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- Title: Dix Ecoles d'Horlogerie Suisses - Chefs-d'oevres de savoir-faire
SubTitle: [The ten horological schools of Switzerlands - Masterpieses in Know-How] - Author: Antoine Simonin, Estelle Fallet, Bernard Muller[Photography]
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Keywords: CH-Biel/Bienne CH-Geneva CH-LaChaux-de-Fonds CH-LeLocle CH-Neuch?tel-Region watch
Other Keywords: Schoolwatches Porrentruy St.Imier Solothurn Grenchen LeSentier Fleurier
ISBN: 978 2 9700573 3 8
Language: FRE
Notes: A massive, lavishly illustrated, comprehensive history of the ten traditional Horological Schools of Switzerland (1. Geneve [Geneva]1824, 2. La Chaux-de-Fonds 1865, 3. St.Immier 1866, 4. LeLocle 1868, 5. Neuchatel 1871, 6. Bienne [Biel] 1872, 7. Fleurier 1875, 8. Porrentruy 1884, 9. Soleure-Granges [Solothurn-Grenchen] 1884, 10. LeSentier 1901.) and a comprehensive catalog of their known 'school-watches'. Index, Name directory, comprehensive bibliography. Over 1400 images (mostly color) on both the schools histories and their output (school watches, drawings, didactic models etc). Different authors cover the history of each school. Catalog section includes images of dial and movement side of most watches and detailed technical description and dimmensions. Annexes include Neuchatel Observatory performance data of those school watches certified as chronometers Rewiew: The Watchmaking Schools of Switzerland and their School Watches Dix Ecoles d?Horlogerie Suisse ? Chef-d?Oeuvres de Savoir-Faire. (The Ten Swiss Watchmaking Schools and their Masterpieces of Horological Know-How) By Antoine Simonin and Estelle Fallet. Published 2010 by Editions Simonin, Neuch?tel (Switzerland). ISBN 978-2-9700573-3-8. Hardcover, 568 pages, 30 x 24 cm, over 1400 illustrations, most of them in color. The book is written in French. With a preface by Jean-Claude Biver. Includes 2 appendices, picture credits, bibliography, index. Available from the publisher www.booksimonin.ch for Swiss Francs 180 (ca. US$ 170) plus postage or borrow from the NAWCC library. The ten watchmaking schools of Switzerland have been pillars of the horological know-how and tradition of Switzerland from the time the first one (Geneva) was founded in 1824 to the present. Six of them are still operating today (Geneva, Le Locle, Bienne, Porrentruy, Solothurn/Grenchen, Le Sentier), while four (La Chaux-de-Fonds, St. Imier, Neuch?tel, Fleurier) have merged into larger regional schools. The history of these schools has been told once before: In 1929 the Association of Swiss Watch School principals published a 272 page volume (with over 130 additional pages with advertising) describing - in a somewhat self promoting format - the seven schools then operating. In spite of its limitations that long out of print book [Linder (Editor): Les Ecoles Suisses d?Horlogerie ? Die Schweizerischen Uhrmacherschulen, Zurich 1948] is much sought after by horological collectors, and if it can be found at all sells for over $200 a copy. The new book is dramatically different and much more informative. It deals not only with the schools as institutions, but devotes a substantial portion of its space to the surviving artifacts of the schools, specifically the unique ?School Watches? the graduates of all schools were required to design and build themselves (based on an ebauche) in order to gain their certification as watchmaker. The ten main chapters of the book deal with the ten schools in the order they were founded, and vary in length from 20 to 70 pages. Each of these chapters has two sections, a historic section describing the history of the school, written by local experts (Estelle Fallet, Claude-Alain K?nzi, Pierre-Yves Donz?, H?l?ne Pasquier, Maurice Evard, Anne-Marie Cruchaud, and Vuk Djurinovi) and a ?Catalog? section describing selected surviving school watches. The catalog sections vary from 15 to 40 pages per school, with each page describing and illustrating one to three objects per page. The majority of these are highly customized and individualized pocket watches with unique movements, some with complications (and in some cases also unique cases), but the catalog also includes wristwatches, clocks and one of kind horological tools. Most of these objects are currently in private collections and many have never been published before. A large number of them where exhibited in the 2008/2009 special exhibit at the Muse? d?Art et d?Histoire in Geneva. The combined catalog.
Edition: 2010, 1st edition -- Copyright: 2010
Kind: Book
Type: Watch (general)
Geographic area: Switzerland
Topic: Education
Organization: School
Pages: 565 -- Height in cm: 30
Print Status: 1 (1 means in print - 2 means out of print)
Entered By: fortunat
BHM No: 15154 - Publisher:
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