Book Review: Eternal Springs – and a Conversation with the Author
You?re interested in watches. You want to know more about them. Where do you start" Watchworld is a landscape dotted with rabbit holes down which a tyro can lose himself for days. Why do people keep talking about the ?quartz crisis?" What?s the difference between a chronograph and a chronometer (and why doesn?t a chronograph record time by writing it down")
Those of us who remember watches pre-web remember raiding the few watch books from the local library and poring over them for hours, then ordering more to follow the links to subjects we were interested in. Now, if you want to know the fine points of Newman Daytonas (and why the heck wouldn?t you") you?ve got your choice of YouTube videos with people like Aurel Bacs explaining the whole thing in detail. But while the web is a fantastic resource once you know – at least broadly – where you?re heading, there?s a lot of myth, even more hype and slathers of stuff that?s just plain wrong. Anyone else remembers the horror show that was the Heuer Mappamondo"
horror or horology" – image via 1stdibs.com
This is where Eric Grégoire?s splendid new book, Eternal Springs, comes in. It has the knack of being a guide for putative residents of Watchworld whilst offering enough to keep the old stagers happy and interested too.
It manages to pack a great deal of material into 170 pages. You get an overview of watch history, a look at the elements of watches (everything from lug...
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