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Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History

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Unfortunately, Rebecca often drifts off course into politics, economics, and sociology, wherein her talents clearly do not lay.

Hands of Time embarks on a rapid history of humans and timekeeping, starting with rudimentary counting bones that attempted to capture and document cosmic events, through Clypsedras and early innovators and their contributions up to the verge escapement, which led to the first church clocks. Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake.Struthers's uses watches that she has worked on, examples from the natural world along with art, history and more. A fusion of art and science, history and social commentary, this fascinating work, told in Struthers’s lively voice and illustrated with custom line drawings by her husband and fellow watchmaker Craig, is filled with her personal observations as an expert watchmaker—one of the few remaining at work in the world today.

As someone who has a large watch collection this captured for me a lot of what makes these devices so special, and why I refuse to migrate over to an Apple Watch.Not so much in theory, although we do touch on Einstein and relativity, more so about the way humans clock the passage. My favorites are a set of Simpson watches from Burger King, and Jurassic Park watches from Taco Bell. I was hoping to learn something about the details of the mechanisms, how they work, and how they have changed over time. As exquisitely-crafted as a Georgian pocket-watch, this fascinating book weaves the threads of personal memoir with the story of a profession that has until now been almost entirely overlooked.

Early Swiss watches were low-cost fakes - or at least lower-cost imitations of the English handmade luxury items. I enjoyed the book quite a bit, expecting almost a how to about watches and their history, but learning a whole lot more.In Hands of Time watchmaker and historian Rebecca Struthers welcomes us into the hidden world of watchmaking, offering a personal history of watches that spans centuries and continents. She points out that the desire to exclude is nearly as old as the watchmaking profession, and stands as proud proof that anyone can become a watchmaker. She looks past the ticking of the clock to examine time from philosophical and even emotional standpoints. There is not much here that anyone already steeped in the world of mechanical watches wouldn't already know, but it's still fun to hear about again. An award-winning watchmaker—one of the few practicing the art in the world today—chronicles the invention of time through the centuries-long story of one of mankind’s most profound technological achievements: the watch.

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