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History of Italian Watchmaking<\/em><\/strong> takes readers on a centuries-long journey that begins with the marking and measuring of time in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the apex of modern watchmaking revived by ‘Made in Italy’ stylistic trends and precision craftsmanship. Italy’s peninsula occupies only 0.5% of the world’s surface but has given birth to 70% of the world’s art. Italy’s pursuit of art, beauty, and elegance is a defining trait of Italian watchmaking. Italians have always been voyagers to far away lands, from Marco Polo on, poets, artists, and creators of iconic fashion brands and car design. It is not surprising that this genius has been applied to clocks and watches as well. Hourglasses, sundials, and church bells marked time over many centuries. Illustrious geniuses such as Dante Alighieri, Galileo Galilei, Giorgio Vasari, Filippo Brunelleschi, and Leonardo da Vinci were intensely interested in the measuring of time passing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

History of Italian Watchmaking highlights the all-Italian DNA created over centuries that has powered the rebirth of the Made in Italy High-End Watch style in the 21st century, with most of watch components, including those for clock movements, made in Italy.
Editorial Note
\nForeword by
\nCarlo Maria Ceppi
\nThe first artistic mentions of mechanical watchmaking starting with Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy
\nThe Great Italian Watchmakers up to the beginning of the 20th century
\nThe Italian protagonists of the development of world watchmaking in the 20th and 21st centuries and the birth of the High-End Made-in-Italy Watch
\nMaps
\nBibliography
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