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...gives a year's guarantee, but prospective owners may fairly be warned to line up a repair shop that knows how to do more than change a battery or install a new quartz movement. "Sometimes it's difficult to find the parts for the old watches," says Tony Di Leonardo of Manhattan's highly regarded Raymond C. Falt watch company. "But the most trouble I see is from watches that have been handled by non- professionals. Some watchmakers may do more damage than the customer...
...Leonardo and other experts can make a new part, or modify an existing one, but that is not always necessary. Patek Philippe keeps an inventory of parts for even its old models and, like Rolls-Royce, stands ready to keep anything of its manufacture in good running order. A whim of fashion may have pushed vintage wristwatches to the forefront, but the grace and craft of some of the loveliest pieces give solid indication that after the whim has faded, these small elegances will indeed be truly timeless...
Lively enchantments from Leonardo to Sendak...
...Leonardo was the greatest artist in the world." So begins Leonardo da Vinci, by A. & M. Provensen (Viking; $14.95). "He was also an astronomer, an architect, and an engineer who made hundreds of inventions." Granted, but how can a child be shown the breadth and scope of a genius five centuries removed? The Provensens have performed the impossible, and they have done it in twelve pages. Their solution is worthy of Leonardo himself: a popup book designed to show a movable church, a flying machine, a winged man, engineering and anatomical studies, a three-dimensional model of the heavens...
...artist of the whole rural scene, including its people. Stubbs had a haunted, driven side, and its combination with his visions of social tranquillity was like nothing else in 18th century art. His anatomical studies of the horse, dense with thought and laden with death, rivaled Leonardo's anatomies and, like them, came from grueling years of dissection and observation. His variations on a favorite subject, the white horse neighing in anguish as it is mauled by a lion in the wilderness, are among the archetypes of romantic imagination, comparable in intensity to Goya or Gericault. Finally...