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 128
f the four sides, of which the chief oneis seen in Fig. 106. On the opposite side to that shown in the Vovtablc Timekeepers 11^ engraving a pendulum is suspended. The dials are of silver,decorated with basse faille enamel red, white, blue, and green. During the latter part of the sixteenth and the… … Fig. iio. example is shown in Fig. 107. Fig. 108, from the Schloss collec-tion, is of a rather later date. Three springy legs fixed to the alarmwere made to clasp the outside of the dial of the timepiece in such aposition that a wire depending from the alarm case was moved bythe hand at the hour it…
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