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 237
The visible margin of the brass edge was usuallyeither engraved or knurled, and the hands were of steel. Anexample, given in Fig. 338, has hands of the beetle pattern, akind very popular then and onwards to the middle of the century.Dials with the minute band formed in a series of wavy curves… … -French Watch, about1770. PiG. 343.—Hour numerals onEnamelled Plaque, about 1680. the hour circle were gradually discarded. On a watch by Cabrier,dating from about 1740, and shown in Fig. 340, there are smallminute figures at the quarter-hours only, and a little later came intofavour dials with…
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