Timepieces: Masterpieces of Chronometry Book

Introduction -- The Celestial Clock
- A Clock in the Heavens
- Earthly Time
- Sun Time and Clock Time
- Astronomer-Priests
- Observing Time
- Astronomical Time
- Cultural Time
Su Sung's Astronomical Clock (A.D. 1096)

Chapter 1 -- A Call to Prayer
- Orderliness and Measured Time
- Automating the Ringing Bell
Clockwork Gearing
Pope Sylvester II (A.D. c.945-1003)
- When is a Clock Not A Clock?
- The Community Clock
- Ringing in the Renaissance
The De Dondi Astrarium (A.D. 1365)
- The Mysterious Antikythera (c.86 B.C.)

Chapter 2 -- The Priceless Possessions of a Few
- Patrons of Clockmaking
The Escapement
- Demand from the Bourgeoise
The Stackfreed and Fusée
- A New Dimension of Accuracy
Science and the Clockmaker
- The Quest for Accuracy
The Clockmaker and the Scientist

Chapter 3 -- From Tabletop to Waistcoat and Beyond
- The Watch-Production Scene
John Calvin's Influence on Fashion
- Fashion Abhors a Bulge
- The Fashion of the Church
Lépine and the Modern Watch
George Washington and Lépine
- The Influence of Business
- Time on Your Hands
- Thinner is Better
- Fashion Dictates Fashion
Enameling

Chapter 4 -- The Craft Era in Watchmaking
- The Watch
- Passing on the Craft
- Craft Guilds
The Geneva Rules of 1601 (Abridged)
The Bored-Ruby Jewel
- ... And Their Decline
- The Cottage Industry
- The Craft Era Continues
- The Craft Era in the Quartz Age
- Re-Enter the Mechanical
Abraham-Louis Breguet
- The New Renaissance Watchmaker
The Quest for the Precision Watch Escapement

Chapter 5 -- The Industrial Revolution
- Timing the Industrial Revolution
- The American System of Manufacture
Eli Terry: The Industrial Revolution in a Nutshell
- The Industrial Revolution of Watches
The Principles of the Watch
- A New Craftsman Emerges
- The American Method in Perspective
Invention's Debt to Watch- and Clockmaking

Chapter 6 -- A Mountain Industry Explodes
The Cabinotier
- The Machine Age Comes to the Mountains
Vallée de Joux: The Heart and Soul of Swiss Watchmaking
- Complicating Time
Ébauches
The Chronometer Time Trials
- Miniaturizing the Complications
- The Tiniest of Complications
- Women in Watchmaking
The Complicated Watch

Chapter 7 -- The Standardization of Time
- The Challenge of the Age
- A King's Ransom for a Cure
- One Man's Talents
- ... His Clocks
- ... His Obsession
- Out of Chaos
Railroad Time
Train Wreck

Chapter 8 -- The Quartz Revolution
- A New Revolution Brews
A New Definition of Time
- The Electric Watch
- They Became Accurate
- And Then They Became Cheap
How the Mechanical Watch Works
- Accuracy is No Longer an Issue
How the Electronic Watch Works
- The Mechanical Watch in the Quartz Age
The Battery -- The Power Behind the Electric Watch
The Quartz Revolution and the Repair Technician
- It's Hard to Love a Quartz Timepiece

Glossary Sources and Further Reading Index Picture Credits and Acknowledgments