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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 247

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edallion, with portrait, saidto be that of Louis XIV. when a youth. The late Mr. Henry Levy had one of these curiosities by Fromanteel,which may be either English or Dutch. On the lower part of the fixeddial is a late-seventeenth-century design, with birds, &c. A peculi-arity of this watch is… … Fig. 360. Fig. 361. Watch of peculiar construction, about 1760. actuating mechanism is visible. On a carriage which revolves oncein three hours are three crosses, each carrying four hour numeralson enamelled discs. These in turn pass over an enamelled arc onwhich every minute is marked. Fencing…

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