DE MIDI A MINUIT - LES MAITRES HORLOGERS

A unique watchmaking tradition in the service of a secret or discreet institution. After extensive research and perseverance this book is born. The result is a reference book with the precise designations of the principal masterpieces of horological works made during the history for the masons. You will discover detailed photographic clichés (dial, movement, box) of the most common Masonic watches on the market, but also pieces that have never been exhumed to the general public. During the production of this book, Didier Gottardini collaborated closely with watchmakers, experts in Masonic objects, private collectors, museum curators, specialists from international auction houses, and above all had the honor to have the lights of a great undisputed expert in old watches and collectibles : Jean-Claude Sabrier.

In this book more than 200 pieces are presented with their description and from different angles of view, and this in order to give relief and depth to these works of art of the watchmaking of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth century.

What are these masonic watches often rare and unique ? For whom were they made and why ? Why lift the veil on such a subject ? May be simply to bring to the attention of all that watchmaking has surpassed thanks to his imagination, his human genius, and his skills in decorative arts, to offer to the masons practicing the Royal Art of the time guards who correspond to them deeply. You will discover a rich book of information on a new topic.