Who Was Mathey-Tissot and What is a Good Reference Book on Watchmakers

[Ray916MN]

Does anyone know anything about the history of Mathey-Tissot, and does anybody know of a good book with comprehensive backgrounds on existing and extinct watchmakers?

TIA....

Ray

[Ray MacDonald]

Some information on Mathey-Tissot at this link:

http://www.mathey-tissot.ch/page2.html

Personally I use the Internet and Shugart's book for research. Hartmut Richter has a trilingual volume he uses for his information on European manufacturers. Perhaps he would care to comment.

[Hartmut Richter]

My trilingual book is just named "Wristwatches/Armbanduhren/Montres-bracelets" and is by Gisbert Brunner and Christian Pfeiffer-Belli. Try Amazon (http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/3829006608/303-1241688-2105809) if you want a copy.

Hartmut Richter

[Ray916MN]

Some information on Mathey-Tissot at this link:

http://www.mathey-tissot.ch/page2.html

Personally I use the Internet and Shugart's book for research. Hartmut Richter has a trilingual volume he uses for his information on European manufacturers. Perhaps he would care to comment.

Thanks for info Ray. I was unable to find the web site via the searches I did.

When you say Internet, do you mean search engine searches or do you mean something like this? http://www.clockswatches.com/index.html

Ray

[Ray916MN]

Thanks Harmut and Ray. Looks like I'm going to have to buy a couple of books!

Ray

[Ray MacDonald]

Thanks for info Ray. I was unable to find the web site via the searches I did.

When you say Internet, do you mean search engine searches or do you mean something like this? http://www.clockswatches.com/index.html

Ray
I just use Google most of the time.