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 223
ld, studded with large garnets. Mr. George Carr Glyn, at the Guelph Exhibition, showed a watch by Jas. Hubert, which had an agate case studded with diamonds. In Fig. 320 appears a waterscene and landscape very finelycarved in ivory and appHed undera glass to the back of a watchcase, which is coated… … Fig. 313.—Magnificently clothedRepeater bv John Ferron, London,about 1710. Pocket Watches, Etc, 207 enamelled green, and within it a ring composed of pearls and garnetsalternately. This watch dates from about 1790, and though thecase is Swiss, the movement bears the signature Jaquet Droz,London.…
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