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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 115

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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 twelve hours each, and markedwith Roman numerals. Within the hour ring, and separating… … Fig. 95.— Nef,orShip Clock, Sixteenth-Century.fHavard, Dictionnaire de rAmeublement.) up to the fusee, are of iron or steel; the connection between the fuseeand barrel is by a catgut, and the balance is very light, of the oldcross-bar pattern, but with weights riveted on with no provision for…

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