Hands of time : a watchmaker's history
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
681.114/STRUTHERS,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2023]
©2023
©2023
EDITION
First U.S. edition
DESCRIPTION
xvii, 260 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780063048706, 0063048701 :, 0063048701, 9780063048706
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
"Originally published in Great Britain in 2023 by Hodder & Stoughton, an imprint of Hachette UK."--Title page verso
An award-winning British watchmaker takes readers on a journey through the history of time-keeping, from the earliest attempts to keep track of the passing of days to the engineering breakthrough that created the first watch