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Find useful information, photographs, articles and books about early clockmakers and early watchmakers of London, the North East and other parts of England and the World. Here you can buy the recently published "Early Clock and watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company" and the much sought after "Clockmakers of Northumberland & Durham" directly from the publisher, Pendulum Publications.

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"I congratulate you on its production
...all horologists should be grateful to you for ......making available the accumulated knowledge & information gathered over many years...." 
Letter from Andrew James - Master of The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers - 16th May 2018  ​


Early clock & watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company 


Early clock and watchmakers of the Blacksmiths Company 
  • 490 page, 12 chapter horological book packed with new information about the early clockmakers and watchmakers of England.
  • Contains over 400 photographs of early turret (or tower) clocks, lantern clocks, table clocks, longcase clocks and many watches.
  • Provides  23 unique trade descents ( similar to a family tree) of the leading clock and watchmakers at the end of the 16th century and the early 17th century and their apprentices. Some of these descents can be traced right through to the end of the 18th century when some watchmakers were also making chronometers. 
  • The author's research proves that many of these clock and watchmakers were members of the Blacksmiths' Company. He also reveals the 17th Century power struggles which took place between the Blacksmiths Company (B.C) and the Clockmakers Company (C.C).
  • The second half of the book is a useful directory of over 1,500 clockmakers who belonged to the Blacksmiths Company.  MORE INFORMATION
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Letter from Andrew James,
Master of The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers
"I congratulate you...all horologists should be grateful to you for ......making available the accumulated knowledge & information gathered over many years...."
See full letter below 


Clockmakers of
​Northumberland & Durham

​Clockmakers of Northumberland and Durham
  • 300 page book
  • Over 300 photographs and illustrations
  • Published in 1980.
  • The first part of the book, comprises chapters giving background information on local clock and watchmakers. Mr. Bates shows changing styles of local makers and explains how these can, of course, be used to help date their work.
  • The second half of the book is a directory of more than 1500 clockmakers, watchmakers, and goldsmiths who worked in Northumberland and Durham from the late sixteenth until the late nineteenth centuries, with information obtained from a variety of sources such as local newspapers, directories, reference books, and parish records. FIND OUT MORE​​

“In presenting Clockmakers of Northumberland and Durham, Keith Bates offers us probably the best example of area research ever to have been published. He has resisted the temptation of attempting to put too much into too few pages and the result is a heavy volume of some 300 pages in hard covers and measuring about 12in x 81/2in." 
Clocks Magazine (1982)

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"I congratulate you"

"Dear Keith,
Early Clockmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company
Thank you very much for most kindly donating a copy of your new book to the Library of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers. I congratulate you on its production - not only does it look attractive, well illustrated and carefully laid out, but its content is clearly the result of a prodigious amount of research, time and effort.
All horologists should be grateful to you for ordering, setting down, and making available in the literature the accumulated knowledge and information which you have painstakingly gathered over many years, and I am very pleased to acknowledge with thanks your gift to the Company's Library.
Yours sincerely
Andrew James"
Master of The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers

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Pendulum Publications is a small, specialist publisher established in 1980. "Early clock and watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company" is the newest book to be published by the company. 
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​We have compiled a list of interesting articles relating to the early clockmakers, watchmakers and chronometer makers of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century, written by Keith Bates. 
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A Selection of Early Clock and Watch photographs from our books