Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World (Complete 21st Century edition)

RR 2007/186 Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World (Complete 21st Century edition) Brian Loomes N.A.G Press (imprint of Robert Hale) London 2006 xiii + 873 pp. ISBN 978 0 7198 0330 7 £50/$100

Keywords Manufacturing industries, Time measurement

Review DOI 10.1108/09504120710744583

Watchmakers and Clockmakers of the World has been a standard reference work since it was first published in 1929 under the authorship of G.H. Baillie. Baillie compiled a new and enlarged edition in 1947, but since his death, copyright restrictions prevented updating. A compromise was to publish, as a second volume, new material that had been collected by Brian Loomes. The two volumes were published as Volume One and Volume Two in 1976. In 1989 a revised edition of Volume Two was published with modifications to existing entries, plus an...