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 377
e balance stati pivots of awatch, which he termed a parachute, the object being to preventdamage to the pivots through shocks. Beillard quotes a letter from Breguet to the Citoyen ministerof the Interior, asking for a patent for his escapement a Tourbillon,dated Paris le 18 Brumaire An IX. Of… … Fig. 478.—Braguets Chef dceuvrc. Perpetual or self--.vinding watch with gold movement.
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