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• Galilée Journal des inventions & découvertes

  Un superbe ouvrage animé pour découvrir les extraordinaires inventions et découvertes de l’un des plus grands génies de tous les temps: Galilée ! De superbes pop-ups en trois dimensions reconstituent ses inventions les plus spectaculaires: Un très bel ouvrage où le plaisir de lire rivalise avec le plaisir d’actionner de magnifiques pop-ups et qui permet de comprendre de manière ludique certaines des plus grandes avancées scientifiques.

  French - 27.5 X 23 cm - 16 pages - ill. couleur - CHF 50.00 - Order

• Gems

  By Michael O'Donoghue

  Since it was published in 1962, Gems has become universally recognized as the most comprehensive and authoritative treatise on gem materials in the English language. Now in its sixth edition, it has been revised for relevance to today’s practice.It includes an expanded encyclopaedic section, and offers a descriptive account of all gem materials used as ornament, along with their synthetic counterparts and the materials used over the centuries to imitate them.Editor Michael O’Donoghue has been assisted by a team of specialists to make this sixth edition of Gems an invaluable gemmological reference work which caters for professional jewellers, student gemmologists, and collectors of gems alike.

  English - 23.4 X 15.6 cm - 904 pages - 284 ill. - CHF 169.00 - Order

• Gems of the World

  By Cally Oldershaw

  The first section - ’The World of Gems’ - contains information on gem formation, mining, crystal structure, and both the optical and physical properties of gemstones. The other useful topics include the diamond industry, fashioning and cutting, imitation and synthetic stones, and gem enhancement, as well as information on buying gemstones and diamonds, the history of gems, famous diamonds, and how to care for gems. A colour key is included to help identification, organized by broad colour ranges (yellow to brown, red to pink, blue to violet, green, colourless, white, black and iridescent). The second section - ’Gems of the World’ - provides an in-depth description of each gem. Organized by chemical composition and grouped in a logical classification scheme, each gem has its own full-page or double-page entry. As well as the raw crystal, other photos and artworks show the preferred cuts and beautiful examples of jewellery made from the gem.The explanatory text provides information about the conditions under which the gem is formed, where it is mined and its physical properties. It also details the history and folklore attached to each gem, its significance as a jewel, key features to look for, and where the finest examples are found. Each entry is accompanied by a ready-reference fact box featuring key information about the gem, including its refractive index, relative density and hardness rating. A series of maps identify the most important gem locations in the world. Philip’s Gems of the World will appeal both to students of gemology and to the thousands of buyers, dealers and collectors who need an accessible yet comprehensive guide to the world’s gemstones.

  English - 24.5 X 19 cm - 256 pages - color ill. - CHF 52.00 - Order

• Gerd Rothmann, Catalog raisonné

  As an artist, Gerd Rothmann is concerned with the human body. He has been investigating it and experimenting with it for more than thirty years: the fruits of his labours are finger and foot casts. Jewellery must, if it is actually to be worn, observe specific conventions. Here the possibilities of creating something very particular, personal, incomparable are, therefore, limited to a certain extent. Rothmann introduced body casts in the medium of jewellery early on in his career by clothing finger casts in objectively abstract smooth forms or recasting moulds of some parts of the body as small sculptures. In doing so, Rothmann creates objects that, on the one hand, are the most intimate adornment of a particular body, that is, jewellery in its most beautiful, direct form, and, on the other, can be viewed as free-standing sculptural figurations. The upshot is artworks that are entirely individualised. What might be taken for granted (for example, fingerprints) is defamiliarised and reproduced as abstract and ornamental. Cold precious metals seem to have been bent into human shapes because they have been “touched” by body heat. The contrast is stirring to see. Rothmann represents a stringently radical interpretation of jewellery, which is always commensurate with wearability and the highest quality. Gerd Rothmann’s work is known worldwide and pieces of his are owned by the most important collections in Germany and abroad. This lavishly illustrated catalogue of works (1967–2008) is the first complete retrospective of the artist’s work. English/German Click here for more pictures

  English - 25 X 19 cm - 404 pages - 600 color ill. - CHF 64.00 - Order

• Girard-Perregaux

  By François Chaille

  A luxurious volume celebrating the impeccable style of this precision watchmaker.

  English - 29 X 26 cm - 256 pages - 312 color ill. - CHF 115.00 - Order

• Girard-Perregaux

  By François Chaille

  L’histoire de la manufacture à La Chaux-de-Fonds est retracée, depuis sa création en 1791 par Jean-François Bautte, et les inventions de la manufacture sont présentées, dont la montre extra-plate et le Tourbillon sous trois ponts d’or.

  French - 29.5 X 25.5 cm - 232 pages - 312 ill. couleur - CHF 171.00 - Order

• Glanzstücke. Emilie Flöge und die Wiener Werkstätte

  By P. Asenbaum, W. Kos, E-M. Orosz (Hg.)

  Die Wiener Werkstätte (1903 gegründet) wollte der anonymen Massenproduktion hochwertige Handwerkstradition entgegensetzen. Von Beginn an entstanden auch revolutionäre Schmuck-Entwürfe, die mit den Traditionen radikal brachen: Was zählte, war die künstlerische Idee – und nicht der materielle Wert. Schmuck der Wiener Werkstätte wurde von Architekten und Künstlern entworfen: nicht mit Brillanten, sondern mit ornamental eingesetzten Steinen wie Opal, Mondstein, Lapislazuli und Koralle, gefasst in Silber.Die opulent bebilderte Publikation präsentiert Spitzenstücke des Schmuckschaffens der Wiener Werkstätte: Virtuos arrangierte, geometrische Miniatur-Mosaike von Josef Hoffmann werden hier ebenso gezeigt wie die durch klare Linien und geschwungene -Jugendstil-Formen bestechenden Designs von Koloman Moser und die kühnen und extravaganten Kompositionen Dagobert Peches, die ab 1915 stilbildend werden und schon auf den Art Déco -weisen. Auch die Designer Eduard Josef Wimmer-Wisgrill und Carl Otto Czeschka sind mit meisterhaften Stücken vertreten. Ergänzt wird der Bildteil durch kenntnisreiche Beiträge zur Wiener Werkstätte, ihrem Schmuck und seinen Entwerfern und zu Emilie Flöge, der Protagonistin des Wiener Werkstätte-Schmucks sowie Lebensgefährtin und Muse Gustav Klimts. Entwurfszeichnungen, Zeitschriftenartikel und historische Fotografien runden die Veröffentlichung ab.

  German - 27 X 23 cm - 152 pages - 172 Abb. - CHF 67.00 - Order

• Glossary of Watchmaking Genius - Lexique du génie horloger

  By Xantos

  First launched in 1997, the Lexique du génie horloger already appeals to many connoisseurs and professionals in the sector. The quintessence of watchmaking knowledge is condensed within the 90 pages of this book. 4 different versions: French/German/English, French/Spanish/Italian, Chinese/English/Japanese and Russian/English/Greek Beside your order please send us an e-mail to info@watchprint.com to specify which version you want.

  English, French, German, Italian, Spanish - 23 X 16.5 cm - 92 pages - CHF 29.00 - Order

• Grand Complications, Volume III

  Grand Complications Vol. III presents the industry’s major accomplishments regarding each horological complication, from the complications’ origins to their most recent developments. Interviews with industry leaders begin the chapters devoted to Multi-Complications, Minute Repeaters, Tourbillons, Equations of Time, Perpetual Calendars, Chronographs, Jump HourRetrogrades, GMTs..

  English - 30.5 X 23.5 cm - 575 pages - color ill. - CHF 50.00 - Order

• Grand Complications, Volume V

  By Michel Jeannot

  Grand Complications provides a detailed overview of complicated watchmaking. This reference work for connoisseurs deals with each of the major horological complications by theme, from their history through to their most recent developments.

  English - 30.5 X 23.5 cm - 480 pages - color ill. - CHF 17.50 - Order