ROLEX, COLLECTING WRISTWATCHES
COLLEZIONARE OROLOGI DA POLSO ROLEX
By Osvaldo Patrizzi
512 pages, oversize volume, 25 x 31.5 cm., over 300 color illustrations and
over 500 period advertisements as well as some illustrations from Rolex
catalogues.
Bilingual, in English and Italian, SFr. 380.
Guido Mondani Editore, Genova
2001 Edition. ISBN 88-900514-9-3
The 2001 edition of “Collecting Rolex Wristwatches“ is an impressive
new edition, updated and expanded to 512 pages. It is an essential and unique
book for watch enthusiasts, collectors and professionals alike. A tribute
to the grandeur of Rolex wristwatches, this prestigious volume is the ultimate
reference work on the subject. In response to the request of collectors, the
value of each watch has been estimated according to the reference number,
the materials used, the year of production, the rarity of the model, while
also taking into consideration the condition of the piece itself. Over 300
color illustrations, life-size or enlarged to full page size, and 300 descriptions
provide the reader with invaluable information on the reference number, the
movement, the case, and the year of production of each watch. All the finest
models of Rolex watches that have appeared on the auction market are also
fully illustrated in color. The book is further enhanced by an index of reference
numbers and over 5000 market value estimates of collector’s Rolex watches,
which indicate accurate valuations based on their condition and rarity.
LA BIJOUTERIE FRANÇAISE AU XIXème
SIÈCLE
FRENCH JEWELRY IN THE 19TH CENTURY
By Henri Vever, Bijoutier-Joaillier
Translated into English from the original French by Brenda Forman,
Ph.D.
In three volumes, SFr. 400.
2001 Edition. ISBN 2-940019-29-0
Nearly a century old, this remains the definitive text on its subject to which
every scholar of the period refers. This is its first full translation into
English. In three volumes and abundantly illustrated, it begins some years
before the Great Revolution of 1789 and ends only in 1907, just prior to publication
of the second and third volumes. In addition to his exhaustive chronicle of
great French jewelers, their lives, their styles and their techniques, Vever
takes the reader on a lively journey through the history of his beloved France,
its politics, its personalities, its economy and its gossip, all viewed through
the lens of one of France's greatest jewelers.
BREGUET, WATCHMAKERS SINCE 1775
BREGUET, HORLOGER DEPUIS 1775
By Emmanuel Breguet
Alain de Gourcuff Editeur, Paris, France
388 pages, hard cover, 28 x 30 cm., within slip case. Over 500 reproductions
of watches, archive drawings, portraits and contemporary views in color and
black and white.
Available as an English edition or as a French edition. SFr. 244.
2001 Edition. ISBN: 2-909838-18-8.
This enlarged new edition by Emmanuel Breguet updates the history of the Maison
Breguet, continuing from the previous edition of 1997 until today, following
the acquisition of the firm by the Swatch Group in 1999. This magnificent
work is dedicated to the history of the Maison Breguet, its creations, commercial
strategies and clients. The author traces in detail the unusual itinerary
of Abraham-Louis Breguet, in a remarkable, lively, and well documented biography,
from Breguet’s arrival in Paris to his last days in the capital.
Emmanuel Breguet also gives detailed portraits of A. L. Breguet’s descendants
and successors until the present day. This story covers the period from the
end of the Ancien Régime to the birth of modern horology, and, of course,
the revolutionary period during which Breguet had to seek exile in Switzerland,
before returning to Paris. The book is further enriched by a glossary, family
tree, chronology, bibliography, list of illustrations and
index.
OISEAUX
DE BONHEUR : Tabatières et Automates
FLIGHTS OF FANCY : Mechanical Singing Birds
By Sharon and Christian Bailly
377 pages, 25.4 x 31.9 cm, richly illustrated, bilingual French-English, SFr.
300.
2001 Edition. ISBN 2-940019-28-2.
The book is accompanied by a CDRom containing photos, films, and recordings
of exceptional pieces. For the first time ever, it will be possible to actually
see and hear mechanical singing bird automata in movement.
This richly illustrated 377 page book, printed in a bilingual French/English
edition, provides
an overview of the long and fascinating story of mechanical singing birds, as
well as
new and important biographical and historical information on makers such as
Jaquet-
Droz, Leschot, Frisard, Rochat, Bruguier, and many others. An indispensable
reference
work for specialists and collectors, it is also a beautiful book whose numerous
color photographs
of rare and important singing bird pieces will be appreciated by novices and
connoisseurs
alike.
LA
LONGITUDE EN MER
A l’heure de Louis Berthoud et Henri Motel
By Jean-Claude Sabrier
720 pages, 25.5 x 31.5 cm, 250 color illustrations, 150 black and white illustrations,
bilingual French - English, SFr. 290.
1993 Edition. ISBN 2-940019-03-7.
French Naval Academy Award 1994
An exhaustive study of the two famous French chronometer-makers L. Berthoud
and H.
Motel, including the diary and records of each maker, which allows their works
to be dated
and their buyers identified.
COLLECTING
PATEK PHILIPPE WATCHES
By Osvaldo Patrizzi
360 pages, 24.5 x 31 cm, richly illustrated. Bilingual edition in English and
Italian, SFr. 320.
Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2000.
Re-edition of the 2000 Edition, published in 2001.
ISBN 88-900514-0-X.
A ‘must’ for watch enthusiasts, collectors and professionals alike,
this 360-page volume is an unprecedented guide to collecting Patek Philippe
watches, complete with a history of the firm and valuations as well as investment
tips from the true expert in this field, Osvaldo Patrizzi, chairman of Antiquorum.
This work includes over 600 watches, fully
illustrated and described with details of case, dial and movement, together
with the reference number, movement and case numbers, as well as the year of
production.
Together with an index of reference numbers, the book also provides over 3,000
market value estimates for Patek Philippe collector’s watches giving the
reader, in each case, a precise valuation of the watch based on its condition
and rarity. In a watch world in which Patek Philippe timepieces achieve the
highest prices at auction, this is a reference book that belongs in every watch
enthusiast’s library.
A.
L. BREGUET: Watchmaker to Kings
A. L. BREGUET: Uhrmacher der Könige
By Thomas Engel
221 pages, red leather hard cover, 22 x 28 cm. 46 color illustrations and 56
black
and white illustrations.
Available as an English edition or as a German edition. SFr. 320.
1994 Edition. ISBN 3-85725-114-X
Professor Thomas Engel is internationally known for his work on polymerization
and his talented
research into the production of polymers. Thomas Engel holds about 120 patents
in the field of organic
chemistry and has received many prizes and honors for his work. In 1972, he
was awarded the
"Diesel Prize", which he shared with Dr. Wernher von Braun, the rocket
and space technologist.
When not inventing, Engel pursued his great love of horology and published this
work, subtitled
"Thoughts on Time", a biography on the life and works of Abraham Louis
Breguet, which has an
introduction by Lord Yehudi Menuhin.
OMEGA SAGA
By Marco Richon
488 pages, 31 x 25 cm, 237 color illustrations, 768 black and white illustrations,
2 indexes of over 7,500 words. 2000 copies printed in French, SFr.
200.
1998 Edition. ISBN 2-88380-010-3.
Several works have already been written about various Omega activities but
none had covered
literally all aspects of the firm’s life until now, with the publication
of the Omega Saga on the
occasion of the company’s 150th anniversary. The Omega Saga is above
all a highly detailed reference
book, not only about Omega, as it also offers a synoptic chronology of the
measurement
of Time – from both a technical and an economic point of view –
from prehistoric times to the
21st century.
DICTIONNAIRE
DES HORLOGERS GENEVOIS
By Osvaldo Patrizzi
412 pages, 17.3 x 24.4 cm, 8 color illustrations, 25 black and white illustrations,
in French, SFr. 120.
1998 Edition. ISBN 2-940019-20-7.
This monumental work is a dictionary of Genevan watchmaking compiled by Osvaldo
Patrizzi, chairman of
Antiquorum, after many years of research and experience in this field. This
splendid book offers unprecedented
information on all those watchmakers who, in the last five centuries, have contributed
to the greatness of Geneva
as an horological center of international fame.
LES
OUVRIERS DU TEMPS
La Pendule à Paris de Louis XIV à Napoléon Ier
Ornamental Clocks and Clockmakers in Eighteenth Century Paris
By Jean-Dominique Augarde
427 pages, 25.5 x 31 cm, 234 color illustrations, 58 black and white illustrations,
bilingual French - English, SFr. 280.
1996 Edition. ISBN 2-940019-09-6.
This work is entirely dedicated to the history of Parisian clockmakers, viewed
through the art of the
clock. Sculptors, cabinet-makers, bronze casters and chasers, engravers, gilders,
goldsmiths and
enamelers collaborated, from the end of the 17th Century until the First Empire,
to create works of
frequently exceptional beauty. Les Ouvriers du Temps bears witness to the unequaled
talent and originality
of the Parisian artists. 500 new biographies of Parisian clockmakers, based
in many cases on
unpublished documents, enhance this book.
