The Nagra IIci This post deals with the earliest Nagra recorder I ever owned (and since sold to an American collector, when my interests veered to other subjects), a Nagra…
Category: <span>My writings</span>
Another aspect of tales about time, is the subject of audio recording, in essence capturing voices and sounds of past moments in time, for posterity. The same could be said…
This article contains information and photos on my recently acquired Régence or early Louis XV era cartel clock, by the celebrated maker Julien Le Roy. Acquisition: I purchased the clock…
In the biographical research I’ve done on Henry Sully (1679-1728), I identified the names of the children that he fathered. Four were with his first wife, in Holland. Then after…
One of my activities during the pandemic year of 2020 was to research and write an article that was submitted to the Antiquarian Horological Society in London, for publication in…
I’ve embarked some months ago on an ambitious project to document Henry Sully’s life in more detail than has ever been done before. From his origins in backwater Somerset, through…
For fun I ordered a copy of this book, available quite cheaply on the used market. I read somewhere that the author used a pseudonym, and that he worked (as…
In 2018 I acquired a poorly described watch movement from France for a modest sum. It turned out to be from the workshop of Edward East (1602-1697), whom Baillie described…
(Le français suit…) Another mid-18th century Parisian horloger I will write about some day is Anne Clément (~1712-1747), whose name is inscribed on the plate and painted on the dial…
In the marvellous book “It’s About Time” (published shortly after his death by his widow Margaret), Major Paul Chamberlain wrote a short biography of our subject which starts with the…