Wristwatch Annual 2007 (Wristwatch Annual)

Book Description

Every year brings hundreds of new wristwatch designs, with aesthetic and mechanical changes and improvements, limited edition watches, and new producers, keeping this field exciting for collectors. Following the success of last year's book, the new annual features over 1,700 of the world's most luxurious wristwatches and provides color photographs and complete specifications for each watch. With Wristwatch Annual, collectors have a wealth of information close at hand: the book is arranged alphabetically by producer, and within each producer's section are specifications and materials for each watch, including price, movement, special features, complications, case, dial, band, and available variations of a particular model. A glossary and pronunciation guide help acclimate the reader to the world of fine timepieces, and, for prospective buyers, the addresses of all featured producers are listed together.

The elegant photography and layout will encourage people to peruse the year's offerings for aesthetic appeal as well. The range of styles, from classic to modern, reflects the inclusive nature of this book, which watch collectors around the world will find both a handy reference and required reading.

Featured manufacturers: Alpina; Svend Anderson; Angular Momentum; Anonimo; Arnold & Son; Audemars Piguet; Ball Watch Company; Baume & Mercier; Bell & Ross; Ernst Benz; Blancpain; blu; Rainer Brand; Martin Braun; Breguet; Breitling; Carl F. Bucherer; Buti; Bvlgari; Nouvelle Horlogerie Calabrese; Cartier; Chase-Durer; Chopard; Chronoswiss; Frédérique Constant; Corum; Cuervo y Sobrinos; Cyclos; d.freemont; Davosa; de Bethune; de Grisogono; deWitt; Doxa; Dubey & Schaldenbrand; Roger Dubuis; Dunhill; Ebel; Eberhard & Co.; Epos; Louis Erard; Eterna; Jacques Etoile; Fabergé; Carlo Ferrara; Formex; Fortis; Gérald Genta; Gevril; Girard-Perregaux; Glashütte Original; Glycine; Graham; Hanhart; Harwood; Hermès; Hublot; IWC; Jacob & Co.; Jaeger-LeCoultre; Jaquet Droz; Daniel JeanRichard; F.P. Journe; Urban Jürgensen; Kobold; Kurth; Maurice Lacroix; A. Lange & Söhne; Limes; Longines; Marcello C.; Meistersinger; Mido; Richard Mille; Milus; Daniel Mink; Montblanc; H. Moser; Movado; Mühle; Franck Muller; Ulysse Nardin; NBY; Armand Nicolet; Rainer Nienaber; Nivrel; Nomos; Omega; Oris; Panerai; Parmigiani; Patek Philippe; Piaget; Paul Picot; Polijot-International; Porsche Design; Rado; Auguste Reymond; RGM; Rolex; Daniel Roth; Scalfaro; Jörg Schauer; Alain Silberstein; Sinn; Sothis; Stowa; Swiss Army; TAG Heuer; Temption; Tissot; Tudor; Tutima; Union; Vacheron Constantin; Ventura; Vollmer; George J von Burg; Harry Winston; Xemex; Dino Zei; Zenith; Zeno.

With additional reports on: B.R.M.; DeLaneau; Hautlence; Jean-Mairet & Gillman; Jacques Lemans; Giuliano Mazzuoli; Louis Moinet; Officina del Tempo; SWI.

Complete Price Guide to Watches
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An old standby continues moving along

Pocket Watches

Informative Guide to American watches

Good Price Guide

Great - But

Complete Price Guide to Watches
Tom Engle , Richard E. Gilbert , and Cooksey Shugart
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Wristwatch Annual 2007 (Wristwatch Annual)

ASIN: 1574325531

Customer Reviews:

An old standby continues moving along.......2007-08-17

This used to be considered the bible of pricing of vintage watches - it is a tremendous piece of work - however many models are missing and prices
need updating as the economy has changed very much in a few short years.
However for the beginner there is no better book to learn and have
a handy reference to save money and not lose it when buying an old watch

Pocket Watches.......2007-07-19

The book is not perfect, but it is a great bargain for the money. It is reasonably easy to use and yet detailed in the descriptions and explanations. I was able to pick out my watches and establish a value very quickly. I used it for all my eBay purchases. I do recommend this book as a great reference for pocket watches.

Informative Guide to American watches.......2007-07-13

This is a practical guide to watches and their prices. It dwells mostly on American pocket watches, and in this aspect it is most informative. It is less so on European pocket watches and wrist watches, but still manages to cover a lot of ground. The pricing seems accurate as a guideline.

Good Price Guide.......2007-07-08

An excellent guide to watch values. Strongest for American Pocket Watches and weaker IMO for European Pocket watches and for wrist watches, particularly Quartz.

Great - But.......2007-04-16

I appreciate the amount of information in the book and the author's time invested in the update.

One of my major interests is in the Hamilton 992B pocket watch. I noticed that the author drastically changed the dates of manufacture related to the serial numbers. This is very disappointing. The 992B has not been made for 40 years. Why is the author changing the information?

I wanted to purchase a 992B for the year I was born. This reference book has let me down in having assurance of when that actual date was. The 992B serial number for my birth year was 490,000-495,000 now it is 516,000-520,000.

This lends me to loose trust in the book as a reference. Was the former information incorrect or the current information? At least an explanation on why the change was made could have been provided.

The Bottom Line: It is an excellent reference but the watch collecting information presented is subject to change - so don't depend on it.

Technique and history of the Swiss watch

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Technique and history of the Swiss watch
Eugene Jaquet
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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
An interesting read, but not exceptional.
Not a boring science textbook
A Great Story
Solving the Problem of Longitude

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
Dava Sobel
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The thorniest scientific problem of the eighteenth century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position. This is the engrossing story of the clockmaker, John "Longitude" Harrison, who solved the problem that Newton and Galileo had failed to conquer, yet claimed only half the promised rich reward.

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Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that “the longitude problem” was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day—and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives, and the increasing fortunes of nations, hung on a resolution.

The scientific establishment of Europe—from Galileo to Sir Isaac Newton—had mapped the heavens in both hemispheres in its certain pursuit of a celestial answer. In stark contrast, one man, John Harrison, dared to imagine a mechanical solution—a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest, and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

Customer Reviews:

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time.......2007-08-31

A mediocre book , the author clearly has no scientific knowlegde and drags the story out as if it was a Soap opera . No diagrams / drawings / patent descriptions are included , meagre technical information . NOT worth the effort of reading . this publication is an insult to the intelligence . ABSOLUTE RUBBISH . ( and I have read it ). William Asquith .

An interesting read, but not exceptional........2007-06-27

Dava Sobel's 'Longitude' makes for a quick, light read. The story covers an interesting slice of history, but Longitude hardy distinguishes itself as being a great book. The largest problem is that the "lone genius who solved the greatest scientific problem of his time," John Harrison, is not a man about whom very much is known. Everything that is known about him could be fitted onto one of the (paperback) book's 175 pages. It's a bit remarkable that Sobel was able to milk a book from minimal and disjointed known facts. The story is really about the longitude problem itself, and the Harrison 'enemies' long-running success in undermining Harrison's solution, a precision chronometer that could maintain accuracy under the widely varied environmental conditions encountered by mariners.

Sobel's 'Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love,' is, in every way, a better book. For those interested in a fast-paced historical exposition of "a lone genius" advancing science but meeting maddening resistance from England's celebrity scientific elite (yes, it's a theme that parallels Sobel's 'Longitude'), by all means secure a copy of Tom Standage's 'The Neptune File: A Story of Astronomical Rivalry and the Pioneers of Planet Hunting,' the story of John Couch Adams' startling genius and the developments of planetary astronomy from William Herschel to our current spectroscopic and mathematical hunt for distant exoplanets.

Not a bad book, but not great either.

Not a boring science textbook.......2007-06-23

Sobel brings science to life in this tell of the quest to solve the navigational conundrum of measuring position. Her writing is visual and fluid. The book tells a gripping story that brings in bits of politics, geography, economics, philosophy, and many other disciplines. It proves that fact can be stranger than fiction. This is a great read for anyone of any age and with any area of interest.

A Great Story.......2007-06-12

Longitude and latitude tell a sailor or aviator or hiker where in the entire world he or she is. If latitude is known, one knows how far north or south of the equator he or she is. But that's a circle all the way around the earth. To find the point on that circle, the sailor's longitude must be known. Without longitude, ships missed resupply islands in the south pacific by a couple of miles or by hundreds of miles - and never knew it. They crashed into rocks wandering around like you would in a dark room - the door is on the other side but, where?

The earth is round and, therefore, there are 360 degrees in the circumference. The earth makes one rotation every 24 hours and the sun stays put. That is, the earth rotates at the rate of 15 degrees per hour. So, if I know the time at some point in the world and I know the local time, I can calculate where I am on the circle of latitude. I can determine local noon and then I look at my very accurate clock and determine the time in, say, London. If it's four hours earlier in London, I know I am 4 x 15 or 60 degrees around the world from London. I shoot the sun with my sextant to find my latitude and now I know where I am.

The problem was - how do I know what time it is in London when I'm in the south pacific. Even on land, clocks were not even close to accurate - they'd lose several minutes a day. Many solutions were proposed - my favorites were the "sympathetic dogs" and the line of cannon firing ships. The dog solution involved having a dog in London and a dog on the ship. Since it was well known that dogs communicate telepathically, if the dog in London was pinched, the dog on the ship would feel it and yelp. So - pinch the dog at noon and - voila! That didn't work so the next idea was to put a string of ships across the oceans beginning in London. Put them at one mile intervals and have the crews listen. At noon a cannon would be fired in London and the first ship would fire its cannon. The second ship would hear it and fire its cannon. and so forth across all the oceans. When a cruising ship heard the cannon, the captain knew it was noon in London. Too many ships, too much money and what to do during a storm.

Harrison's first clock was accurate to 1/2 second per day. That's in the mid seventeen hundreds. That's better than most clocks and watches made anywhere in the world up to about 30 years ago. He ultimately made a large watch - about five inches across - that was able to keep London time so accurately the British Navy could go anywhere and find what they were looking for and the way home. But think of the problems - the ship is rolling and pitching so a pendulum won't work. The temperature and humidity change so the mechanism slows or speeds up or rusts. There were no computer chips or quartz crystals. And there were many important people saying, "God is the answer - look to the heavens."

It's a story about something we take so easily for granted today. Our throwaway watches are more accurate than anything imaginable when Harrison started. An atomic clock measures time to the billionth of a second and we think nothing of it - but without those clocks we would have no satellite communication, no weather satellites, no space program. It's a story about a man who didn't know the answer but was determined to find it. Harrison had no computer, no modern machine tools, no precedent. His story is absolutely amazing. And it is told wonderfully by Dava Sobel. I've read it three times and have enjoyed it each of them.

Solving the Problem of Longitude.......2007-06-09

I read this book from the perspective of an old naval aviator who used to fix the position of his aircraft using celestial navigation. Having estimated the position of my aircraft using the stars and planets as the only means to navigate across the Pacific, Indian or Atlantic Oceans, I am profoundly aware of the difficulties associated with the determination of longitude. I am also aware that the modern (by 1950 standards) sextant that I used made the task of sighting a celestial body many times easier than that of a sailor on a rolling and pitching on a 150 ton sailing ship. I greatly enjoyed this story. It connected and resonated with my nautical background and experiences. I was not aware of the history of how this problem was solved. I routinely used Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) in my military career, but could not explain why that was the prime meridian.

This is also the well told story of the clockmaker Harrison and his incredible determination to win the longitude prize. The story was well told. I only wish it were longer.

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A great craft
Tick tock
Getting it to work is great! keeping it working is astounding!
Frustration and depression
Educational if not functional

Make Your Own Working Paper Clock
James Smith Rudolph
Manufacturer: Harper Paperbacks
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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.

Customer Reviews:

A great craft.......2007-03-16

Okay, first and foremost I love making 3d models out of paper, papercraft is one of my most beloved hobbies. With that said this is a great template to create an amazing working paper clock. It is challenging only in the fact that you must be accurate and cannot cut or fold slopply and get away with it. I had to make the main gear and two of the other sub gears several times before I could get the clock to work. It is a challange and it will take about a week to build if you work dilligently every night for about 1-2 hours. I enjoyed building it as much as I enjoy looking at it now. I have bought several copies of the book and recommend it to anyone who is interested in a good project that leaves you with an amazing piece of art when you are done. A definate conversation piece.

Tick tock.......2007-02-11

We built this clock in the late seventies. I have two copies now on my shelf waiting for some volunteer to scan it. I'm sure Gutenberg could find a place for it . We hardened some of the gears with coats of thinned Elmers glue. I think we made the weights and later borrowed the weights from a Cuckoo clock. The pendulum was a coat hanger. We gave it a little more clearance from the wall by making it a little wooden plaque.It hung in the same room as an English case clock from the 1700's and a cuckoo clock from Heidleberg. It ran (when wound) for about five years. It shared a column with two painted fish cookies from Chinatown (also hardened with Elmer's) As I remember they all finally succumbed to a combination of dogs and mildew.

Getting it to work is great! keeping it working is astounding!.......2006-12-07

When I was on a Submarine while in the US Navy I built one. It worked for about twenty minutes. Then everybody and their brother took a shot at fixing that !@#$%^ paper clock in the crew's lounge. There were Nuclear Machinist Mates, Radio and Radar Technicians, Torpedomen, and even the Cooks took a shot. The Officers pretended to think it was beneath them until sombody saw the Engineer fiddling with it. Then the whole crew played with it. It was a great group project. A real camraderie builder. After a month or so of tinkering we ran the damn thing through the shredder. It was a totally fun project and watching know-it-alls fail to fix it was priceless.
There really is a secret to getting it to work that I know and will share if you e-mail me. my third one worked good. Here is a hint Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure Measure Measure Mesure, RTFIx2, and NEVER ASSUME!

Frustration and depression.......2006-08-05

Of the 17 reviews here, only three claim to have got the clock to work. I'm surprised there are any at all. I got as far as the escapement, but no amount of twiddling and adjusting would get it to work properly. Isaac Asimov in the Introduction recommends buying two copies, so that you can learn from your mistakes, but I don't see how that would help, since I already had cut and assembled as painstakingly as I am capable. I think the source of my problems may have been the gluing, which warped some of the parts. But I don't see any way of avoiding this: the parts have protrusions which prevent them being squashed between heavy books as they dry. Perhaps using a different glue? By the time I realized that it was never going to work, I had already spent so many hours working at it that the frustration led to depression.

Educational if not functional.......2006-01-03

My husband and I just finished a New Year's weekend marathon of clockmaking.

I got this book years ago, attempted it once and bailed out at piece 57 or so. This time he and I finished it together (Having another person I think is VERY helpful so you can keep each other motivated.)

There are several typos in the book as mentioned above and as one of the other reviewers mentioned, the instructions for the last sections -- for constructing the minute and hour hand pieces and the final assembly are sketchy at best. Consulting the drawings can be helpful, but I have to say it also just makes you figure out for yourself how the thing ought to work -- then you put it together accordingly.

Our hands and backs are aching, but it's put together and we're still together. We still have to adjust the pendulum fork and also the escapement wheel, but after 18 hours, we're ready to look at it as a lovely objet d'art, not a timekeeper.

I don't think we'd do it again -- that would be my third go and his second -- but it was very cool to do it once.

Wristwatch Annual 2006: The Catalog Of Producers, Prices, Models And Specifications

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Great Reference
Pretty good compilation, but not very complete
Products available
The best guide in the market
Representing the top of the watchmakers art.

Wristwatch Annual 2006: The Catalog Of Producers, Prices, Models And Specifications
Peter Braun
Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Customer Reviews:

Great Reference.......2007-08-11

A wonderful resource book, exhaustive coverage of big and small wristwatch producers. This is a commercial book and all company's are written about favorably (not reality). One is best to research products/reviews online in addition to get a true picture of the products represented in this book. This is the best in my opinion of the watch annual books.

The strengths are: clear listing of all watch specs, often interesting blurb about each company, pronunciation list, company contact info, additional resource list (forums, dealers, etc.). Annual does not change that much yearly, might try buying last years annual and saving about 50% for very similar content.

Enjoy this wonderfully rich subject.

Pretty good compilation, but not very complete.......2007-07-09

Of course you can't include everything, but these annuals usually have some glaring omissions of watch lines, particularly American made.

Products available .......2006-08-10

I found the catalog very limited. A review should include all products available from a manufacturer or list variations of products displayed. For example, a watch made of stainless steel is also available and not just white gold.

The best guide in the market.......2006-06-29

After years of buying the equivalent in French and German, this is definitely the best guide, very complete, very well written. The prices are in US$, though. The most expensive watch, a Vacheron Constantin. 1.6 million dollars, production is limited to 7 watches. The mind boggles!

Representing the top of the watchmakers art........2006-03-23

Do not expect to find quartz electronic watches from the orient here. This is a catalog of the finest in traditional watch design from Europe, primarily Switzerland, Germany and France. Here are watches that are the ultimate in design, both mechanically and artistically. They are also the ultimate in price, intended for the well to do who wants to make a fashion statement that is also a supurb timekeeper. (I don't know the most expensive watch in the book, but the highest priced one I found was $783,100.)

The book is organized by manufacturer and gives the highlights of their current product line. It is profusely illustrated with color photographs on virtually every page. Of course not every watch of every manufacturer could be included on a book of any size. But then again, that's what the web is for.

Making Clocks (Workshop Practice Series 33)

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Stan Bray
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Great book on the greatest watch maker in the World.
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Breitling: The History of a Great Brand of Watches 1884 to the Present (Schiffer Book for Collectors)
Benno Richter
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Breitling-one watch has made this name famous worldwide, the Navitimer. In 1952 this watch was a real sensation, for the chronograph along with the calculator made it possible for the pilot to carry out all necessary calculations during the flight. This made the Navitimer a valuable on-board instrument at that time, and a valuable collectible today.

But Breitling did not develop watches just for pilots and aircraft industry. This book shows the whole spectrum of the firm's products since its founding in 1884, and gives the reader an informed insight into more than 100 years of the firm's history. Many photos, old catalogs and advertising material support the informative text. With the help of reference numbers, the collector can also locate individual watches chronologically.

This fascinating portrait of the Breitling firm will enthrall all who appreciate fine mechanical precision.

Customer Reviews:

Hmm, I am not sure what to say?.......2007-08-18

I like watches and must admit I was a lttle disapointed. It has some nice pictures, but not much information.
It has too many pictures from the advertisers and sadly is very out of date now, but I will keep it.

Not sure what to say about this........2007-08-18

I was a little surprised by the book, it's now 12 years old and outdated, the pictures are all black and white, and it does not have much writing, I read it from cover to cover in about 1.5 hours. The pictures are good quality, although many are from Breitling advertisements.
It would be nice to see it updated, in color and have some history behind it. It does not explain anything about the Breitling Emergency watch, it just shows a picture! I was a little disappointed.

Great book on the greatest watch maker in the World........2007-08-14

Great book, nice pictures throughout. Every Breitling watch owner should bbuy a copy. Not much writing, that was a disapointment, but the pictures make up for that, although, they are only black & white.

Great Pictures and nice book.......2007-08-12

Some nice pictures in here. Not much writing, I seemed to flip throught it in about an hour.
Pictures are of very good quality, but all black & white, I would recommend if you are a collector, I think its a little out dated now.

Good Stuff.......2004-03-25

This has some good stuff, but it is for a mixed audience, so none may be fully satisfied. For horologists, there is a fair amount of movements shown, with many of them "exploded" to show all of their parts. For historians, there is a lot of good old-time advertising and photos. For collectors, of course, you get to see a whole bunch of the product line back over a hundred years ago. The price list is minimal and ten years out of date, so it is not as relevant, but not completely useless either. Still, not a bad offering.

Black Forest Clockmaker and the Cuckoo Clock

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Excellent Book for Collectors
A good basic overview of the German Cuckoo Clocks.

Black Forest Clockmaker and the Cuckoo Clock
Karl Kochmann
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The Clock Repairer's Manual (Manual of Techniques)
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Book Description

A historical and repair guide to Black Forest clocks with numerous catelog reprints. Plus original illustrations. Includes considerable text on repairing, dating and identifying Black Forest cuckoo clocks. Also contains information on Black Forest Trumpeter clocks.

Customer Reviews:

Excellent Book for Collectors.......2000-08-28

This is an excellent book for collectors and people wanting information on the history of the cuckoo clock. The writing is clear and precise and the diagrams are easy to follow.

A good basic overview of the German Cuckoo Clocks........1998-02-01

Offers the industry's history (including machinery), many tips about the adjustment and restoration of these clocks, tools needed, etc. Photos of unusual clocks and the factories. A "must have" for those interested in, or repairing, the German Cuckoo Clocks.

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cartier collection

The Cartier Collection: Timepieces
Francois Chaille , and Franco Cologni
Manufacturer: Flammarion
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Release Date: 2006-12-12

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Timepieces are the perfect distillation of Cartier's craft: At once bona fide jewels, the ultimate expression of style, and miracles of detail and precision, they are at the heart of all that the legendary house represents. Equal in beauty, value and design to Cartier's jewels, each timepiece is an object of unparalleled luxury and elegance, emblematic of the "Cartier style." Over 450 pieces, including the complete collection of "mystery clocks" whose hands seem to float in mid-air, are presented here, representing over 150 years of the finest horology. Each object is accompanied by its individual history and detailed technical specifications. Full-scale reproductions, including twelve gatefolds, are followed by an illustrated and comparative chronology, glossary of terms, and complete index.

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cartier collection.......2007-10-10

very well produced book of the highest quality.
for any cultured person, needing the interest to elevate knowledge of
art through time pieces ,this ia a must.there is second publication ,on Jewellery , and a 3rd to be produced in 2008,according to the latest information(title not available.)

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