The German Watch Museum Glashόtte expands its series on the history of the art of watchmaking in Glashόtte:
Volumes 1 - 4 by Prof. Dr. Dittrich now available
After the appearance of the first volume in 2008, the German Watch Museum Glashόtte is now presenting further editions in this series. Volumes 2 – 4 have recently become available in the watch museum and expand on the series of books by Prof. Dr. Herbert Dittrich.
Volume 1, entitled “Measuring the Moment”, provides detailed information about the exhibition. This accompanying volume is intended for all those who would like to broaden their knowledge of the exhibits and to learn more about the development of the former mining town into the centre of the art of German watchmaking, the founders of the first watch manufactories, as well as the various ways in which time can be measured.
Volume 2 gives a detailed description of “The Art of Precision” and introduces various European scientists and renowned watchmakers who, over the course of the centuries, have made it possible to measure time in an ever more precise manner.
These include, to name but a few, Johannes Mόller, Peter Henlein, Christiaan Huygens, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Philippe Dufour and Henry Sully. Further chapters chart the development of Saxon watchmaking in Dresden and, later, in Glashόtte.
Volume 3, entitled “Inventors and Visionaries”, introduces the pioneers of precision watchmaking in Dresden and in Glashόtte.
Detailed information is given about Johann Gottfried Kφhler and his inventions, as well as about Johann Heinrich Seyffert and his pendulum clocks, travelling pendulum clocks, pocket watches and chronometers. As the successor to Kφhler and Seyffert, Johann Christian Friedrich Gutkaes and his achievements are given their due recognition.
The role played by renowned protagonists, patrons and customers in the development of chronometry in Dresden, such as Moritz Graf von Brόhl, Franz Xaver Freiherr von Zach, and Alexander von Humboldt, is also described on the basis of various examples.
Volume 4, entitled “The Beginning of a Tradition”, describes the first 50 years – from 1845 to 1895 – of the manufacture of precision watches in Glashόtte.
This volume focuses on the theoretical basis of precision watch production in Glashόtte, the Glashόtte supply system, as well as the development of a Glashόtte calibre. Subsequent chapters deal with the first products to come from the workshops of F.A. Lange and Moritz Grossmann. This volume finishes with an outline of the early development of Glashόtte marine chronometers
Price: 13.50 Euro per book
Price for complete 4-volume set: 50.00 Euro
Publisher: Foundation “German Watch Museum Glashόtte – Nicolas G. Hayek”
Published by Sandstein Verlag, Dresden.
Available in the German Watch Museum Glashόtte
Volume 1: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-37-1
Volume 2: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-39-5
Volume 3: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-40-1
Volume 4: ISBN No.: 978-3-940319-67-8 http://www.mylugo.de/Buecher/Wissen-Lernen-Kinder-Erwachsene/Geisteswissenschaften-Kunst-Musik/Geisteswissenschaften-allgemein/Herbert-Dittrich/Die-Messung-des-Augenblicks/mp/708789
