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The Rise and Decline of
England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550–1930

Contents

  1. Origins: From Craft to Industry
  2. Supply: Clerkenwell and Prescot:
    A Geographical Division of Labour
  3. Supply: Two Other Hubs: Liverpool and Coventry
  4. Towards English Horology’s Golden Age:
    Technology, Organisation, Rewards
  5. Demand: Domestic, Government, and Foreign
  6. Clouds on the Horizon: Switzerland’s Challenge
  7. War and Peace, 1793–1817: Crisis, Recovery,
    and Crisis Again
  8. The 1817 Inquiry: Tariffs and Smuggling, 1818–42
  9. The Ingold Episode and After, 1842–60
  10. Meeting the Challenge: Chronometers in War and Peace, 1793–1860
  11. Revolution in America: Evolution in Switzerland
  12. Consequences for Britain
  13. The British Horological Institute: Ignoring the Elephant
  14. Twilight in Clerkenwell: Ignoring the Market
  15. Attempting the ‘American System’ :
    Birmingham, Coventry, and Liverpool
  16. English Chronometers Defy Decline
  17. The Great War and After


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