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 235
minute figures than did Englishmanufacturers. Fig. 337 shows a French watch dating from about 1770, which isa good example of the period, with a hole for winding cut throughthe dial, a plan much favoured in France for fifty years or so fromthat date, but not so popular in England. Lepine, who… … Fig. 339. Fig. 340. a century before his time and for the thick French watches withporcelain enamel hour figures, in some of which the unsightly holesin the dial were avoided by planting the winding square at the centre.Many French and Swiss watches made towards the end of theseventeenth and at the…
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