American horological journal, devoted to practical horology (1869)
Miller, George B · New York, G. B. Miller · leaf 37
the close dis-position of three large moving parts, one overthe other, are certainly very grave objections;but a watch is, more than many other articles,dependent upon the reigning taste, to thetyranny of which its construction must be sub-jected, and this must account for the fact thatalmost all… … faced and hunting watches, and that all theparts of the train may be executed of the sameregular dimensions as in a key-winding watchof the same size. Analytical Horology. BY J. HEEEMANN, LONDON, ENG. DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT. By reason of my long silence on the abovesubject, it is consistent with…
Clocks and watches
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