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VOLUME 7, NUMBER 12 DECEMBER 1983 Appraisal ® Forms H 18 Official Publication of the American Watchmakers Institute MARSHALL F. RICHMOND THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Pride in Workmanship STEVEN G. CONOVER CHIME AND STRIKE Successful French Rack Striking Movement ARCHIE B. PERKINS TECHNICALLY WATCHES Jewelry 12 How to Use the Modern Watchmaker's Lathe, Part XV HENRY B. FRIED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Making 16 ''.A Little Genealogy ... " WES DOOR SHOPTALK 18 Appraisals: Yes or No? - Part III 22 ORVILLE R. HAGANS IN THE SPOTLIGHT 20 Model SSC2 Ingraham Hour Strike Movement MARSHALL F. RICHMOND 22 PICKLE BARREL Design and Layout For , A Holiday Jewelry Making and Repair MARVIN E. WHITNEY WATCHES INSIDE AND OUT 28 There's A New Meaning In Pivoting Nightmare FRED BURCKHARDT ROCK QUARRY 30 Yuletide Spirits 30 MILTON C. STEVENS AWi NEWS 32 Reflections on 1983 SCHOLASTICALLY SPEAKING ALICE CARPENTER DEPARTMENTS 34 The Rapid Progress In Watchmaking Book Review/5 WALTER RIEGLER 36 AFFILIATE CHAPTER COLUMN Readers Write/6 Profile: Typical Affiliate Association N ews/3 7 Chapter of A WI AWI Bench Courses/3 8 New Members/38 HOROLOGICAL TIMES (ISSN0145-9546) is published monthly and copyrighted by the American Bench Tips/40 Watchmakers Institute, 3700 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211, for $35.00 per year ($4.50 News in the Trade/42 per copy in the United States and $45.00 per year; $5.50 per copy outside the U.S.). Second class New Products and Literature/44 postage paid at Cincinnati, Ohio. POSTMASTER : Send address changes to HOROLOGICAL TIMES, Classified Ads/46 P.O. Box 11011, Cincinnati, OH 45211. Advertisers' lndex/48 FELLOWS OF THE AMERICAN WATCHMAKERS INSTITUTE Hamilton E. Pease Orville R. Haeans Josephine F. Hagans Executive and Editorial Offices AWi Central P.O Box 11011 3700 Harrison Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45211 Telephone: (513) 661-3838 Harold J. Herman: Editor Maury Norrell: Managing Editor/Advertising HAPPY Donna Baas: Production Director Regina G. Stenger: Art Director Sue Scott: Business Manager Mildred Howard: Circulation Manager Margie M. Brater: Circulation Technical Editors: David G. Arnold Ewell D. Hartman Otto Benesh Gerald G. Jaeger James H. Broughton Sean C. Monk Fred S. Burckhardt Robert A. Nelson Steven G. Conover Archie B. Perkins Joe Crooks Marshall F. Richmond Paul Fisk Leslie L. Smith Henry B. Fried Marvin E. Whitney Orville R. Hagans A WI Officers: Marshall F. Richmond, CMW: President Fred S. Burckhardt, 1st V.P. William Biederman, CMW : 2nd V.P. Robert F. Bishop, Secretary Marvin E. Whitney, CMW, CMC, FAWI: Treas. A WI Directors David Arnold, CMC Joseph G. Baier, Ph.D., CMW, CMC Otto Benesh, CMC James Broughton, CEWS Wes Door, CMW Orville R. Hagans, CMW, CMC, FAWI Gerald G. Jaeger, CMW, CEWS Robert M. Leach, CMC Sean C. Monk, CMW Howard Opp, CEWS Walter Riegler, CMW:Affiliate Chapter Director Alice Carpenter, CEWS: Research and Education Council Chairman Milton C. Stevens: Executive Secretary Michael P. Danner: Adminstrative Director HOLIDAYS! Reprinting and reproduction is prohibited without permission from the American Watchmakers Institute. Copyright <e 1983 by the American Watchmakers Institute. 2 Horological Times/December 1983 JEWELERS STEREO MICROSCOPE $57QOO TERMS AVAILABLE Indispensable For • Gem Identification Grading • Electronic Watch Repair • 1 Ox and 30x magnification • Bin ocular Stereo - 360° rotating head. • Built in four position illuminator with darkfield and reflected light. • Stone holder with two position mount. • Large convenient focus controls on either side. • Five year limited warranty. For years there has been a need for a reasonably priced microscope that fits the needs of the Jewelry Industry. We are pleased to offer this Gemscope which meets or exceeds the quality of microscopes costing much more. Take advantage of our free 15 day trial offer and judge for yourself! ALL IN POST STYLE • Inclined binocular stereo with 360 degree • Head removable to mount on pillar stand or rotatable head with locking screw. universal arm. • Head interocular and interpupillary adjust • Head adjustable on post to different heights able. for additional working area, with locking • Built in illuminator with four position switch. screw. To provide either incident, transmitted, incident and transmitted illumination or both • Course focus via diagonal-cut rack and pinion off. with large convenient focus controls on either • llluminator base furnished with 90mm. side of stand. diameter glass stage plate, reversible black • Furnished with rotatable nosepiece turret and white stage plate, blue filter, and two with two pair of objectives. 1 X and 3X = 1 Ox - chrome stage clips. 30X utilizing widefield eyepiece. Esslinger & Co. P.O. BOX 43561 ST. PAUL. MN 55164 NATIONAL WATS-ORDERS ONLY - 800-328-0205 MINNESOTA WATS-ORDERS ONLY - 800-392-0334 INQUIRIES-INFORMATION - 612-452-7180 President's Message/Marshall Richmond • Pride f;ft ffTorkD'ianship ome people have tried to convince me that pride in use it daily. In fact, if a watchmaker today wants to continue workmanship is lost in America. In many cases this to work on mechanical watches, especially the old ones, the § could be true, but not with the majority of watch lathe is almost as important as the right hand. The watch makers. makers that use it are proud craftsmen and are proud of the In attending meetings starting at the local guild balance staff, the pallet arbor, or the stem that they've had to level through the state and affiliate chapter level, to the meet make to complete a restoration job or a repair job. I would not ings of the American Watchmakers Institute, I rarely attend say that a watchmaker could not make a living repairing a meeting that some watchmaker will not show me a piece without a lathe, but to be a fully qualified watchmaker, when he has restored and is proud of. These are usually pieces which doing the difficult jobs, a lathe is a must. he owns. He is showing the kind of work he is capable of turn The National Casemarking System is a great system ing out and no doubt it is an example of the same kind of for identification and could be quite successful in recovering proud craftsmanship he does on customer repairs. Also, the stolen goods and even identifying people, but there have good workmanship subject comes up in almost, if not every, been many stumbling blocks in the way of its success. The one meeting, and these watchmakers discuss how to improve on that concerns me is that many watchmakers are not using it. already excellent workmanship. Some claim it is too time consuming, and others do not care This brings up a couple of subjects that have been to co-operate with the law enforcement people. I have used debated in recent years. One is the watchmakers' lathe, and it since its inception, and have even profitted by using it. It the other the National Casemarking System. Some have tried has been expressed to me many times by watchmakers that to abolish the casemark system, and others have favored no they were proud to put their mark in any work they have longer teaching the lathe. The watchmakers' lathe is a tool done because they were not ashamed of the quality work they that requires knowledge and practice to use and many of us produced. This also is pride in workmanship. 'ULill FLAT FANCY SHAPE MINERAL CRYSTALS BB PERFIT FOR NEW QUARTZ WATCHES ORDER FROM YOUR WATCH MATERIAL AMERICAN PERFIT CRYSTAL CORP SUPPLIER TODAY! . 653 Eleventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10036 4 Horological Times/December 1983 Book Review lD'StLnSK. The Wetherfield Collection of Clocks, by Eric Bruton, FBHI, 264 pages, 8~ x 12", hard cover. Published by NAG Press, Ltd., London. •11~ The Wetherfield Collection of clocks is perhaps the finest collection ever assembled of English clocks. In 1930, after the death of David Arthur Wetherfield, the collection was sold. It was noted for its outstanding tall-cased examples, as well as for the good selection of bracket clocks and its smaller number of lantern clocks. The collection had been written about before: Britten's original book in 1907 and Hurcomb's book in 1928. Bruton, in this new book, had access to an album of photographs taken for the sale, but which had not been otherwise available. The major part of the book is devoted to the many STAINLESS STEEL FLASKS SPRUE BASES photographs of the clocks, with rather extensive explana STANDARD TAPER tions of each, preceded by a long introduction and followed Diam . Ht. Stock Price by a brief history of each maker of a clock. A section on the (in.) (in.) No. Each Stock Price Stock Price Wetherfield clocks, covering some 31 pages, describes them No . Each No. Each in terms of interest to the collector and historian. The dis 1% 2% F-1 $5.20 ST-1 $3 .60 tinguishing features of lantern clocks, bracket clocks and long 1% 2% F-1A 5.20 ST-1 3.60 case clocks are given, with the periods during which they were 2% F-2 3.00 S-2 $1.50 ST-2 1.50 being made the woods and metals used for cases, special 2 features of the movements, dating cases and movements, 2% 2% F-3 7.00 ST-3 3.60 noting power sources, escapements, dials and hands, many 2112 2 F-4 3.05 S-4 1.35 ST-4 1.50 described with excellent line drawings. But the Introduction 2% 2V2 F-4A 3.25 S-4 1.35 ST-4 1.50 is most interesting for historical background purposes. For a summary of the entire contents of the book, 2% 3 F-48 3.40 S-4 1.35 ST-4 1.50 the listing of the major sections is self-explanatory- Introduc 2% 4 F-4C 5.10 S-4 1.35 ST-4 1.50 tion, The Wetherfield Clocks, Technical Features, The Plates, 3 2% F-5 4.00 S-5 1.50 ST-5 1.50 Lantern and Hanging Clocks, Bracket Clocks, Longcase Clocks, 3 3 F-5A 4.20 S-5 1.50 ST-5 1.50 notes concerning makers of the clocks illustrated, Appen dix One: Marquetry and Veneering, Appendix Two: Cross 3% 4 F-6 11 .20 ST-6 1.90 reference Guide, Index, and Bibliography.