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John Arnold (1736 – 11 August 1799) was an English watchmaker and inventor. John Arnold was the first to design a watch that was both practical and accurate, and also brought the term "chronometer" into use in its modern sense, meaning a precision timekeeper. His technical advances enabled the quantity production of marine chronometers for ...
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John Arnold (1736–1799) was the leading chronometer maker of his time. He opened his business in The Strand in 1763, and later went into partnership with his son, John Roger Arnold (1769–1843), forming the company Arnold & Son.
His son, John S. Negus II, ran the family business until his death in 1963. [9] On March 8, 1964, the New York Daily News announced that John C. Negus II bequeathed to the Museum of the City of New York a 19th-century ship's binnacle that the Negus firm made. [10] On May 1, 1931, the firm moved to 69 Pearl Street, New York.
John Arnold, a former Enron trader and hedge fund honcho known as the "king of natural gas", is backing an energy-focused credit fund that will aim to take advantage of commodity prices at multi ...
With the death of another major chronometer maker, John Roger Arnold (son of the eminent John Arnold), Charles acquired the Arnold business in 1843, moving his family and business address to 84 Strand, London. [6] Trading as ‘Arnold & Frodsham, Chronometer Makers’ continued till 1858. Charles Frodsham premises at 84 Strand
John Arnold emerged from the notorious Enron scandal to become a billionaire hedge fund manager.
In early 2022, building co-owner Greg Cutchall died. Cutchall used to have Famous Dave’s Legendary Pit Bar-B-Que in the space before Greystone. “Him passing was really big,” Arnold said.