GRAND COMPLICATIONS: HIGH QUALITY WATCHMAKING - VOLUME II
ISBN: 0847828948
ISBN 13: 9780847828944
Author: TOURBILLON INTERNATIONAL
Edition: 1 st
Publisher: RIZZOLI
Publication Date: Jun 20, 2006
Pages: 704
Book Summary
Grand Complications, Vol. II provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. Published by Tourbillon International, this reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. The latest creations by over 23 elite watch manufacturers are displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, comprising more than 400 pages in this book that already has earned respect among connoisseurs.