Customers say
Customers find the book an easy read for watch enthusiasts just starting out. It provides great information on the wristwatch industry and most important parts and brands. They appreciate the high-quality pictures and photo collection featuring some of the most famous watches. Overall, customers find it a good overview of the wristwatch industry and worth purchasing.
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The Watch—featuring Rolex, Patek Philippe, IWC, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Omega, TAG Heuer, Breitling, and other collected and discussed watch brands—is a remarkable full-color guide to vintage and contemporary mechanical watches, perfect for both beginner and expert watch collectors.
A well-made men’s wristwatch combines inspired design, technical innovation, and precise craftsmanship. It helps to define a man’s personal style, and it can be an essential tool for many pursuits.
It might be a talisman or an heirloom. It can be a lifelong companion, or part of a collection that brings its own deep rewards. If it has a history, it can evoke the era in which it was made; if it’s new, it may speak to today’s cutting-edge technology. It may incorporate gold and porcelain or carbon composite and titanium.
The Watch celebrates the craftsmanship of watchmaking for the watch collector. It features more than 600 vintage and contemporary watches from 50 leading brands that have made significant contributions to the history and craft of fine watchmaking. Reflecting the authors’ deep knowledge of every aspect of today’s lively and diverse community of watchmakers and watch collectors, it’s an essential book for any aficionado.
For this revised edition, national bestselling author Gene Stone is joined by Stephen Pulvirent of Hodinkee.com. Together, they have thoroughly revamped the book to reflect the current state of the watch world, with the addition of new brands, new models, and more focused and nuanced coverage of the traditional brand leaders. Here are 430 watches, profiles of collectors, and an update on buying, collecting, and maintaining watches. There is even an invaluable A-to-Z glossary of watch terms, completely updated.
This remarkable oversize, full-color book belongs in the home of every watch collector.
Publisher : Abrams Books; Revised edition (November 13, 2018)
Language : English
Hardcover : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 1419732609
ISBN-13 : 978-1419732607
Item Weight : 3.15 pounds
Dimensions : 9 x 1.25 x 9 inches
by DM
Great book! Very interesting!! It’s got the human element!
This is a very interesting book. They have the thoughts of the men who own some of these rare and beautiful watches. How they got into collecting them. It’s fascinating! Of course this book delves into the history and shows beautiful photography of gorgeous watches of the highest quality. It’s stunning! The photography shows up beautifully on the Kindle edition! I love it!
by Toni MariÄ
Amazing and short overview of 50 most important watch brands
Best overview of the wristwach industry and most important parts and brands of it. Highly recommended for all watch enthusiasts and collectors.
by A. Weiss
I watch this book….
If you want to know about high end mechanical watches and be up and ready to talk with a snobbish well educated horologist….then get this book and start reading it. Nice picture, but great info on these very expensive watches with lots of little facts. Good book if your hobby is time pieces.
by Kindle Customer
Better on the Kindle
This is a low verbal content, high photo dependent book. I have both a kindle and paperback copy. The books is quite small, the photos are high quality (paperback) but difficult to see detail due to small size. Using the Kindle app on an Ipad is awsome. The watches are works of art.
by Marco Antonio Abarca
A Great Book to Help Train the Collector’s Eye
This book is a photo collection featuring some of the most famous watches of fifty iconic brands. The photos are beautiful and that is enough to make this book enjoyable. However, I think the real value of this book is that it helps the collector develop a critical eye for beauty. The joy of watch collecting is in the subtle differences between different watches. This is a great book for helping a budding collector refine their understanding of what is beautiful and therefore desirable. Highly recommended!
by gregory c
An essential book for all watch enthusiasts.
Fascinating book for watch enthusiasts. Easy read for watch enthusiasts just starting out. For more serious collectors, many watch brands illustrated in this book.
by Tiger
Very mediocre and disappointing.
My problem with this book is its missing some well established brands like for instance Mido that really turned me off i didnt see Maurice Lacroix,Revue Thommen,Rado ,raymond wiel and edox. But they included swatch and hermes. It seemed like all they were interested in doing was putting as many flex brands as possible. Then they just randomly put in some random cheaper brands just to say they included them. This let me down i thought i would be learning about new watch companies instead its more of the same old flex brands like every other book.
by McBash
Very good
Very good read for new watch collectors. Read this first and save yourself mental anguish and money. Covers the basics in a vernacular language.
by Cliente satisfecho
Ir you Want known, some of the best watch brands, you Need read this book. Very interesting watch famous book.
by Brandon Savio Bradford
Gives an history of every watchmaker, both luxury and non-luxe historical companies, and tells the story of the watch that out them on the map and those keeping them on the map
by Bismarck Prussian
Introduz à horologia de modo atraente e elegante. Agradável leitura, sem muitos tecnicismos, mas também sem ser superficial demais. Lindas fotos. Bela seleção de relógios. Bom para quem se interessa pelo assunto e aprecia a arte encontrada na beleza e na precisão das máquinas, e deseja um aprofundamento na história e peculiaridades dos modelos . Compraria de novo. Recomendo.
by steve harris
very nice eye candy book
by Fendy T.
Excellent book. Love the variety of brands and the photos.