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 259
ey struck the hour on abell inside the case, many of the earlier ones being in addition furnishedwith an alarm. Afterwards, a repeating motion tooJ<: the place of analarm, so that by pulling a string which passed through a pipe at theedge of the cover the number of blows last struck would be… … Fig. 384.—Back of Outer Cover. n two pieces connected by a loose thimble, an arrangement wliichallowed of sufficient movement to enable the watch to adjust itself toan adjacent surface when it was hung from the bow. Front and edgeviews of an excellent example in a remarkably well pierced and…
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