British Clocks and Clockmakers

For over three hundred years British clock and watch craftsmen have devoted themselves to the pursuit of precision timekeeping. The great turning point in the history of the craft in Britain was Charles I's grant of a charter to the new Company of Clockmakers in the summer of 1631. This book tells the story of the rise, decline and revolution of British horology and the Author tells of seventeenth and eighteenth century time-pieces which today still chime and tell the time for us just as they did in the hands of the Tudors and Stuarts. Mr. Ullyett, F.R.Met.S., is a noted collector of antique clocks and watches, and he writes on the subject with the skill of the technical historian as well as with the enthusiasm of the life-long connoisseur and collector.[Description from the flapcopy.]