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8 FEATURED TITLES ISBN 978-0-7643-5371-0 ISBN: 978-0-7643-5371-0 $295.00 US | £268.99 } $430.00 CAD Box set | 1,648 pp. | 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) 2,844 color & b/w images ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Clocks & Watches ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Jewelry REFERENCE / Consumer Guides NOW AVAILABLE The Illinois Watch and Its Hamilton Years The Finale of a Great American Watch Company By Fredric J. Friedberg This five-volume box set is a comprehensive history of both Illinois and theAmericanwatch industry! This boxed set completes the Illinois Watch story in detail never before revealed, describing the American watch industry at its inception and at the time of the Great Depression, including the impact this economic disaster had on the watch industry, in general, and on Illinois and its new corporate parent, in particular. Organized into five distinct books, volume 1 is a massive, in-depth history, placing the Illinois Watch Company in the context of the Americanwatch industry and detailing the reasons that Hamilton eventually acquired the company. Volume 2 discusses the major components of Illinois wristwatches: movements, dials, and cases. Special features include information about major casemakers and manufacturers of watchbands, and interviews with watch repairers and with the world’s leading dial refinisher. Volumes 3 and 4 comprise three complete identification guides, each with superb color photographs, including a greatly expanded guide to the Illinois men's wristwatches, the most comprehensive guide ever undertaken for the Illinois ladies’s models, and a new guide detailing the men’s and ladies’ watches in the Hamilton-Illinois line introduced and sold by Hamilton between 1953 and 1955. Volume 5 provides information about collecting and tips on how to go about doing it (plus an interview with four top collectors). Beautifully illustrated throughout, these books include many rare advertisements in addition to pictures of the watches themselves. Fred J. Friedberg is recently retired. For the last 30 years he served as the general counsel and then president and chairman of three separate Toshiba Medical companies located in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is the author of three other books and lives with his wife, Joy, in Southern California. ISBN: 978-0-7643-5844-9 $84.99 US | £77.99 | $123.00 CAD HC | 272 pp. | 8 1/2" x 11" (216 x 279 mm) 250 color photos + drawings ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Clocks & Watches ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Jewelry ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES / Care & Restoration NOW AVAILABLE Vintage Rolex Sports Models, 4th Edition A Complete Visual Reference & Unauthorized History By Martin Skeet & Nick Urul ISBN 978-0-7643-5844-9 This comprehensive and detailed reference guide to Rolex sports model watches is an indispensable asset to watch collectors and dealers. The only work of its kind, it covers the history of the Submariner, Sea-Dweller, Explorer, GMT- Master, Turn-O-Graph, Milgauss, and Cosmograph watches, from 1952 to 1990. The history of more than 140 vintage models is described in detail, with the watches shown in chronological order. Color photographs illustrate every watch model, with hundreds of diagrams providing clear and useful information about the development of each model. Twenty-two rare Rolex brochures are shown along with numerous catalog photographs and the associated sale prices of sports models sold at Christie¹s and Sotheby's worldwide from 1997 to 2017. Also included is a current price guide for every model shown in the book. Rolex watches continue to dominate the collecting market, and this authoritative volume, now in its revised and expanded fourth edition, continues to be the essential resource for the Rolex collector, dealer, and auctioneer. Martin Skeet has been collecting and studying Rolex watches for 25 years. Nick Urul is an internationally recognized watch dealer.