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Brown book cover of Bridging Art and Mechanics, The Unabridged Story of Corum's Golden Bridge, featuring a rose gold watch mechanism. Published by Watchprint.com.

Bridging Art and Mechanics

The Unabridged Story of Corum's Golden Bridge

By (author) Elizabeth Doerr

£69.99

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  • Traces the history of the iconic Corum Golden Bridge wristwatch, using previously unpublished photography and information punctuated by riveting narrative
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Despite its trademark transparency, the Corum Golden Bridge is a wristwatch full of mystery. This new book describes the iconic linear timepiece’s fascinating history including the innovative mechanical invention conceived by a nonconformist autodidact and the difficult technical breakthroughs by two like-minded personalities needed to achieve the dream wristwatch. This story, chock-full of narrative substance, begins in Switzerland of the late 1970s, at a time when electronic timekeeping was threatening to overtake the magical mastery of mechanical ticks and tocks. The Golden Bridge, spanning the gap between mechanics and art, is an integral part of this era as luxury watchmaking teetered on the brink of extinction. The Golden Bridge additionally helped usher in the era of the independent watchmaker, as its very creation was rooted in shedding light on the work of the watchmaker in a way that no other timepiece before or after it ever would.

Specifications
Publisher
Watchprint.com
ISBN
9782940506088
Published
18th May 2015
Binding
Hardback
Territory
World excluding Switzerland
Size
310 mm x 220 mm
Pages
140 Pages
Illustrations
130 color, 10 b&w
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