Career
After a first career as a restorer of Egyptian antiquities, Burgess turned to horology and clock-making and has specialized in building innovative and gigantic clocks, often with a detached escapement.
He is also a leading expert on John Harrison, the 18th century horologist who built the first ever successful marine chronometer, leading to the possibility of an accurate measurement of longitude. Even now, the principles of Harrison's regulator clocks are not fully understood.
Burgess coined the term sculptural horology in the 1960s.
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