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 nearly twelve thousand makers (1922)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913, Britten, Annie · London : E. & F. N. Spon · leaf 114
ig. 93.— Ouaint Hexagonal Striking and Alarm Table Clock. there are four pins by which the position of the crank could bealtered, but, so far as one could see, there is no provision for automatic Portable Timekeepers 97 regulation, so that, if the reading of the scale is to be exact, the dialwould… … Fig. 94.—Striking Clock about 1560. the days. The index for this is fixed to the arbor of the annualwheel already mentioned, and the annual dial is therefore less thanhalf the diameter of the movement. The case is of brass, engraved and gilt. The hour band is ofsilver, divided into two periods of…
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