5018 - Early Watches

CAMERER CUSS Terence

A Country Life Collectors' Guide. Early Watches traces the history of watchmaking in Europe from the Renaissance to the late 18th century. Medieval clocks, driven by a suspended weight, could not be moved about, and portable clocks only became a practical proposition after the invention of the mainspring in the late 15th century. By Elizabethan times, fashionable gentlemen were wairing small timepieces on a cord around their necks.

 

63 pages

Edition : 1971


Language : english

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