For many years, Tony Mercer, grandson of the most enduring English maker, has studied and collected a huge amount of information about marine chronometers, instruments which enabled explorers and the Royal Navy to map the world, the Navy to police it, and merchant venturers to sail in relative safety. The purpose of the chronometer is reviewed larg[Read More]

This Antique Collectors' Club edition of Britten's "Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers" (3rd edition) adds 250 extra illustrations to the existing 800 photographs and drawings.