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The Style of Time

The Evolution of Wristwatch Design

Mara Cappelletti

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Hardback

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English
ACC Art Books
01 December 2022
Time is a great mystery. A changeable element, which expands or vanishes, but that appears concrete as it is marked by the passing of seconds, minutes, hours, days, and years. The path toward the capture of minutes and seconds coincided with the phases of scientific evolution that allowed man to manufacture watches that are increasingly reliable, but that are also in tune with changes in customs, social needs, and aesthetic canons.

This book covers the art of watch manufactory as well as 60 great models, covering both their technical evolution and style trends. In each chapter in-depth studies will guide the reader to the history of the most important manufacturers, the personalities linked to the models treated, technical innovations, styles of the period, or records achieved by the wristwatches: from the watch that helped Charles Lindbergh during the first transatlantic solo flight, to the one worn by Sir Edmund Hillary on the top of Mount Everest, the most iconic models will be discussed in detail.

AUTHOR: Mara Cappelletti is a journalist and author of several titles about watches, jewellery, and ethnic jewel traditions. She's a professor of a laboratory at the University of Milan, teaching the history of jewellery, and she is the president of the association Stile e Storia (Style and History) focused on the valuation of historic treasures.

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The book covers the details and technical wonders of 60 wristwatch models that went down in history for their innovation in shapes, materials, and production methods .

A style icon is linked to each decade the book covers, with the decade's preferred and most famous model decade after decade, the reader will become immersed in the world of watches from the early years of the 20th century, to the various technical innovations that revolutionised the creation of watches, up to the most modern - yet already iconic - models

150 colour illustrations
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Imprint:   ACC Art Books
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 310mm,  Width: 270mm, 
Weight:   2.418kg
ISBN:   9781788841955
ISBN 10:   1788841956
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Unspecified

Mara Cappelletti is a journalist and author of several titles about watches, jewellery, and ethnic jewel traditions. She’s a professor of a laboratory at the University of Milan, teaching the history of jewellery, and she is the president of the association Stile e Storia (Style and History) focused on the valuation of historic treasures.

Reviews for The Style of Time: The Evolution of Wristwatch Design

A watch is a work of technical mastery. It also constitutes an artifact that blends art with science, creating what has over the years become, and remained, an object of desire, writes journalist and professor Mara Cappelletti in her newly released book The Style of Time (ACC Art Books), which marvels over the intricacies of 60 timepieces that have directed the course of history and are exemplary of style trends. - JCK Magazine


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