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 376
able to embody his ideas to the bestadvantage. Clocks, chronometers and watches of his make all borethe stamp of originality in some particular. A defect in constructionhad only to be pointed out or the whim of a customer re\ealed, whenBreguet was ready with the retiuirement. Of his more daring… … Fig. 477.—Watch with perpetual calendar and equation of time register. position, which was one of the most perplexing problems of theadjuster; yielding bearing surfaces to the balance stati pivots of awatch, which he termed a parachute, the object being to preventdamage to the pivots through…
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