10 Mar 2011, 14:48
In 2007 the german watch museum organised a symposium about the early period of the quartz revolution in watch making.
The transcripts were published in bookform and the museum still has limiited stock at a price of 20 Euros.
Die Quarzrevolution: 75 Jahre Quarzuhr in Deutschland 1932-2007. Vorträge anläßlich der Tagung im Deutschen Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen am 20. und 21. August 2007.
# Taschenbuch: 160 Seiten
# Verlag: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (Mai 2008)
# ISBN-10: 3922673279
# ISBN-13: 978-3922673279
´The greatest value of this series of papers is that most of them speak in the voice of the people who were in the midst of this revolutionary technology change from the 1960s to the 1990s. The majority of authors were in key management roles in the horological industry at that time, but then could not document and publish what was going on for competitive reasons. The timing for the symposium was perfect, the key actors are still alive to tell their story, but technology has moved on and there is no longer the need for secrecy concerning what the companies were doing then.
The resulting book documents a key chapter in the horological history, the technological history and the industrial history of Germany.
The Deutsches Uhrenmuseum deserves the appreciation of the global community of horological scholars for organizing the conference and publishing the book.
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki
Sussex, NJ
July 2008´
The transcripts were published in bookform and the museum still has limiited stock at a price of 20 Euros.
Die Quarzrevolution: 75 Jahre Quarzuhr in Deutschland 1932-2007. Vorträge anläßlich der Tagung im Deutschen Uhrenmuseum Furtwangen am 20. und 21. August 2007.
# Taschenbuch: 160 Seiten
# Verlag: Deutsches Uhrenmuseum; Auflage: 1., Aufl. (Mai 2008)
# ISBN-10: 3922673279
# ISBN-13: 978-3922673279
´The greatest value of this series of papers is that most of them speak in the voice of the people who were in the midst of this revolutionary technology change from the 1960s to the 1990s. The majority of authors were in key management roles in the horological industry at that time, but then could not document and publish what was going on for competitive reasons. The timing for the symposium was perfect, the key actors are still alive to tell their story, but technology has moved on and there is no longer the need for secrecy concerning what the companies were doing then.
The resulting book documents a key chapter in the horological history, the technological history and the industrial history of Germany.
The Deutsches Uhrenmuseum deserves the appreciation of the global community of horological scholars for organizing the conference and publishing the book.
Fortunat Mueller-Maerki
Sussex, NJ
July 2008´
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