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 475
h century. It is mostprobable that for some years the minute hand was only apphed by thebest makers and exclusively to clocks of a superior class ; this assump-tion is justified by the fact that though many early one-hand clocksroughly made are met with, those with the minute hand are almost… … Fig. 596.—Andrew Prime, about 1670. safely placed as dating from between 1676 and 1680. The centre of thedial is matted, and this, though characteristic of the time, was not aninvariable custom, for some makers adhered to the engraved centre asseen in lantern clocks of earlier times. On dials of…
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