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Congress and then for my family furniture business in Massachusetts. So for some years I collected and repaired old clocks while I worked in the U.S.

Right away, I loved the combination of ART - the wide spectrum of clock case designs, materials and styles, SCIENCE - the centuries of intellectual and mechanical work to achieve higher and higher degrees of timekeeping accuracy and durability, and HISTORY - the industrial and cultural impact of clocks in our societies. But antique timekeepers took me to a new level of passion. I already liked tinkering and had a pretty serious sports car hobby, and we had started furnishing our D.C.

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That evening, when we got a tour of their basement full of clocks, movements, tools, and parts, I was hooked.

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Through a series of unlikely coincidences, Jeanne and I ended up at the Virginia home of Jack & Phyllis on Thanksgiving in 1980. Age 65, he is married to writer Jeanne Schinto and lives in Andover, Massachusetts., his home town. From 1993 to 2003, he was one of three trustees of The White Fund, Inc., a Lawrence-based charitable foundation, and a trustee of the Lawrence Public Library. He served as a member, and then chairman, of the Lawrence (Massachusetts) Planning Board. The next ten years he was Vice President and then President of AKKO, Inc., his family-owned acrylic furniture manufacturing company. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., as a speechwriter, legislative assistant and press secretary. In 2017, he became a Proprietor of the historic Boston Athenaeum, receiving share 28 formerly owned by the family of famed New England scientist Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838).Īfter graduating from George Washington University in 1973, he worked ten years in the U.S.

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In 2016, he was admitted as a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, the professional guild in London, England, chartered in 1631. As a scholar of horology, he has published nearly 80 articles and he has given more than 80 presentations to historical societies, service organizations and academic groups. He is a past-president of NAWCC New England Chapter 8 and was in charge of producing all of the chapter's many meetings, workshops, lectures and educational programs. He organized the very successful 2016 'Clocks at Winterthur' conference and the October 2017 'Horology in Art' symposium at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

He has restored clocks for Brown University, the Andover Historical Society, the Museum of Our National Heritage, Phillips Andover Academy, and the Gibson House Museum.īob Frishman, a Fellow of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, is chairman of the NAWCC Time Symposium Committee. While the great majority of his 6,000 repair and restoration customers are private owners and collectors, he also does trade and institutional work. In 1992, he founded Bell-Time Clocks, named after a Harper's Weekly engraving by Winslow Homer depicting New England mill buildings and workers.īELLTIME by Winslow Homer, Harper's Weekly July 25, 1868 Bob Frishman has repaired, restored and sold antique clocks for more than thirty-seven years.