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We own this volume because it contains an entry on watchmaking, "an employment so well known as link to require no description" (nonetheless meriting a six page description). The entry, which includes the engraving at right, is link lively and attempts to draw in young readers with anecdotes about famed clockmakers like Thomas Tompion, who "began the exemplification of his great knowledge in the equation of time, by regulating the link wheels of a jack for roasting meat" (418).

And the Master Collection 190th Anniversary is one of the best-looking dress watches of the year. The use of engraved Breguet numerals calls to mind recent watch releases like the Naoya Hida NH Type 1B but I also recall seeing a Longines with a link similar style of etching on a different set of Arabic numerals used on a 1930 pocket watch that sold a few years ago in the HODINKEE Shop. Whatever your link point of reference it's a classic look link that emphasizes texture while remaining entirely legible.