BHI Gold Medal
The institute's gold medal for an outstanding contribution to horology has been awarded to:
- 1928 Frank Watson Dyson - Astronomer Royal who introduced Greenwich pips.
- 1930 Charles Édouard Guillaume - developed Invar and Elinvar
- 1946 Frank Hope-Jones (1867–1950) - developed electrical timekeeping, including Synchronome system
- 1947 Rupert Gould - restored John Harrison's chronometer
- 1947 Warren Alvin Marrison - developed the quartz crystal clock
- 1948 Harold Spencer Jones - Astronomer Royal
- 1957 John Harwood - invented the self-winding wristwatch
- 1981 George Daniels
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