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 297
hegoing train, and when the alarm is let off the hammer strikes the bellwhich forms the domical top of the clock. In the British Museum isanother chamber clock by Tompion, as well as a very thick watch bythe master, in a case superbly/ painted in enamel by Camille Andre.In the same repository is a… … Fig. 426.—Watch by Tompionin Gold Case. Fig. 427.- Case -Tompion Watch in Silver InnerOut-case, Tortoise-shell. was wonderfully approved of by the King ; and so the invention grewinto reputation and was much talked of at home and abroad.Particularly its fame flew into France, from whence the…
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