Grand Complications Volume VIII: High Quality Watchmaking

Author/Contributor(s):	Tourbillon International
Publisher:	Rizzoli
Date:	6/5/2012
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

Grand Complications, Volume VIII provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments. Multi-complications, minute repeaters and sonneries, tourbillons, equations of time, perpetual calendars, chronographs, jump hours and retrograde mechanisms, GMTs and multiple time zones are reviewed in great detail. With the latest creations by more than twenty-three elite watch manufacturers displayed and accompanied by technical descriptions, this book has earned respect among connoisseurs.