page_title: Thomas Tompion
section_title: Examples of Tompion's work
hierarchical_section_title: Thomas Tompion / Examples of Tompion's work
caption_attribution_description: Antique clock inside the British Museum, London.
context_page_description: Thomas Tompion was an English clockmaker, 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. A plaque commemorates the house he shared on Fleet Street in London with his equally famous pupil and successor George Graham.
context_section_description: A longcase clock with astronomical dial circa 1680 John Smith – Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, England
  A year duration spring clock with grand sonnerie striking, known as the "Mostyn Tompion"; perhaps Tompion's finest clock – Djanogly Horological Gallery, British Museum, Bloomsbury, London 
  An eight-day double pull repeating table clock in ebonised case. London. circa 1700. Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England
  One of the first watches with a spiral balance spring – Science Museum, Kensington, London
  The sundials in Kew Gardens and Hampton Court Gardens, both circa 1680, London
caption: Ornate clock (known as the 'Mostyn Tompion') made by Thomas Tompion in the British Museum, 1690 AD
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