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 161
books several examples are knownto exist. A very early watch of this kind dating from the first halfof the sixteenth century is shown, rather smaller than the actualsize, in Figs. 149, 150 and 151. On the back plate of the movementis the makers punch mark, F.C., and another impression… … Fig. 154.—Lion-shaped watch. the cross-bar balance banks. By means of its shorter arm this levermay be moved and its position noted by an index on the plate. In the British Museum is a book-shaped watch dated 1550. Thespecimen shown in Fig. 152 was in the Bernal collection which wasdispersed by…
Clocks and watches · Clock and watch makers
Internet Archive · Wellesley College Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
