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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Series page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1: The situation in the mid-nineteenth century
- 2: Responding to the American challenge, 1870–1890
- 3: The first phase of technological and industrial diffusion, 1890–1914
- 4: The transformation of the watch industry, 1914–1945
- 5: The first wave of foreign direct investment, 1945–1970
- 6: The impact of electronics, 1970–1985
- 7: Reorganisation of global value chains after 1985
- 8: Epilogue: the world watch industry in 2017
- Conclusion
- Appendix. Estimates of world watch production
- Bibliography
- Index