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 309
em. There is no doubtthat everything was done thatwas possible to economise theforce. The very small and lightswing wheel, the balancedminute hand, and the smallshortened arbors with extra finepivots, all conduce to the endm view. A twelve-month timepieceby Quare with an equationmovement, very… … FiG. 431. clock by Quare, belonging to the Earl of Cork. Mr. C. F. Bell hasanother, and in the Wetherfield collection are several calculated forthe same period. Ouares dials were particularly good, as may bejudged from the specimen shown in Fig. 430, for which I amindebted to Mr. H. Cook, of…
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