A Beginner's Guide to the Mechanics of Wrist and Pocket Watches - Including the History of Their Development and Some Famous Watch Makers
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A Beginner's Guide to the Mechanics of Wrist and Pocket Watches - Including the History of Their Development and Some Famous Watch Makers - Anon Anon
Mechanical Details of Watches — Divisions in the Watchmaking Trade — Watch Chain — Hair Spring — Ticks of a Watch — Watch Glasses — A Good Watchmaker — Swiss Watches — Watches Imported into England — Duties on Watches — Depression of Watch Trade — Frauds in Watches — Epitaphs on Watchmakers — Moore’s Lines with a Watch — Proverbs on Watches — Sheridan’s Strategem to get a Watch — Washington’s Secretary’s Watch — Anecdote of a Lord Mayor of London — Un Poisson d’Avril — How a Clergyman got a Watch from a Thief — Watch with Lettered Dial — How a Watchmaker got Trade — Watch Papers — Poetry of — Watch Stands.
WE here propose to give a short account of some of the curiosities of the mechanical details of watches. A good three-quarter plate watch as usually made requires no fewer than one hundred and thirty-eight distinct pieces in its frame, train, escapement, potence, fusees, arbors, clicks, ratchets, and other nicely-contrived and adjusted constituents. To these appliances must be added the chain, which contains sixty-three links and forty-two rivets to every inch, and being generally six inches in length comprises six hundred and thirty pieces; thus swelling the contents of a common detached lever-watch to seven hundred and sixty-eight separate pieces, to construct which gives occupation to no less than thirty-eight or forty different kinds of artificers. Babbage, in his ‘Economy of Manufactures,’ tells us that the division of labour cannot be successfully practised unless there exist a great demand for its produce; and it requires a large capital to be employed in those arts in which it is used. In watchmaking it has been carried, perhaps, to the greatest extent. It was stated in evidence before a Committee of the House of Commons, that there are a hundred and two distinct branches of this art, to each