It documents the story of two of America's greatest watch collectors in the 20th Century, Henry Graves Jr and & James Ward Packard.
Henry Graves Jr was a banker and James Ward Packard was an entrepreneur who was an innovator with lightbulbs and founder of Packard Automobiles.
They both shared a love of complicated mechanical timepieces featuring tourbillons, minute repeaters, perpetual calendars and split seconds chronographs.
It was a friendly rivalry with both trying to obtain the most complicated timepieces from the prestigious houses of Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin.
In my opinion it is a very well written book, documenting the histories of both men, watchmaking and the constant love affair of watch collecting.
My thanks to Elizabeth Doerr, who first posted about this book and brought it to my attention.
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