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 130
ide to that shown in the Portable Timekeepers 113 engraving a pendulum is suspended. The dials are of silver, decoratedwith basse taille enamel red, white, blue, and green. During the latter part of the sixteenth, and tlie first half of theseventeenth century, timepieces with horizontal dials over… … Fig. 112.—Dog guarding Dial. rather later date. Three springy legs fixed to the alarm were madeto clasp the outside of the dial of the timepiece in such a positionthat a wire depending from the alarm case was moved by the handat the hour it was desired the alarm should be discharged. These…
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