The Clockmakers' Museum

SW7 2DD London, Great Britain (UK) (Greater London)

Wikipedia:
The Clockmakers’ Museum in London, England, is believed to be the oldest collection specifically of clocks and watches in the world. The collection belongs to and is administered by the Clockmakers’ Charity, affiliated to the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, founded in 1631 by Royal Charter.
Since 2015 it has been housed in a gallery provided by the Science Museum in South Kensington, having formerly been located in the Guildhall complex in the City of London since 1874, where it first opened to the public.
The formation of the collection dates back to 1814. The principal goal of the museum is to educate the public about the history of the field of clock and watchmaking (horology), principally in the City of London.

The Collection

The collection on display includes rare horological portraits, and numbers some 660 English and European watches, 30 clocks, and 15 marine timekeepers, which are broadly arranged in chronological order, starting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries at the east end (with some European objects), but soon moving to the seventeenth century and the emergence of a clock and watch trade in London, initially populated by immigrant craftsmen.

The gallery moves forward in time as it progresses westwards through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is completed at the west end by recent and current objects, such as watches made by and other items associated with George Daniels, a former Master of the Company, and an explanation of the wristwatch now being manufactured by Charles Frodsham in Sussex.

Collection highlights

Star watch by David Ramsay
Clocks and watches by Edward East
Table clock by Samuel Knibb
Astronomical table clock by Samuel Watson, possibly belonging to Isaac Newton
Clocks and watches by Thomas Tompion
Watches and clocks by George Graham
Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully
Longcase clock by James Harrison
Longcase movements by John Harrison
Watch by John Jefferys, made for John Harrison, and on long-term loan to the Museum
John Harrison’s H5 marine timekeeper
Chronometers by John Arnold, and significant personal Arnold ephemera
Chronometers by Thomas Earnshaw
Watches by Abraham-Louis Breguet
Smiths wristwatch worn by Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mount Everest
Watches by George Daniels, including the Space Traveller (on loan to the Museum)
Original portraits of many eminent clock and watchmakers

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