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English watch-maker George Daniels (1926-2011) was most famous for creating the co-axial escarpment and could make a complete watch by hand. In his lifetime, he received many awards, including the rarely-given Gold Medal of the Clockmakers' Company of London. [Listener: Roger Smith; date recorded: 2003]
TRANSCRIPT: As I progressed along my chosen road for horology, I learnt more and more about the subject, and not only just the subject but the important people who were responsible for all the advances in horology, which were of particular interest to me because with the success of my escapements, I had reached the conclusion that if all went well and these escapements remained in production, then it would be clear evidence that I had made the contribution to horology that I wanted to make when I was a boy and read the names of all these people, Arnold, Earnshaw, Mudge and those people. What do to with all this knowledge if I didn't want to continue? Well, there were lots of people who didn't have that much knowledge.