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The Encyclopedia of Horology

London, England · c. 1638 – 1692

John Fromanteel

Partially verified

Clockmaking

Life & work

Associated with the introduction of the pendulum clock to England.

Training, contributions & innovations

  • Apprenticed with Christiaan Huygens

Inventions & patents

  • N/A

Signatures & markings on surviving work

  • Signed work

Collecting significance

Signatures on historic work were applied by retailers and by later hands; attribution should rest on the movement's construction and provenance.

Related photographs

Christian Huygens, 1656 Christiaan Huygens (titel op object), BI-1997-1407B-33
Christian Huygens, 1656 Christiaan Huygens (titel op object), BI-1997-1407B-33 — Rijksmuseum, CC0. Wikimedia Commons file page

No confidently matched photograph of this subject has been found yet. These photographs show a closely related record, and are not examples of the type described on this page.

Sources & references

  1. Britten, F. J., Old Clocks and Watches and Their Makers
  2. Loomes, B., reference works on British and European clockmakers

Where sources disagree, the disagreement is stated rather than resolved silently.