abstract:Thomas Tompion (1639–1713) was an English clock maker, watchmaker and mechanician who is still regarded to this day as the Father of English Clockmaking. Tompion's work includes some of the most historic and important clocks and watches in the World and can command very high prices whenever outstanding examples appear at auction.
Even the untrained eye can discern the fakes' inferiority compared with watches built by British masters like ThomasTompion, George Graham, and Thomas Mudge.
When ThomasTompion began making watches around 1670, the best ones money could buy had only an hour hand--and a tendency to gain or lose some 10 minutes per day.