Tompion

"Tompion," said I, "we must get some canvas of some sort upon the ship or we shall be overrun by the sea.

The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba Harry Collingwood 1886

When Thomas Tompion 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.

Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010

Even the untrained eye can discern the fakes 'inferiority compared with watches built by British masters like Thomas Tompion, George Graham, and Thomas Mudge.

Big Time: The British Pocket Watch Jonathon Keats 2010

The Great Pump Room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars, and a music – gallery, and a Tompion clock, and a statue of

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

Where, sirrah, is the Tompion watch your grandmother gave you? and how did you survive the boxes of cakes which the good lady stowed away in your cabin?

The Virginians 2006

This leads to the second, or middle quadrangle, 133 feet 6 inches, north to south, and 91 feet 10 inches, east to west; this is usually called the Clock Court, from a curious astronomical clock by Tompion, over the gateway of the eastern side; on the southern side is a colonnade of Ionic pillars by Wren.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 385, August 15, 1829 Various

When you view either his handiwork or that of Tompion, you will see the product of master craftsmen.

Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

What wouldn't the old clockmakers -- Tompion, Quare,

Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

Several years after it had been put in place a younger generation came along who knew very little of either Tompion or his pupil Graham, and seeing the large tablet, some of them decided to take it up and put instead smaller stones with only the inscriptions:

Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920

And when you consider that Tompion, at least, began life as a blacksmith it is the more remarkable.

Christopher and the Clockmakers Sara Ware Bassett 1920