Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 114
fastenings are either pins or wedge-shaped keys orrivets. The quaint hexagonal striking and alarum table clock shown inFig. 91 is a mid-sixteenth century production from the Schlosscollection. On the six faces of the case are engraxed allegoricalfigures representing the sun, the moon, Mars,… … Fig. 94. permits the inspection of the fusee in order to estimate the period forwinding. The movement is arranged in stories, the strikingmechanism below and the going part above, the hemisphericalbell being supported from the upper plate and covered by a perforateddome. On the upper surface of the…
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