1697 J. Evelyn Numismata iv. 164 What a Reputation have our Tompion Watches gain'd for the Justness of their going!

1732 A. Pope Strange Relation E. Curll in J. Swift et al. Misc.: 3rd Vol. ii. 46 A Tompion's Gold Watch (which was given her by Mark Antony).

a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) i. 21 To set his watch by Tompion's clock in the Hall.

1832 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 495/2 He wears a Tompion repeater.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 383 A spacious saloon, ornamented with..a music gallery and a Tompion clock.

1934 Times 20 Jan. 7/7 A Tompion long case striking clock with alarum, in a walnut case, is for sale.

1980 J. Gash Spend Game viii. 85 Sue wouldn't know a Tompion timepiece from a sundial.

2014 N.Y. Times 3 Jan. c23/5 Last month a Tompion clock covered in gilded cherubs brought $321,000 at a Bonhams auction in London.

1727 A. Pope et al. Περι Βαθους: Art of Sinking 45 in J. Swift et al. Misc.: Last Vol. Lac'd in her Cosins new appear'd the Bride, A Bubble-boy and Tompion at her Side.

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.

1834 R. B. Peake Climbing Boy iii. i. 54 My Tompion, as I live! concealed there in the sweep's cap.

1872 M. E. Braddon Robert Ainsleigh I. xii. 209 I looked at my watch, a bulky Tompion with a clumsy outer case of leather.

1888 J. Harrison Ixora 222 Do you see that old clock up there on the wall opposite? It is a Tompion.

1920 Jewelers' Circular 5 May 171/1 The dial had been..removed and a replica by electro deposit from a Tompion..put in its place.

1972 A. E. Lindop Journey into Stone (1973) 29 The furniture is good, too. That clock in the hall is a Tompion.

2016 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 24 Jan. The sale of the clock was suggested in 1989... Other members of the family were reluctant, believing the Tompion should be given to a museum.