Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: A. Watkins

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85A. WATKINS, A., 7 Weymouth Terrace, City Road — Inventor and Manufacturer.

Original eight-day chronometer, striking the hours; being a self-acting repeater, chiming the quarters upon a set of five bells, and showing the day of the month; each set of works detached; the whole comprising 200 pieces of mechanism in a diameter of not more than two inches.

Chronometers of three-quarter plate construction, with hard cylindrical springs, jewelled with rubies in every hole; presumed to be the smallest ever made of the same construction, the diameter being nearly that of a guinea.


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