Description: Collector Bookstore 724 Delaware Street Leavenworth, KS 66048 Collector Bookstore is a leading specialty retailer of price guides and reference books to inform and educate collectors and professionals in the antiques and collectors markets. Our customers include individual collectors, dealers, appraisers, auctioneers & other industry professionals. You won't receive heavily thumbed shelf copies from us! We buy most titles directly from the publisher and individual authors. Authors are encouraged to submit their reference titles for our consideration. SO-SCH-2007-9780764326448-X4 The Alarm Wristwatch by Michael Philip Horlbeck ISBN:9780764326448 Book Title:The Alarm Wristwatch: The History of an Undervalued Feature Author:Michael Philip Horlbeck Binding:Hard Cover Copyright:2007 Pages:232 Size:9 x 12 in. Finally, alarm wristwatches are recognized for their mechanical ingenuity and the beauty of their design. This new book traces the development of mechanical wristwatches with an acoustic alarm function, one of the first wristwatch complications, and gives detailed information for collectors. Hundreds of watches are examined in 535 color images. In addition to the external design of the watch, special attention is paid to the movements and how their creators solved the multitude of challenges that confronted them. Michael Philip Horlbeck, a scholar and collector of alarm wristwatches, has written the standard work, a complete history of the alarm wristwatch. Nearly every model ever produced is chronicled, in words and pictures. The international array of companies include: Eterna, Omega, Bruguet, Bulova, Citizen, Corum, Cyma, Jaeger-Le Coultre, Lemania, Pierce, Poljot, Ronda, Seiko, Venus, Vulcain, Wittnauer, ... and many more. The technical data for each watch is recorded. This is required reading for all wristwatch fans and all who may become such. Whether you are interested in the design or the mechanics of these watches, you will not be disappointed. 535 illustrations (SO Schiffer Categorical generated 2024-11-04) ea6aed0a93768b4a0e6266318cca0baa
Price: 79.95 USD
Location: Atglen, Pennsylvania
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Shipping Cost: 7.99 USD
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Type: Manual
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Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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