Comic Character Timepieces: Seven Decades of Memories

by Hy Brown and Nancy J. Thomas

Book Overview

In 1933, the Ingersoll-Waterbury Company produced a round Mickey Mouse wristwatch that is considered to be the first comic character watch. It started a movement that has continued for ninety years and shows little sign of letting up. This new and delightful book covers the history of character timepieces from the earliest clocks to the present day quartz wristwatches. With hundreds of beautiful color photographs it is a celebration of American imagination...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 088740426X
• ISBN13: 9780887404269
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 4.55 lbs.