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 230
Inn marked each bya short thick radial stroke instead of figures, and it is rarely thatpassers-by notice anything unusual, except that the dial seemsparticularly clear. Some of the very earliest portable timekeepers had incised figurescut in the dial plate, but more often the numerals were engraved… … i- K Fig. 329. knob at each hour, for the convenience of estimating the positionof the hand by feeling. The first noticeable departure from thisconstruction took place about 1600, when watch dials wholly of onemetal were introduced, with landscapes and other views engraved onthe centre. These dials…
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