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Author : Eugène Jaquet,Alfred Chapuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Clock and watch making
ISBN : 0600036332
Author : Eugène Jaquet,Alfred Chapuis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Clock and watch making
ISBN : OCLC:265253079
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Clock and watch making
ISBN : 3034310218
This book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production at the end of the 19th century, the delocalization of production in the interwar years and globalization since the 1960's. These challenges helped Switzerland to maintain and strengthen its position as a leader on the world market. This study shows how innovation and new technologies, the industrial policy of the Swiss authorities, the industrial district organization and the relations with trade unions explain the worldwide success of the Swiss watch industry.
Author : Alun C. Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000571905
This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham. The English industry led European watchmaking in the late eighteenth century in output, and its lucrative export markets extended to the Ottoman Empire and China. It also made marine chronometers, the most complex of hand-crafted pre-industrial mechanisms, crucially important to the later hegemony of Britain’s navy and merchant marine. Although Britain was the 'workshop of the world', its watchmaking industry declined. Why? First, because cheap Swiss watches were smuggled into British markets. Later, in the era of Free Trade, they were joined by machine-made watches from factories in America, enabled by the successful application to watch production of the 'American system' in Waltham, Massachusetts after 1858. The Swiss watch industry adapted itself appropriately, expanded, and reasserted its lead in the world’s markets. English watchmaking did not: its trajectory foreshadowed and was later followed by other once-prominent British industries. Clerkenwell retained its pre-industrial production methods. Other modernization attempts in Britain had limited success or failed.
Author : Anthony Turner,James Nye,Jonathan Betts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780192609366
A General History of Horology describes instruments used for the finding and measurement of time from Antiquity to the 21st century. In geographical scope it ranges from East Asia to the Americas. The instruments described are set in their technical and social contexts, and there is also discussion of the literature, the historiography and the collecting of the subject. The book features the use of case studies to represent larger topics that cannot be completely covered in a single book. The international body of authors have endeavoured to offer a fully world-wide survey accessible to students, historians, collectors, and the general reader, based on a firm understanding of the technical basis of the subject. At the same time as the work offers a synthesis of current knowledge of the subject, it also incorporates the results of some fundamental, new and original research.
Author : Amy Glasmeier
Publisher : Guilford Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1572305894
Since the large-scale manufacture of personal timepieces began, industry leadership has shifted among widely disparate locations, production systems, and cultures. This book recounts the story of the quest for supremacy in the manufacture of watches--from the cottage industries of Britain; to the preeminence of Switzerland and, later, the United States; to the high-tech plants of Japan and the sweatshops of Hong Kong. Glasmeier examines both the strategies adopted by specific firms and the interplay of such varying influences as technological change, cyclical economic downturns, war, and national trade policies. In so doing, she delineates a cohesive framework within which to address such broader questions as how sustained regional economic development takes place (or starts and then stops); how decisions made by corporations are structured by internal and external forces; and the ways industrial cultures with different strategic learning capabilities facilitate or thwart the pursuit of technological change.
Author : Samuel L. Macey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429685132
Originally published in 1991. A multidisciplinary guide in the form of a bibliography of selected time-related books and articles divided into 25 existing academic disciplines and about 100 subdisciplines which have a wide application to time studies.
Author : P. Donzé
Publisher : Springer
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137389084
This book offers a detailed and full analysis of the strategy which enabled the Swatch Group to establish itself on the world market. In particular, it tackles the issues of production restructuring, with the opening of subsidiaries in Asia, and the implementation of a new marketing strategy, characterized by the move towards luxury.
Author : Roger Strange,Jim Slater,Limin Wang
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415182676
This new study examines the economic relationship between China and Europe, its importance and how it is likely to evolve and includes case studies of the automobile, toy, watch, telecommunications, banking and insurance industries.
Author : Peter Stearns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000765359
In this book, Peter Stearns presents the fascinating concept of time through a global historical lens. Covering both calendrical time and clock time, the volume shows how significant changes in conceptions of time are in world history, as they translate many key historical developments from religion to industrialization, into daily experience. The book explores why and how early societies became interested in measuring time, as well as explaining the causes and ongoing consequences of the modern sense of time. The author compares different societies and cultures in their attitudes and approaches to time and describes the role of globalization in its development. The volume offers many examples and illustrations to aid readers in their understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of various constructions of time, both in the past and among different groups of people today. Time in World History will be of interest to students of world history and sociology, introducing readers to historical forces that continue to shape their lives quite directly.
Author : Michael Korda
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 076073576X
Author : Alex Butterworth
Publisher : Random House
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446468647
The last years of the nineteenth century saw the birth of a new phenomenon: international terrorism. Bombings and assassinations shook the great cities of Europe and America, threatening social order. Fiendish networks of anarchist conspiritors were blamed and the public whipped into a frenzy of anxiety. The reality was rather different. These dramatic events were only the most visible part of a longer, clandestine struggle waged between the forces of revolution and reaction, in which little was as it seemed. Alex Butterworth interweaves group biography, cultural history and meticulous detective work to create a revelatory account of the age. Both intimate and panoramic, it is a story with uncanny resonances for today.
Author : Catherine Pagani
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0472112082
An exploration of the important role played by elaborate clockwork in relations between China and Europe from the late sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries
Author : Gisbert L. Brunner
Publisher : Te Neues Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 3961714622
- The next volume in the successful Watch Book series by bestselling author Gisbert L. Brunner - The first coffee table book dedicated to the Swiss manufacturer Oris, makers of innovative mechanical watches for close to 120 years - An amazing look behind the curtain at the Swiss watch industry and its history, shaped by contrasts In this new volume of the Watch Book series, successful author Gisbert L. Brunner focuses on Swiss watch history and the watch industry, and in particular on the house of Oris, because what could be a more fitting connection than that of the leading expert when it comes to mechanical timepieces with the watch manufactory that is one of the few to produce exclusively mechanical watches. Founded in 1904, the company stands out in many ways in the luxury world of horology, it is run independently and not by a large corporation, it is valued as a down-to-earth brand and - in an industry that is not necessarily known for this - it focuses on sustainability, true to the motto: "Things have to make sense". Of course, technology should not be missing from this volume; after all, Oris has developed 280 different calibres in its company history and manufactured them in its own factories. Companions have their say and the best watch models of the company's almost 120-year history are presented in this usual high-quality volume.
Author : David King
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004450738
Two remarkable Iranian world-maps were discovered in 1989 and 1995. Both are made of brass and date from 17th-century Iran. Mecca is at the centre and a highly sophisticated longitude and latitude grid enables the user to determine the direction and distance to Mecca for anywhere in the world between Andalusia and China. Prior to the discovery of these maps it was thought that such cartographic grids were conceived in Europe ca. 1910. This richly-illustrated book presents an overview of the ways in which Muslims over the centuries have determined the sacred direction towards Mecca (qibla) and then describes the two world-maps in detail. The author shows that the geographical data derives from a 15th-century Central Asian source and that the mathematics underlying the grid was developed in 9th-century Baghdad.