An exhibition of timepieces is being extended.

’The Luxury of Time’ at the Manx Museum features some of history’s most significant British clocks and watches.

It will now run until September 27.

The exhibition, which showcases the golden age of clock and watch making, is the largest exhibition of clocks and timepieces ever staged in the Isle of Man and the first dedicated to horology at the Manx Museum.

Dr John C. Taylor OBE helped to organise it. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire, in 1936 and schooled at King William’s College, Dr Taylor returned to the Isle of Man in 1977 to bring up his young family.

He founded Strix in 1981 and has created numerous inventions including kettle controls now used a billion times a day.

Dr Taylor explained: ’I’ve always loved clocks and my interest started at a young age when I would watch my father, who was an engineer and inventor.

’He would boil clock mechanisms in a pan to release built-up grease and then scrub and clean the metal until he breathed new life into the gear wheels and got them working again.’

Dr Taylor has since built up a unique collection of early clocks and watches from the British Isles that tell many stories of great design, metal work, furniture making, entrepreneurialism, engineering and timekeeping.

’Hand-made English clocks, many dated and numbered, were in fact the first mass-produced luxury items, heralding the start of the industrial revolution.

’Not only is the craftsmanship astoundingly intricate, it amazes me that such wonderful works of art could be created to such a high specification, when spectacles were rare and clockmakers had to make their own tools.’

The Luxury of Time features 30 timepieces from Dr Taylor’s private collection.

Admission is free but donations are welcome.