This watch was the second ever made by George Daniels after Cecil Clutton's one. It was specially made for Sam Bloomfield. Important is the following judgment by Cecil Clutton about watches produced by George Daniels:Apart from apprentice test-pieces, it is probably over four hundred years since anyone made every bit of a watch himself. In his watches, Daniels had to make everything himself, even down to the screws. The only things he did not make or execute himself were the balance-spring, the mainspring and the engraving on the dial and movement. To do this he had to learn all the skills which used to be practiced by score of individual outworkers; not least case and hinge-making and engine-turning. He hadnever made a watch-case before. It is a task whose magnitude would intimidate anyone, whatever his basic training. There is perhaps no-one else alive who could have carried it off with the brilliance of George Daniels.Every part of every Daniels watch is made from the basic material by Daniels working alone without any assistance.Daniels watches have regenerated interest in the mechanical watch during the past 15 years so that world production is increasing. But Daniels remain alone as the only maker who works entirely to his own designs and makes every part in his own workshop, to his own inventions and designs.George Daniels, MBE, FSA, FBHI. Watchmaker, author and horological consultant, born in England in 1926.George Daniels left school at the age of fourteen and went about door-to-door mending bicycles and watches. Learning mechanical techniques and processes, retooling, cleaning, repairing, he developed a particular interest in watches and clocks. In 1947 he left the army with the aim of becoming a watch maker.At first he set up business as a repairer and restorer of all types of watches and clocks gaining great knowledge from such wide practical experience but also studying the history of horology and came to specialise on the history and skillful restoration of precision timekeepers from the period between 1740 and 1840, from the work of Mudge to that of Breguet. He became anacknowledged authority in this field and was regularly called upon to authenticate pieces.As of the sixties, Daniels was being invited to international conventions and soon started to write horological treatises; his first book edited in 1965, together with Cecil Clutton, great expert on antiquarian horology, was quite simply entitled Watches and became the standard work.George Daniels began making watches to his own designs in 1969. Since 1969, George Daniels has made one watch each year and every part of every Daniels watch is made from the basic material by Daniels working alone without any assistance. Daniels remains alone as the only maker who works entirely to his own designs and his own inventions, making every part in his own workshop.At first, Daniels was most influenced by the work of Abraham-Louis Breguet and modelled his timepieces on the perpétuelle and tourbillon watches that Breguet produced for royal families and dignitaries. Like Breguet, Daniels never advertises and quite understandably so, since the many awards he has received speak for themselves:- Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (1968).- Arts, Science and Learning Award, City Corporation, London (1974).- Assistant Honorary Surveyor, Society of Antiquaries (1976).- Warder, Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (1977).- The Victor Kullberg Medal (1977).- President, British Horological Institute (1980).- Master, Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (1980).- Tompion Gold Medal (1981 - unawarded for nearly two decades).- Gold Medal, British Horological Institute (1982).- Medal of the British Empire (the horological equivalent of the Nobel Prize).- Gold Badge of American Watchmakers Institute (1985).- Gold Medal of City of London Guilds.- Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science, City of London University.- Henry B. Fried Award, NAWCC (1991).Daniels devoted a great deal of time and energy in developing mechanical watches to render them of a level of quality, precision and reliability that could compete with quartz watches and indeed Daniels' watches have regenerated interest in the mechanical watch during the past fifteen years. No other watchmaker in the world works in the same way as George Daniels, avidly pursuing his quest for mechanical perfection, making each part himself and always remaining distinctive and individual.George Daniels' main contribution and innovation is to have produced an escapement, much on the lines of Breguet's échappement naturel and, as for Breguet's, with impulse in both directions, but with the great advantage of not needing the use of oil.As a lover of all things mechanical, Daniels has a great enthusiasm for his motorcycle and owns a variety of motor vehicles which he naturally enjoys restoring and rebuilding himself.George Daniels does not call himself a horologist; as he was once quoted to say I am a watchmaker, the last of the breed.Sam Bloomfield, an accomplished aeronautical engineer is credited with having designed the Swallow Model "C", for which he attained C.A.A. approval. He was born on May 21, 1907 to parents Mr. and Mrs. Leon Bloomfield in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He received a technical degree at the Technical College of Frankenhausen, Germany in 1929. After receiving his degree, he returned to the U.S., where he set-up residency in Wichita, Kansas. It was here that he served as President and Chief Engineer for Swalow Airplane, Co., Inc., helping bring the firm to national prominence by designing the Swallow Model "C".