? Obs. [From the name of Thomas Tompion, a noted watchmaker in the reign of Queen Anne.] A watch made by Tompion or of the same type. Also attrib., as Tompion clock, watch.
1727. Pope, etc., Art of Sinking, x. 94. Lac’d in her Cosins new appear’d the bride, A Bubble-bow and Tompion at her side.
1727. Swift, Circumcision E. Curll, Wks. 1755, III. I. 164. A Tompion’s gold watch (which was given her by Mark Anthony).
1729. Art of Politicks, 10. Think we that modern words eternal are? Toupet, and Tompion, Cosins, and Colmar Hereafter will be called by some plain man A Wig, a Watch, a Pair of Stays, a Fan.
1837. Dickens, Pickw., xxxvi. A spacious saloon ornamented with … a music gallery and a Tompion clock.
1871. Miss Braddon, R. Ainsleigh, xii. I looked at my watch, a bulky Tompion with a clumsy outer case of leather.
