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 243
06, when his bankruptcy was noted in theLondon Gazette. Watches with Seconds Hands.—The watch by Fitter, dating fromabout 1665, which, as shown in Fig. 249, has a seconds dial onthe back of the movement, seems to have been quite an exceptionalappUcation of a seconds indicator for watches. Sir John… … Fig. 353.—Watch bv Peter Garon, Pocket Watches, Etc. 227 pulses. The pulse watch which he caused to be made ran, he said,for sixty seconds. Harrisons timekeeper with a centre seconds handwas tested in 1760, and seconds hands were not usually applied towatches till after that date. Sun and Moon…
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