5018 - Early Watches
CAMERER CUSS TerenceA 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
Langue : anglais
