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 187
with, having glasses over the dials, and some octagonal ones with glass panels in the sides. But the innovation did not at once prevail, as table clocks, either without any covering over the dial, or with metal covers, were made long after the first examples with glasses, and watches with metal… … Fig. 211—Handsome Watch having onthe back the arms of Cromwell, Pocket Watches, Etc. 171 a circular watch by John Duke, Fleet Street, with a dial one-halfthe size of the case, and a glass of a corresponding size fitted into asplit bezel. MelHns watch is con-sidered by the -authorities to have.been…
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