Marking Time: Collecting Watches and Thinking about Time [Hardcover]

Michael Korda (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 198 pages
• Publisher: Barnes & Noble; Reprint Edition edition (2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 076073576X
• ISBN-13: 978-0760735763
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #885,320 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Michael Korda is the New York Times bestselling author of Horse People,
Country Matters, Ulysses S. Grant, Cat People, Journey to a Revolution, and Ike.
He lives with his wife, Margaret, in Dutchess County, New York.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book!, June 6, 2005

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Arthur Simon (Albany, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marking Time: Collecting Watches and Thinking about Time (Hardcover)

I'm not really a watch collector or WIS (watch idiot savant as some watch collectors refer to themselves), but I loved this book! Unlike just about every other watch book I've seen, it's _not_ just a catalog of different watch models with short descriptions. It's really well written, with prose worthy of the New Yorker. It does an excellent job of telling the history of watches, with the author's personal anecdotes integrated into the story. If I had the money, I'd enjoy collecting watches, but this book is an enjoyable read in and of itself.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An enjoyable reading, January 25, 2011

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Abel A. Domenech (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Marking Time: Collecting Watches and Thinking about Time (Hardcover)

How much I enjoyed reading this book!
Reading is very easy, like listening a very well informed and entertaining person speaking about his passion: collecting vintage and antique watches.

But author, best seller writer Michael Korda, not only speaks about collecting, but also his own thoughs about time, as an abstract theme.
And he adds a bit about the history of time keeping to boot.

I must say, that though Mr. Korda specializes in collecting pocket watches, I feel that absolutely everything he talks about collecting, collectors, and the flame who drives collectors in their endeavour, is absolutely related to those interested in wrist watches as well. As a matter of fact, he doesn't fail to mention them in this book.
He also includes some personal experiences and anecdotes, which readers will appreciate the author has shared in this little tome.

I found some very thoughtful sentences devoted to those various themes he treates in his book, which are worth underlining in pencil, as I did in my copy, to find them quickly in future re-reads which I intend to do.

Just wished to share this most charming reading experience, with a little nice book, with very few illustrations, but with a lot of well worth writing inside.
I sincerely recomend this charming book!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a Nice Surprise, March 31, 2010

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Seneca - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Marking Time: Collecting Watches and Thinking about Time (Hardcover)

From all experience a book about collecting by a collector ought to fast lose its appeal beyond an audience of like minded aficionados. However Mr. Korda is a bright and entertaining guy who has given a lot of thought to this endeavor and talks about it without taking himself too seriously. The result is akin to say striking up a conversation with a civilized and rather erudite stranger on a journey and finding yourself at your destination after what seems like only minutes, his company having been so pleasant. You can't help but enjoy this book.