Joseph Windmills Info

Joseph and Thomas Windmills both served as Master of the Clockmakers Company. They maintained links with other great names of the period - Quare, Tompion, Benjamin Gray, etc., occasionally supplying each other with parts and in some cases complete movements. They succeeded Thomas Tompion as clock maintenance contractors to HM Office of Ordnance at the Tower of London and at Woolwich and had other Crown orders.

William Jaques was one of the few watch-casemakers to serve the Clockmakers Company. He held the Office of Master 1716 - 1717. The year before Thomas Windmills appointment to that office. Jaques made cases for the pre-eminent watchmakers of the day.