George Daniels, CBE, FBHI, FSA, AHCI (19 August 1926 – 21 October 2011) was an English horologist, inventor of the coaxial escapement, author and a classic car collector.

[citation needed] Producing a single watch and its components required 2,500 hours from Daniels, over about a year.

[5] He was selective about the commissions he accepted, stating "I never made watches for people if I didn't care for them.

On leaving the army in 1947, he bought tools with his £50 gratuity; worked repairing watches, and took horology night classes.

[7] Daniels accepted a commission from Seth G. Atwood to create a timepiece that would improve the performance of mechanical watches.

[10] Daniels' mechanism has been described by some as the most important development in horology in the past 250 years[10] but met little interest until Nicolas Hayek introduced an Omega automatic watch using it in 1999.

[10] In 2012, part of Daniels' collection, including some pieces he made, was sold by Sotheby's in a 134-lot sale.