6 books that every lover of beautiful watches should have in his library

Tic-Tac, Tic-Tac … for a few days to wait a few days before the launch of the wonders. From April 1 to 7, the largest guard in the world will collect 60 exhibition houses. This year, about 50,000 visitors are expected to have this large mass of views for this high number of enthusiasm, three days are open to the general public. To place yourself on the page before recovering the latest news is time to review our classics. The Bible, which lists illustration clocks, including historical novel or Vintage Watch Guide, here are 6 beautiful books that need to be in the basket. COGS and complications will no longer have a secret to you.

Collector’s Bible

The British journalist and historian Nicolas Fullkes chose 100 watches mentioned the 20th and 21st centuries. Historical significance, design, innovation, functions, rarity or price … Nothing avoids expert. This fantasized collection tells the great history, public changes, the consequences of the world’s conflicts, cosmic achievement, Cartier, Jaeger-Lecoultre, Roudex, Vacheron Constantin … Arpels Midning Planetarium (2014) or Opera Pomegranate Jacob & Co., (2022). From the final collection, this Coffee book table Submitted to a luxury valve box with a steel plate.

The impossible collection of clocks De Nicholas Foulkes, Assouway Editions, 168 pages 1,400 euros.

Most vintage

Is our partner FiguroJudikaël Hirel provides a full guide to understanding the ancient guards. Through ERAS and fabulous models, this job invites you to discover or deepen the grape harvest. The history of factories around their illustration models tells the pages, but also less popular links. Because we are not mistaken. The beautiful collection, of course, consists of almost inhuman masterpieces, but also more secret and affordable pieces. And it is an abundant universe. Diving or military clocks, mechanical or quartz, French or Japanese, casual or luxurious grade … There is something for all styles.

Vintage watch guide : Judikaël Hirel, Le Cherche Midi, 208 pages 28 euros.

Diving in the Submarine Heart de Rolex

The first waterproof diving wrist wrist up to 100 meters in 1953, 300 meters, Rolex Icon is in French and English. This work offers us a documented submission of a submarine with cinematographic vision, original photos, shots from archives and personalities accounts. It should be reminded that the reputation of the submarine goes beyond the water world, it has become a clock of modern times and adventurers. Good news. This opus is only the first part of the series of symbolic models of the ruble.

Oyster forever submarine – the key to depthNicholas Foulkes, Rolex and Wallpaper, 252 pages 140 €.

Richard Mille Preview

To publish in May, this gorgeous work, which is manufactured by hand, reminds us of how only 25 years old, independent of the TIC-TAC world is a terrible child. The reader of the journalist Fabienne Reybaud reveals how this free spirit has changed the face of the clock, dares to create new materials to create conceptual clocks at the intersection of aeronautics, automobile and watch. Passionate, Richard Millen also knew how to collect a whole family around him, thanks to the athletes (Raphael Nadal or Bubba Watson). From the original RM 001 prototype, the expert selected 79 models from the past RM 16-02 to illustrate the unique brand.

Richard Mille. Impossible collection : Fabienne Reybaud, Assouline Editions, 224 pages, 1400 euros.

Time trip

A good idea of ​​Alain Biseux. Place the clock in the heart of a historical novel. In So go for timeThe author of the Haut-Savi remembers what Volter has actively contributed to the development of guarding in Europe to protect the oppressed watches and create a clock plant in the Geneva basin. In the heart of Innentig, Anne Deloid, the philosophy, gained its trust, entrusted with a secret mission of maximum importance, which should take her shoulders to move her shoulders with great personalities. On the pages, Allen Biseyaks protects the old age.

So go for timeAlain Bizia, Ed. 3 columns, 352 pages: € 25.

From a to z

Every year Annual watches Locations in alphabetical order, most important watch manufacturers. On this 2025 program. 264 pages of color, more than 100 brands and more than 1,200 clocks and movements with precise technical descriptions. Thoroughly, Peter Braun details the characteristics and materials, price, movement, functions and complications, box, collection, handcuffs and variations. In short, the Bible of the Future Buyer.

Annual watches 2025 : Peter Braun, Chronosports Editions, Design Airelles collection, approx. € 60.