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 233
rely that passers-by notice anything unusual, exceptthat the dial seems particularly clear. Some of the very earHest portable timekeepers had incised figurescut in the dial plate, but more often the numerals Vv^ere engraved ona separate belt, which was generally of silver, the inner ground of… … Fig. 333.—Watch by Henry Harper. Fig. 334. -Watch by Richard Jarrettabout 1665. by feeUng. The first noticeable departure from this construction tookplace about 1600, when watch dials wholly of one metal were introducedwith landscapes and other views engraved on the centre. These dialswere usually…
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