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Title: Watch and Clock Escapements
A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology

Author: Anonymous

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Language: English

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WATCH AND CLOCK ESCAPEMENTS

A Complete Study in Theory and Practice of the Lever, Cylinder and
Chronometer Escapements, Together with a Brief Account of the Origin
and Evolution of the Escapement in Horology

Compiled from the well-known Escapement Serials
published in The Keystone

Nearly Two Hundred Original Illustrations

Published by
The Keystone
The Organ of the Jewelry and Optical Trades
19th & Brown Sts., Philadelphia, U.S.A.

1904

All Rights Reserved
Copyright, 1904, By B. Thorpe,
Publisher of the Keystone.

PREFACE

Especially notable among the achievements of The Keystone in the field
of horology were the three serials devoted to the lever, cylinder and
chronometer escapements. So highly valued were these serials when
published that on the completion of each we were importuned to republish
it in book form, but we deemed it advisable to postpone such publication
until the completion of all three, in order that the volume should be a
complete treatise on the several escapements in use in horology. The
recent completion of the third serial gave us the opportunity to
republish in book form, and the present