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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 510

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hichare very effective. The maindial has an hour hand only andcontains no minute marks, butfractions of an hour are indi-cated on a smaller dial below. In Dutch movements/ madeat the beginning of the eigh-teenth century, a long while after the adoption of the pendulum, the crown wheel and verge… … Fig. 655.—Unusual Dutch Clock,with painted case. 494 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers horizontally over the frame. Owing to this peculiarity, clocks of sucha construction are often supposed to be much older than they reallyare, especially if, as occasionally happens, the pendulum gets…

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