PENNEY – Box CHRONOMETERS, c.1750-1980: an historical overview of English work
NEW. Horological Profile No 5, covering the the reasons, both good and bad, why these are such wonderful machines.
£15.00
Printed card covers, 24 pages, highly illustrated throughout in colour with some differing examples described in greater depth. Privately printed, 2023.
While much has been written about the technology of chronometers, and a great deal of flag waiving has been done for Harrison, this overview is an attempt to place these timekeepers into a proper context, one that I hope will better explain their invention, the business of their manufacture, and their subsequent development.
The fifth in a series of Horological Profiles aimed primarily at owners, collectors, dealers, auctioneers and museum staff, as well as anyone with a passing interest in the subject of antiquarian horology in general. The aim is to provide the latest and most up-to-date information regarding watches and chronometers of all types. This includes both technical and decorative features and I welcome feedback that will either correct or enlarge on their content.
As a professional researcher within the field of the history of technology, primarily within antiquarian horology, it has become clear that there is a great deal of missing and incorrect information in the available resources. I trust these booklets will help place what are often the most wonderful objects within their deserved historical framework. Watch, clock and chronometer making has occupied some of the greatest minds (technical, artistic and scientific) over the last 500 or so years and the best work of any period really does deserve to be better understood. In publishing these Profiles, I trust it can be better appreciated.
The size of the booklets and their subsequent limitations is intended. I have no wish to produce publications that are too large or too annoyingly cumbersome to use and I trust it will be a pleasure to consult them, either at home or on the road. Issues can of course be bound for added durability if so wished.
NB: Just published, and if more than one of my Profiles are ordered together, any extra postage is free.
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Printed card covers, 24 pages, highly illustrated throughout in colour with some differing examples described in greater depth. Privately printed, 2023.
While much has been written about the technology of chronometers, and a great deal of flag waiving has been done for Harrison, this overview is an attempt to place these timekeepers into a proper context, one that I hope will better explain their invention, the business of their manufacture, and their subsequent development.
The fifth in a series of Horological Profiles aimed primarily at owners, collectors, dealers, auctioneers and museum staff, as well as anyone with a passing interest in the subject of antiquarian horology in general. The aim is to provide the latest and most up-to-date information regarding watches and chronometers of all types. This includes both technical and decorative features and I welcome feedback that will either correct or enlarge on their content.
As a professional researcher within the field of the history of technology, primarily within antiquarian horology, it has become clear that there is a great deal of missing and incorrect information in the available resources. I trust these booklets will help place what are often the most wonderful objects within their deserved historical framework. Watch, clock and chronometer making has occupied some of the greatest minds (technical, artistic and scientific) over the last 500 or so years and the best work of any period really does deserve to be better understood. In publishing these Profiles, I trust it can be better appreciated.
The size of the booklets and their subsequent limitations is intended. I have no wish to produce publications that are too large or too annoyingly cumbersome to use and I trust it will be a pleasure to consult them, either at home or on the road. Issues can of course be bound for added durability if so wished.
NB: Just published, and if more than one of my Profiles are ordered together, any extra postage is free.
