Marie Antoinette's Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual

Marie Antoinette's Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual Motion

â€œMarie Antoinetteâ€™s Watch is a wonderful book.â€ â€“ William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the worldâ€™s greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinetteâ€™s watch, the â€œ160,â€ worth an estimated $40 million in todayâ€™s dollars. Perhaps the most sought after personal technology device of the last 200 years, the timepiece, designed by the legendary Abraham-Louis Breguet, is the launching point for a thrilling and fluidly woven set of narratives that are, in part, forbidden love story, historical document, and police procedural. Marie Antoinetteâ€™s Watch also deftly lays out the history of horology and the 18th Century engineering feats attained in Parisâ€™s answer to Silicon Valley, the ÃŽle de la CitÃ©, that made the watch the most intricate and prized personal device of its time â€“ something thatâ€™s come full circle today. In the hands of Techcrunchâ€™s East Coast Editor, John Biggs, Marie Antoinetteâ€™s Watch is by turns edifying and lurid, historical and utterly modern. Culminating in a heist in a Tel Aviv antiquities museum in the 1980s, Biggs tells the story of how one object can transform countries, cultures, high technology, and time itself.
Country USA
Brand CREATESPACE
Manufacturer CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781511773997
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Brand	CREATESPACE
Manufacturer	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781511773997
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Marie Antoinette's Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual Motion

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