If you are a watch fanatic and especially enjoy some of the high-end luxury watches on today's market, or wish you could enjoy them, then the new book, Guide to Luxury Watches, published by Assouline, may be the perfect read for you.

From National Jeweler: "Assouline's Guide to Luxury Watches, issued this spring by Assouline Publishing, is an exhaustive guide to timepieces ranging from collector-worthy watches to fashion accessories rotated on an ever-changing basis. Author Fabienne Reybaud, a watch and jewelry columnist at French newspaper Le Figaro, addresses today's booming watch market in the book."






With 100 color and black-and-white illustrations, the Guide follows watches through history, charting their course from sundial through pocketwatch to analyze the history of time-keeping mechanisms. In addition, Reybaud covers the often jaw-droppingly expensive auction market for watches and canvasses the various trademarks, styles, features and collections that characterize the timepieces of today."