That achievement earned him many honours for services to horology, but it was onlythe beginning of a long slog to get his idea accepted. The world of clocks and watches was aclosed one. He knew it himself, because his boyhood watch studies from library books were aprivate realm only he could understand, and the 18th-century English mastersMudge,Arnold, Earnshawthe only real friends he had. Watchmakers kept the secrets they learnedin their lonely working hours. Even later, when he had put himself in the millionaires bracket and had to move to the Isle of Man for tax reasons, his friends were in the motoringclubs where he shared his other passion, for vintage Bentleys and racing cars. He had nowatchmaker friends at all.

　　这一成就作为他对钟表业的杰出贡献，为他赢得了诸多荣誉。但这只是他为普及自己的技术使用而踏上的荆棘之路的起点。钟表业界是一个封闭的世界。他通过自己的经历得出这一点，因为他童年时从图书馆的书籍上获得的钟表知识构成了一个只有他自己才能涉足的私人领域，而18世纪英国的制表大师Mudge,Arnold和Earnshaw是他仅有的真正的朋友。制表师们都各自保留着他们在孤独工作时知悉的钟表的秘密。即使后来，丹尼尔斯进入百万富翁的行列，为了避重税不得不搬到马恩岛，他的朋友也仅限于摩托俱乐部内，这里有他能找到对老式宾利车和赛车的共同爱好者。他的朋友里没有一个是制表师。

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