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 234
with coloured enamelor wax, as in a watch by Vincent Costontin, Dieppe, which is shownin Fig. 332. Illustrations have already been given of the painted dials on thecostly, enamelled watches in vogue during the seventeenth centuryThe single hand of the earhest of these was usually of brass,… … Fig. 335.—Daniel Le Count, about 1680. Fig. 336.—p. Dupin, about 1700. Henry Harper, shown in Fig. 333, the outer part of the dial is ofmetal, the centre being filled by an enamelled painting, which is,however, of a later date than the movement. A still more exceptionaland somewhat grotesque…
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