Robert Bray with his son Domonic, who also works in the family clockmaking business.
Robert Bray, Born 1956
Clockmaker
Robert Bray came turned to clock making relatively late in life. Leaving school at 15 he embarked upon a craft engineering apprenticeship with a small company who specialised in making of precision gears. Gaining sufficient qualifications at Technical College he was able to embark on a Production Engineering Degree at Brunel University where he obtained a first class honours Degree in 1979. From then till 1995 he continued to work for the same company, which was engaged in the manufacture of small gears and gearboxes for aerospace, defence and medical applications. In 1995, looking for a new challenge, he took over a failing Sinclair Harding of Cheltenham thus ensuring a famous clock making name would survive. Now the company is 15 strong with all the employees personally trained by Robert Bray. Unlike many of the clock and watch making companies almost everything is made in his expanding workshop.
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