"From a young age I loved to watch my father and grandfather tinker away on everything from cars to cameras. I was fortunate to benefit from my families’ passion for history and scientific instruments by being taken to all sorts of museums and exhibitions, which kindled a personal love of clockwork. For a secondary school work experience placement, I arranged to spend time with a local clockmaker and was stunned by the variety of mechanisms that exist. Each was a snap shot from the last 300 years representing the technological refinement and application of contemporary engineering principles all wrapped up in the design aesthetics of the era.

I was offered a place on the horology course at Birmingham City University alongside which I studied the British Horological Institute’s education programme. The Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and The Ogden trust generously supported me in my studies as I was awarded the prestigious  "Harrison Bursary" for three years until I successfully completed both courses. I have been working as a Horologist full time since receiving my qualifications in 2011, and in that time have been able to work on an incredible variety of domestic clocks, marine chronometers, wrist watches, pocket watches, barographs and automata.

 I am an accredited member of the British Horological Institute, my work as an independent restorer means I will always be refining my skills and broadening my experience on new projects."

- Lucy Herbert 

(MBHI)