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  • The Marine Chronometers of the Baudin Expedition to Australia – 1800-1840 – Hilary King

    The Marine Chronometers of the Baudin Expedition to Australia – 1800-1840 – Hilary King

    A very professional offprint from the journal of Antiquarian Horology, 1977.

    Softcover, largish format, 508-521, illustrations from charts, a view and a of course the chronometers which look so advanced for the time. Postage may be reduced on this item for domestic customers.

    Of course like all of the scientific voyages of the time the use of these valuable accurate chronometers in order to calculate true longitude was as important as the creation of the internet in our time.

    Here we have a special digested account of the voyage, the expedition timekeepers, their accounts, records and performance.

    Baudin Expedition the use of the Chronometers.

    $30.00

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  • Technique and History of the Swiss Watch – Jaquet & Chapius

    Technique and History of the Swiss Watch – Jaquet & Chapius

    Published by Spring Books London. 1970 updated second edition of the great 1953 publication. Jaquet was the Principal of the Geneva School of Watchmaking and an experienced historiographer and both he and Chapius authored a number of standard works in the field of horology. They were assisted in this great work by Berner the Principal of the Watchmaking School of Bienne. Updated by Guye a Director of the Swiss School of Horology.

    Classic Text on the Swiss Watch

    $80.00

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