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 542
about the stud used in those of Tompionswatches I have seen which might well be revived. The hole in thestud for the reception of the spring was square. The modern systemof pinning, by squeezing the flat side of a spring against the surfaceof a round hole, is altogether unmechanical and must… … Fig. 6g8. handsomely engraved bridge. The pinion and teeth of the slidefor regulation of the balance spring are uncovered, and no indexappears to have been provided. A very similar watch by one of the Habrechts of Strasburg hasthe bridge covered with the picture of a woman smoking a pipe, asshown…
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