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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 122

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s retained, the spring is much cramped. Thebalance appears to be the original one, and is weighted with pieces ofmetal to keep the vibration suificiently slow after the addition of thespring. A notable pecuharity is tliat the fly pinion has but fourleaves. - The handsome striking and alarm clock… … Fig. 102.—-Seventeenth-Century Table Clock. Early Clock with Balance-Spring.—The interesting clock shownin Fig. 104 I saw at Messrs. Thwaites & Reeds. In the centreof the dial is a plate with the moons age marked on it and carryingthe hour hand ; concentric with this a disc with a round liole…

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