Joseph FLORES – Perpétuelles à roue de rencontre…
‘Montres automatiques, une page d’histoire’
£45.00
Printed card covers, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. NEO Editions, text in French, no date, circa 2002.
Extensive details of Flores’ discovery of a report made to the Paris Academy of Sciences concerning an automatic watch shown to the Academy in 1778, along with a round up of the different mechanical versions of automatic work: rotor, pivoted arm, etc, with detailed images of examples, many shown disassembled. Essential reading for anyone interested in the subject, both by those that favour Sarton as the originator as well as those who favour Perrelet.
Out of print. Slight shelf wear to covers, contents clean.
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Printed card covers, 160 pages, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. NEO Editions, text in French, no date, circa 2002.
Extensive details of Flores’ discovery of a report made to the Paris Academy of Sciences concerning an automatic watch shown to the Academy in 1778, along with a round up of the different mechanical versions of automatic work: rotor, pivoted arm, etc, with detailed images of examples, many shown disassembled. Essential reading for anyone interested in the subject, both by those that favour Sarton as the originator as well as those who favour Perrelet.
Out of print. Slight shelf wear to covers, contents clean.
