Watches

Foreword by Jonathan Betts
Preface
Colour Plates

HISTORICAL
Mechanical 1500-1750
The invention of watches
Fusee and stackfreed
The movement and its decoration up to 1675
Mean time regulation before the balance spring
General characteristics and national styles
The balance spring 1675-1700
The movement 1675-1700
The movement 1700-1750
Decoration of the movement 1675-1700

The beginnings of the precision watch and the modern watch
The formative years of the precision watch
John Harrison
Pierre Le Roy
Ferdinand Berthoud
John Arnold
Thomas Mudge
Josiah Emery
Abraham-Louis Breguet
Thomas Earnshaw
The birth of the modern watch: Lepine and Breguet

The development of the watch since 1800
Decorative
Types of decoration
Enamel
Style of watch cases and dials up to 1750
Some unusual forms of dial
Styles of watch cases and dials 1750-1830

Performance of early watches

TECHNICAL
Introduction
Shock-proofing
Tourbillons
Escapements
Verge
Cylinder
Virgule
Duplex
Chronometer
'Echappement naturel'
Lever
Robin
Debaufre
Fasoldt
J. F. Cole rotary detent
Repeaters
Clock-watches
Self-winding watches
Stop-watches and chronographs

Monochrome plates

APPENDIX
Biographical notes
Glossary of technical terms
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index

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