In the watch illustrated by Thomas Chamberlaine there is something delightfully simple and chaste. He was a maker whose work promised much. There is a specimen of his work signed "Chamberlain Chelmisford" at the British Museum, but in the specimen illustrated the name is chased "Thomas Chamberlaine de Chelmisforde." The study of watches of the various periods is a fascinating one. When the collector leaves the path of clocks, with their more Gargantuan proportions, to become a student of the intricacies of the art of the watchmaker as exemplified in some of his greatest triumphs, he has been enticed on a quest which is unending. No field in collecting and connoisseurship has claimed more devotees. INDEX "Act of Parliament" clocks, so-called, 124 Adam style, its employment in the clock-case, 147 Robert, clock-case by, illustrated, 139 Aicken, George (Cork), clock by, 277 Alarum clocks, 54 and striking clocks, early, 32 Ale-house clocks, Oliver Goldsmith quoted, 127 American clocks-- "Banjo clocks," 124 Bracket clock, by Savin and Dyer (Boston), 198 Lantern clock, with pendulum, 59 Anchor pendulum, the, 59 Arnold, John (Bodmin), 37, 212 Astronomical clock-dial, the, 28 Babylonian measurement of time, 28, 29, 30 Bacon, quoted, 53 Balance and weights prior to pendulum, 33 Barraud, clock by (1805), 203 Battersea enamel employed for watch-cases, 290 Beginners, hints for, 41 Belfast clocks and clockmakers, 272 Bewick, Thomas, engraver of clock-dials (1763-74), 215, 217 Biddell, clock by, 204 "Birdcage" clocks, 54 Böttger, his porcelain at Meissen, 109 Boulle, André Charles, and his marquetry, 72, 73, 111 Bracket clock, the, 179-204 or wall clock, the, early use of, 46, 49 Brass lantern clock, the, 45-63 Bristol clock illustrated, 149 Britten, F. J., _Old Clocks and Clockmakers_, full lists of makers in, 37 Brownhill, Henry (Leeds), copper token of, 218 Cabrier, name falsely put on Dutch clocks, 36 Calendar watch illustrated, 291 Case, the, evolution of, 155 Catherine of Braganza, dowry of, 107 Centres of clock and watch making in 1797, 214 Chamber clocks an established feature in furniture, 192 Chamberlaine, Thomas, de Chelmisforde, watch by, 291 Charles I, watch belonging to, 289 Charles II, death-bed scene of, 50, 53 Watch by Robert Hooke presented to, 36 Cherub head, the, a favourite ornament, 166 Its use on clock-dial, 169 Its use on Stuart furniture, 170 Cheshire clock-case, peculiarities of, 230 Chester, Bishop of (John Wilkins), quoted, 30 Chinese style of Chippendale, 91, 108 Designs at Worcester, Bow, and Bristol porcelain factories, 108 Taste, the _furore_ in France and Holland, 108 Chintzes, the early character of, 111 Chippendale, his Chinese style, 91, 108 His indebtedness to Marot, 155 Style in clock cases, 136