Clocks and Watches As Well As Tools, Parts, Books and Other Horological Items
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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE BRITISH HOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE AUGUST 2017 www.bhi.co.uk BHI CLOCK & WATCH FAIR Sunday 10th September, 9am–2pm Upton Hall, near Newark, NG23 5TE • 40+ stands with clocks and watches as well as tools, parts, books and other horological items. • Enjoy lunch at the Clock House Café. • Free parking. • Admission: £5 / £3 for BHI Members / Under 16s FREE. Contact Jo Stephens: Tel: 07834 235672 Email: [email protected] For further updates see our website: ww.bhi.co.uk Spaces available for stalls - but not for long! Call Jo for info. HOROLOGICALwww.bhi.co.uk JOURNAL August 2017 BHI CLOCK The First Word I have the best job: I deal with people recently described himself as a dinosaur!) & WATCH FAIR whose passion and expertise astound and, worse still, when I see a student fail. me. As Education and Examinations But, far more often are the success stories, Coordinator it is my role to support the when perseverance has paid off. I send delivery of something most coveted – students bags of materials and they send the acquisition of horological skills. Our back scrapers, balance stakes, hand Sunday 10th September, 9am–2pm distance learning courses are unrivalled removing levers and examination pieces by and lead to nationally accredited Diploma constructing clock and watch components. qualifications, not just in servicing, but Tensions mount at this time with Upton Hall, near Newark, NG23 5TE also crucially in repair, restoration and examination marking and results being conservation. Students learn how to make sent out later this month. Awards Day is horological parts, with external auditors the highlight of the BHI calendar for me ensuring that the highest standards are when students receive their qualifications achieved. The quality of these is reflected and prizes. These people will perpetuate • 40+ stands with clocks and watches by the fact that we have 50% higher take- horology and, in turn, they will invent, Maxine Bell up of the DLC in the first six months of this design and create. Hopefully some will as well as tools, parts, books and other Education and Examinations year compared with 2016. also go on to teach, passing on skills and Coordinator horological items. I work with excellent tutors and examiners securing the BHI’s future and raison d’etre: who all provide a first class service. I cannot education. Some years ago we reprinted recall a single time when I have turned to the first ever edition of The Horological • Enjoy lunch at the Clock House Café. them for support and not received it. Then Journal dated September 1858. It outlined there are our students who never cease to the origin of the BHI and the importance • Free parking. amaze me; they are enthusiastic, committed, of education, and concluded that members determined. Drawn by our reputation, they of the committee ‘show that this object lies • Admission: £5 / £3 for BHI Members / come from far and wide, this year from UK, very near the heart of the true working Europe, Australia, Singapore and the USA. members of the trade…and they look upon Under 16s FREE. Don’t get me wrong, there are days themselves merely as pioneers, voluntarily when workload overstretches, when we engaged in effecting a breach for the are restricted by too few experts (one entrance of better men.’ Contact Jo Stephens: Tel: 07834 235672 Email: [email protected] The British Horological Institute Ltd Upton Hall, Upton, Newark, Official Journal of The British Horological Institute Ltd Nottinghamshire NG23 5TE. Tel: 01636 813795 Fax: 01636 812258 For further updates see our website: ww.bhi.co.uk e-mail: [email protected] Website: www.bhi.co.uk The front and rear cover images show a George Daniels gold twin Editor: Eve Makepeace 01636 817602 barrel one minute tourbillon watch Advertising: Eve Makepeace 01636 817602 with spring detent chronometer Design: Sam Bartle 01636 817605 escapement and retrograde hour, Circulation: Zanna Perry 01636 817603 handmade for Edward Hornby in The views expressed in Horological Journal are not 1970. It sold at Sotheby’s Auction Spaces available for stalls - necessarily those of the BHI. House on 6 July for £464,750 Copy date first day of month prior to issue. (hammer price with buyer’s premium), but not for long! Call Jo for info. Print: Mypec, The Festoon Rooms, Sunny Bank Mills, well above the estimated sale price Farsley, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS28 5UJ. of £250,000–350,000. Tel: 0113 257 9646 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.mypec.co.uk Images courtesy of Sotheby’s. © British Horological Institute Ltd 2017 August 2017 All rights reserved. ISSN 0018-5108 Volume 159 No 8 Acceptance of material does not imply endorsement pages 337–384 of goods, services or practices. www.bhi.co.uk August 2017 HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL 339 BHI Corporate Members BHI Officers The British Horological Institute is supported President: Alan Midleton FBHI by the following Corporate Members Chairman: Stella Haward MBHI Vice Chairman: Robert Loomes FBHI Board Members: Hugh Barnes Hon MBHI Nick Brown Alan Burtoft FBHI Steve Kelsey Justin Koullapis Hon MBHI Peter Tales MBHI Bremont Rotary Watches Ltd Vice Presidents: Robert Bray FBHI www.bremont.com www.rotarywatches.com Jill Hadfield Hon FBHI Kenneth Lloyd Jones Hon FBHI Ray Mellor FBHI Brian Newman MBE FBHI David Poole FBHI Philip Whyte Hon FBHI BHI Contacts Operations Manager Cousins UK Seiko U.K. Limited Brian Noble, 01636 817608 [email protected] www.cousinsuk.com www.seiko.co.uk Museum Manager Ellie Baumber, 01636 817601 [email protected] Museum Collection Alex Bond, 01636 817607 [email protected] Museum/Library Alan Midleton FBHI, 01636 817610 [email protected] Signet Group Ltd Graham Education www.signetjewelers.com www.graham1695.com Maxine Bell, 01636 817604 [email protected] Membership/Data Zanna Perry, 01636 817603 [email protected] Accounts/Research Briony Dickinson, 01636 817610 [email protected] Smith of Derby Ltd Gucci Ltd HJ Editor Eve Makepeace, 01636 817602 www.smithofderby.com www.gucci.com [email protected] HJ Technical Editor Justin Koullapis Hon MBHI, 07939 559909 [email protected] Fairs – Review & Comment Martin Foster FBHI martin–[email protected] Proof–Reader H S Walsh & Sons Ltd In–Time Watch Services Ltd Barrie Fitton Hon MBHI www.graysonclocks.com www.intime.co.uk Designer Sam Bartle, 01636 817605 [email protected] Memberline: Watchfinder Phoenix Watch Repairs 01636 817617 www.watchfinder.co.uk www.phoenixwatchrepairs.co.uk 340 HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL August 2017 Contents Hong Kong Watch & Clock Fair 2017 Martin Foster FBHI 347 Out and About with the BHI Brian Noble 348 Making Harrison’s Late Regulator Colin Fergusson MBHI 351 Birmingham City University Jeremy Hobbins MBHI 352 BHI Summer Show Eve Makepeace 354 The Geoffrin Clock Susan Teichman 356 A Hunt and Roskell Carriage Clock Henry Bennett 363 Fact Finder Alex Bond 368 Universal Genève Compur Chronograph Rob Horan MBHI 370 Regulars Letters 342 News 345 Branch Reports 374 Horological Calendar 380 BHI Courses 381 New Members & Upgrades 381 Members’ Sales & Wants 381 Bench View 382 August 2017 HOROLOGICAL JOURNAL 341 Letters Upton Hall Clock and Watch Fair, Sunday 10 can be sent to [email protected], preferably as a PDF September 2017 file. The most interesting will be chosen by an independent Most of you will have seen the advertisement in last month’s adjudicator who will use their best efforts to check that entries HJ for what I believe will be the first Clock and Watch Fair to are authentic representations of actual events. The prize for be held at Upton Hall, certainly in recent years anyway. the winning story is the new Vertex M100 wristwatch. People have been asking why now? Well, the Board thought ANDREW CANTER it was the ideal opportunity to use the Ballroom to its best advantage, introducing dealers and buyers to the BHI and promoting the membership along with the training courses. It will only be successful with support from the membership, and the hope is that if it works well, other similar events will transpire. So, how can you help? • If you have enough horological items to sell and are able to get to the Hall, you could hire a table. If not, perhaps you know someone, such as a collector or dealer, who would like to have a table. Anything to do with clocks and watches, tools, equipment, books etc., old and new. We are expecting to have up to 50 tables available. • If you live within easy distance and you can’t get to the fair, maybe you have something you would like to sell? You can drop it at Upton Hall with a clear note Figure 1. of the price you want and the price you would accept. We will try and sell it for you and take 10% for the BHI. Perhaps you could leave a number as well so that if we got a decent offer we could call you to check we can sell. • Are you prepared to act as a steward for all or part of the event? We will need people to carry out several different roles from being on the door, collecting the door fee and issuing tickets, walking the floor ensuring the sellers and buyers are happy and safe, directing customers to the people you think can help them the best with queries, running the table containing members’ items and last, but not least, providing tea and coffee throughout the fair. All proceeds will go to the BHI at Upton Hall to further Figure 2. the running of training courses, members’ activities etc., so it is to all our benefits that the day is a success.