David Thompson (2 knihy)
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David Thompson The History of Watches EN
The collection of watches held by the British Museum is unsurpassed anywhere in the world. Spanning an incredible five hundred years, it contains watches of every variety from sixteenth-century early stackfreed watches (the first that attempted to even out the force produced by the mainspring as it wound down), to precision-made chronometers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, to mass-produced watches of the…
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David Thompson, Saul Peckham Watches EN
The British Museum watch collection is unsurpassed anywhere in the world, and tells the story of the watch which spans an incredible 500 years. Within the collection are examples ranging from sixteenth-century early stack freed watches made in south Germany to exquisite decorative watches of the seventeenth century. Everyday watches from the eighteenth century and precision-made chronometers from the eighteenth and…
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