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 216
to the early part of the nineteenth century. Loose cases of gold and silver, with designs chased in repousse, wereat this period an important art in connection with watchmaldng.Chasing as distinguished from engraving and carving is the forma-tion of ornament in rehef by punching or pressing, rather… … Fig. 292.—Gold Repeating-Watch. 200 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers engraving, proves on examination to be chasing. All the smal]numerals on Habrechts clock at the British Museum are stamped. The silver chased work applies to the edges of English oval casesat the beginning of the…
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