Marie Antoinette's Watch: Adultery, Larceny, & Perpetual Motion

by John Biggs

Book Overview

"Marie Antoinette's Watch is a wonderful book." - William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. Across continents and into and out of the hands of royalty, revolutionaries, smugglers, thieves, and the world's greatest tech engineers, was Marie Antoinette's watch, the "160," worth an estimated $40 million in today's dollars. Perhaps the most sought after personal technology device of the last 200 years, the timepiece, designed by the legendary Abraham-Louis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1511773995
• ISBN13: 9781511773997
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"