In our recent ABCs of Time article, The Top Five Countries Where Watchmaking Reigns Supreme , England didn’t quite make the cut (and some of you took issue with that), so let’s take a look at the history of English watchmaking and give the country its due. After all, several of the most important inventions actually originated in England, not Switzerland, and its decline started in the mid-1800s (after several centuries of glory) when it shunned mass production, while Swiss and American counterparts embraced it. To make an analogy, England was still writing books by hand after the printing press had been adopted by the rest of the industry. Although a real comeback was seen in the 20 th century, the Quartz Crisis was the final nail in the coffin, not until a recent 21st-century resurgence with great watchmakers like Derek Pratt and George Daniels , followed by brands like Bremont , Christopher Ward , Garrick , and Roger W. Smith .…