The Watch Book: More than Time Volume II

Volume II of The Watch Book follows on the successful and comprehensive earlier volume with a magnificently illustrated book about the additional functions and refinements of wristwatches.

For centuries, so-called “complications” – any feature of a mechanical timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds – have embodied the crowning glory of fine mechanical watchmaking. Among the earliest of these are alarm clocks and calendar movements. Moon phase displays have …