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All in good time : reflections of a watchmaker /
All in Good Time is the remarkable story of George Daniels, the master mechanic, who was born into poverty but raised himself to become the greatest watchmaker of the twentieth century. Daniels stood alone in modern times as the inventor of the revolutionary co-axial escapement, the first substantia...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London : Da New York, NY :
Philip Wilson Publishers ; Distributed in the United States and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan,
2013.
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| Edición: | New expanded edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; Publisher's Note; Foreword; 1 All in Good Time; 2 Introduction to Watches; 3 A Change of Careers; 4 Watches Versus Bentleys; 5 Introduction to Breguet; 6 The First Daniels Watch; 7 Developing the Co-axial Escapement; 8 Not Too Technical; 9 Alfa and Omega; 10 Wheels; Postscript; Working with George; Afterword; Dr George Daniels, CBE, FBHI 1926-2011; Plates.