Through the Ages with Father TIme
Clockmakers' Company RaidJohn Arnold, in 1796, was "called to the livery" of one of history's most amazing monopolies - the Clockmakers' Company of London. For a century this guild bore the royal authority to search incoming vessels for "deceitful watches" - and to destroy them on the spot!
Arnold was one of the greatest of the guild's craftsmen. Despite these high-handed methods, he and his comrades advanced enormously the art of timekeeping.
His earliest triumph was a tiny repeating watch made for George III. The entire movement measured one-third of an inch across. The Empress of Russia offered him a thousand guineas for a duplicate of it, but Arnold was not tempted. "Let it remain unique," he said.
He little dreamed that the young republic a thousand leagues to the westward would yet outshine his proudest masterpiece with those timekeeping marvels of our day -
Elgin Watches
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