Series: The Watch Book

The history of Rolex is a fascinating journey through developments in the watch industry, innovations, and the brand's influence on the world of luxury watches and popular culture. Rolex revolutionised the watch industry in 1926 by launching the first wristwatch with a chronometer certificate. The 1950s saw the launch of some of Rolex's best-known models, which cemented the brand's reputation...

For all chrono fans, collectors, and watch enthusiasts, there is now the brilliant and completely revised new edition of The Watch Book: Compendium - Revised Edition. This comprehensive coffee-table book replaces the earlier The Watch Book Compendium and combines The Watch Book I and II. As usual, the successful author Gisbert L. Brunner shines with his extensive expertise and brings...

From stopwatches and alarms, to world clocks and calendar functions, to tourbillons that counter the effects of gravity, these so-called complications have been the crowning glory of fine watchmaking for centuries. The Watch Book: More Than Time is an illustrated compendium of watchmaking that explores these most intricate elements of the horologist's craft through timing, astronomy, and striking. This volume...

Volume II of The Watch Book follows on from 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...

In this new volume of the Watch Book series, successful author Gisbert L. Brunner focuses on Swiss watch history and the watch industry, particularly on the house of Oris. What could be a more fitting connection than that of the leading expert in mechanical timepieces with the watch manufactory that exclusively produces mechanical watches? Founded in 1904, the company stands...

The new generation of the luxury Rolex book as part of the popular The Watch Book series, exclusively available in a beautiful slipcase with the newest Rolex model. The history of Rolex is a fascinating journey through developments in the watch industry, innovations and the brand's influence on the world of luxury watches and popular culture. Rolex revolutionised the watch...