 24 x 22 Cms. in a pictorial slipcase - 164 pages - in French - 62 color plates and 202 b/w illustrations - published to coincide with the 1992 showing at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, of 200 rare and unusual watches from the Museum of Watchmaking in Geneva, Switzerland and from the Piaget private collections - essays on the Genevese watchmaking tradition and on the Piaget collections - plates - catalogue. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008224 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	VON BERTELE, HANS ET AL French Clocks the World Over - Part Four Paris, France, Tardy. 1985, 5th Edition 1985. (ISBN: 290162216X) Cloth, 33 x 25 Cms. 624 pages - in French and English - translated from the French with the help of Alexander Ballantyne - around 2,000 duotone and color illustrations - the 4th vol. of the Tardy series on French clocks describes French clocks made, or in collections, in Northern, Middle, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe and Japan - recap of contents of previous 3 volumes. New-/New-. CHF 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 US$ 294.6 \| £UK 176.75 \| JP¥ 26199] Book number: 004919 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ZAPATA, JANET/ D'AMBROSIO, ANNA TOBIN Jewels of Time - Watches from the Muson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Utica, New York, Brodock Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0915895234) Wrappers, 28 x 22 cms. 116 pages - in English - around 100 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2001 showings at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York and at the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas, of 80 remarkable timepieces from the Munson-Williams-Proctor collection, incl. early watches, enamel, gold, varicolored gold, form, Renaissance, unusual and other singular watches - essays on the art and science of the watch and the Thomas R. and Proctor collections, descriptions of the timepieces on display - glossary, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 004848 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.

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	BREGUET, EMMANUEL ET AL Breguet - Un Apogee De l'Horlogerie Europeenne Paris, France, Somogy. 2009. (ISBN: 9782757202678) pictorial hardcover-, 29 x 28 cms. 264 pages - in French - over 500 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2009 showing at the Louvre Museum in Paris of fine watches made by Breguet of Geneva - contributions by Nicolas Hayek, Arlette-Elsa Emch, Marc Bascou, Emmanuel Breguet and Rodolphe De Pieri - a history of Breguet's founder, industrial showings, international network, favored watches, political relations, mentions in literature, patents, 2000-2008 innovations and more - chronology, glossary, list of pieces on display, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 49.75 US$ 73.65 \| £UK 44.25 \| JP¥ 6550] Book number: 009392 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	BRUNNER, GISBERT L./PFEIFFER-BELLI, CHRISTIAN Wristwatches Cologne, Germany, Konemann. 1999. (ISBN: 3829006608) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 512 pages - in English, German and French - over 2,100 color illustrations - a description of the century of the wristwatch, featuring the stories of 84 of the century's most famous watch producers - manual winding, automatic winding, collecting, time signals, movements, dates, design, repeating wristwatches, vortex, the chronograph, IWC chronograph, cosmopolitan time and more. New-/New-. CHF 120.00 [Appr.: EURO 79.25 US$ 117.84 \| £UK 70.75 \| JP¥ 10480] Book number: 008715 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE ET AL Horlogerie Dans l'Histoire, les Arts et les Sciences (L') Lausanne, Switzerland, Scriptar. 1983. (ISBN: 2880120160) , 30 x 30 cms. Square. no.1,119 of an edition limited to 1,400 - signed by the author - bound in gilded padded silk taffetas with a color pastedown on the front cover - in a cardboard slipcase - designed by Franco Maria Ricci - 128 pages - in French - 42 color tip-in plates and over 50 b/w illustrations - photographs by W. Abplanalp - a handsome book featuring 16th to 19th Century masterpieces of clockmaking in the Museum of Watchmaking in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland - history, evolution and descriptions - notes, biblio. and index. As new-. CHF 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 145.25 US$ 216.04 \| £UK 129.75 \| JP¥ 19213] Book number: 005330 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE ET AL Montre (La) - Des Origines Au XIXe Siecle Fribourg , Switzerland, Office Du Livre. 1985. (ISBN: 282640024X) Cloth, 11 By 10 Inches. 240 pages - in French - signed by the author - 180 color and duotone illustrations - a history of pocket and other watches from the earliest ones in the 16th Century to 19th Century French, Swiss and English ones - special emphasis on the decorative aspects - bibliography, documentary archives and index. New -/New -. CHF 76.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.25 US$ 74.63 \| £UK 44.75 \| JP¥ 6637] Book number: 003699 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CARDINAL, CATHERINE Montres et Horloges De Table Du Musee Du Louvre (Les) Paris, France, Reunion Des Musees Nationaux. 2000. (ISBN: 2711840387) softcover-, 27 x 22 Cms. 262 pages - in French - 339 b/w illustrations - a chronological description of the extraordinary collection of 339 French, English, Swiss, German and Dutch 16th to 19th century mantel clocks donated by Jules-RenÃ© Olivier to the Louvre Museum in Paris - vanished clocks, bios. of the clockmakers, biblio. concordances, hallmarks, enamellers and general index. New-. CHF 80.00 [Appr.: EURO 53 US$ 78.56 \| £UK 47.25 \| JP¥ 6986] Book number: 008232 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAILLE, FRANCOIS Girard-Perregaux Paris, France, Flammarion. 2004. (ISBN: 2080304658) Cloth-, 29.5 x 26 cms. 224 pages - in English - over 100 color plates - a history of Genevan watchmakers Gerard-Perregaux, their many innovations and the watches that they have produced over the years - index (for version in French of this book, see ISBN 8843542761). New-/New-. CHF 160.00 [Appr.: EURO 105.75 US$ 157.12 \| £UK 94.25 \| JP¥ 13973] Book number: 008230 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAPIRO, ADOLPHE French Clocks (the most beautiful) Paris, France, Tardy. 1994. Hardcover, 32.5 x 24.5 cms. 400 pages - in French, English German, Spanish and Italian - translated with the help of Alexander Ballantyne - over 1,000 illustrations, incl. 82 color plates - the 2nd vol. in Tardy's series on French clocks, featuring mid-18th Louis XVI to late 19th Century Charles X masterpieces - clocks, dials, hands, pendulum bobs, cabinet making, marble work, bronze work, protecting globs, striking mechanisms, musics, movements and more - recap of other related volumes. Book. CHF 220.00 [Appr.: EURO 145.25 US$ 216.04 \| £UK 129.75 \| JP¥ 19213] Book number: 004921 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHAPIRO, ADOLPHE Montre fancaise Du XVI Siecle Jusqu'a 1900 Paris, France, Editions De L'Amateur. 1991. (ISBN: 2859171207) Clothbound, 11 1/2 x 9 3/4". 463 pages - in French - over 882 illustrations in color and b/w - An in-depth study of the French watch dating from 1500 to the modern times - List of the names of watchmakers in France, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium and England - list of museums displaying French watches - Glossary - Bibliography - Alphabetical Index - Index. New -/New -. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 196.4 \| £UK 117.75 \| JP¥ 17466] Book number: 004569 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	CHILDERS, CAROLINE Designers of Time New York, Rizzoli. 1999. (ISBN: 0847821927) Wrappers-, 28 x 28 cms. square-. 142 pages - in English - around 400 color and duotone illustrations - a celebration of watch design and designers - history, pre-1970s designs, Pierre Balmain, Boucheron, Calvin Klein, Chanel, Chopard, Piranesi, Verdura and Versace. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008218 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	COLOGNI, FRANCO ET AL Montres et Merveilles De Piaget Paris, France, Bibliotheque Des Arts. 1994. (ISBN: 2850472557) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 29 x 25 Cms. 264 pages - in French - around 300 color illustrations - a history of Swiss watchmakers Piaget and a description of their many models throughout the years - essays by Franco Cologni, Giampiero Negretti and Franco Nencini - early years 1874-1945 - birth of a myth 1945-1960 - the boom years 1960-1970 - haute couture, haute technology 1970-1980 - the luxury years 1980-1988 - great and unique models - 1988 a new era begins. New-/New-. CHF 165.00 [Appr.: EURO 109 US$ 162.03 \| £UK 97.25 \| JP¥ 14410] Book number: 008225 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	GORDON, GEORGE Rolex, Timeless Elegance Hong Kong - China, Zie Yongder. 1988. (ISBN: 9627359017) Hardbound in a Slipcase, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 350 pages - in English - 292 color illustrations - An entire volume dedicated to the famous Swiss watch manufacturer Rolex presenting the entire collection of the brand from the very beginning in 1905 with full details for each piece - The advertisements, honours, wristwatches, dials, cases, movements and references are fully assembled with the reproduction of the original designs of Rolex at the end of the book. New -. CHF 200.00 [Appr.: EURO 132.25 US$ 196.4 \| £UK 117.75 \| JP¥ 17466] Book number: 001612 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	KJELLBERG, PIERRE Pendule Francaise (Encyclopedie De La ) Paris, France, Editions De L'Amateur. 1997. (ISBN: 2859174125) Gilt Embossed Cloth-, 28 x 24 Cms. 528 pages - in French - around 1,000 color illustrations - a majestic encylopaedia of French clocks, from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century - annexes: the French clock, museums, main clockmakers, main bronze workers, biblio. and index of names. New-/New-. CHF 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 US$ 294.6 \| £UK 176.75 \| JP¥ 26199] Book number: 008709 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PATRIZZI, OSVALDO Patek Philippe Wristwatches (Collecting) Turin, Italy, Guido Mondani. 2004. (ISBN: 8890051426) Hard Cover in a Slipcase, Folio - over 12" - 15" tall. 2 vols. each has 320 pages - in English, Italian and French - a sumptuous book with 1,272 dazzlingly sharp color photo. repros. incl many plates - attached booklet with price estimates - one of the key gurus of the watchmaking industry presents 1,272 models of wristwatches made by Patek Philippe of Geneva, Switzerland - Patek Philippe chronology - complicated watches, simple calendar and moon phases, astronomic, perpetual calendar, gold, platinum, jewel-encrusted, chronographic, hand-painted, unique and many, many other P.P. wristwatches - index of references. New -. CHF 480.00 [Appr.: EURO 317 US$ 471.36 \| £UK 282.75 \| JP¥ 41919] Book number: 003347 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	PATRIZZI, OSVALDO Rolex - Collecting Modern and Vintage Wristwatches Genoa, Italy, Guido Mondani. 2006. (ISBN: 8890051434) Cloth in an Illustr. Slipcase, 31.5 x 26 cms. 2 vols. 848 pages - accompanied by a 50-page booklet of price estimates and useful addresses for the collector - in Italian and English - over 2,000 color illustrations and figs. - one of the world's foremost experts on watches describes over 2,000 models of vintage and modern Rolexes in an updated edition of his classic work. Weighs 8 kilograms. New -/New -. CHF 700.00 [Appr.: EURO 462.25 US$ 687.4 \| £UK 412.25 \| JP¥ 61132] Book number: 004188 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK English Precision Pendulum Clocks Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2003. (ISBN: 0764318462) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 296 pages - in English - over 700 mostly color illustrations - a history of English precision clocks between 1720 and the 19th Century, featuring works by 18th Century horologists Shelton, Ellicott, Arnold, Cumming, Earnshaw, Vuilliamys, Reid and Hardy and others - glossary and index. New-/New-. CHF 180.00 [Appr.: EURO 119 US$ 176.76 \| £UK 106 \| JP¥ 15720] Book number: 008802 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK Precision Pendulum Clocks - the Quest for Accurate Timekeeping Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2003. (ISBN: 0764316362) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 224 pages - in English - nearly 300 color, duotone and b/w illustrations - a description of the struggle by clockmakers for over 300 years, mainly in England, to develop accurate timepieces - essays on early pendulum clocks, the Royal Observatory, Greenwich Mean and other times, factors affecting the isochronicity of a pendulum, compensated pendulums, escapements, electric clocks, pendulum clock precision 175-1960, Thomas Tompion, George Graham, John Harrison, and, more - glossary of terms and index. New-/New-. CHF 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 99.25 US$ 147.3 \| £UK 88.5 \| JP¥ 13100] Book number: 008878 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ROBERTS, DEREK Precision Pendulum Clocks - France, Germany, America and Recent Advancements Atglen, PA, USA, Schiffer. 2004. (ISBN: 0764320211) Cloth-, 31 x 24 Cms. 288 pages - in English - over 500 color and b/w illustrations - a history of precision pendulum clocks, from 18th France to 19th Century Germany and the U.S.A. to F.M. Fedchenko's pendulum astronomical clock and the Littlemore clock - glossary and index. New-/New-. CHF 170.00 [Appr.: EURO 112.25 US$ 166.94 \| £UK 100.25 \| JP¥ 14846] Book number: 008216 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	SABRIER, JEAN-CLAUDE/RIGOT, GEORGES Montres En Acier - Naissance D'une Industrie Geneva, Swirzerland, Georges Naef/Editions De l'Amateur. 2006. (ISBN: 2831303966) hardcover-, 30.5 x 22 Cms. 312 pages - in French - over 700 mostly color illustrations - a work on the 1847 birth and the evolution of the steel watch industry as reflected in the collection of over 225 pocket watches assembled by a collector which today are part of the Journe Watch collection in Geneva, Switzerland - materials, decorations, regulating watches, monthly watches, chronographs, universal time watches, special indication watches, long-winding watches, alarm watches, watches with visible moving parts, wind-up watches, automatic and other watches - annexes, incl. technical details, prices and more - bios. of the authors and bibliography. New-. CHF 100.00 [Appr.: EURO 66.25 US$ 98.2 \| £UK 59 \| JP¥ 8733] Book number: 006362 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	STURM, XAVIERE F./GOUTEN, FRANCIS Montres et Merveilles Milan, Italy, Electa. 1992. (ISBN: 8843542761) Wrappers-, 24 x 22 Cms. in a pictorial slipcase - 164 pages - in French - 62 color plates and 202 b/w illustrations - published to coincide with the 1992 showing at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, Italy, of 200 rare and unusual watches from the Museum of Watchmaking in Geneva, Switzerland and from the Piaget private collections - essays on the Genevese watchmaking tradition and on the Piaget collections - plates - catalogue. New-. CHF 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.25 US$ 49.1 \| £UK 29.5 \| JP¥ 4367] Book number: 008224 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	VON BERTELE, HANS ET AL French Clocks the World Over - Part Four Paris, France, Tardy. 1985, 5th Edition 1985. (ISBN: 290162216X) Cloth, 33 x 25 Cms. 624 pages - in French and English - translated from the French with the help of Alexander Ballantyne - around 2,000 duotone and color illustrations - the 4th vol. of the Tardy series on French clocks describes French clocks made, or in collections, in Northern, Middle, Eastern and Mediterranean Europe and Japan - recap of contents of previous 3 volumes. New-/New-. CHF 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 198.25 US$ 294.6 \| £UK 176.75 \| JP¥ 26199] Book number: 004919 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.
	ZAPATA, JANET/ D'AMBROSIO, ANNA TOBIN Jewels of Time - Watches from the Muson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Utica, New York, Brodock Press. 2001. (ISBN: 0915895234) Wrappers, 28 x 22 cms. 116 pages - in English - around 100 color illustrations - published to coincide with the 2001 showings at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art in Utica, New York and at the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas, of 80 remarkable timepieces from the Munson-Williams-Proctor collection, incl. early watches, enamel, gold, varicolored gold, form, Renaissance, unusual and other singular watches - essays on the art and science of the watch and the Thomas R. and Proctor collections, descriptions of the timepieces on display - glossary, biblio. and index. New-. CHF 55.00 [Appr.: EURO 36.5 US$ 54.01 \| £UK 32.5 \| JP¥ 4803] Book number: 004848 Click here to order or inquire at Librairie Bernard Letu.