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 283
e period. The case is of silverwith a hit-and-miss shutter over the winding hole ; the glass is nearlyone third of a sphere and exceedingly thick. Betts carried on busi-ness at the back of the Royal Exchange, and appears to have diedprior to 1673, when Mr. Marquet (Markwick?) advertises himselfin… … Fig. 407.- -Watch by Samuel Betts,about 1640. Records of Early Makers, etc. 269 Tompion and Graham.—Thomas Tompion, the father ofEnghsh watchmaking, was born at Northhill, Bedfordshire, in 1638.It is said that his father was a farrier, and that he was brought upto the same trade ; but the first…
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