Chasing Time: Vintage Wristwatches for the Discerning Collector Hardcover – April 28, 2018

If you collect older Swiss chronographs, you must buy this book! Superior pictures and ample information on each watch. This is my favorite watch book amongst the dozens I own! Buy it!

Alistair Thomas Gibbons services and restores vintage watches for a living. "Chasing Time" is a photo-history of some of the best vintage watches in his collection. The photos are simply stunning. If you are the type of person who likes looking at photos of beautiful old watches, this book is a must purchase. What I especially enjoyed about this book are all the watches from obscure companies that went out of business long ago. This book reminds the collector that vintage watches to do not have to be expensive to be beautiful and worthy of collection. Highly recommended!

As others have said, this is very chronograph-heavy, but thats not a problem for me. If you aren't into chronos, maybe skip this one. If you are, this is perfect for the coffee table. Its got pictures of and information on watches from brands often overlooked, sleeper watches and some we've all heard of. There are pictures of movements, casebacks and dials alike, along with a lot of excellent information. Definitely a must have for the chronograph enthusiasts among us.

About 240 pages of great vintage sports watches, mostly chronographs and divers from some of the well known brands but many of the lesser known. I love this book because many of the watches featured are actually attainable by most people. Some watches are featured on a single page with a brief description and some have a double page layout, with about 5 or 6 photographs, sometimes including vintage ads and a longer description. Overall, a very cool book at a very affordable price.

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Author Alistair Gibbons is the longtime proprietor of atgvintagewatches.com , one the the web's premier online destinations for discussion and information about vintage watches. This book is an outstanding look into the collection of a true aficionado. It's full of some of the most brilliant watch photography around, and highlights some of the cooler, more obscure offerings from the 1950'5 through the 1980's. It also features most of the heavyweights of the vintage watch world- Omega, Universal Geneve, Rolex, and Heuer. Given the resurgence of popular interest in all things vintage, this book would make a perfect gift for anyone wanting to learn more about horology from the time of the golden age of the mechanical wristwatch.

Alistar Gibbon's Chasing Time, is a great visual journey through the mind of a vintage watch enthusiast. This book is a great way to explore watches and discover some otherwise obscure pieces, it a very high quality hard cover book, with lots of great photos and information. It sits atop our coffee table. IG @way_of_the_watch

Collecting vintage watches is different for any collector as the personal interest in a timepiece hinges on a high number of details specifically desirable to the individual which makes each collection unique. And so it is not easy to publish a collectors collection to capture a readers attention from cover to cover as I did for me. My own collection is different yet in line with the history, functionality and rarity that I value also. The images and written word ratio is spot on and would satisfy one who in little time likes to leaf through the book or one who, like myself, dedicated many hours reading with detailed interest to further educate myself. Fantastic book.