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 79
rs were not in general use for a long period afterwards, a 64 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers. taste for table clocks and watches was at once apparent amongwealthy people, who delighted in the possession of curious novelties.The earliest watches are scarcely to be distinguished from… … Fig. 47.—Cover open. over each hour, through which the position of the hand might beseen. Most of the watches were provided with a bell, on which insome cases the hours were sounded in regular progression ; in otherinstances the bell was merely utilised for an alarum. Whenfurnished with a bell the…
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