The Business of Time - A Gglobal History of the Watch Industry

World watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland, Japan and China. Former centers 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. ''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.''-- Site de l'éditeur 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 manufactureof watches disappear from their territory during the twentiethcentury. How did this situation come about? The business oftime aims to answer this question by presenting the firstcomprehensive history of the sector. It traces the evolution andtransformation of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenthcentury to the present day, highlighting the conditions thatenabled watch production to expand across the globe and revealinghow multinational companies gradually emerged to dominate theindustry This book follows the emergence and transformation of the watch industry throughout the world from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing, it sheds new light on the way the global economy became established. -- .