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 241
e parts theday was divided into four periods of six hours each. Or the idea mayhave been to give with one hand a longer space than usual for morenearly estimating small fractions of an hour. Quare adopted thesame method, as will be seen from the following advertisement,quoted from the London… … cipher figures within every hour, the hand going round every six hours, which shows also the minutes between every hour. Whoever gives notice of it to Daniel Quare, at the Kings Arms, in Exchange Alle}^ London, shall have a guinea reward.Early Minute-hand Watches.—Fig. 348 shows the front and Fig.…
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