Informative, interesting, and fast paced, I especially appreciated the adventurous background of time markers. This engaging, rewarding book is full of mechanical complexities and wonderfully interesting details . For example, the impact of religion on timekeepers and our perception of time is told with Mary Queen of Scots' skull watch (from the 1500s, when reminders of death were ubiquitous). Unfortunately, Rebecca often drifts off course into politics, economics, and sociology, wherein her talents clearly do not lay. By focusing on different ways time-keeping and watches have changed the world, a watchmaker takes us through a history of time, and her own life with timepieces.

Unfortunately we cannot offer a refund on custom prints unless they are faulty or we have made a mistake. How the measurement of time has been used to save lives, proclaim love, exploit workers, explore the world, fight wars, symbolise wealth, and sustain economies. I had spent years being stressed, anxious, and exhausted, but I hadn't allowed for happiness, and now I might be out of time. The enthusiasm that Struthers has for the subject matter comes through loud and clear and is contagious. She takes us on a journey through time, beginning by examining the very first examples of watches in the early 1500s.Taking us from the earliest lunar calendar (a notched baboon fibula found in the Lebombo mountains) to today's quartz watches. The author did highlight some interesting overlaps between watch development and human development, but without as much detail as I would have liked.

It does mention the names of milestone mechanisms to note improvement through time, but there aren't even diagrams of many of them. Hands of Time closes with Struthers sharing her recent diagnosis with multiple sclerosis and the self-reflection it prompted, "it wasn't death that scared me so much as how I had spent my time.On the one hand, you have the glamorous golden age of horological advances, of marine chronometers, of watches crafted by some of the most highly educated scientists in society. What an exquisite book, as beautifully put together as one of the watches whose mechanisms Rebecca Struthers describes with such eloquence and authority.