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TM April 2017 SETTING SERVICE STANDARDS AND EDUCATING THE HOROLOGICAL COMMUNITY AMERICAN WATCHMAKERS- CLOCKMAKERS INSTITUTE FREE Shipping on Water Testing Related Equipment! 4/1—5/31/2017 Call for prices and more information TS-Proofmaster-M TS-Chronoproof-Pro TS-Proofmaster-S Witschi Waterproof Dry 10 BAR Leak Tester TS-Proofmaster-M Witschi Waterproof Dry 10 BAR Leak Tester Deluxe AC6414 Compressor Werther Silent Air Compressor For Proofmasters TS-Chronoproof-Pro Witschi Waterproof Dry 3 BAR Tester/printer (3 colors available) VIB-LT100 Greiner Poseidon Dry 10 BAR Leak Tester VIB-Revelator-R1 Roxer Condensation Tester VIB-Natator-125 Roxer Waterproof Wet 125 BAR Tester VIB-Diablo Roxer Vacuum Wet .7 Bar Tester TS-Proofmaster-S AC6414 Compressor VIB-LT100 VIB-Revelator-R1 VIB-Natator-125 VIB-Diabolic E Jules Borel & Co. 1110 Grand Boulevard n Kansas City, Missouri 64106 Phone 800-776-6858 n Fax 800-776-6862 n julesborel.com Horo Times ad Waterproof testers free shipping 4-17.indd 1 3/3/2017 4:07:35 PM IN THIS VOLUME 41, issueNUMBER 4, April 2017 Features Technical Discussions TM April 2017 Know Your Value, Part Four Making a Watch from Con- SETTING SERVICE STANDARDS AND EDUCATING THE HOROLOGICAL COMMUNITY By Michael Gainey, CC21 Official Publication of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute ception to Finished Product page 10 with Kaj Korpela, Part Four EXECUTIVE & EDITORIAL OFFICES By Henrik Korpela American Watchmakers- CW21 Profile: Clockmakers Institute (AWCI) Justin Harell and Sergio page 22 701 Enterprise Drive Berrios of The Watchmaker’s Harrison, OH 45030 Shop Industry News AMERICAN WATCHMAKERS- 866-FOR-AWCI (367-2924) By Ken Nichols CLOCKMAKERS INSTITUTE or 513-367-9800 page 16 In Summary Fax 513-367-1414 By Aaron Recksiek, CW21 [email protected] • www.awci.com page 32 www.facebook.com/MyAWCI AWCI News Cover Image: Four black-and-white photographs of Jordan P. 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Check out our educational videos! 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030. www.facebook.com/MyAWCI www.youtube.com/awci/videos 3 a message from the president FRED T. WHITE, CMW21 he midyear has come we can do, so please don’t keep that to yourselves. Tand gone. It is now time I would love to hear from you (email [email protected] to get to work on the things or phone 301-868-7264). Contact me with any ideas your Board of Directors made you have to improve our organization. I know motions to accomplish. If we do some of you will say, “Make parts available,” but not follow up on these motions there are some things we have no control over. Fred T. White [email protected] and put them into action, then When some of these companies realize that they we will be at fault, and we will need us more than we need them, they may release have no one to blame but ourselves. I have challenged parts to us. Until then, continue to do good work the Board of Directors to get to work; all through the and there will always be a job for you to do. When midyear meeting I kept saying, “When it is was the last time you turned down a Take a few all said and done, there is more said than job because of parts? There are ways of done.” Now is the time for action—in other minutes each getting what you need; look for them, words, get to work and do the job you were month to write don’t sit on your hands. elected to do. When you are elected, it is not We are not the only group suffering to your board a glory position; it is a labor position. Talk from the loss of membership, but we can to members, visit members, get input from members. be the one that breaks that mold. It is up them, and then vote how they would like you to vote. to you. How many watchmakers and clockmakers You, as members, should be taking a few minutes do you know who do not belong to AWCI? These each month to write to your board members. Share an people can be your prospects to recruit. It doesn’t idea with them or, better still, talk with them. When take much, just each member bringing on one new was the last time you talked with another member member or convincing an old member to rejoin. I about AWCI, about what you could do to help the or- challenge each one to go find that one member and ganization to grow, or what we all can do to improve sign him or her up. our lot in life? It is your organization, so put a little I would like to know what you would do if you work into it. I learned many years ago that you get out were president of AWCI? How would you go about in proportion to what you put in. You cannot get mon- improving our organization? What educational ey out of your checking account unless you deposit classes would you offer? What are we doing now that first. What have you deposited into AWCI? is relevant or not relevant to your business? In other We are facing a situation where our membership words, help me to help you by improving AWCI for is declining. Some of you may have an answer to what your benefit. 4 April 2017 a message from the JORDAN P. FICKLIN, CW21 executive director March the Board of remarkable it gets people talking. If you are on social InDirectors gathered in media you probably get bombarded by strings of posts, Harrison, Ohio, for their mid- most of which you pass by. Some of them capture your year meeting. The midyear attention enough for you to pause and read them, or meeting (once called a retreat) is click through and learn more, but only on a few of them two days of grueling meetings do you actually comment. These are the remarkable Jordan P. Ficklin [email protected] where the board members con- posts. Seth Godin describes these remarkable things sider the needs of AWCI mem- as “purple cows.” When you are driving down the road bers and the horological community as a whole and put and you see a cow, you probably don’t stop and take a together a vision for AWCI’s future involvement in the picture. A cow is just a cow. But if that cow is purple, industry. This year was no different. suddenly it gets noticed. You might take a Outside, temperatures dropped and If we want to picture and share it with friends. Risky and there was a dusting of snow, but eight of the exciting moves are what get noticed today. If be successful, nine directors were present. The board dis- AWCI, and possibly each of you, want to get we must be cussed certification, classes, the general state noticed, we will need to be as bold, daring, of the industry, and recent losses of mem- remarkable! and unique as a purple cow. bership, and the consensus was that we need As a professional horologist, what do you to do some big and exciting things. Many ideas were do to get people talking about your business? Word of discussed, and we have begun the process to explore mouth is the most powerful form of advertising, and what it would cost to do some of these “big ideas.” If with social media it is easier than ever for people to you have a big idea, please share it with your Board of talk about your business with their peers.

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