Studies in Design and Material Culture #: The Business of Time

A Global History of the Watch Industry

Studies in Design and Material Culture #: The Business of Time
Pierre-Yves Donze
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28 Jun 2022 UK
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9781526162571
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World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centres such as Great Britain, France, the United States and Russia saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory during the twentieth century. How did this situation come about? The business of time aims to answer this question by presenting the first comprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution and transformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealing how multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate the industry.

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Pierre-Yves Donze is Professor of Business History at Osaka University
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781526162571
Published: 28 Jun 2022
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 240mm
Width: 170mm
Pages: 224

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