Author: Eugene Jaquet; Alfred Chapuis
Title: Technique and History of the Swiss Watch: From Its Beginnings to the Present Day
Description: Boston, Boston Book and Art Shop, 1953. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this illustrated history of the Swiss watch. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-two colour plates, one hundred and ninety monochromatic plates, and many in-text figures. Collated complete. A detailed history of the Swiss watch, with chapters on the beginnings of watch-making in Switzerland, the watch industry, the eighteenth century, decoration, commerce, nineteenth century, chronometry, later evolution and the modern watch. Written by Eugene Jaquet and Alfred Chapuis, Swiss historians and writers. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, very smart with minor wear to the extremities. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also very smart with light wear and the odd small mark to the panels. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with light age toning and the odd mark to the endpapers. Near Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Near Fine/Near Fine.

Keywords: Technique History Swiss Watch History Chapuis Not Stated


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