Right from the start, I wasn’t just the Maytag repair man. That was one reason my degree was in political science and why I liked that part of politics, the historical context of it all. Q: How does your interest in horology tie into your interest in history?īF: All along, I always loved history. Within an hour’s drive of my house, there are more broken antique clocks than I could ever fix! In New England, lots of families pass them down and no one wants to get rid of them, so there’s a lot of old tickers around that people want to get fixed. There are tens of thousands of antique clocks still around today, many of them in New England. In the early 1990s, I segued into full time clock repair and selling, and it instantly became both gratifying and successful because there are so few people anywhere anymore who can fix antique clocks. Q: How did you pivot your interest into a business?īF: When my dad’s company closed, I picked up where I left off when I left DC, where I was about to start my own antique clock repair and antique clock selling business. At the end of the day, you actually had something to show for it, unlike politics where either nothing happens or if something happens, it’s usually bad. I joke that since I worked in politics during those years, it was such a joy and relief to come home and work on a clock or a watch where you actually got something done. Q: How did your interest in clocks and watches develop?īF: I already had clock and watch repair and collecting as a hobby since 1980 when I met somebody who was into it, and then I got into it as a real serious hobby. Then I came back up here to work for my dad’s business. I made the great circle route, because I was actually born in DC, which is where I went to college at George Washington, and then worked on Capitol Hill for about a decade for different members of Congress. I haven’t lived here the whole time since I was a child, but Jeanne and I came back in the 1980s and moved into Andover in the early 1990s. The house I grew up in is about a quarter mile away, and my elementary school is about a tenth of a mile up the street. Q: Where are you from, and where do you call home now?īOB FRISHMAN: I grew up in Andover, Massachusetts, where I’m speaking to you from. For more information about Bob, click here. Bob and his wife, Jeanne Schinto (a previous Athenæum Author whom you can read about here), live in Andover, MA. He is currently working on two books, one focused on Edward Duffield and one on the Mulliken family of Massachusetts. He has professionally repaired nearly 8,000 timepieces and is author of numerous articles on the subject of horology. Bob Frishman, photo courtesy of fellow Athenæum author and wife Jeanne Schinto.īob Frishman is known for his expertise on the subject of clock and watch repair and history.
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