Technique and history of the Swiss watch /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jaquet, Eugène.
Uniform title:	Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours. English
Edition:	[Rev. ed.].
Imprint:	London, New York : Spring Books, [1970]
Description:	272 p. : illus. (part col.) ; 31 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Clock and watch making -- Switzerland. Clocks and watches -- Switzerland. Clock and watch making Clocks and watches Switzerland
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9349002

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Other authors / contributors:	Chapuis, Alfred, 1880-1958.
ISBN:	0600036332 9780600036333
Notes:	Translation of Histoire et technique de la montre suisse de ses origines à nos jours.

Table of Contents:

The beginnings of watch-making in Switzerland
The introduction of the watch industry to the Jura, and its development
The eighteenth century
Decoration of the watch and of the movement from 1750 to 1850
The commerce of watch-making
The nineteenth century and the beginnings of the mechanical manufacture of the watch
Chronometry
The later evolution of the modern watch
Development of the Swiss watch industry from 1945 to 1968
Index of Swiss watchmakers and other craftsmen up to 1900.

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