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 255
g. 371, is fitted with a pendulum arranged to swing in frontof the diaL Altogether it is six inches in height. Around the arch ofthe dial is engraved, Cito Perevnt et Impvtantvr (Theypass quickly and are reckoned). On the dial are two labels bearingthe words Chasseur, London ; these appear to be of… … Fig. 376.—Back of outer cover. thick and heavy, with dials ranging from three inches to nearly seveninches in diameter, and seem to have been manufactured more inFrance and Germany than in England. As a rule they struck thehour on a bell inside the case, many of the earlier ones being inaddition…
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