business of time

A global history of the watch industry

AvPierre-Yves Donzé

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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The business of time explores the evolution of the global watch industry from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, offering a comprehensive history of the sector.Watch production today is concentrated in three countries: Switzerland for luxury products, Japan for mid-range and China for mass-produced. The industry is dominated by a dozen large companies, most of them organised on a global scale. But a hundred years ago the picture was quite different. Throughout the twentieth century, countries such as Great Britain, France and the United States saw the industrial manufacture of watches disappear from their territory, while Hong Kong went from being a subcontractor to an intermediary between China and the world market.Highlighting the conditions that enabled watch production to spread around the globe, The business of time explains how multinationals came to dominate the industry and how Swiss companies established themselves as the undisputed leader in luxury watches.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-07-09
Mått:170 x 240 x 12 mm
Vikt:351 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Studies in Design and Material Culture
Antal sidor:216
Förlag:Manchester University Press
ISBN:9781526176257

Utforska kategorier

Modedesign och textilformgivning inom Kultur
Ekonomisk historia inom Ekonomi och Ledarskap
Konsthistoria inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Pierre-Yves Donzé is Professor of Business History at Osaka University

Recensioner i media

'An excellent concise history of the global watch industry... The book is full of interesting stories about technological innovation and progress and how they are communicated globally.'Jan-Otmar Hesse, Business History'Offers a unique insight into how the industry evolved, looking at the transition of dominance between countries.'The Naked Watchmaker'A beautifully constructed, tightly focused, single-industry case study that has important implications for various questions in business history.'WatchCrunch

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1 The situation in the mid-nineteenth century2 Responding to the American challenge, 1870–903 A first phase of technological and industrial diffusion, 1890–19144 The transformation of the watch industry, 1914–455 A first wave of foreign direct investment, 1945–706 The impact of electronics, 1970–857 Reorganisation of global value chains since 19858 Epilogue: the world watch industry in 2017ConclusionIndex