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 220
, studded with large garnets. Mr. George Carr Glyn, at the Guelph Exhibition, showed a watch by Jas. Hubert, which had an agate case studded with diamonds. In Fig. 315 appears a waterscene and landscape very finelycarved in ivory and applied undera glass to the back of a watchcase, which is coated… … 206 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. enamelled green, and within it a ring composed of pearls andgarnets alternately. This watch dates from about 1790, and thoughthe case is Swiss, the movement bears the signature Jaquet Droz,London. The mechanism is marked by one or two…
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