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 166
Mainwaring collection Memento Mori watches in the form of a Latin cross, and usuallywith scenes from the life of the Saviour engraved on the dials, werefor a long period a favourite pattern, especially with French artists,among whom they were known as montres dabbesse. Dubois says Portable… … Fig. 161. -Clock-Watch in Crystalcase. Fig. 162.—Watch in the formof a Cockle-shell. worn, generally, on the breast, and are often spoken of as pectoralcross watches. Of three in the British Museum, one, in a case ofrock crystal, very similar to Fig. 157, was made by Jean Rousseauthe elder about…
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