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 242
, of a slightly later date, is inscribed Harns Smit,Amsterdam. Changing Hour Figures.—In this ingenious arrangement,which is said to have been designed by Prince Rupert, and appliedby Joseph Knibb to a clock, hands are dispensed with altogether,and numerals corresponding to the last completed hour… … Fig. 350. Fig. 351. a watch by M. Logg, of Vienna, from the TNIarfels collection. It hasan upper silver dial on which is chased a group, representing Saturndragging the car of Helios. As may be seen by the illustrationFig. 350, there is above the group on the silver dial a semicircularslit, through…
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