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 81
rs were not in 64 Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers general use for a long period afterwards, a taste for table clocks andwatches was at once apparent among wealthy people, who delighted inthe possession of curious novelties. The earliest watches are scarcely to be distinguished from… … Fig. 49.—Cover open. over each hour, through which the position of the hand might beseen. Most of the watches were provided with a bell, on which insome cases the hours were sounded in regular progression ; in otherinstances the bell was merely utihsed for an alarum. When furnishedwith a bell the…
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