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Description: | The Clockmakers' Collection was begun in 1814 and is the world's oldest collection specifically of clocks and watches. It conprises about 1,000 objects, from the 15th century to the present day, including pocket watches and their movements (especially of the 17th-19th centuries), precision watches, domestic and scientific weight and spring clocks (especially of the 17th century), clock movements, marine time keepers (especially from the 18th and 19th century), pocket sundials, clock and watchmakers' tools and a wide range of small horological items. Much of the collection was made by members of the Company or by foreign makers who influenced its work. It has been on permanent public display in Guildhall Library since 1874, in an area where many of the clockmakers worked.
The Collection is shown in a single room, containing at any one time some 600 English and European watches, 30 clocks and 15 marine timekeepers, together with a number of rare horological portraits. The majority of items in the Collection range from c.1600 to c.1850. Perhaps the most important group within the Collection is the marine timekeepers, illustrating the importance of horology in the science of navigation. Examples are a marine timekeeper of 1724 by Henry Sully, a silver deck watch by Thomas Earnshaw (used by Captain George Vancouver in the discovery by Europeans of the Island now bearing his name) and the celebrated 5th marine timekeeper made by John Harrison and completed in 1770. | Subjects: | Clocks watches horology | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | The Clock Room,
Guildhall Library,
Aldermanbury London Great Britain (UK),
EC2P 2EJ | Telephone: | 020 7332 1865 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:5400 | Go to resource |
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