Hands of Time: A Watchmaker's History

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We've minimized the paperwork and maximized protection, so you can stop worrying about your watches and focus on enjoying them. Beautifully written and endlessly fascinating, it feels like this was a story waiting to be written. Her candid accounts of being a female watchmaker in a predominantly male domain, grappling with anxiety, and establishing a small business in a dwindling industry added depth to the narrative.

It is unlike any book on the subject of watchmakers and will make you think about why we use clocks and watches. The book covers a range from satellite clocks accounting for relativity to diverse cultural perceptions of time, enriching my worldview with its insights. This compelling history offers a fresh take, exploring not only these watches within their time, but the role they played in human development and the impact they had on the people who treasured them. The history of timekeeping is treated with a light touch, consisting of one fascinating and frequently romantic story after another .

I feel incredibly lucky to have stumbled upon it during my trip, and I take great pride in owning it. at the heart of the narrative is a historical account of how timekeeping has shaped the development of pretty much every aspect of social and economic life: trade, politics, leisure, exploration and mortality. A fascinating and elucidating trip through the history of human timekeeping, told by a master clock maker with the ability to appreciate the engineering and design of each new invention and improvement. She cleverly intertwines her and her husband's experience of becoming independent watchmakers in Great Britain with horological topics as well as some of the challenges they face in their craft.

Not so much in theory, although we do touch on Einstein and relativity, more so about the way humans clock the passage. A fusion of art and science, history and social commentary, this fascinating work, told in Struthers's lively voice and illustrated with custom line drawings by her husband and fellow watchmaker Craig, is filled with her personal observations as an expert watchmaker--one of the few remaining at work in the world today. I have started to read this book just because i am huge mechanical watch enthusiast and I was hoping to learn more about wristwatches and their history. Horologists have not always acknowledged the role some of these inventions played in more damaging developments like the impact on indigenous Australians or the colonization of India and the Americas.

We go with her through her journey as a watchmaker and get flashed back in time like a montage when the author sees any particular historical watch.