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  Masters of Contemporary Watchmaking (Hardback) By (author) Michael Clerizo

  

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  Short Description for Masters of Contemporary WatchmakingIs a watch ever a work of art? Is a watchmaker ever an artist? From the Isle of Man to the Left Bank of the Seine, from Barcelona to Dresden, from the Jura Mountains to Lake Geneva, this book presents the stories of eleven of the worlds most renowned watchmakers.
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  • Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
  • Published: 26 October 2009
  • Format: Hardback 292 pages
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  • Categories: Clocks, Chronometers & Watches (horology) | Antique Clocks, Watches, Musical Boxes & Automata
  • ISBN 13: 9780500514856 ISBN 10: 0500514852
  • Sales rank: 171,439

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• Is a watch ever a work of art? Is a watchmaker ever an artist? To answer these questions and many more, Michael Clerizo spent months listening to eleven of the worlds most renowned watchmakers. From the Isle of Man to the Left Bank of the Seine, from Barcelona to Dresden, from the Jura Mountains to Lake Geneva, these extraordinary individuals told their stories. We hear of lives heavily laced with setbacks but sustained by an all conquering passion and suffused with the sweet satisfaction of mastering the skills of mechanical watchmaking, and crowned with the invigorating success of finding others willing to buy and treasure their work. Few books have such a safe, captive and targeted audience as this one; and few are so revealing of the supreme heights of ingenuity and perfection that exist in a high-tech era.