4/29/2023 0 Comments Pocket watch display case![]() You see one of George Daniels’s creations on the cover - an 18K yellow gold pocket watch with a Co-Axial escapement, a four-minute tourbillon, and 48 hours of power reserve from 1994. While the cover design of the earlier editions was somewhat different, this new edition is clean and straightforward. The book is aimed at collectors and horological students who’ll make use of the reference illustrations and history told by these two leading historians of horology. This latest reprint now details watches from 1500 to the 1980s. ![]() In 1979, another expanded edition was released, which covered recent years past 1830. It detailed the general history of watches from the 1500s onward. The first edition of Watches by Clutton and Daniels came out in 1965. Their acquaintance eventually turned into a friendship, which resulted in their collaborative work to write the very first edition of the book. The two met and bonded through their mutual love for the latter. Clutton had interests in architecture, planes, keyboard instruments, and motorcars. As somewhat of a renaissance man of that era, Mr. He developed his own horological wonders but also often restored iconic pieces of a bygone era.Ĭecil “Sam” Clutton had a broad awareness of horology and was a renowned collector, expert, and patron of this fine craft. Daniels was an expert on the watch’s history and progress, paying particular attention to the late 18th and early 19th centuries. He was a practicing horologist with over 50 years of experience in watchmaking. ![]() The late British watchmaking genius is mainly in the horological vernacular as the inventor of the Co-Axial escapement. I hope that George Daniels needs no introduction to a watch lover. After all, we are talking about close to 500 years of watch history condensed into over 300 pages. I need to warn you that it is not an easy read, nor should it be. As such, it is a must for anyone interested in this subject. Watches - A Complete History of the Technical and Decorative Development of the Watch is an extensive reference work on general horological history. Yet, what these two fine gentlemen put together in 1965 is not only still relevant, but it also forms the basis of what horologists have since built upon. Rather, it is a book about timepieces, and mainly pocket watches at that. Watches by Cecil Clutton and George Daniels is not a novel or collection of poems. A close-to-60-year-old book should rarely be reprinted unless it’s a piece of classical literature.
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