Books
The Watch Annual 2024
A book for watch lovers, by watch lovers. A reflection of 2024 in watches; celebrating the best of design and complication — and a reference for years to come.
CEO Letters:
— Anoma Watches' Mr. Matteo Violet-Vianello
— Berneron's Mr. Sylvain Berneron
— Breitling's Mr. Georges Kern
— HYT Watches' Mr. Vahe Vartzbed
The Watch Annual 2023
A book for watch lovers, by watch lovers. A reflection of 2023 in watches; celebrating the best of design and complication — and a reference for years to come.
CEO Letters:
— ANDERSEN Genève's Mr. Pierre-Alexandre Aeschlimann
— De Bethune's Mr. Pierre Jacques
— Oris Watches’ Mr. Rolf Studer
— Furlan Marri’s Mr. Andrea Furlan
— Piaget's Mr. Benjamin Comar
— URWERK's Mr. Felix Baumgartner
The Watch Annual 2022
A book for watch lovers, by watch lovers. A reflection of 2022 in watches; celebrating the best of design and complication — and a reference for years to come.
CEO Letters:
— A. Lange & Söhne's Mr. Wilhelm Schmidt
— anOrdain's Mr. Lewis Heath
— Bvlgari Watches’ Mr. Antoine Pin
— Furlan Marri’s Mr. Andrea Furlan
— Greubel Forsey's Mr. Antonio Calce
— Mr. Laurent Ferrier & Mr. François Servanin
— Naoya Hida & Co's Mr. Naoya Hida
The Watch Annual 2021
A book for watch lovers, by watch lovers. A reflection of 2021 in watches; celebrating the best of design and complication — and a reference for years to come.
CEO Letters:
— BALTIC’s Mr Etienne Malec
— Bremont’s Mr Nick English
— La Montre Hermès’ Mr Laurent Dordet
— MB&F’s Mr Maximilian Büsser
— Ressence’s Mr Benoît Mintiens
The Watch Annual 2020
A book for watch lovers, by watch lovers. A reflection of 2020 in watches; celebrating the best of design and complication — and a reference for years to come.
CEO Letters:
— Audemars Piguet's Mr François-Henry Bennahmias
— Bamford Watch Department's Mr George Bamford
— Fears Watch Company's Mr Nicholas Bowman–Scargill
— IWC Schaffhausen's Mr Christopher Grainger-herr
— Vacheron Constantin's Mr Louis Ferla
R is for Rolex
R is for Rolex is the ONLY way the child of a watch enthusiast should be learning their alphabet. Whether you`re an avid collector, or just looking for a fun way to teach your child the alphabet, you will love this book!
- AMAZING GRAPHICS: Featuring detailed graphics and fun, vibrant colors - you`ll find it hard to put this book down.
-TONS OF VARIETY: Each page is unique and diverse, from Grail Watches to daily beaters - there is something for everyone!
-GREAT GIFT IDEA: Show them you know their passions with a really relevant and unique gift. This is the ultimate gift for any enthusiast and is guaranteed to put a smile on their face
I is for Indie
I is for Indie: ABCs of Independent Watches! I is for Indie is for the real watch geeks. Even the biggest self-proclaimed watch experts will have a hard time guessing what independent watch comes next in this book.
- AMAZING GRAPHICS: Featuring detailed graphics and fun, vibrant colors - you`ll find it hard to put this book down.
-TONS OF VARIETY: Each page is unique and diverse, from Grail Watches to daily beaters - there is something for everyone!
-GREAT GIFT IDEA: Show them you know their passions with a really relevant and unique gift. This is the ultimate gift for any enthusiast and is guaranteed to put a smile on their face
Patek Philippe: The Impossible Collection
Founded in Geneva in 1839 by Polish refugees Antoine Norbert de Patek and François Czapek, Patek Philippe is the zenith of Swiss fine watchmaking. Their mission was clear: to create the world's most exquisite timepieces.
Patek Philippe excels in grand complications, with groundbreaking innovations like the precision regulator (1881) and perpetual calendar mechanism (1889). They've crafted iconic watches, including the 1926 Grande Complication, the 1933 Super Complication for Henry Graves, and the record-setting 2019 Grandmaster Chime.
With a production of fewer than a million watches since 1839, Patek Philippe's creations are coveted by collectors worldwide.
Explore these rare timepieces in Patek Philippe: The Impossible Collection, featuring exclusive photographs from prominent collectors. Join the world of horological excellence today.
Rolex: The Impossible Collection
For more than a century, Rolex stands apart as the most coveted and most legendary brand of watches in the world. A Rolex connotes many things: the quintessence of the luxury timepiece, a tool of power for movers and shakers, the symbol of passage into adulthood. New labels pop up, styles come and go, but the brand at the top never changes. Ever the record setter—the Daytona that had belonged to Paul Newman was auctioned by Phillips in New York in October 2017 for $17.8 million—it comes as no surprise that Rolex is the most collected watch label in the world. This second edition volume includes never-before-seen images of the world's rarest timepieces.
Selected by specialist Fabienne Reybaud, each of the exceptional Rolex watch models in this beautiful handcrafted Ultimate Collection volume showcase the most valuable and technically innovative models the luxury watchmaker has produced, including watches never seen in print before: From the first wristwatch dating to the early 1900s and the first Oyster Perpetual from 1931, to an Explorer worn during Sir Edmund Hillary’s expedition to the summit of Mt. Everest in 1953 and the Submariner worn by actor George Lazenby in the James Bond film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, they are sure to astonish collectors the world over.
Complimentary white gloves and signature canvas tote bag are included with each purchase from Assouline's Ultimate Collection
The Impossible Collection of Watches
For this update to the 2014 original edition, British historian and journalist Nicholas Foulkes has selected the 100 breakthrough timepieces developed since the advent of the twentieth century, weighing the virtues of rarity, costliness, innovative functions, historical importance, grand provenance and pleasing design. The watch—a microcosm of hundreds of minute components interacting harmoniously with each other and bound within a case of precious metal—has the power to awaken emotions, excite the imagination and inspire the same passion as great art. Beautiful timepieces invite us to join a story, and the narrative that these 100 examples unfold is that of one of the most exciting and dynamic periods in human history.
These miniature machines reflect the twentieth and twenty-first centuries’ incredible technological advances and social changes, from the invention of the airplane to the effects of two world wars to the advent of space exploration and the dawn of the digital age.
Citizen: Essence of Time
In 1924, the first watch to carry the Citizen name was a pocket watch created by the Shokosha Watch Research Institute, founded to develop key technical skills necessary to make watches for the Japanese market. The name “Citizen” was suggested by the mayor of Tokyo in the hope that watches—at the time, still an expensive luxury that few could afford—might one day be produced for all the citizens of Japan, and then for the world. In the century since, Citizen has never ceased pursuing the goal of making watches that offer true value to those who have chosen to make a Citizen watch part of their daily life.
One of the largest makers of watches in the world, Citizen today manufactures perhaps the widest range of wristwatches of any company on Earth in terms of design, engineering, and technical advances. The scope of the company’s production in many ways reflects the evolution of watchmaking in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. One of the first watch companies to use titanium, Citizen enjoys a history of technical advancements, from pioneering thin watches in the 1960s and developing the Promaster line of professional diver and pilot watches in the 1970s, to Eco-Drive light-powered technology and the Caliber 0100, accurate to within one second per year.
Highlighting a century of milestones, Citizen: The Essence of Time narrates the company’s continuing quest for ever greater precision, innovation, and creativity in expressing the beauty of the human experience of the passage of time, for all citizens of the world.
Treasures from the Patek Philippe Museum
Innovation, exclusivity, and elegance define Patek Philippe, a family-owned company with a single and passionate calling: to perfect the watch. These lavishly illustrated books present some of the most important timepieces from the more than 3,000 watches exhibited at the Patek Philippe Museum in Geneva. These precious timepieces have been passionately assembled over more than 40 years by Philippe Stern, Honorary President of the company, and include some of the most valuable pieces in watchmaking history. The books allow you to take the Patek Philippe Museum’s exhibition home with you, or, alternatively, to get a preview of its treasures before you visit. From the collection of historic watches featuring the first portable timepieces dating back to the 16th century to innovative milestones in Patek Philippe’s portfolio since its founding in 1839, each watch is reproduced with such beauty and precision that you can almost hear it ticking. With expert curatorial insight and context from Peter Friess, Conservateur of the Patek Philippe Museum, these intricate mechanisms are not only presented for themselves; they also offer a unique perspective into the cultural history of the last 500 years. True to the trust and excellence of the Patek Philippe brand, the presentation, the extraordinary book design by Birgit Binner, and content of these sumptuous publications meet the highest professional standards. They are the perfect books for the “perfect watch.”
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