Finding time From: The Spectator | Date: February 3, 2007| Author: Wilhide, Jenny | Copyright Spectator Feb 3, 2007. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

One of the greatest clockmakers of all time was the Englishman Thomas Tompion (1639-1713), whose ravishing Mostyn clock can be seen in the British Museum. One of his pieces is starring in a selling exhibition of the golden age of English clock-making at Rafferty & Walwyn in Kensington. The ebony striking bracket clock with an eight-day movement, along with clocks by John Knibb, William Beyer and others, will be a magnet to passionate clock collectors. It caught my attention because, thou...

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