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Title A grand complication : the race to build the world's most legendary watch / Stacy Perman.
Author Perman, Stacy.
Publication Info. New York : Atria Books, 2013.
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Third Floor  338.092 PER    Check Shelves
Edition 1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Description viii, 343 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Summary "The race between two ambitious, complicated men in the early 1900s to create the most extravagant, complicated timepiece ever"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-330) and index.
Contents Lot 7 -- The first tick -- A shining light -- Esse Quam Videri -- Mr. Packard's horseless carriage -- Ask the man who owns one -- Eagle Island -- The collector -- Acceleration -- Vallee de joux -- A gentleman's war -- Time stop -- The final windup -- Game over -- Across the sea -- The James W. Packard Collection of Unusual and Complicated Watches -- A supercomplication -- Age of quartz -- Collecting time -- Back in time -- The comeback -- The final gavel.
Subject Pocket watches -- Design and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Clocks and watches -- History.
Packard, James Ward, 1863-1928.
Graves, Henry, 1868-1953.
Industrialists -- United States -- Biography.
United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
ISBN 9781439190081 (hbk.) : $26.00
1439190089 (hbk.)
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