Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland Binding:Hardback including Fashion Plates 1920-1970s

including Fashion Plates 1920-1970s

Twenty-four pages from early catalogs of the French glasshouses Vallerysthal and Portieux are reprinted in color illustrating exquisite pieces

from couture to everyday workclothes

from the coffee their parents drank in the 1890s to the boxed cereal consumed in the 1990s

With this guide’s extensive “at a glance” keyword list and contemporary anecdotes for each card

Automatic Wristwatches from Switzerland Binding:Hardback including Fashion Plates 1920-1970sAn exciting area of collecting for clock and watch enthusiasts is literally opened up with this book. On the outside the automatic wristwatch is like its counterpart, but once the case is opened a different world appears. Here 200 watches are shown, each with three photos to show the dial, and the complete and partly disassembled movement. The book introduces all the Swiss manufacturers and provides a historical overview of the development of