Sinclair Harding, one of the finest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect life-size ...

Sinclair Harding, one of the greatest contemporary clockmakers in Britain, if not the world, has recreated a perfect ...

Dead reckoning” is one of the most common terms uttered by swashbuckling captains in pirate movies. In the early 1700s, it meant using primitive tools like the astrolabe and compass to chart a course ...

Once in a while, you just want to read a good war story, and we have one today. Last week we received an original Hamilton Model 21 marine chronometer, perhaps the most famous timepiece of World War ...

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