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 240
of repute at the end of the seventeenth century anduntil 1706, when his bankruptcy was noted in the London Gazette. Watches with Seconds Hands.—The watch by Fitter datingfrom about 1665, which, as shown in Fig, 244, has a seconds dial onthe back of the movement,seems to have been quite an… … Fig. 347- 226 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. with which and common watches he had been in the habit of tryingpulses. The pulse watch which he caused to be made ran, he said,for sixty seconds. Harrisons timekeeper with a centre seconds handwas tested in 1760, and seconds hands were not…
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