Pendulum Publications is a small, specialist publisher established in 1980 by Keith Bates. "Early clock and watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company" is the 4th book to be published by the company and has been positively received by The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (see letter lower down this page). ​ Keith has also had several articles published in Horological magazines. The company is run by a small but dedicated family team. 

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Keith Bates - Founder of Pendulum Publications, author of several books and articles about clockmakers and publisher of special interest books.
We started out as researchers & publishers of local interest books, but with our latest book we are exploring new territory with our first book about National and international clockmakers: Early clock and watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company.

Over the last couple of years, we have been investigating the export of London made clocks and watches to other parts of the world as we know that English Watchmakers went to North and South America.

More recently we have been trying to follow in the footsteps of Robert Fitzroy and Charles Darwin to find out what their influence was in South America and to discover what they left behind there. We know that Robert Fitzroy gave away chronometers in Chile and Peru. Charles Darwin is still remembered in Chile and the Galapagos Islands.

If you have any information on Clocks, Watches or Chronometers made by British clockmakers which have found their way to South America, we would be very interested in talking to you. Please contact us.

"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

NOW available for online purchase.

​"Thanks for writing your book, I have read all the non-directory sections closely and enjoyed it all. I never fully understood the detail of the South Sea Bubble until now, which is fascinating. The book is a fountain of knowledge and I will always treasure it"
Charles - London

Early Clock and Watchmakers of the Blacksmiths' Company

Keith's years of research into the Blacksmiths' Company have uncovered the history of  many clock and watchmakers. Contains over 400 illustrations and a directory of over 1,500 clock and watchmakers...many previously unknown.

​Early Clock and Watchmakers of the Blacksmiths’ Company
Now available for purchase for £79 
plus 
FREE UK Deliver or 
​£30 P&P (EU & USA delivery)
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 "Your wonderful book arrived today in beautiful condition."
Travis – New York 
"I have been away and recently returned to find your quite magnificent book. Many congratulations of a fine and fascinating work. It will be of much interest here – particularly the William Clement research. The whole book is beautifully presented."
Lesley – London