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Incredible Clock Exhibit Open to the Public in Pasadena

It has been announced that the exhibition of clocks, watches and sundials by Thomas Tompion, will be open to the public free of charge at the Pasadena Hilton on November 8-9, 2013. Public hours will be from 10am to 5 pm. From English private collections, these rare and elegant masterpieces represent the largest grouping of Tompion’s output ever available for public viewing in this country.

 

The exhibition commemorates 300 years since the clockmaker’s death in 1713.  Tompion, the acknowledged father of English clock making, born in 1639, is one of only two horologists honored by burial in London’s Westminster Abbey. Among his most affluent clients were royalty and aristocracy in England and throughout Europe.   In 1675, he was commissioned to construct the first clocks for the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, England. 

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The exhibition is being brought to Pasadena as part of the “Time for Everyone” international symposium which will take place on the campus of The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on November 7-9. The full symposium program and registration details are at www.timeforeveryone.org.

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