At Dent we've been building elegant, accurate clocks for nearly two hundred years. And our current series of gold and rhodium skeleton clocks features timepieces that are every bit as exquisite as their predecessors.
The history of Dent & Co. spans three centuries of precision watch and clock making in Great Britain. Established in 1814 by Edward J. Dent, the company embraced the Victorian fervour for technological innovation and created precision chronometers to navigate the Royal Navy and guide some of the most intrepid explorers on their voyages. The British Empire was in full expansion and its maritime tradition had produced some remarkable technological breakthroughs from the late 18th century; John Harrison’s triumphant mechanical solution in 1764 to locate a ship’s position at sea won the coveted Board of Longitudes prize money and further consolidated Britain as the horological force in the world. Propelling the impetus of Britain’s primacy, Dent proved a key player in Victorian horological history manufacturing the Standard Clock at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich which was to keep “Greenwich Mean Time” the time to which all others in the Empire were referred (better known today as G.M.T.) and continued to do so until replaced by an electronic clock in 1946. Dent also made probably the most famous clock in the world - the Great Clock for the Houses of Parliament, familiarly known as Big Ben.
Our clocks have adorned the mantelpieces of every British Royal household since that of Queen Victoria; have accompanied explorers and adventurers; navigated the entire British Naval fleet and Royal vessels; timed the transit of Venus; and kept time at the meridian position in Greenwich.
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