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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 131

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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 timepieces must have been exceedingly useful before theadvent of Inciter matches, when recourse had… … Fig. 113.—Splendid example of its kind, probably made by ConradFreizer, earlv Seventeenth-Century. Portable Timekeepers 115 regard seems to have been more generally paid to the effectivenessof the exterior as a whole rather than to its fitness and convenience

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