The Friends of the Clockmakers’ Museum was founded in 2005. Its purpose is to support the Museum and Educational Trust of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers in its work. This includes running, insuring, maintaining and augmenting the oldest horological Museum in the world, as well as encouraging horological education in all its forms.
The Benefits of Joining the Friends
The Friends is a comparatively new organisation, but it is already very active and from time to time arranges lectures, visits and other events, which members and their friends may attend. It issues a regular newsletter and hosts exclusive cultural and social events.
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Friends’ Newsletters
Membership of the Friends
Friends’ Accounts to Oct 2008
Friends’ Accounts to Oct 2009
The Ramsey “Nativity” Watch, 
on the right, is in The Clockmakers’ Museum. The dial is signed ’de Heck Sculp’ by the engraver, probably Gerard de Heck de Blois, active from 1608 to 1629. The movement has a pinned-on cock and ratchet set-up regulator. It is signed ’David Ramsey, Scotus me fecit’. Ramsey was named in the Charter of 1631 as the first Master of the Clockmakers’ Company. He was watchmaker to James VI of Scotland, and came south with the King, when he became James I of England. The watch was discovered hidden behind an arras at Gawdry Hall in Norfolk.
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