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(More customer reviews)Any of us who love horology and want to learn more will be very disappointed by this book.
It is very broadly based with virtually no supporting technical detail and numerous techical errors.
For example it states that a pin lever watch has fewer moving parts than a jeweled lever...
She freqeuently refered to Landes book but he in addition to being a respected academic is an enthusuastic collector.
...This book has no grabbing technical detail, not even enough to justify the sweeping economic statements she makes.
To her credit she pointed out some trends and aspects of national markets I had not understood but it is tough going even for someone already deeply interested in this subject.
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Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems and cultures. This book presents a richly textured historical study of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches - from the cottage industries of Britain, to the pre-eminence of Switzerland, and later, the United States, to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong.
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