The precise recording of time continues to fascinate, long after the search for accuracy has been achieved. Clock specialist Mark Huddleston, former head of Bonhams Clock department at Chester certainly knows the importance of good timing (see his profile page). For the historically important port of Bristol to flourish over many centuries, time keeping and its bedfellow, navigation have provided this region with makers of clocks, barometers and scientific instruments such as marine chronometers, all of which can be highly sought after by our database of specialist collectors.