The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World runs 11.8 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Simon Winchester (about 7.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 11.8 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 24 days |
| 1 hour / day | 12 days |
| 2 hours / day | 6 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 8 days |
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Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 11.8 hours, it runs longer than 69% of the 7,179 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester narrates 17 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 179 hours in all.
- Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of The Oxford English Dictionary
- Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers
- Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
About as long, on the World shelf
1,012 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World is an audiobook by Simon Winchester: a 11.8-hour unabridged recording, read by Simon Winchester, released May 8, 2018, on the World and Non-Fiction shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 11.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- Simon Winchester
- Released
- May 8, 2018
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World, Non-Fiction
- ISBN
- 9780062848093
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World as an audiobook?
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World runs 11.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 7.9 hours.
Is The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World?
The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World is narrated by Simon Winchester.
Is The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 7.9 hours, saving 3.9 hours.