BOB FRISHMAN
HOROLOGY SCHOLAR, AUTHOR, LECTURER, RESTORER, SINCE 1980
Bob Frishman, founder of Bell-Time Clocks in 1992, has repaired 8,000 mechanical clocks and has sold 1,800 vintage timepieces.* He writes and lectures about the history, culture, and technology of horology -- the science of timekeeping. He has published 150 related articles and reviews, and he has lectured to more than one hundred public audiences. His comprehensive biography of 18th-century Philadelphia clockmaker Edward Duffield, the first ever written, was published in 2024 by The American Philosophical Society Press.
He is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (London, UK), a Silver Star Fellow of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors and co-chair of its annual New England Regional Meeting, an active member of the Antiquarian Horological Society (London, UK), a Life Member of the Willard House & Clock Museum, Proprietor No.28 of the Boston Athenaeum, Shareholder No.8 of the Library Company of Philadelphia, and a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Grolier Club, and the Ross Society of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
* Bob is retired from clock repair and is accepting no further restoration business.
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