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 164
y specimens. They appear to havebeen worn, generally, on the breast,and are often spoken of as pectoralcross watches. Of three in theBritish Museum, one, in a case ofrock crystal, very similar to Fig. 155,was made by Jean Rousseau theelder about 1580; another, also asixteenth-century production, is… … 150 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. In the Arcliaological Journal is mentioned a Latin cross watch bythe celebrated Johannes van Ceulen, which has a cover of crystaland is enamelled in opaque colours ; on the front the Man of Sorrowsand emblems of the Passion, and on the back the…
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