Watches: A Complete History of the Techn
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- ISBN 9781781301135
- Weight: 2264g
- Publication Date: 28 Apr 2022
- Publisher: Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
- Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
- Language: English
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Cecil Clutton (19091991) CBE FSA had many interests from flying early keyboard music pipe organs vintage cars and motorcycles. He was president of the Vintage Sports Car Club and raced for most of his life. He had a wide interest in antiquarian horology and was one of the founder-members of the Antiquarian Horology Society as well as a past master of the of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers some watches from his very well-known collection are now housed in the British Museum. Clutton edited two past editions of Old Clocks and Watches and their Makers and in joint authorship with George Daniels wrote Clocks and Watches in the Collection of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. George Daniels (19262011) CBE HON DSC FSA FCGI FBHI FAWI was a practising horologist with over fifty years experience in both antiquarian and modern watchmaking and was a past master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. In addition he was an expert on the history and development of the watch with special emphasis on the precision period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was unrivalled as a sympathetic restorer of important time pieces. Amongst his awards for his contribution to the art and science of watchmaking including the design of his own escapements were the Tompion Gold Medal The British Horological Institute Gold Medal The City and Guilds of London Gold Medal The Arts Sciences and Learning Award of the City of London and the Victor Kullberg Medal of the Stockholm Watchmakers Guild. George Daniels is the author of the bestselling Watchmaking.
