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Charles Frodsham

1810-1871
English clockmaker and chronometer maker.
Member of the Clockmaker Company.
Free CC.1854.
Master CC.1855.
Son of William James Frodsham.
Supplier to the British Royal Family (from 1854).

1830
(at the age of twenty)
Presentation of his first marine chronometer at the Greenwich Observatory competition where he won second prize.

1842
Establishment of Charles Frodsham & Co.

1851
Presentation of a ¾ platinum watch at the London Exhibition.
Construction of marine chronometers for the Admiralty.
Extensive research on the self-compensating balance wheel and spiral.

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