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Donna K. Baas: Managing Editor, Advertising Manager Katherine J. Ortt: Associate Editor, Layout/Design Associate COLUMNS James E. Lubic, CMW: Executive Director & The Modern German Clock Movement, By Mark Butterworth 20 Education & Technical Director Part 25, The Case of the Slow Clock Lucy Fuleki: Assistant Executive Director Thomas J. Pack, CPA: Finance Director Technically Watches, By Archie B. Perkins 22 Laurie Penman: Clock Instructor Part 49, The Stop Watch Timing Mechanism Nancy L. Wellmann: Education Coordinator Sharon McManus: Membership Coordinator Mary Huff: Shipping Coordinator Melanie Frye: ReceptionisUSecretary DEPARTMENTS Steve Jones: Audiovisual Manager President's Message, By Robert D. Porter 2 HOROLOGICAL TIMES ADVISORY COMMIITEE Executive Director's Message, By James E. Lubic 2 Linda Chrysler: Chainman Ron DeCorte, CMW Questions & Answers, By David A. Christianson 4 Chip Lim, CMW, CMC, CMEW Ask Huck, By J. M. Huckabee 6 Stanley McMahan Robert Ockenden, CMC AWl Movement Bank/Material Search Network 29 Manuel J. Yazijian From the Workshop, By Jack Kurdzionak 30 AWl OFFICERS Robert D. Porter, CMW: President Affiliate Chapter Report, By John F. Kurdzionak 40 Jim Door: First Vice President Bulletin Board 45 Jack Kurdzionak, CW: Second Vice President Frank Poye, CW: Secretary AWl New Members 51 Fred Burckhardt, FAWI: Treasurer Classified Advertising 52 AWl DIRECTORS Advertisers' Index Mark Butterworth 56 Alice B. Carpenter, CMW, CMEW AWl Employee Directory 56 Joseph L. Cerullo, CMW, CMC David A. Christianson, CMW, CMEW Ron DeCorte, CMW EDUCATION Wes Door, CMW Henry Frystak, CMW Education Update 38 Ewell D. Hartman, CMW, FAWI Gerald Jaeger, CMW, CMC, CMEW, FAWI AWl Bench Courses/Continuing Education 39 Marshall F. Richmond, CMW John Kurdzionak: Affiliate Chapter Director Ken Pell: Research & Education Council Director SPECIAL INTEREST Tony Riggio, CMW: Industry Advisory Board Director Harold Herman Obituary 8 IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT AWl's Fiscal Year End 19 Ron DeCorte, CMW Affiliate Chapter Symposiums & Conventions 43 FELLOWS American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute WAOAuction 45 Robert F. Bishop J. M. Huckabee James H. Broughton Gerald G. Jaeger AWl's 42nd Annual Meeting Agenda & Registration Form 46 Fred S. Burckhardt Robert A. Nelson Verdin Clock and Bell Museum Tour & ELM Trust Dinner 48 George Daniels Benjamin Matz *Henry B. Fried *Hamilton E. Pease AWl Technical Presentations & Trade Fair 49 Josephine F. Hagans Archie B. Perkins AWl Financial Statements for the Year Ended June 30, 2001 50 *Orville R. Hagans William 0. Smith, Jr. Ewell D. Hartman Milton C. Stevens *Harold J. Henman *Marvin E. Whitney ·oaceased COVER This month's cover features a Crown Wheel Skeleton Clock built by John B. Shadle, CMC. President's Message Robert D. Porter, CMW
This message is in memory of Mr. Harold J. Herman, CMW, FAWI, Past President (1967- 1968), and the first editor of the Horological Times when the magazine began in 1977. Hal Herman was an innovator, a can-do man whose enthusiasm, persistence, and dedication paid off in many ways to benefit the members of AWI. Hal was told by nearly everyone that there was no way AWl could publish a monthly magazine using personnel who had no previous experience in the publishing business. Hal applied his experience as a successful business man to enlist the help of many friends who shared their publishing expertise with the AWl staff to get the magazine started. The result is the Horological Times he edited for eleven years, and that we all look forward to receiving each month. In conjunction with the Department of Labor, Mr. Herman also helped set up an apprenticeship training program in watchmaking. The program was designed to assist the jeweler or watchmaker in training skilled personnel to fill the many vacancies that existed in the trade. AWI continues to build on the lessons learned from those past programs to reduce the shortage of watch and clockmakers. He worked tirelessly to develop more efficient production methods through time and motion studies to improve the earning power of the artisan at the bench. He traveled extensively to teach his methods to watchmakers all over the United States. Hal Herman will be missed by all of us who knew him. His memory will live on in the lives of those he helped, and in the Horological Times we receive each month.
Executive Director's Message James E. Lubic, CMW
The theme for the 42"ct Annual AWl Meeting & Convention is "Striving 4 the Best." AWl is striving for its best convention, August 1-4 at the Hilton Greater Cincinnati Airport in Florence, KY. Your attendance is all we need to reach that goal! For the fourth consecutive year, AWl will be providing a one-day educational program as part of the annual meeting. Saturday, August 3 will be a full day of presentations given by experts in watchmaking and clockmaking. Some of last year's presenters are back by popular demand. Laurie Penman, who was out of the country during last year's convention, will be giving his presentation on Clock Escapements this year. Stewart Lesemann will also be back in the U.S.A. and presenting Lever Escapements. Other watch presenters include Jack Kurdzionak and Dr. Matthew Clark. Jerry Faier and Mark Butterworth will also present clock programs. As you can see, the Saturday events alone make the trip worthwhile. The registration form is on page 47 ofthis issue ofthe Horological Times. Register early to avoid penalties. The registration fee for the entire weekend package is $205 if reservations are received before July 2, 2002. The deadline for hotel reservations is July 12, 2002 (859-371-4400 or 1-800-HILTONS). Rooms are $84. The trustees for the ELM-Trust have planned a Friday night to remember. Participants in the Trust event ($50 for all attendees) will see a historic landmark (former St. Paul's Church, built in 1848), view the Verdin Bell & Clock Museum and have a delicious dinner provided by the Bell Event Center. All AWI affiliate chapters and AWI members are being asked once again to provide AWI with the expired silver oxide batteries you have accumulated. The money from the batteries goes to the ELM Trust and is one of its major fund raising efforts. Your donation is tax deductible and you will receive a letter for your records. If you need more donation bags, please call our toll free number 866-367-2924, ext. 305 and request them. The winners will be announced at the annual meeting.
The AWl office felt grave sadness last week with the passing of Mary Sansalone. Mary was AWl's Education Coordinator from 1989-1998, when she had to leave because of health reasons. Mary's funeral was May 9 ... her 63rct birthday. She will be badly missed by all of us at AWI and by her many friends and loved ones.
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Question I have just received an old wooden clock movement in for repair, and am enclosing some pictures and information to see if you can give me an idea as to when it was made, and where. The last one I had in for repair had a metal disc inserted into the plates for a metal to metal bearing. This one just has metal pivots working in wood. Out here in the mountains we only see one or two of these clocks in a lifetime, so I tend be a little nervous water-powered factory. Earlier ver their wooden movement clocks are working on them. sions had their teeth milled to shape known. Any information will be and the rear plate either dovetailed into Additional information on the greatly appreciated. the seat board or attached to the seat history and identification of wooden John P. Hughes board by three posts. Yours is identi tall case clocks can be found in the Orofino, ID fied as a Type Ilia version because the following articles: rear plate is attached to the seat board Answer by 2 posts (the front plate is mortised "Identification & History of Wood Although wooden movements into the seat board), and it has a cen Movements in Tall Clocks," Shepard for tall case clocks were made in trally located count wheel on the rear Roberts. NAWCC Bulletin, Vol. 14, America prior 1800, it was Eli Terry plate (although in your photo the count No. 3, Whole #145, April 1970, pp. who developed the methods to mass wheel is not shown). Such movements 262-280. produce wooden movements for tall date from 1806. Herman Clark bought "Eight-Day Wood Tall-Case case clocks in 1800, making him the the factory and rights to manufacture Movements," A. Bruce Burns. A 3-part "father of the clock manufacturing in from Terry at the end of 1807 when series in the NAWCC Bulletin, Vol. 16, dustry" in America. Terry went on to build a bigger and Nos. 2, 3 & 5, February, April & Au In 1812 Terry sold off his better factory, so yours may have ac gust 1974, Whole Nos. 168, 169 & 171. manufactory and introduced the shorter tually been made by Mr. Clark as late The Contributions of Joseph 30-hour wooden shelf clock movement as possibly 1822 when wooden tall Ives to Connecticut Clock Technology, in 1814. case movements ceased to be made in 1810-1862, Kenneth D. Roberts. Ken Your 30-hour wooden tall case Connecticut. Roberts Publishing Co., Fitzwilliam, clock movement was designed by Eli As to the mark on the rear plate NH 03447, Second Edition, 1988. Terry when he designed a new method of your movement, it probably was the David A. Christianson, of cutting wheel teeth for his newly mark of some repairman in the clock's CMW, CMEW, built Niagara Brook factory in Ply history. Mr. Terry and Mr. Clark were Technical Editor mouth, Connecticut in 1806. In your not known to have marked their move 0 movement the wheel teeth were sawn ments, although a very few examples using circular cutters in his new of their names on the dials of some of
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Annealing a Pivot or Arbor I suggest you practice on a piece of common steel to gain confidence. A small steel Question nail of similar size to the arbor is a suitable test How do you anneal an arbor so that it piece. Square off the nail end before the test. can be repivoted?
Answer Heat Treatment This is a technique that needs to be to Replacement Pivots demonstrated and practiced before risking your skill on a highly valuable piece. Let me Question describe the process and I recommend you When you repivot a hard arbor it must practice on some similarly sized pieces of be annealed before drilling. Do you reharden material to gain experience. the arbor and the new pivot afterward? First, never tum fire directly on the pivot or arbor. It is almost sure to cause fire Answer scale, to overheat, or heat a region that needs No, and let me explain how I do the protection. job before you pass judgment on a no answer. The technique I use is not original to I anneal the arbor, drill about 6 pivot diam me, but has been used so long that I do not eters deep, and friction-fit a pre-hardened, and recall the source. I use a small hand-held pro pre-polished pivot. In that way, I leave the ar pane torch for heat, the kind that is most popu bor end polished and annealed, with a hard lar in hardware and variety stores. ened and polished pivot. Let's imagine we plan to repivot an A hard pivot press-fitted in a hard ar arbor that is too hard to drill, and it has a wheel bor may cause the arbor to split at a later time. somewhere near the arbor end. I make a heat Heat-treating a pivot that is press-fitted in an transfer tool to do the annealing. arbor is almost certain to relax the fit and loosen Let's imagine the arbor end is about the pivot. 1Y2 mm in diameter and overhangs the wheel Over the past 50 years, I've developed about 3 mm. A piece of mild steel rod about 8 drilling techniques that so accurately center the inches long and the diameter of a wood pen arbor hole that I always insert the pre-finished cil is a suitable tool for the job. Square off the pivot, and cut away the excess length. This is end and drill a hole in the end that the arbor done with a very thin cut off stone in a high will just slip into. It should be an easy slip fit, speed grinder. but not loose. Polish (clean) the arbor so that The process I use is the same as de you can see the annealed color. tailed in the book, The Top 300 Trade Secrets Heat the rod tip (low red color) and ofa Master Clockmaker. In that text, the Ameri slip the arbor in the hole. After a couple of can escape wheel arbor was not hard, and an seconds, pull the arbor out enough to see the nealing was unnecessary. color change. Repeat the process if needed. The above book has eleven close-up There will be no fire scale on the piece and it photographs of repivoting an arbor which does not endanger other features on the can be achieved in about 15 minutes by an arbor. experienced worker. 0
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Harold (Hal) Herman died Thursday, April 25 at Hospice of Cincinnati of pulmonary fibrosis. Hal Herman was a Charter Member of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute and a Certified Master Watch maker. As AWl President (1967-68) Mr. Herman worked with the United States Department of Labor to streamline the procedures for setting up an apprenticeship program for training watchmakers. He also developed several training programs which traveled around the country to teach the watchmaker how to take advantage of technology in order to be more organized and profitable. In 1990 Hal received the Institute's highest honor, Fellow, AWL James Lubic, AWl Executive Director said, "Hal helped to shape the Institute into what it is today. Receiving the Fellow award is evidence of his dedication and respect to his profession." Mr. Herman was instrumental in developing "Modem Methods," a program to teach methods of servicing and repairing watches which made horological professionals more productive. In the late 1960s Hal developed a watch cleaning solution and a method of using this solution. This solution is still used today all over the world. At the state level Mr. Herman was active in the Ohio Watchmakers Association. Mr. Herman was President of OWA in 1962 and 1963. As President he was instrumental in acquiring hospitalization insurance for the members of OWA. He also served as President of the Cincinnati Watchmakers Guild. Hal was the first editor of Horological Times, which he founded in 1977. Today the Horological Times still continues just as Mr. Herman had originally envisioned the publication. Born in Newport, Kentucky, Mr. Herman graduated from Newport High School and enlisted in the Army in the late 1940s. He served as a tank operator during the Korean War and was honorably discharged in 1952. Mr. Herman returned to Newport and began studying watchmaking at Gruen Watchmakers Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. After graduating from Gruen he worked for the Gruen Watch Co. while he continued his education in electronics at the Ohio School of Applied Sciences. In 1959 he started his own business operating out of a space in Herschede Jewelers in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1977 he left Herschede Jewelers to open his own watch repair and jewelry business, Hal Herman Jewelers. In 1985 he closed the store and opened a small watch repair shop where he specialized in repairs only. The shop was closed last year. "He was very well respected. He loved spending time with his family, especially the grandchildren," said his son, Tom Herman. In his free time Hal enjoyed traveling with is wife of 21 years, Shirley. He was especially fond of visiting the Basel Fair in Switzerland and attended many Jewelry Industry Distributor Association (JIDA) meetings in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Hal was also an avid golfer and a member of the Monfort Heights Kiwanis. In addition to his wife, Shirley, and son, Tom, survivers include another son, Jerry Herman; two daughters, Donna Herman and Nancy Newberry; a stepson, John Imbus; three stepdaughters, Barbara Bums, Patsy Mallucey and Rosemary Logenbaker; and 17 grandchildren. Memorials can ~e sent to Hospice of Cincinnati, c/o Bethesda Foundation, P.O. Box 710784, Cincinnati, OH 45271.
8 Horological Times • June 2002
A Crown Wheel Skeleton Clock
©2002 (All rights reserved by the author)
Photos by Tom Downey
John B. Shadle, CMC
Nothing builds horological knowl Pennsylvania where there is an exhibit of many edge and skill more than building a timepiece kinds of escapements, all running under glass from scratch. You must know clocks, and you domes. Several used crown wheels, and one must also develop machining skills. You must of them, unlike the old verge crown wheel es understand how escapements work, how gears capements of the distant past, drove deadbeat work, and also how to make the necessary pallets. cutters and fixtures to accomplish your task. I thought that such an arrangement Since few special clock building tools would make a good timekeeper. It would also are available on the open market, you must make an eye-catching skeleton clock. This, I design and build many of your own. If you're decided, would be my next clock construction going to design and build an original clock, project. A crown escape wheel and the contrate you must know how to draft and you also must wheel which drives it are parts I had never possess some basic math skills. All of this is made before, so it would provide a challenge. demanding-but you will also have lots of fun I would make it small enough to fit under an as you learn. The first ticking of a new clock ordinary anniversary clock dome. In addition, you've made yourself is music to your ears. I would make it more attractive by using an There's nothing else like it. oversize great wheel and omitting a second This little clock grew out of a visit wheel in the gear train. to the NAWCC museum in Columbia, The pallets are centrally mounted over
10 Horological Times • June 2002 the crown escape wheel, where they rock back and forth, releasing an es cape wheel tooth on alternate sides with each rock. (See Figure 1.) There really aren't any entrance and exit pal lets, as in a Graham-style deadbeat es capement. In the drawing, an escape Locknut ~ :;: wheel tooth is locked on the back pal let (also see Figure 2A). Between the ___ -%f\~} front pallet and the near tooth there is drop clearance (also see Figure 2B). SetScrew _j The front pallet pushes the pallet ar Threaded boss. bor to the right. Then, as the pallet ro I tates upward, the tooth will slide onto I the lifting surface of the pallet (a 45- Escape wheel arbor pivot~ degree angle), applying upward force to the pallet, which will then be trans Set Screw_/ ! ferred to the pendulum through a crutch arrangement. When the tooth then drops off of the rear pallet, a tooth on Figure 1 the opposite side of the escape wheel falls onto the locking surface of the front pallet, and the process will be repeated. The two 45-degree lifting
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June 2002 • Horological Times 11 Back Front Pallet Pallet Drop clearance. - \ D Lock ' · Pallet arbo~ --- -- ~ {l- - -- _11. J\1\ ___ _ pivot hole. ------
Figure 2
surfaces of the pallets incline in oppo screws which thread into bosses stands on the adjusting screw. site directions, because they work on screwed to the clock's plates. There are The only part of this escape opposite sides of the escape wheel. For two of these "end stones," one for each ment which is not adjustable is pallet the same reason, the locking faces of pallet arbor pivot, and they are secured thickness. The pallets were ground to the pallets are on opposite sides of the with lock nuts. (The right one is shown a thickness of one-half of the space pallets. in Figure 2C.) This arrangement makes between escape wheel teeth (measured The escapement is unusual it possible to adjust the pallet arbor tooth tip to tooth tip) minus another and it demands thought. It doesn't be sideways in both directions to equal 0.020" or so for clearance. This is simi have like a Graham-style deadbeat es ize drops, while at the same time it also lar to a Graham-style deadbeat. capement. For one thing, raising and restrains the sideways movements of Please note that in the draw lowering the pallets vis-a-vis the es the arbor. The set screws act as adjust ing, for clarity, the thickness of the pal cape wheel changes the amount of es able thrust bearings. lets is exaggerated and the number of cape wheel teeth lock on the locking The pivots of the pallet arbor escape wheel teeth is reduced. The real planes of the pallet; in a conventional fit in pivot holes in the clock plates like crown wheel has 45 teeth, and the pal Graham deadbeat escapement this ad any other pallet arbor, but the tips of let nibs are 0.035" thick. The leading justment equalizes entrance and exit the pivots rest against the two "end face of the tooth is vertical to the crown pallet drop clearances. stones." To adjust for equal drops, I wheel, and the back of the tooth slants For another thing, the crown insert small hex keys in the screws and at about 25 degrees, measured from the wheel tooth strikes the pallets on a line turn them until front and back drop tip of the tooth. The wheel is 1.5'' in parallel with the pallet arbor. The clearances are equal, at the same time diameter. crown wheel drives the pallets side setting almost zero pallet arbor end This clock turned out to be so ways with a force which changes di shake. attractive and quiet that I used this rection with each tick. So I had to de In practice, this arrangement escapement to build another, smaller vise a way to control the sideways works very well, but it also makes it skeleton clock. Both clocks have forces on the pallet arbor. Another un impossible to adjust the pallet arbor up proven to be steady runners and good usual feature of this escapement is that and down. So I decided to adjust the timekeepers. front and back pallet drop clearances escape wheel up or down instead. I This is the age of the Internet, are equalized by adjusting the pallet used a similar set -screw arrangement so you can watch this clock being arbor sideways. So in addition to han set vertically at the bottom pivot ofthe built on my website. As I built the dling sideways forces, I must make the escape wheel arbor. Adjusting this clock, I took photos and wrote text arbor adjustable sideways. screw raises or lowers the escape wheel to explain the day's work: I solved this problem by intro to increase or decrease the amount the www.onlineclockbuilding.com. Please ducing what would be similar to end teeth lock on the pallets. The escape tune in. It's free! stones in a watch. They're made of wheel pivots run in pivot holes like any 0 2-56 hex-head stainless-steel set other escape wheel, but its weight
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June 2002 • Horological Times 13 Our American Legacy
Fred S. Burckhardt, FAWI
In August 1864, "The National Watch company was largely due to the careful man Company" was formed in Chicago, Illinois. agement on their part. In 1865, the company reorganized under a The Elgin company began manufac special charter by the State of Illinois. turing its own mainsprings in March 187 5. On Elgin, Illinois was selected as a plant June 6,1875, the first watches called by the site. Several of the employees were hired away name of the company were put on the market from Waltham and began work in a newly and were designated by numbers. erected building which measured thirty-five In 1886, the company built a board by sixty feet, and was three stories tall. Before ing house for 400 of its employees, with a din long, several more buildings were added. They ing room where 500 could be seated and served were completed in June of 1866 and work on at the same time. There were also large par parts of watches began. It must be realized that lors with libraries, musical instruments, news this location at that time was prairie country, papers and magazines. During this period, which presented many problems. about 40% of the work force were women. The In 1867, the first 18 size movements Elgin company believed in using American were produced, named B.W. Raymond, after help and only hired foreign workmen by letter the company president and former Mayor of of recommendation. Chicago. These movements were put on the Elgin was the first American watch market April 1, 1867, two years and seven company to pay a dividend to its original stock months from the date of the company's orga holders. In time, Elgin was the only company nization. The first Lady Elgin movements that produced more watches than Waltham. Up made their debut in May of 1869. They were until 1953, Elgin produced 50,000,000 a 10 size keywind movement. Earlier grades watches, surpassing that of Waltham whose of the same size were soon on the market, in total was 33,830,000. cluding one called "Gail Borden," named af Elgin continued production into the ter a stockholder who was also a condensed 1960s. Watches are still being produced using milk manufacturer. The 10 size models didn't the Elgin name. We must digress here for a last too long as the public wanted smaller moment to talk about some of the people watches and stem wound movements. The first whose names keep showing up in the early stem wound watches were issued in June 1873. years of American watchmaking. One that As the watches were universally merits special attention is that of J.C. Adams, known as, and called, Elgin watches, the stock who became known in the trade as "The Great holders held a meeting in Chicago on May American Starter." He was an important fac 12,1874 and decided to change the name from tor in the promoting of horological interests The National Watch Company to the Elgin in America. He was born in Prebel, New York National Watch Company. Something worth in 1834. His father sold his farm and moved noting is that up until this time, none of the the family to the far west-Elgin, Illinois. officers or directors, since its organization, ever Adams served a five-year apprenticeship to had any previous experience in the watch John Atkins, an old English watchmaker. He manufacturing business. It is believed, and then worked for two years for J.S. Spaulding with some merit, that the success of the Elgin in Wisconsin. He returned to Elgin and went
14 Horological Times • June 2002 into partnership with G. B. Adams in the firm known as Sherwood opened a drugstore, and it was while there he G. B. & J. C. Adams. The firm was dissolved and J. C. started to study watchmaking. In time, the drugstore didn't went to Chicago, employed by Hoard & Hoes. In 1861 he prove successful so he went to Jefferson, Ohio, and opened managed the watch department of W. H. & C. Miller and a watchmaker's shop and later a machine shop. After he in 1862 he was appointed timekeeper for the railroads in was there for awhile, he met Mr. Curtis's son-in-law who Chicago. invited him to visit Waltham. Sherwood was hired and in In the spring of 1864 he left Miller, and with P. S. no time he originated new tools, first drafting them on Bartlett and Charles S. Moseley organized the Elgin Watch paper, then with his own hands, he made them. Many tools, Company. In 1869 with Mr. Paul Cornell, he organized still in use today, were invented by Sherwood. Some of the Cornell Watch Company of Grand Crossing, Illinois. his inventions include: countersinker and screw head tool, Also in 1869, Adams with some Springfield capitalists, end shake tools, the opener used to open jewel holes, and organized the Illinois Watch Company in Springfield. In truing up tools. He never patented any of his inventions, 1874, he organized the Adams and Perry Watch Manu of which but a few are listed. facturing Company. In 1885, he organized the Peoria Sherwood left Waltham in 1858 and went into a Watch Company. In addition to all this, Adams invented partnership with James Queen in New York City. The part "The Adams System of Time Records," which at the time nership broke up the following year and he went to Cleve was used on nearly every Western railroad. land, returned to New York City, and then went to Perth Another name that bears mentioning is that of Amboy, New Jersey. It was there he established a small Napoleon Bonaparte Sherwood. He was born in 1823. He shop. In 1864, he helped organize the "Newark Watch had decided to practice medicine but ended up practicing Company," but after some misunderstanding he retired. dentistry. He wanted to see more of the world, so he and a Sherwood wanted to enlist in the Civil War but dentist friend headed off on their journey. When money was rejected because of poor health. In October of 1872, ran out, they would stop in a small town and practice their he died of consumption in New York City. profession. Sherwood also worked as a draftsman during 0 his travels. One time they stopped in Pennsylvania where
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June 2002 • Horological Times 15 How to Make Money Repairing Watches
James Sadilek
Many watchmakers are earning re training, and investment in tools for a watch spectable incomes repairing watches, while maker is similar to the requirements of these others still struggle to make ends meet. In this trades. Obviously, the income for those who time of comparatively little competition, any are self-employed needs to be equal to the in watchmaker possessed of average skills cer come of the above trades plus the overhead tainly has the opportunity to be successful. expenses that are usually covered by the em Recent statistics.indicate that there is ployers of manufacturing workers. now only one watchmaker for every 55,000 The advice given in this article is people in the United States. In 1970, there were aimed toward average watchmakers working more than 30,000 watchmakers in this coun on ordinary watches and assumes that a sig try, that is about six times the current number. nificant number of mechanical watches are in At that time, it was a commonly accepted rule the repair mix. There are some basic principles that a population of 5,000 could support one to be followed in order to make a success of watchmaker. We all know that in the past thirty the watch repair business, or almost any busi years, the advent of cheap electronic watches ness for that matter. has drastically changed our trade. The old de • The first and most important prin mographics no longer apply, but since there ciple is: Charge enough for your work to re are now so few of us in relation to the total main in business. If this principle is ignored, population, the number of repairable watches all others are irrelevant. in customer's hands should still be sufficient • Give the customers what they ex for all to be fully employed. pect. This might be simply described as cus Of course, each person's circum tomer satisfaction, but it is a bit more involved stances are different, but assuming adequate than that simple description would seem to work is available, there are some obvious rea convey. sons that may account for seemingly low in • Use your time carefully. It is the only comes. To dispel unrealistic notions of one's thing you have to sell. value, we need to realize that watch repair is neither rocket science nor brain surgery and Regarding the first principle of charg we shouldn't expect to get paid as though it is. ing enough to remain in business-there have On the other hand, it is possible for one of av been many articles written outlining various erage talent and experience to make wages methods of determining how much one should equal to those of other trained technicians. charge for work. Usually the methods involve It is difficult to state in dollars the ex calculating an hourly rate sufficient to cover act amount that one should expect to earn, shop expenses then adding enough to provide because even for the more common occupa a decent wage. The hourly rate is then applied tions, wages are not at all equal throughout to each job, and the correct price determined. this country. It does seem reasonable that in a This method may work for some, but it is bet given locality, a watchmaker's income should ter used simply as a starting point for deter be equal to those of the highest paid mining actual charges. To adhere strictly to it manufacturing trades: toolmakers, mold mak is to ignore opportunities. ers, and die makers. The required skill level, I prefer what I will call the Henry
16 Horological Times • June 2002 Fried method. Henry may not have cent of your customers will pay the certain that the "what the market will been the world's greatest watchmaker, price, you have probably reached the bear" point has been reached. Avoid but he very well could have been the point of "what the market will bear." working strictly from a fixed price list. greatest of his time and he knew what The revenue from those few jobs that If the in box is overflowing, raise the it took to make it pay. Many years ago, you have lost through price resistance prices. at a seminar where Henry was the fea will be made up in the increased value Always keep in mind that the tured speaker, a watchmaker in the au of the work that remains. more expensive the watch, the higher dience asked Henry how much he As prices rise, demand de the repair charge should be. There are should charge for a certain job. Henry's creases in a direct relationship. Econo valid reasons for this practice. First, if reply was: "Charge all the market will mists refer to this relationship as "the something happens to the watch while bear." Some might think this attitude elasticity of demand." Of course, cir it is in your possession, you may have to be overly avaricious; it isn't. In ef cumstances may vary, but if your to pay for it. The increased repair fect, this principle allows the consumer workload is sufficient, prices may pos charge is your insurance premium to set the price. If they don't think the sibly be raised to thirty percent refusal, against the day that unforeseen disas price is fair, they simply won't spend or whatever it takes to adjust the sup ter strikes. Additionally, parts are more their money. ply of work to match your ability to costly for expensive watches, and it is The hourly rate calculation complete it. For example, there is no all too easy to lose or damage a part method, as stated above, for determin point in having a six-month backlog whose cost will come out of your ing the price of various services can of work at a low price when it is quite pocket. Lastly, "what the market will serve as a starting point, but once a base possible to have a six-week backlog at bear" is usually higher on expensive has been established, the prices should a much higher price. watches. be raised incrementally over a period Look to customers who ask for It is possible, according to of time to a level that some percentage estimates as an opportunity to test the economists, to predict the effect of of customers will refuse to pay. A com "elasticity of demand." In fact, the use price increases based upon previous monly accepted percentage of refusal of estimates is encouraged as experience. Using data gained from is twenty percent. That is if eighty per- often as possible, at least until one is previous price increases, the increase
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June 2002 • Horological Times 17 in the percentage rate of refusal for ad Some jobs, like band sizing, can't be customer's money. Realize that al ditional price increases is a straight-line avoided-do it and chalk it up to cus though you are in the repair business, 1:1 ratio. tomer relations. On the other hand, al you have no obligation to repair ev For example, if a twenty per ways be on the lookout for opportuni erything that comes through the door. cent increase in prices causes a ten per ties to increase the value of each job. For many of us, saying "no" is the cent increase in refusal rate, the "elas Always be ready to suggest a new hardest thing in the world. Practice, it ticity of demand" principle says that a crown, crystal, or a dial refinish. Even gets easier. forty percent price increase will result though these things may seem obvious Give the customers what they in a twenty percent increase in refusal to you, realize that they may not be so expect. Almost all expect a reliable, rate. This is, of course, a simplified obvious to the customer. reasonably accurate timepiece that example. The actual increase rates for Unless you wish to carve out looks as though it's been serviced. each person's particular situation must a special niche business, avoid those While you may expect that mechani be determined by experimentation. It difficult, time-consuming jobs that al cal watches should keep time to plus may be that only a five percent price ways take longer than you think and or minus five seconds in three positions increase will result in a ten percent re have a high probability of comeback. or some such generally unobtainable fusal, but once a ratio has been estab Examples in this category would be standard, bear in mind that what you lished, it can be used to estimate the most 1920s wristwatches, old Swiss expect is unimportant. It is your effect on demand of future price in pocket watches for which there are no customer's expectations that are impor creases. parts available, and even many Ameri tant. Anything closer than thirty sec Some watchmakers may fret can pocket watches that have been so onds a day is wasted on most people. that the price increases will result in badly treated over the years that repairs Very few customers have the ability to charges that are greater than the job is can be problematical. In addition to be know exactly what time it is; most sim worth. It is not for you to determine ing probable losers, these types of jobs ply are not that concerned. There are whether the charge is more than the job will cause you to spend too much time two types of people, those who are is worth; it is the customer's responsi estimating with little chance of recov consistently late, and those who are bility. If the customer believes it's a fair ering the cost of the time spent because consistently prompt. A minute one way price, then it's fair. How many times if the price is high enough to cover all or the other on their watch is not going have you been asked by a customer if eventualities, the refusal rate will likely to change their habits. Make the watch their watch is worth repair? The cor be very high as well. With these sorts run reliably and spend more time pol rect answer is: "If it's worth it to you, of jobs, every part of the watch must ishing the case and band. Exceptions then it's worth repairing." Don't make be carefully inspected. If you don't, would of course apply to certificate chro the decision for them. Quote your price you'll get caught spending your own nometer watches, but in those cases and let the customer decide. The only money to complete the repair because higher repair costs will be justified be time to make the decision for the cus you missed something. Either way, you cause of the extra time involved. tomer is if you don't want to do the lose. It's better to tum the job down in Most customers are not job. Then of course the price should the beginning and use your time more launching rockets, and if they are, sug be very high and the answer to the productively. gest that they buy a cheap plastic quartz customer's question should be "no." If you are offered a job for watch that will always be more accu Contrary to the principle of which repair parts are unavailable, rate than the best mechanical watch. charging by the hour, many jobs can think carefully before accepting. Even Even those few customers, who seem be priced substantially higher than the though you don't need any parts to to care about such things, often don't amount of time normally required to complete the job, consider the possi have the ability to really know if their perform them would indicate. Round, bility that the watch may come back a watch is accurate. In my experience, flat glass crystals are an excellent ex short time later needing a part that is less than one customer in 500 is truly ample. Most are pressed into a plastic unavailable. What do you do then? concerned about accuracy in the range gasket, changing them only takes a few Make the part? Give the customer's of 5 to 10 seconds per day. Occasion minutes. Does that mean you should money back? Do you want to tell the ally I will ask a customer how their charge for three or four minutes of your customer you're sorry but now you watch is performing some weeks after time, plus the cost of the crystal? No, can't repair the watch because there are having repaired it. Almost without ex you must also factor in what the mar no parts available? It can be a difficult ception they will say, "Perfect." De ket will bear. situation. Save yourself some grief and monstrably this is untrue, there are no There are other tasks for which tum down the job at the start. It's bet perfect watches, but if they think their it is virtually impossible to get the full ter to disappoint the customer before watch is, I do nothing to dispel the hourly rate, avoid them if possible. you invest your time and the illusion.
18 Horological Times • June 2002 Use your time carefully. It is you could have bought for $5.95 or the only thing you have to sell. This is make the boat payment? not the place to describe how to repair Even if it is just a matter of AWl's a watch, there are many available texts replacing a simple part in a quartz with that information. Rather to sug movement, the part may well cost more Fiscal gest a change of mindset regarding how than the whole movement. Complete one approaches work, simply strive movement replacement is usually Year End for a balance between perfection and quicker and less likely to result in a production. comeback. Even buying a stem is of A comeback percentage of ten uneconomical. If a stem costs $4 AWl's fiscal year end is June 30, less than two percent may indicate that and the movement complete is $6, buy 2002. Those parties who have pro too much time is being spent search the movement. Use the stem and stock vided goods and services to AWI ing for every possible fault, aim for a the movement for the next replace up to and including June 30, 2002 rate between two and four percent. ment. Odds are the next movement to must submit those claims or in Check for obvious faults before clean be replaced will have a good stem. voices to AWl no later than July 15, ing and oiling. If you don't find any, If this article's advice makes 2002. This includes chapter and in it's probably because there aren't any. you feel uncomfortable, as though you dividual expense reimbursement Most watches, at least those of rela may be compromising some previously claims. Claims or invoices received tively modern manufacture, only need learned principles, consider that the after that date will be subject to ad proper servicing to put them into good cost of adhering to some ancient prin ditional review by our accounting order. If, after cleaning and oiling, the ciple just for the sake of principle may firm. They are also subject to not train is free and recoiling and the bal be more than you can afford. Results being paid by AWI. Thank you in ance motion is good, run the watch for are what count. If a repaired watch runs advance for your consideration and a day and send it out the door. If a prob reliably, keeps time, and satisfies the attention to this matter. lem occurs later, it's no big deal pro customer, that is all that is required vided you stay within the two to four don't complicate it. 0 percent comeback rate. To agonize over every watch in an attempt to elimi nate the slightest possibility of return is very counterproductive. Of course, if you find your comeback rate going above five percent, then you may be letting some obvious problems slip by. Realize that you will never be perfect. Striving for perfection is an admirable trait. Continue to strive, but with the certain knowledge that you never get there. A three percent return rate will have no greater negative ef fect on your reputation as a competent watchmaker than a one percent rate, and you will be more productive. When repaumg quartz watches, never repair a movement that you can buy for less than $20. Your time is too valuable. Several move ments can be exchanged in the time it takes to service one. Surely, you have the ability to do the service, and other watchmakers may make disparaging remarks about "movement swappers," but what would you rather do, massage your ego by repairing a movement that Visit us online at www.fastfix.com
June 2002 • Horological Times 19 The Modern German Clock Movement Part 25 The Case of the Slow Clock Mark Butterworth
It was said by the great physicist and the case of the Urgos UW03 series. If the clutch writer Carl Sagan that given enough time, even is too tight, one can damage the train by mov the most unlikely event will eventually occur. ing the hands. If the clutch is too loose, how I received a call recently about a clock that ever, there may not be enough tension to move timed out perfectly on a timing machine but the hands during certain periods or under cer consistently lost a few minutes a day. The tim tain conditions. Although there is a fairly wide ing machine was correct as it was tested against range to acceptable amounts of tension, the other clocks. It is important to understand that proper tension is more important than one a timing machine measures the beat rate of the realizes. balance or the pendulum and not the move Before moving on, it might be pointed ment itself. As a result, if a movement is geared out that certain models, especially the Urgos to beat at 3600 beats per hour and that is the units (excepting the UW03 series) are vulner reading of the timer, the clock must keep able to the problem in which the minute wheel correct time. (through which the minute arbor goes) be It would seem that the solution would comes frozen onto the minute arbor. This is be to ignore the timing machine and simply due to the fact that the method of holding the adjust the pendulum or balance accordingly. tension spring over the minute wheel is with a That solution, though, is certainly less than sat friction collet or bushing rather than an e-clip. isfactory to our minds. What could be the pos This collet is difficult to remove and must be sible cause? Actually there are several. If one done carefully so as not to damage the arbor takes the extreme example in which the pen pivot that is close to it. It is often done by dulum is ticking away just fine, but the hands clamping the hand shaft in the vise and using do not move at all, the solution to this puzzle a pair of serrated jaw parallel pliers. It is made is easier to visualize. These examples do in much easier by heating the collet with a torch. fact occur more regularly than for the hands Since brass expands more rapidly than steel, to lose just a small amount of time. the collet can be made to pop off. However, as Ultimately the problem is that the a result as what is entailed, the minute wheel minute hand arbor is somehow not quite keep is rarely removed from the minute arbor for ing track with the gear train. The minute arbor cleaning and is usually immersed in the clean is connected to its driving wheel in a slip clutch ing solution. The dried oil and cleaning solu arrangement in order that one can move the tion acts like a glue over time. A quick way to hands to change the time. Usually this is a di loosen it up is to use Liquid Wrench, but I do rect drive arrangement with the driving wheel not suggest it as a long-term solution. We re being attached to the minute hand arbor going ceive a number of calls in which the minute through it by means of a leaf or helical spring arbor breaks while trying to turn the hands. In and an e-clip. Sometimes it is indirect as in addition, it is possible to damage the escape
20 Horological Times • June 2002 wheel teeth if the tension is excessive. This problem is customer did not volunteer the information that the clock more likely with this make also as the minute arbor on the never did run properly from the previous repair. These Urgos units (excepting the UW03 series) tends to be much problems can all cause the clock to run either fast or slow smaller diameter than the other makes. and are not likely solved by simple regulation. The times at which there is the most resistance In conclusion, although it is true that the great against the minute arbor are when the mechanism is go majority of regulation problems can be solved with the ing into warning and the star wheel on the arbor is setting rating nut or balance adjustment, there are indeed times in motion a series oflevers which are pushing on the chime when the solution to the timekeeping mystery lies unlocking lever. If the minute wheel is not sufficiently elsewhere. tensioned onto the minute arbor, the clock can keep run ning but the hands do not move. It is during this time that, Final thought: "We gain strength and courage, and confi like wheels on ice, the minute arbor and thus the hands dence, by each experience in which we really stop to look can also move in small "spurts" and can be most evident fear in the face ... we must do that which we think we can on the hour warning which takes the most force as it lifts not. "-Eleanor Roosevelt. the unlocking lever the highest. If closely observed, the 0 clock can keep great time for 50 minutes and then lose significantly the last 10 minutes. Another reason that the hands can slip is that it is possible for the hour tube to protrude into the square of the minute hand arbor. As a result, the minute hand is tightened against the hour tube. In most cases this will cause the clock to stop, and it is the first thing to look for if the clock runs fine without the hands but stops with them on. If the tension is not great enough on the minute wheel, then the clock will run but the hands will lag be hind in time or not move at all. The hour tube will extend into the minute square for one of two reasons. Usually, the problem is that the star wheel behind the hour tube was not put on deeply enough. This is easily remedied by VISION • CONFIDENCE • PRECISION placing a hole punch over the hour tube and tapping it back against the star wheel. After finishing, make certain that the minute hand still has end shake. If it does not, Time to See place a hand nut onto the minute shaft and tap with a plas tic or rawhide mallet. It is possible that the hour tube it V\lhat You Have self is too long and it must be removed from the minute shaft and the end filed down until it is no longer into the Been Missing square of the minute shaft. Finally, the square on the minute hand can be too large and the hand simply goes beyond • Magnifications Ranging from 3.2x to 8.0x the shoulder of the square on the minute shaft. The hand • Working Distances bushing and the hand can be replaced. It is usually pos from 8 to 20 inche s sible to solve the problem with a flat punch stamping on • Two Flexible Mount System s the hand bushing to reduce the size of the square. The • Call1.888.773 .2790 square can then be filed to exact size with a square file. for your 30-day fre e trial! If one does not have an electronic time rate for • Mention this ad the pendulum, then keep in mind the fact that the pendu for an additional discount lum may simply be wrong for the movement. We hear of this more than one would think and there are a number of reasons. The pendulum shipped from the factory may not go with that clock. The movement may be incorrect for the clock or be mismarked at the factory. These problems II can occur with new clocks. If the pendulum was not tagged by the repair person when leaving the house, it may have Carl Zeiss Surgica l, Inc. been switched in the shop. It may be that the previous One Zeiss Drive • Thornwood, NY I 0594 www.zei ss.co m/us repair person lost or switched the original and the
June 2002 • Horological Times 21 Technically Watches
Pocket Watches and Their Maintenance Part 49 The Stop Watch Timing Mechanism
Archie B. Perkins, ©2002 (All rights reserved by the author) CMW, FAWI, FNAWCC, FBHI
Figure 1 shows the dial and hands of The small scale on the upper part of a stop watch which beats 115 seconds or five the dial is the minute register scale. This scale times per second. This would be 300 beats is for recording the minutes and reads from zero per minute and 18,000 beats per hour. The dial to 30 minutes. The minute recording hand fits has two scales for the large sweep hand. The onto the 2nd wheel arbor which makes one outside scale reads from zero to 60 seconds. revolution in 30 minutes. The scale shows seconds and 1/5 seconds. Figure 2 shows the stop watch move Each seconds division is divided into five parts ment while in its case. As can be seen, none of to indicate one-fifth seconds. The sweep hand the timing mechanism is visible from the back fits onto the 4th wheel arbor which makes one side of the movement. The timing mechanism revolution in 60 seconds. is underneath the dial of the watch. The inner scale for the sweep hand is a decimal scale. This scale is divided into 100 Removing the Movement from the Case divisions. Each division would equal one The first step in removing the move hundredth of a second. ment from the case is to remove the stem. This
Figure 1 Figure 2
22 Horological Times • June 2002 is done as shown in Figure 3. The stem is held in position in the case by a small screw that is installed in the pendant of the case. The end of the screw goes behind a shoulder on the stem to prevent the stem from being pulled out of the pendant. A small screwdriver is used to back the screw up enough so the stem can be removed from the pendant of the case. Next, the two case screws are removed as shown in Figures 4 and 5.
Removing the Dial and Hands Together When removing the dial and hands of a stop watch, if the hands are lined up correctly at zero when they are returned, as shown in Figure 6, then the hands can be removed with the dial without removing them from the hearts. Figure 7 shows the dial and hands after Figure 5 removal from the watch movement.
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June 2002 • Horological Times 23 Figures 8 and 9 show the dial key screws being hands to avoid damaging the dial in the process of remov turned to release the dial feet when removing the dial. ing the hands. The hand remover should be one that can The dial key screws are of the hip style. This style of dial remove the hands without putting any pressure against screw is shown in Figure 10. View A shows the dial key the dial. Figure 11 shows two styles of hand removers screw in an open position and View B shows the dial key that meet this requirement. The hand remover shown in screw in a closed position. The heads of these screws are View A is made by Bergeon especially for removing stop distinguished from the bridge screws because of their watch and instrument hands. The remover shown in View smaller diameter. The dial screws are usually opposite each B was made by the K & D Company for removing roller other in location. This style of dial screw allows the dial tables and hands. to be removed while the movement is still in the case. If the hands do not line up at zero when they are Removing the Hands returned, they will need to be removed so they can be So They Can Be Repositioned repositioned to the correct zero setting. It is very impor Figure 12 shows the K & Droller and hand re tant to use the proper style of hand remover for removing mover being used for removing the sweep hand. Extra plungers are located in the end of the handle of the tool. This tool has an adjustable stop that the operating lever goes against when removing a hand or roller table. The jaws of the tool can be spread or closed by turning the knurled nut at the top of the jaws of the tool. Figure 13 shows the K & D tool being used to remove the minute recording hand. The process is the same as used for removing the sweep hand.
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June 2002 • Horological Times 25 Using the Bergeon Hand Remover Names of Parts in the Stop Watch Mechanism Figure 14 shows the stop watch dial and hands. Figure 16 shows the parts in the stop watch mecha At the bottom of the illustration is a close-up view of the nism. View A shows the operating lever which is moti Bergeon hand remover. This is a simple type of tool for vated by pressing on the crown of the watch. The end of removing stop watch hands. The threaded plunger of the this lever indexes the pillar wheel to operate the hammer tool is mounted solidly into the handle of the tool. The and stop lever in the mechanism. The next lever in the head of the tool screws onto the threaded plunger. This mechanism, shown at B, is the hammer. The hammer has design gives the tool its adjustability. two branches, one for the seconds heart and the other for Figure 15 shows the Bergeon tool being used to the minute heart. The hammer is used to work against the remove the sweep hand. The process is the same as for minute and seconds hearts to return the hands to the zero removing the minute recording hand. position. View C shows the hammer spring. View D shows the hammer nib or beak. View E shows the jumper spring. The end of this lever works in the ratchet teeth of the pil lar wheel to index the pillar wheel. View F shows the pil lar wheel. View G shows the stop lever. One end of this lever works on the pillar wheel. The other end of the lever carries a thin pin that works against the edge of the bal ance wheel rim to stop the balance wheel and hold it in a .-/,. ·~() stopped position when the crown is pressed to stop the r-r- timer mechanism. The spring action of the stop pin against _-:o the balance wheel gives the balance wheel a push when the timing mechanism is started. View H shows the stop lever spring. View I shows the 4th wheel arbor that car ries the seconds heart. View J shows the 2nd wheel arbor that carries the minute heart, and View K shows the oper ating lever spring. Figure 17 shows the construction of the heart as sembly. View A shows the complete heart assembly, View B shows the wheel arbor that the heart fits onto, and View C shows how the heart spring works on the heart to fur nish tension on the wheel arbor. Figure 14
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26 Horological Times • June 2002 The heart should fit freely on the wheel arbor without its friction spring. The friction of the heart on the Sensational range of tweezers represents a quality unequaled in this price range. Offering an excellent finish and balance arbor is gotten with the hearts' friction spring. The from the famous Dumont factory, they are available in either friction should be sufficient to carry the hand when the stainless or anti-magnetic stainless steel. These styles are par ticularly suitable for the watchmaker's industry. The Dumont mechanism is operating, but the friction should not be so Hi-Tech line is a U.S. EURO TOOL exclusive. much that the force of the hammer will not return the heart and its hand to the zero position. The hand should fit tightly onto the heart pipe so it will not slip when the force of the hammer causes the hand to return to zero. Figures 18 through 20 show close-up views of the action of the timing mechanism. Figure 18 shows the mechanism in a stopped position. In this position, the ham mer is against the two hearts. Note that the beak on the hammer near the base of the hammer is in the space be tween two pillars on the pillar wheel. This position of the Stock # Style Description Length Price TWZ-301.10 1 Stainless Steel 120mm (4 3/4'') $11.35 beak between the pillars allows the hammer to fall onto Twz -302.10 Anti-Mogn;i"k--1-20mm-(4 3/4 '') 11.40 the hearts which causes the hands to return to zero. In this lWZ-301.16 Stainless Steel 120mm (43/4'1 14.75 position, the tail of the stop lever is resting on one of the TWZ-302.16 Anti-Magnetic 120mm (4 3/4') 15.15 pillars of the pillar wheel. This causes the stop pin to go TWZ-301.18 3c Stainless Ste-el - llOn;;f,fij:i-:s,:-) - ---:-714.75 TWZ-302.18_ 3c Anti-Ma!l!le~c llOmm (43/8') 15.15 against the balance wheel rim and stop the balance wheel. lWZ-301.22 5 Stainless Steel 110mm (4 3/8'') 15.60 Figure 19 shows the timing mechanism in a start TWZ -302.22 Anti-Mag~etic 11 Omm (4 3/8"1 16.15 position. When the crown is pressed to start the mecha nism, the pillar wheel is turned to the next position. When @ Primrose Supplies Inc. this occurs, a pillar on the pillar wheel forces the hammer 14 50 S. Main St. • Salt Lake City, UT • 84115 back away from the hearts. At the same time, the tail of 877·296·1 025 • Fax: 877·296·1 038 [email protected]
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The next time that the crown is pressed, the ham Figure 20 shows the timing mechanism in a mer goes against the hearts returning the hands to zero. stopped position. The crown has been pressed to turn the This completes the cycle of the timing mechanism. pillar wheel to this position. The beak on the hammer remains on the same pillar and the tail of the stop lever The Proper Operation goes from the space between two pillars to a position on of the Stop Watch Mechanism one of the pillars. This causes the pin on the stop lever to In order for the stop watch mechanism to operate correctly, certain checks should be done to assure a safe operation of the mechanism. During the starting function, the balance wheel must not be allowed to start until the last part of the jumper action on the ratchet tooth of the pillar wheel. Otherwise, c the hand would start too soon. The tail of the stop lever must be adjusted so it will not leave the pillar of the pillar wheel until the jumper is about ready to drop from the point of the ratchet tooth. PIPE--- HEART SPRING During the stopping function, the stop lever must HEART SPRING not be lifted by the pillar wheel to stop the balance wheel SCREW until the second half of the jumper action. / 0 A GROOVE FOR B ,..--- HEART SPRING Figure 17 Figure 19 Figure 18 Figure 20 28 Horological Times • June 2002 AWl Movement Bank/Material Search Network EDITOR'S NOTE: This column is designed to work in con The AWl-ELM Trust, in cooperation with the junction with the AWl Movement Bank. If you can supply any of the items listed here, please send details to the Material Search American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute, maintains Network. Do not send the items to AWI. 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IS NOT AUTHORIZED BY ROLEX June 2002 • Horological Times 29 From the Workshop Jack Kurdzionak, CW You Are Invited Alessandro strongly recommended sound Do you have a solution to a watch or lubrication procedures using high-quality lubricants clock repair problem that you want to share with as the follow up to good cleaning. The lubrication our membership? Do you have a question about a procedures are essentially the ones taught in all repair problem you would like to ask? I invite you watchmaking schools. Lubricate wisely and spar to participate in this column with your suggestions, ingly using fresh oils and greases of the highest questions, and comments. It's easy. Just quality. ETA recommends Moebius oils and greases e-mail me at AWl Clean and Oil Escapement Wheel 9010 9010 9010 8000 8000 8000 Politics and religion aside, the easiest way to start an argument with a watchmaker or a Balance Staff 9010 9010 9010 clockmaker is to discuss methods for cleaning 8000 8000 8000 watches and clocks. If that doesn't start an argu- ment, then open the discussion to include horo- 9020 9020 D/5 Center Wheel 8000 D/S 8141 logical lubricants. With that in mind, I'll share with 8141 you some suggestions from a watch company and a lubricant manufacturer. A group of American 9010 9020 9020 watchmakers attended basic watch repair class at Gear Train 8000 D/S D/S the ETA training center in Grenchen, Switzerland 8141 8141 this past April. The instructor, Alessandro Betti, 9020 9020 D/S strongly emphasized good basic cleaning proce- Barrel Arbor 8000 D/S 8141 dure followed by sound lubrication methods. 8141 He did not recommend any particular cleaning solutions. Just use a good quality com- Spring 8030 8200 8200 mercially available product. This used in conjunc- (also in automatic) I tion with a good watch cleaning machine, whether Automatic Winding 9010 9010 9010 ultrasonic or not, will yield excellent results. He 9020 9020 9020 strongly emphasized good technique to produce Mechanism D/5 D/S D/5 good results. His recommendations include change the cleaning fluid and rinses frequently. Dirty, con- Winding Mechanism, 8030 8200 8200 tarninated cleaning solution cannot clean pro peri y. Hand Setting, I 8200 8300 8300 Calendar 8300 DIS D/S After cleaning the watch in fresh solution, the watch should be rinsed, rinsed, and rinsed again. Rotor Click Gear This multiple rinsing in clean rinsing solution is Quartz Watches Wheel Train the key to successful cleaning. 9000 9000 9000 30 Horo1ogica1 Times . June 2002 lubrication guide reproduced from Newall Manufacturing a specific time each day to gather all of these "short jobs" and Company's catalog. Synthetic oil part numbers begin with 9 do them all at once. In this way, the more complicated work and natural oil numbers begin with 8. Natural D/5 oil is for can be done with fewer interruptions. pivots exposed to high pressure such as center wheels and bar Learning how to politely say no to a request was prob rel arbors. The 9415 oil is for pallet stones only. Experiment ably the most difficult change we had to make. Many custom with some of these lubricants on your own work. You might be ers believe they should talk directly to the watchmaker himself pleasantly surprised at the good results. when they stop by or phone the shop. These customers want to Jack Kurdzionak bypass all other help in the shop and talk to "the man" or "the boss." Terry told them that she was "the boss" and they didn't Do You Offer While-U-Wait Service? have to speak with "the man." Our policy is: When a watch If you do, please read this. When I first opened a retail maker is working on a watch, he is actually working with a shop, walk-in customers were a rare commodity. In fact the customer and cannot be interrupted. If someone must speak to phone rang so infrequently, my wife, Terry, and I often raced to a watchmaker because a question cannot be answered by any see who would answer it first. Although, I was doing work for one else, he is asked to please leave his phone number and a other stores, it was really a treat in those days to have a cus watchmaker will call at the end of the day during the time we tomer walk in the shop. My eagerness to impress the infre set aside for that purpose. quent customers coming in the door was displayed by showing Finally, how can we manage the telephone? We have off how much I knew about watch repair. Did you need a bat two voice mail, two fax lines, and e-mail in the shop. There are tery installed that you bought at the local electronics shop? No days that the phone seems to ring from opening time to closing problem, I would stop whatever I was doing and install it im time. The manager and the counter help will take all calls. If no mediately. Did you purchase a watch from a deep discounting one can answer the phone, we let our voice mail answer it and Mega Mart and need the bracelet sized? Of course I would do return the call ASAP. it on the spot. Did you have any questions about the intricacies Our staff has grown to four full-time and two part of your watch? No problem, just ask. At first, these instant jobs time employees, but our policies have remained the same. The were a welcome break in a long day of doing watch overhauls watchmaker's benches are still out of sight. A trained counter at the bench. As our business grew, the instant job became more person greets customers and provides fast, basic services of an unwelcome intrusion to my regular work instead of a WHILE-U-WAIT, when possible. The counter help answers brief time out. Soon, we were searching for ways to stop the all phone calls and also calls all customers with estimates. They incessant interruptions. The solution to this dilemma came from are skilled at accurately explaining watch repairs, in plain En a visit to my doctor's office. No, I didn't begin to charge medi glish, to the customers. We have discovered that our watch cal rates for a visit to the watchmaker. A visit to my doctor's makers can become overly technical when discussing watch office was no longer a visit to the doctor, but was now a visit to repairs to a layman. It is far better to have a non-watchmaker the nurse practitioner's office within the doctor's office. The do the explaining. Try some of the above suggestions in your receptionist provides the initial contact, the nurse does the pa own shop and change your procedures with an eye toward effi tient work-up and provides the needed care if it is within her ciency. If you can save a few precious hours in a week by oper skill level without the patient ever being seen by an M.D. If the ating your shop more efficiently, you will either earn more case is more serious, requiring an M.D., then the doctor is con money or have some extra time for yourself. Either outcome is sulted for further examination. Patients have to go through sev desirable. eral steps before being able to see the doctor. Jack Kurdzionak I asked Terry, "Are there any reasons why this stepped 0 approach won't work for a watchmaker aided by an assistant?" We couldn't even think of one. To begin, we made several changes in the shop. The first was to move my watchmaker's bench out of public view so that I couldn't be seen by everyone coming to visit the shop. There really was no necessity to have the workspace in view of all customers. With that being done, I didn't have to stop and say hello to every visitor, nor did I HERMLE- KIENINGER- URGOS have to see every watch that a customer brought in for a spring CLOCK MOVEMENTS FROM bar. Terry was capable of doing many minor watch repairs including most cell replacements, strap and spring bar installa JJuttatuortb GClotU, Jtu. tions, and bracelet adjustments. With some training she became Why repair when you can replace? the practitioner who could provide the routine services and pro vide them quickly. This allowed the shop to offer fast service The largest movement supply in the world. without disturbing the watchmaker at his bench. We decided Same day shipping. Two-year warranty. not to honor every request for instant service because some Free price list. jobs such as complicated cell replacements, difficult bracelet repairs, overhaul estimates, etc., were beyond Terry's level of Call toll free: 1-800-258-5418 skill. She would ask that those be left for the watchmaker to do a little later in the day or the next morning. It is better to allow E-mail: [email protected] June 2002 Horological Times 31 Accurate Clock Plate Bushing Procedures ©2002 (All rights reserved by the author) By Robert B. Little, CC, CW Probably 95%+ of the clocks does not correct depthing problems bushing installed. I have installed over that come in for servicing need to have from a previous bad bushing job. This 200 bushings using this method and bushings installed to restore maximum problem has been addressed in detail have not had any depthing problems. power delivery and proper clock op by some excellent HT articles and Mr. There are several observations eration. I use a Bergeon bushing ma Huckabee's AWl videotapes. Depthing I have made that I would like to go chine system that has the two plate problems must be properly resolved over. First, some clockmakers recom clamps, 10 reamers, centering bit, cen using a depthing tool. mend using a file to offset the wear in tering stake, 4 drilled and 1 undrilled It is sometimes difficult at best the worn pivot hole, in the opposite di stakes, chamfering tool and 3 driving to determine where the pivot hole origi rection of wear, to make the reaming punches. I also use a complete set of nally started, and then ream a hole to easier. This can be time consuming and size 1 to 60 Bergeon bushings. receive the bushing keeping true to the you may need (and break) some very Pivot holes that have been original hole. So much of what we do fine, expensive files. If we could use worn (Figure 1) must have the new in watch and clock repair requires that the reamer which we will be working bushing pivot hole located in the plate we develop a sense or feel for what we with anyway to negate the influence as close to the original pivot hole as can't measure. In this article I will out of the wear on the reaming process, it possible. Through deduction we can line how you can do this using a very would simplify the work. Second, piv conclude that if the clock has been op simple tool you can make, and will de ots wear the hole on the side that re erating successfully long enough prior scribe some new techniques to maxi strains the load applied, and the side to wearing bad enough to cause mal mize your bushing process. After you of the pivot hole not receiving the load function, the hole must have been in do a dozen or so holes by this method is nearly always untouched (no wear). an optimal location when it began its you will get a feel for it and it will only Third, where the cutter is introduced service. Please note that this procedure add about 1 to 2 minutes time per can influence where the hole ends up, Cup Cut in Marking Plate Pivot Hole Wear End Depth 1.5\ ,.,.-...... / ·, ---r- 0 0 __._4.5 ~~ u 0 r77~+-"'( 30.0 =:I None Moderate Severe Marking Tool Dimensions, mm Figure I Figure 2 32 Horological Times • June 2002 whether the new hole is true to the adjustments. Slightly round this end to Items Needed original center, or whether it drifts off make inserting it easier. Put a final fin One Bergeon bushing machine or in one direction. To see this, take a ish on it using a fine Scotchbrite pad. I similar, complete with attachments normal cut with your reamer when made one of these on a Unimat lathe and bushings reaming a hole for a bushing and mea and freehand filed it, and one on a sure the cutting with a micrometer. It watchmaker's lathe using a 5.0 mm One piece of brass, 5 mm diam eter by 30 mm long can be 0.15 mm thick or more. So, if collet and file rest. Both came out you do not watch where you start tak nicely and each took about 30 minutes One quick drying fine point per ing and finishing the cuts, you can each to make. manent marker (e.g., Sanford "drift" the bushing hole either toward, Now we can go through the Sharpie), red or blue away from, or in some other direction process. Insert the Bergeon centering One ink pad (e.g., Carter's with respect to the driven pinion. This bit in the handwheel shaft and tighten Micropore ... not a cloth type), red affects gear and pinion pitch circle the set-screw. Be sure the handwheel or blue alignment and thus power transmis shaft is clean and well lubricated. You sion. This can cause some really night will notice that the shaft in the bush One B & L double lens spectacle marish problems difficult to correct. ing machine arm most likely has a little clamp-on Ioupe, 4x and 7x power So, let's make a tool that will free play (side shake). Tighten the ad Skills Needed enable us to accurately place a refer justing nut on the bushing machine arm Turning, filing, and using existing ence mark concentric to the original to take the free play out of the hand bushing skills such as selecting pivot hole. With this new concentric wheel shaft. You want to just take the proper bushing sizes for pivots. circle marked, we can use it as a refer free play out so that it will still tum Pivots must be properly cleaned, shaped and polished. Clock plates ence to guide the final location of the and move up and down, with just a must be properly cleaned and hole to receive the bushing, and thus little resistance. The machine has a rinsed. I use L&R water-based the new pivot hole. Please refer to Fig nylon insert under the adjusting screw ammoniated clock cleaner fol ure 2 for the dimensions of the tool we that comes up against the shaft, and you lowed by No. 3 watch rinsing so will make. You will need a piece of do not want to over do it ... just enough lution. brass stock, 5 mm in diameter and 30 mm long. Any larger diameter brass stock can work, you will just have to It's now Easy to put a high-performance cutting reduce the diameter. The 5 mm diam Includes horizontal mode for flat EDGE on lathe tools, boring tools and dozens more. eter matches the Bergeon reamer shaft lapping tool The resulting edges are so sharp they outperform end diameter I have. You may need to surfaces new tools. This lets you machine parts to measure the reamer shaft end diameter and closer tolerances and finer finishes. you use and make it to match, if you small No special training is required ... the are using a different brand. First, on parts. technology is built into the Accu-finish machine and wheels. the marking edge, cut the cup in the Special one-of-a-kind tools are Fast end of the brass with a graver-don't to make because tool geometry is precisely try to drill it. This needs to be around controlled ... makes anyone a better 1.5 mm deep at the center. The edge machinist instantly. Accu-Finish grinds needs to be nearly sharp but should carbide, HSS, ceramic and cermet with the same wheel. It can sharpen the smallest, finest have a just perceptible flatness under tools imaginable. magnification. Use your loupe to check that the cup is centered. The edge will wear slightly and after about 175 to 200 uses, may need "resharpened" just by Call for Your Free clearing a little brass out of the cup. Catalog NOW The last operation is filing a flat on the Request FREE packet #148003 other end to match the flat on your 1-800-835-3519 reamers. For my reamers the flat was about 0.5 mm into the stock and ex FAX: 620-343-9640 e-mail: [email protected] tended about 7. 7 mm from the end. Glendo Corporation This way you can easily interchange it 900 Overlander Road with the centering stake and reamers Emporia, KS 66801 and not have to make major set-screw June 2002 • Horological Times 33 SIDE VIEW ~Centering Bit Direction of Cut f'-·'· '~ Plate Wear Brass Removed Leaves a 45" Bevel TOP VIEW _ __;_P_;,;la::;.;:t.;;..e __ _ 4~.-_-'P-'I.;_at_e__ _ \Inked Reference Ring ___.F _ _. . Applied After Center Cross Sectional View ing (shown for reference) Figure 3 Figure 5 Direction of Shaded Area Direction of Brass Removed Cut Cut With 2nd & 3rd - Reference Mark ~ · Cld!- Reference Mark _ _j /;:~JZ XS View Begin Cut End Cut Plate : 1 Plate Cross Sectional View Figure 4 Figure 6 to take out the free play. Keep the shaft using both lenses. You will see the down, clamp the plate, raise the shaft well oiled. striations or wear marks on the worn slightly and then lower it again in the With clean plates and good side receiving the force from the pivot, hole to check to be sure clamping the finished pivots, check the pivot holes and on the opposite side you will see plate doesn't change the location. It from the inner side of the plate by an unworn surface. On the unworn sur can. Just use the unworn half of the uprighting the pinion-gear with the face you may even see some residual hole (previously marked with the dot) proper pivot in the hole and rotate the difficult-to-remove dirt, even after ul to orient that side of the centering bit. free end. If it makes a nice circular trasonic cleaning. To remember the Remember, just look at the half of the pattern, there is little or negligible wear. unworn side, place a small dot beside centering bit point in the unworn half (Tilt from perpendicular should be no it with a sharp fine point permanent of the pivot hole, making sure it more than 5 to 8 degrees depending on marker. Now, loosely set up the clock touches all of the way around in that the movement. American movements plate, inner side up, in the bushing half. You will observe a gap between can get by with a little more tilt). If it machine plate clamps, bring down the the edge of the worn part of the hole revolves in an out-of-round or egg shaft with centering bit and align the and the other half of the centering bit shaped pattern, it has wear. (Again, if plate and bit so that the point is in the (in the worn part of the hole). Imagine you are unfamiliar with this method original center of the hole (Figure 3). you are bringing the centering bit point please refer to Mr. Huckabee's AWl Don't try to do this without using your down into the pivot hole before it had tapes on bushing clock movements.) loupe. It greatly aids this step and any wear. It sounds difficult but it Now, look into the worn hole in the makes it much easier. You need to doesn't take long at all to develop this properly cleaned plate with the loupe lower the centering bit point, hold it skill. DO NOT bring the centering bit 34 Horological Times • June 2002 down and let it crowd into the worn bring into focus. You will see a very part of the hole. This will let the point clear image of the worn hole with the go off center because of the wear. concentric circle. This will show you Now, without touching the ad just how important it is to properly cen Quartz Watch Supply Specialists Since 1976 justing nut on the bushing machine ter the new bushing. Some plate pivot arm, raise the shaft and hand wheel a hole wear is extreme and will almost couple of inches, remove the center touch the reference circle. Please note: ing point and install the brass marking You will have to "visualize" the origi tool you made. Bring up the ink pad nal pivot hole before wear. If the circle parallel to the plate and underneath it is not concentric to the point of the and ink the end. Just touch it enough original pivot hole center, clean the ink and you will be able to see a little off with a little lacquer thinner and do amount of ink squeeze up on the out it again. side of the end of the tool. After you Now to cut the bushing hole. try this a time or two it becomes easy Reinstall the hand wheel shaft in the Simply the best cleaning solution for quartz watch movements to judge. If you have to re-ink, or for arm, leaving the adjustment nut on the the next hole marking, first clean the arm backed out so it turns freely. In 13 Fl. Oz Aerosol Can $16.95 end of the marking tool with a dry pa sert the proper reamer for the bushing. I Qt. Bulk Liquid $24.95 per towel to remove residual ink. Now, Start the cut on the pivot hole in the bring the tool down against the plate area where the wear intersects the un Get your Zantech compressor system TODAY and rotate it a couple of times. This worn area. See Figure 4. With normal gives you a perfectly concentric sharp downward pressure, take a slow cut ink mark with respect to the original clockwise around to the point on the hole. You will develop a feel for the pivot hole where the unworn area again proper pressure needed, which is very intersects the worn area. You will only little. If your plate is clean you will get be rotating the cutter about 200 to 270 a good, crisp circle. Dirt or oil on the degrees clockwise while doing this cut. plate will not give good results, and Now, lift up the cutter a little and check the ink will appear to ball up. Just the to see that this cut is concentric in the right amount of ink will give you a line. reference circle. Don't worry if it is a Zantech's compressor system has a Too much ink will smudge. To little little off. It will be corrected a cut or unique dual trigger action that is capable of spraying dry filtered air, as well as ink will not leave a complete circle. two later. Now, take another partial PlastiCLEAN™ Solvent. Safely dissolve Doing this will not leave any scratch dry oils and other contaminants (without or permanent mark whatsoever on the disassembly of the gear train), all with the ease of a foot-switch activated clock plate. system that is quiet enough for a retail Now, you will observe what environment. The cost of cleaning one you did by using the bushing machine movement with the Zantech compressor like a microscope. Back out the adjust system averages only 10 cents per movement! ing nut a couple of turns that you had Each Kit includes: tightened up to take the play out of the 1 - Dual-Action Spray Gun hand wheel shaft. This will let the shaft 1 - Qt. PlastiCLEAN™ solvent tum freely. Loosen the set-screw and 1 - 2 oz and 3/4 oz Jar with cover remove the marking bit. Turn the set 1- Pair Movement Grippers 1 -Airbrush Holder screw in slightly so you can remove 1 - Compressor Air-Hose the hand wheel shaft. Remove the hand 1 - In-line Moisture Filter wheel shaft assembly, and lay it aside. 30.650C (Quiet Compressor & AC Hold the loupe in your fingers by the foot Switch lncluded) ... $499.95 clamp end so that the outside lens is Order ON-LINE --For Free Gift! about 1 inch above and parallel to the www.zantechinc.com plate and center both lenses over the 7501 North Harker Dr., pivot hole. Look down through the Peoria, IL 61615 For Your Nearest Distributor shaft hole in the bushing machine arm, Orders Only: (800) 441-7569 just like you would a microscope. Call: 1-800-621-6296 or Fax: (309) 692-8375 Move the loupe up or down a little to E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] June 2002 • Horological Times 35 it is then just a matter of making the final continuous cut to finish the hole. Remember this important fact: How much force you apply downward when Direction of cutting determines the thickness of the Cut - Reference Mark cutting removed. Heavy force removes a thicker slice of brass, and light force removes a thinner slice of brass. You will now see you have a hole, ready to receive the new bushing, which is con 135° End Cut 225° Begin Cut centric to the inked circle. Finish by Thin Side removing the ink marks with lacquer thinner, and chamfer any burr formed Figure 7 and drive the bushing in. When that particular gear train is all bushed, test by installing the gears and spinning to circle cut. On most worn holes I take 2 concentric circle (Figure 7). Lower the check for freedom. When done for the or 3 cuts. Now, look at the hole you cutter in the hole at about 225 degrees, day, clean the brass marker end with a are cutting with your loupe (Figure 6). and with a little pressure turn the cut little lacquer thinner. Again, if it is a little off center don't ter and then raise it at about 135 de This takes a while to read and worry. Now, begin taking a full con grees ending the cut to remove a thin understand, but if you learn the tech tinuous cut, where you started before, slice of brass (Figure 7). Check the nique using an old movement for prac only this time don't raise the cutter or concentricity of the hole you are cut tice and install a few bushings this way, stop cutting until the tip (not the en ting with the ink circle. If necessary, you will greatly improve your bush tire cutter) just breaks through to the repeat this process: Lower the cutter ing accuracy. After a while I found that opposite (bottom) side of the plate. and begin cutting, and finish while rais I developed a feel or judgment for this Stop now, raise the cutter up an inch ing the cutter, removing a thin slice of and rarely look at the plate using the or two, and look to see if the partially brass out of about 3/4ths of the hole "microscope" technique and can tell reamed hole is concentric to the inked that will allow your cut hole to creep my progress looking at the work from circle. If it is concentric, lower the over and center itself with the ink the side using the loupe on my glasses. reamer, and finish reaming through circle. Please note that with each cut I have timed the additional steps and checking concentricity as you go. Use the reamer progresses a little more after bushing several clocks this way, light pressure and don't advance the through the hole, and that this can be and it adds from 1 to 2 minutes per reamer too quickly. done about 4, 5, or 6 times, using light bushing. Being proficient at this virtu If the hole is or gets closer to pressure, and depending on the hole ally eliminates power loss and stop one side of the ink circle than the other, size, before the reamer is clear through. page from improperly located bush here is where you will correct it. You Check concentricity early and often ings. will use the reamer in the hole to re and be sure to keep an eye on how Additional markers can be move the material on the thick side, that much of the reamer is remaining be made for very small and larger bush being the side where there is the most fore the hole is done. In practice, one ings. This will allow marking for 100% space between the new hole and the or two slices will true up the hole, and of your bushing work. 0 NEED INFORMATION ON A PARTICULAR WATCH, CLOCK OR ITS MAKER? The Henry B. Fried Library is considered to be one of the world's finest horological libraries. Hundreds of books are available for your use whether it be for finding information for yourself or a customer, doing research on a special subject, or just for enjoyable reading. Customers appreciate a person that can talk intelligently when answering their questions. Make use of the library, it will pay big dividends! ANOTHER BENEFIT OF AWl MEMBERSHIP 36 Horological Times • June 2002 FREE WORKSHOPS!! Receive a Sponsored by: Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Association of Ohio FREE* Affiliate Chapter No. 4 Everyone Welcome! 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Jim talked about the adjustment Organizing the repair or adjustment to of the lever escapement illustrating the vari recognize this fact and taking advantage of it ous points of adjustment and more importantly speeds up the job and allows the clockmaker the effect of the adjustments and the order in to either correctly set the pallets or establish which they should be taken. It is really a mat what the faults are in the escapement, it is ter of organization when there is a need to usually the impulse angle. correct any mechanism. It must be done in Tackling a lever escapement in an organized such a way that the various points of adjust fashion so that its various functions are set ment are attended to so that there is no need correctly and in an order that results in no go to go back over them. ing back to the first adjustment or the second, In other words, the aim has to be to has the same advantages. It is quicker and it eliminate the need for further adjustment as shows up those nasty little modifications that the watch- or clockmaker proceeds. It is only previous repairers have made in an attempt to too easy to aim for adjustment on a very obvi "get it going." ous point and then find that that adjustment is That last phrase is the saddest in the modified by a later process, necessitating clock- and watchmakers' lexicon and the most modification of the first adjustment. This may frustrating when a customer uses it, "You only be satisfying if there is a need to feel that a need to get it going for me." That is the type series of finer and finer adjustments are the of customer who often wants to extract the measure of craftsmanship but it wastes a lot most value from the guarantee, regardless of of time. A prime example from my own field his initial instruction. of clockmaking is the adjustment of the dead As I said at the start, there is much in beat escapement-Graham or Brocot. There the literature that takes a much less organized are many instruction manuals that relate the approach to the business of discovering faults need of adjustment of the height (distance be and making adjustments. Clearly not all prob tween pallet arbor and wheel arbor centers) to lems can be solved by a strict order of exami the amount of drop in evidence at the entrance nation and adjustment, but nearly all clock and and exit pallets and the lock. Instructions are watchmaking work benefits from applying a given as to whether the height is to be in systematic pattern of examination as far creased for correcting the drop at entry or at through the repair process as it will go. Inevi exit, and then on the adjustment needed to tably there are some tasks where, eventually, correct the lock. These all interact and the two separate corrections have to be made that clockmaker can spend a great deal of time lift interact, but that should be well through the ing and lowering the pallet arbor to correct repair or adjustment and the path of adjust matters that may be incorrectible as a result ments that have to be redone should be short. of previous modifications to the escapement. "What did I talk about?" Well it was Geometric study of the escapement three hours and a bit and I don't remember a shows that for any given set of pallets and great deal of it, but the audience was still there wheel there is only one correct height. If the when I finished. 0 38 Horological Times • June 2002 AWl EDUCATION Bench Courses Advanced Clock Repair Bench Courses Beginning Lathe Clock Case Repair To schedule a Bench Course in your area please contact AWl for complete information. A list of available Bench Courses is printed here for your convenience. To register for Bench Courses, please mail, phone, Clock Escapements fax or e-mail your registration and payment information to: American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030-1696; Toll Free 1-866-367-2924, Phone (513)367- Cuckoo Clock Repair 9800, Fax (513) 367-1414, E-mail: [email protected] PLEASE NOTE: Registrations are limited and will be selected by the earliest date received. Please include a check or charge card number (Visa, ETA Products Mastercard, Discover or American Express), card expiration date, signature and phone number. All registration fee checks and charges are processed immediately upon receipt. DEADLINE FOR REGISTRA· Filing & Flat Polishing TION IS 30 DAYS BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE COURSE. •Indicates Bench Courses held in conjunction with a convention or purchased by an AWl Affiliate Chapter. For more information on these 400-Day Clock Repair specific courses, please refer to the contact information provided for each class. Hairspring Vibrating DATE CLASS INSTRUCTOR LOCATION FEE Introduction to AUGUST 2002 American Pocket Watches 17-18 A Study of the Deadbeat Escapement Jerry Faier Philadelphia, PA $250.00 Introduction to Clock Repair SEPTEMBER 2002 Introduction to 28-29 Beginning Lathe Robert Porter Seattle, WA $250.00 Quartz Watch Repair NOVEMBER 2002 Lathe Program 9-10 Beginning Lathe Robert Porter San Francisco, CA $250.00 Mechanical Watch Repair Micro Lathe Operations Mechanical Chronograph Organize Your Work Habits for Success Continuing Education Platform Escapements Repair of the Atmos Clock AWl Training Center Harrison, Ohio Repair of the Bulova Accutron AWl's continuing education program offers classes in various phases of watch & clock repair techniques. Work alongside recognized leaders in the field of horology. See how they handle the everyday situations Seiko Kinetic we all encounter. All classes are held in AWl's training rooms in Harrison, Ohio. Call or write for information Quartz Watch Repair and details for the classes that interest you! DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION IS 30 DAYS BEFORE THE SCHEDULED DATE OF THE CLASS. To register for these courses please mail, phone, fax or e-mail your Sequential Chime registration and payment information to: American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute, 701 Enter prise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030-1696; Toll Free 1·866-367-2924, Phone (513) 367-9800, Fax (513) Servicing ETA 367-1414, E-mail: [email protected]. Please include a check or charge card number (Visa, Mastercard, Quartz Chronographs Discover or American Express), card expiration date, signature and daytime phone number. All registra tion fee checks and charges are processed immediately upon receipt. Striking Clocks A Study of the DATE CLASS INSTRUCTOR LOCATION FEE Deadbeat Escapement JUNE 2002 Swiss Auto Quartz 3-7 Riefler Clock Repair 2 Laurie Penman Harrison, OH $400 .00 For details on scheduling a 10-14 Riefler Clock Repair 2 Laurie Penman Harrison, OH $400.00 Bench Course in your area, please contact Nancy Wellmann, AWl Education Coordinator at 1-866-367-2924 ext. 303 e-mail: [email protected] June 2002 Horological Times 39 Affiliate Chapter Report 21st Century Horology John F. Kurdzionak While traditional watch and clock re members) may not be appropriate any longer. pair techniques at the bench are often required, Chapters need to change to meet the needs of changes in the repair business in recent years the 21st Century horologist, just like other have certainly taken place. In his keynote businesses change with the times in order to speech at the 2001 AWI Annual Meeting, Mark meet the current needs of customers, and to Butterworth talked of recent change in the survive. watch and clock industry, and emphasized that Limiting membership based on skill the successful horologist in the 21st Century may have been "acceptable" long ago, but it will be one who not only sees the changes tak is most important not to do so, intentionally ing place all around him, but also adapts his or unwittingly, any longer. Watch and clock business practices and overall repair mental repair has certainly changed from what it was ity to suit those changes. 50 years ago. For example, today there are The successful people, in any indus more people changing batteries, straps, and try, are the ones who are well aware that it is quartz movements, and exchanging modem 2002 and keep up with, and take advantage quartz and mechanical clock movements, than of, all the changes that have occurred around there are those making balance staffs or cut them. It is difficult for watch or clock repair ting clock pinions from scratch. Years ago, it ers to be successful in 2002 if they use old, seemed everyone was a "Certified Master outdated equipment and if they adhere to old Watchmaker" and asking those who have be school business practices. The successful per come known as "battery changers," "band sons in any business are living and working in sizers," and "movement swappers" to join a 2002, charging 2002 labor rates, and using the "watchmaker's" Chapter would have been technologies and business methodologies cur unheard of. Although some people are highly rently available and en vogue, to their advan skilled and they should certainly be welcomed tage. This certainly relates to watch and clock into your Chapter, your membership will re repairers, but how does all this relate to Affili main low if it is seen as catering to only this ate Chapters? type of person. All too often, I hear that Chapters' Membership can be increased by ask memberships are declining and that new mem ing people to join who frankly, may not have bers are just not available. I know Chapters been asked years ago. Chapters need to mar lose members due to death and retirement, but ket themselves to potential members in the year I do not believe that new members are not 2002, not to the types of persons who would available. There is certainly no shortage of have been target members in years past. Ag people out there. And there is an abundance gressive recruitment of whatever new mem of people interested in watches and clocks, bers are willing to join is required. Your Chap perhaps more now than there have ever been. ter may have difficulty recruiting new people So why the alleged struggle in the search for because of nothing more than an unwilling new members? It may be because it's time for ness to change the appearance of what it's try some changes. Chapters need to adapt to the ing to sell, and to whom. You will gain more times, just like any other business. members by asking more people. Anyone who Chapters, like any business, operating is interested in the manufacturing, the repair, with a mentality from several decades ago may the mechanics, or the history of timepieces, be struggling because of that mentality. What should be welcomed into your local Chapter. may have worked for a Chapter for the previ If yours is a "watchmaking" associa ous 50 years (with respect to how it operates, tion, and membership is low, yet there are some what it offers, and the recruitment of new jewelry stores, clock shops, and antique shops 40 Horological Times • June 2002 m your locality, recruiting these shops' owners as new "watchmakers-clockmakers" or "repairer's" organization members will only serve to improve membership. The is a good start. same holds true if your organization is focused on clocks. The quality of the programs or the guest speakers If you want an increase in membership, ask those jewel is a must for drawing a good attendance. Here again is an ers, watch repairers, and antique dealers in your vicinity example when a Chapter needs to change with the times. to come to a meeting, and ask them to join, and when The programs, speakers, and topics that interested the planning events, cater to their tastes a few times through watchmaking groups from the 1950s to the 1980s need to out the year. The change will be a refreshing one for your be updated and reflect the fact that it is now 2002. Your membership. In Massachusetts, we have a jeweler, a fur guest speaker or your program topic should be something niture mover, and a carpenter as members of our Chapter. that your members have not seen before, and it should be None of them are watchmakers, but they all contribute to something they will want to see! Nobody wants to sit in a the success of the Chapter. The jeweler is a watch repair room and see the same program he saw in 1987. Keeping student, the furniture mover has a successful grandfather the meetings new and exciting will do nothing except ben clock moving business, and the carpenter collects E. efit your Chapter and keep the new members coming. Howard pocket watches. If we attempted to recruit only It's 2002. Pretend your Chapter is a business (it is those who could poise balances and lived within 50 miles one) and market it to the people who have an interest in of Boston, unfortunately there are very few of those people watches and clocks in the year 2002. Make it sell some left, and the jeweler, the mover, and the carpenter would thing that people in 2002 would want to buy, and will not be members, and we would certainly have keep buying (good meetings). And remember, sell it to as major problems with membership. many people as possible (including movement swappers Calling your organization a "watchmaker's" and battery changers, and anyone with a general interest). Chapter can give the impression that your Chapter caters Your Chapter needs to see the changes in the business to watch "makers," and might alienate potential members that have occurred, and make some changes of its own to just because of the perception your Chapter presents. Giv adapt to those changes. You, and your Chapter, will enjoy ing the wrong impression of your Chapter's focus is some the benefits. thing that is easily corrected. Changing your name to a 0 WCR ..) $19.50- One Yc The Mid-Atlantic Horological Symposium, Inc. (MAHSI) is pleased to announce the 2002 Horological Symposium, September 13-15, at the Maritime Institute of Technology and Graduate Studies (MITAGS) in Linthicum, Maryland. The three days of watch and clock courses and symposium presentations will be an exciting opportunity for anyone, including AWl or NAWCC members. On Saturday attendees will include horological vendors, material houses, watch and clock company representatives, and other related activities. This AWl-supported Symposium is sponsored by the three MAHSI member AWl state associations: Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Well-known expert instructors will be presenting the courses and skill presentations. Scheduled to appear are: Jerry Faier, CMC Retail clock repair/restoration businessman and experienced teacher Dan Fenwick Manager Technical Services, Swatch Group U.S. Jack Kurdzionak, CW AWl Horological Times, Author of "From the Workshop" John Kurdzionak AWI Affiliate Chapter Director James E. Lubic, CMW AWl Executive Director and Education & Technical Director Stan Palen Mechanical engineer and owner/operator of watch and clock shop and author of many computer technical articles Dennis J. Warner Former AWl Affiliate Chapter Director; member of Industry Advisory Board at Oklahoma State School of Watchmaking, Okmulgee, OK; current president of the Capitol Area Watch and Clockmakers Guild, Texas Application for MAHSI Symposium- September 13-15,2002 Please check the courses/activities you wish to attend. For courses, please indicate your first, second, third choices. All courses will be filled on a first come basis. 0 Friday, September 13 Build Your Own Quartz Chronograph Instructor: Dan Fenwick $ 75.00* 0 Friday, September 13 Clock Repair Instructor: Jack and John Kurdzionak $ 75.00 0 Saturday, September 14 Swiss 17L Pocket Watch Repair Instructor: Dennis Warner $100.00 0 Saturday, September 14 Clock Repair Instructor: Jerry Faier $100.00 0 Saturday, September 14 Buffet Dinner & Program, 7:00p.m. Speakers: Dan Fenwick & Jim Lubic No Charge** 0 Sunday, September 15 Breakfast Buffet, 8:00 a.m. No Charge** 0 Sunday, September 15 Program only Speakers: Dan Fenwick & Stan Palen $ 15.00*** *$75.00 includes student keeping the watch movement, with additional charge for a case if available. **Those residing at MITAGS - meals are included. Others must purchase meal tickets at registration desk. ***This $15.00 charge is for attendees who have not participated in the previous two days of courses. Checks and Money Orders only, made payable to Mid-Atlantic Horological Symposium, Inc. Name ______Address ______City ______State ___ Zip ___ Phone ______E-maii ______.Other Horological Associations ______ Ex~rience ______ Mail to: Stan Palen, Treasurer MAHSI, 8283 Oakwood Dr., King George, VA 22485 E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 540-775-7027 Note: You must make your own lodging reservations. We recommend the Maritime Institute of Technology at the Symposium location. Phone: 410-859-5700, Fax: 410-859-0942 Additional information on local lodging available by request. Rates: $129.00 single occupancy and $178.00 double occupancy. These rates include three meals plus a night lunch and full use of all facilities, which includes pool, workout room, racquetball courts, and recreation room. A limited number of suites are also available. L------~ 42 Horological Times • June 2002 Watchmakers/Clockmakers New York State Association of Ohio Watchmakers Association 56th Annual Meeting & Convention 64th Annual Convention July 19-20, 2002 September 20-21, 2002 Gang Mills - Painted Post, NY Fairfield Inn & Suites Saturday, September 21 3031 Olentangy River Rd., Columbus, OH 43202 call (614) 267-1111 for reservations ~ Jonathan Rowe will demonstrate how he pro- duces an excellent polish on screw heads and other flat metal parts of a watch. FRIDAY MORNING Bench Course with instructor Jerry Faier, CMC ~ Robert Waters will talk about and demonstrate Part #1 -Selling Yourself and Your Skills on a computer, the theory behind watch escapement A look at being a professional in horology. testing. Using the computer, tests can be performed Part #2 - The Servicing of Electric Clocks with no risk to the delicate parts of an escapement. A look at the development, handling and servicing needs See the effects that moving, twisting, and/or changing of these clocks in today's business. a pallet stone will have on the important escapement no prerequisites for Parts 1 and 2 freedoms. ~ Lou Stella will present "Chiming Clock Repair." FRIDAY AFTERNOON Do you have trouble synchronizing all those levers and Bench Course with instructor Jerry Faier, CMC (continued) wheels of the modern German Chiming Clock? You Part #3 - Set Up and Home Servicing Procedures for may learn a new trick or two that will make your bench Grandfather/Grandmother Clocks. life less frustrating . Requires that the student have a working knowledge of Westminster/triple chime GF!GM movements like the ~ Mark Mongillo will present his "Ultimate Watch Hermie 1161 series and the KSUIHSUIRSU style Keininger Screwdriver." These screwdrivers are cheap to make and easy to use. FRIDAY EVENING ~ John McEihenny will talk about using the Inter- Dinner net to buy and sell watches and clocks. You may find a Annual Meeting of Membership new and exciting source of income on the Web. Videos & Show and Tell Complete convention details will appear SATURDAY MORNING in future issues of Horological Times Horological Mart Come and buy or bring your treasures to sell Open to AWl, NAWCC and anyone else with an interest in timepieces Affiliate Chapter We have a limited number of tables so reserve your table early; Convention Calendar there is a charge for admission and tables June 7-9, 2002 SATURDAY AFfERNOON North Carolina Watchmakers Association Clock Restoration Practices Holiday Inn Airport, Greensboro, NC Jerry Faier, CMC will give us an in-depth discussion Contact: Scott Lemons Phone: (336) 299-6934 dealing with case, movement and dial problems and ways to solve July 19-21, 2002 them with products he uses in his daily business. Watchmakers/Ciockmakers Association of Ohio This is a great talk-don't miss it! Fairfield Commons & Suites, Columbus, OH Contact: Jake Montgomery [email protected] OUR DISPLAYERS September 13-15, 2002 will be on hand throughout the morning and early afternoon Mid-Atlantic Horological Symposium for you to visit their tables and look over their wares. Maritime Institute, Linthicum Heights, MD Contact: George Painter [email protected] SATURDAY EVENING Phone: (410) 781-6491 Banquet - Door Prizes - Entertainment September 20-21, 2002 New York Watchmakers Association SUNDAY Holiday Inn-Corning-Painted Post, Painted Post, NY Auction - The annual Karl Farnlacher Memorial Auction Contact: Mark Mongillo (716) 945-3622 Doors open at 9:30a.m.; auction begins at 12:00 noon admission fee charged October 17-20, 2002 For information and registration contact Minnesota Clockmakers Guild Annual Symposium Hilton Garden Inn, Eagan, MN Mark A. Baker, P.O. Box 292, Damascus, OH 44619 Contact: Jeff Pomeroy [email protected] (330) 537-3939 or e-mail: [email protected] Phone: (612) 623-7874 June 2002 • Horological Times 43 WIN A WifSChi NEW TECH '-/ HANDY! Witschi Electronics USA Inc. and the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute are offering AWl members the opportunity to win a Witschi New Tech Handy and, at the same time, help boost the membership of AWl. Give this membership application to a friend and encourage him/her join AWl. Tony Voight of Witschi Electronics USA, Palmyra, NJ, will be drawing the winner's name from the entries during the 2002 AWl Annual Meeting in August. Recruit as many new members as you can and increase your chances of winning the New Tech Handy! Be sure to print your name and membership number in the space provided. Membership applications must reach AWl no later than July 19, 2002 to be eligible for the drawing. r------, 1 American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Membership Application 1 : Please send all AWl correspondence, including Horological Times to: REQUIRED FOR WITSCHI DRAWING : 0 Business Address 0 Home Address AWl Member Sponsor I ------~ I DMr. DMrs. OMs. Sponsor's AWl Membership No. ------1 I Name Previous AWl member? 0 Yes 0 No I If yes, AWl membership # _____ I first middle last IBusiness Address I have achieved the following AWl certification: !Company ______0 Certified Clockmaker 0 Certified Master Clockmaker !Street ______0 Certified Watchmaker 0 Certified Master Watchmaker ICity ______State ______0 Certified Electronic Watch Technician 0 Certified Master Electronic Watchmaker I Postal Code ______Country ______I derive my principal source of income from: 0 Clock Repair 0 Watch Repair Phone(_) ______Membership Plan IFax (_) ______0 Regular member $ 70.00 I E-mail ______0 Life membership $1000.00 I website ______Method of Payment I 0 Check 0 American Express 0 Discover 0 Mastercard 0 Visa 1Home Address Credit Card No. ______!Street ______Expiration Date ______ICity ______State ______Signature ______Postal Code ______Country ______I Phone ( _) Please return this form and payment to: Deadline for Entries: July 19, 2002 I Fax ( _ ) Ame rican Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute 701 Enterprise Drive Harrison, OH 45030-1696 I E-mail ------Phone Toll-Free 1-866-367-2924 ext. 302 Fax (513) 367-1414 I Website E-mail : [email protected] L------~ 44 Horological Times • June 2002 ITEMS STILL NEEDED Dixie Milling Machine BULLETIN Instruction Manual L&R Model 728B Odell Frank, Sacred Heart, MN, is seek Clock Movement Cleaner ing an instruction manual for a Dixie Mill BOARD Greg Bourne, Omaha, NE, is looking for ing Machine, Swiss made. The machine is a repair manual for a L&R Model 728B the same as used in the Bulova Watch solid state clock movement cleaner (11- Company. RESPONSES quart). New Hermes Engravograph CA300 Do you have information regarding this Macintosh Software for a Calligragraph Attachment month's requests? Do you need information Watchmaker's Workshop Joseph Verruni, Plymouth Meeting, PA, is about one of this month's responses? If so, Jim Alich, Lancaster, CA, has responded seeking information and operating instruc send your information or requests to: to Severo S. Saylon III, Verona, Italy, who tions for a Calligragraph attachment for Horological Times Bulletin Board 701 Enterprise Drive is seeking information on possible his New Hermes Engravograph. The Harrison, OH 45030-1696 Macintosh computer software to assist him Engravograph was made by Richardson's, in running his watchmaker workshop. Toll-Free: 1-866-367-2924, ext. 307 Berkley Heights, NJ. Phone: (513) 367-9800 Jim's suggestion was to use the program Fax: (513) 367-1414 Filemaker Pro. This program can be eas Hanhard 560 Timer E-mail: [email protected] ily configured to create, manage and re Willard Kiser, Ironton, OH, is searching 0 port on any kind of database. This program for a parts list and technical information is the premier database software for for a Hanhard 560 Timer. Macintosh and with a little work to create the right databases, might be just the thing Truing & Poising Calipers for a watch shop. This software will not Del Faulds, Yachats, OR, is seeking a do the job right out of the box, someone source for a complete set of truing and has to create the database and create que poising calipers used on old Navy clock ries to use it to run a shop. balance wheels. COME ONE ! COME ALL! Plating Precious Metals Couldn't Be Easier! 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Any items you wish to sell should be brought with you the day of the sale. Bring Member of the American Electroplaters & Surface Finishers Society, Inc , British Horological Society, NAWCC, SEMA, items early so that potential bidders will be able to look them over prior to sale time. The British Watch & Clock Collectors Association, American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Display Room Opens At 9:30A.M. Special Note: All Sales Are Final Samson Technology Corporation 2280 SW 70th Ave., Suite 3, Davie, FL 33317 For Additional Information Contact: Tel: 954-916-9322 Fax: 954-916-9338 Mark A. Baker - Damascus, Ohio E-mail: [email protected] MC MC (330) 537-3939 - 10:00 A.M. to 5:30P.M. Email June 2002 • Horological Times 45 STRIVING THE BEST AWl is "Striving 4 The Best" and invites your participation in its 42nd Annual Meeting & Convention. Meet with us August 1-4 at the Hilton Greater Cincinnati Airport, 7373 Turfway Road, Florence, KY 41042-1356. For reservations call 1-800- HILTONS or call the hotel direct at 859-371-4400. Deadline for hotel reservations is July 12, 2002. AWl's 42N° NUAL MEETING AGENDA Thursday, August 1, 2002 Saturday, August 3, 2002 9:00 a.m. - Noon Research & Education (Note: No Board Meeting on Saturday) Council (REC) AWl Classrooms - Harrison, OH 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration Noon - 1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Clock Programs 1:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Continuation of REC Program Mark Butterworth Modem German Clocks Jerry Faier The Home Setvice of Floor Clocks 2:30 p.m.- 5:00 p.m. Chronometer Club Laurie Penman Clock Escapements Business & Technical Forum (Members & Applicants only) 9:45a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Watch Programs Hilton Conference Room II Dr. Matthew Clark Patents as a Technical Resource for Watchmakers and Clockmakers 3:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Registration Jack Kurdzionak You Can Make Money Fixing Hilton Greater Cincinnati Airport Watches and Clocks Stewart Lesemann Lever Escapement 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. New Member Reception Hosted by Membership Committee 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Trade Fair 7:30 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Affiliates' Orientation and 11:30 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m. Luncheon Buffet Round Table Reception 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. Clock Programs Friday, August 2, 2002 Mark Butterworth Modem German Clocks Jerry Faier The Home Setvice of Floor Clocks 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Registration Laurie Penman Clock Escapements Hilton Greater Cincinnati Airport 3:15p.m.- 4:45p.m. Watch Programs 8:00 a.m. - Noon Affiliate Chapter Meeting Dr. Matthew Clark Patents as a Technical Resource Keynote Speaker: Peter Laetsch for Watchmakers and Clockmakers CEO, Swiss Time Promotions, Inc. Jack Kurdzionak You Can Make Money Fixing Watches and Clocks 10:00 a.m.- Noon J.M. Dodson Perpetuation Stewart Lesemann Lever Escapement Fund Meeting (Trustees only) 6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. President's Reception 10:00 a.m. - Noon Industry Advisory Board (lAB) Meeting 7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Dinner Buffet & Awards Program Noon - 1 :30 p.m. Lunch on your own Sunda~August4,2002 1 :30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. AWl Board of Directors Meeting 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Grand Cafe Breakfast Buffet 6:15p.m. Bus leaves for Tour & Trust Dinner 9:00 a.m. - Noon AWl Board of Directors Meeting 9:30p.m. Bus leaves for Hilton 46 Horological Times • June 2002 r------~ AWl's 42N° ANNUAL MEET'ING Registration Deadline: July 2, 2002 (Please type or print all information requested) Name:. ______AWIMemberNo. :______Company/AffiliateCha ,ter :. ______-=------City :. ______State/Province ______Zip/Postal Code ______Phone: Fax:·------E-mail:.______ Spouse's Name: ______:...______Guest's Name :. ______-7------=-----'-- Child #1: ------~------,------,------____;::...._ Child #2: ------.;;...... :.-----:----:------ Age: _____::..___ Child #3: ------..,~------,-~------Age: -----~~-... Registration Fees Received by July 2 After July 2 VVeekend Package* AWl Member __ @$205.00 __ @$235.00 Spouse/Guest __ @$100.00 __ @$125.00 Children (under 12) __ @$ 45.00 __ @$ 55.00 Saturday Package** AWl Member __ @$165.00 Spouse/Guest __ @$ 65.00 Education Package*** AWl Member __ @$125.00 __ @$155.00 Verdin Clock and Bell Museum Tour & ELM Trust Dinner (Friday night) ___ @ $ 50.00 •weekend Package Includes: Thursday: Round Table Reception ; Friday: Affiliates and Board Meetings; Saturday: Technical Presentations, Luncheon, & Dinner/Awards Program; Sunday: Breakfast Buffet **Saturday Package Includes: Saturday: Technical Presentations, Luncheon & Dinner/Awards Program ***Education Package Includes: Saturday: Technical Presentations & Luncheon D Check D American Express D Discover D MasterCard I I Name on Card ------I Account#------~------..;;_=--=-- I I . Signature ______.....:;.;;:::- .=;:__.=::....;;::=.<.. ____~ ------~ I Please make checks payable to AWl. All fees must be pait! in advance; credit cards will be processed upon receipt. Payment in I U.S. Funds, drawn on a U.S. Financial Institution. No refunds for cancellations after June 30, 2002. I AWl's 42nd Annual Meeting I 701 Enterprise Drive Harrison, OH 45030 I Toll Free 1-866-367-2924, ext. 301 Fax: 513-367-1414 E-mail: [email protected] I I L------~ June 2002 • Horological Times 47 Verdin Clock and Bell Museum Tour & ELM Trust Dinner Through five generations of the Verdin family and covering a period of over 155 years, Francois de Sales Verdin and his progeny have made bells, carillons and clocks to be placed around the world. The head quarters has always been on the Ohio riverfront or in Cincinnati's his torically German Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. The ELM-Trust dinner on Friday, August 2, 2002, will take place at the Verdin Clock and Bell Museum. Fill out your annual meeting form and sign up for the dinner today! In 1981 the Verdins purchased the historically significant St. Paul's Church, built in 1848, and restored it to its former glory in Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine area. St. Paul's became the world headquar ters ofthe Verdin Company in 1988 when the offices were moved to the church. This magnificent building is now the location of the corporate offices, the Verdin product showroom and the Verdin Clock and Bell Museum. Sign up now for the scenic bus tour and visit to the museum. Refreshments and dinner will be served at the museum. You will see handcrafted Verdin Cast Bronze Bells, Verdin carillons (outdoor musical instruments consisting of 23 or more bells), Verdin street clocks, and Glockenspiels (combined bells and clocks). For more information, log on to the Verdin web site at www.verdin.com. 48 Horological Times • June 2002 Affiliate Chapter Keynote Speaker Peter Laetsch, CEO, Swiss Time Promotions, Inc., in Ringwood, NJ will be the Keynote Speaker for the 2002 AWI Affiliate Chapter Meeting on Friday, August 2nd. Mr. Laetsch will be cover ing the following topics during his speech: 1. The state of the Swiss watch industry 2. Watchmaking education in the United States 3. Spare parts supply-a dilemma for both sides. Make plans now to join us. Contact AWl to make reservations or tum to page 47 and complete the registration form. You can also log on to www.awi-net.org to register. Peter Laetsch AWl Technical Presentations & Trade Fair Mark Saturday, August 3rd on your calendar now and contact AWl to register for the 2002 AWl Technical Presentations. Once again this year you will have the opportunity to attend clock and watch technical presentations which are held in conjunction with the annual AWl meetings. Register now by filling out the form on page 47. E-mail registrations can be sent to [email protected], or place a toll free call to 1-866-367-2924 ext. 301 and Melanie Frye will be happy to take your registration information. You can also log on to our website to register, www.awi-net.org. The annual Trade Fair will also be held on Saturday to coincide with the technical presentations. Visit with the suppliers displaying their material, tools and machines. The location is the same as last year, the Hilton Greater Cincinnati Airport, 7373 Turfway Road, Florence, KY 41042-1356. For reservations call1-800-HILTONS or call the hotel direct at 859-371-4400. Deadline for hotel reservations is July 12, 2002. Clock Presentations Mark Butterworth Jerry Faier, CMC Laurie Penman "Modern German Clocks" "The Home Service of Floor Clocks" "Clock Escapements" Watch Presentations Dr. Matthew Clark Jack Kurdzionak, CW Stewart Lesemann "Patents as a Technical Resource "You Can Make Money CW, CEWT for Watchmakers and Clockmakers" Fixing Watches and Clocks" "Lever Escapement" June 2002 • Horological Times 49 American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Statements of Financial Position AWl Financial June 30, 2001 and June 30, 2000 ASSETS June30, June 30, Statements 2001 2000 CURRENT ASSETS Cash and cash equivalents 60,131 $ 9,713 Accounts receivable 25,969 44,612 for the Year Ended Accounts receivable-Elm Trust 5I,844 40,032 Interest Receivable 31,572 28,571 Investments 7,234,461 6,927,069 June 30, 2001 Inventories !04,I06 71,627 Total Current Assets 7,508.083 7.121.624 LAND, BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT Land 238,739 238,739 Building 1,126,404 1,126,404 Equipment 469,598 532.425 t,834,741 1,897,568 Accumolated depreciation (501.242) (486.338) Total Land, Building and Equipment 1.333 499 I 411.230 OTIIER ASSETS Copyright 5,000 5,000 Deposit - BWC 100 100 Total Other Assets 5,100 5,100 The financial statements on this page Total Assets $ 8.846.682 $ 8,537,954 represent the financial activity for the fiscal year July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001. The State LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS June 30, June 30, ment of Financial Position shows the assets and 2001 2000 liabilities of AWI at the end of the fiscal year. CURRENT LIABILITIES Current portion - long-term debt $ 56,005 51,418 The Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Accounts payable 2,902 4 ,022 Assets show the revenues and expenses that were Accrued pension contribution 20,657 14,001 Line of credit - Fifth Third 112,605 5,000 generated by AWl activity during the fiscal year. Line of credit- Key Bank 0 81 ,629 The full financial report is not printed Total Current Liabilities 192,169 156,070 here due to space limitations. AWl's auditor's opinion, accompanying notes, and supporting LONG TERM LIABILITIES 378,248 433.5 71 schedules are integral to the statements on this Total Liabilities 570.417 589,641 page, and are essential in analysis and interpre NET ASSETS tation of these statements. The full report is Unrestricted Operating 1,176,265 848,313 available on our website at www.awi-net.org . Board Designated 7 100,000 7.100.000 As a 501 (c )6 organization, AWI files a Total Net Assets 8,276.265 7,948,313 Form 990 with the Internal Revenue Service. This form is based on our financial statements, Total Liabilities and Nel Assets $ 8.846,682 $:::...__ ....:8"'.5""3-'-'7 .9~5"-'4'- and is filed based on our fiscal year. Since AWI is recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)6 organiza American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute Statements of Activities tion, we have an obligation to make our IRS tax For the Years Ended June 30, 2001 and June 30, 2000 return available to the general public. AWl will June 30, June 30, satisfy this obligation by making available on 2001 2000 our website the full and complete Internal Rev REVENUES Operating revenues $ 602,798 $ 571,436 enue Service tax return for this same time pe Investment income 112QI6 161 21Q riod. Total Revenues 1,074,814 1,033,406 If anyone wishes to receive copies of Operating Expenses 282 262 966 OQ:l either of these items, please contact Thomas lncome from Operations 22 545 67 4Q3 Pack, AWl Finance Director: Toll-Free: 1-866- Other Income (Expense) 367-2924 (ext. 311), 701 Enterprise Drive, Har Unrealized Gain (Loss) on Investments 371,532 (154,297) Loss on saJe of equipment (3,629) 0 rison OH 45030; or e-mail: [email protected]. Depreciation (96,093) (t 19,583) A nominal fee will be charged for this service. interest expense (16 40~) !53 S2Q) 0 Total Other Income (Expense) 23l1Q1 (J21 HQ) Change in Net Assets J212~2 '26Q 062) 50 Horological Times • June 2002 Maryland Oklahoma Vincent, Benny E.-Bel Air, MD Redwine, Mervin L.-Durant, OK* Wu, Charles-Towson, MD Texas Massachusetts Peterson, Robert L.-Arlington, TX Vanaria, Richard-Natick, MA New Members Sponsor: Jack Kurdzionak-Stoneham, MA Washington Harper, Todd-Spokane, WA Minnesota California Parenteau, Joel-Rush City, MN Wisconsin Minasian, Arkadiy Y.-San Francisco, CA Shelquist, Thomas L.-Monticello, MN Mirek, James R.-Burlington, WI Morrison, Robert-Guerneville, CA* Sponsor: Michael Dempsey-Elm Grove, WI Phenicie, Ken Jr.-San Jose, CA Missouri Slade, Stephen-Hemet, CA Kantro, Douglas R.-Kansas City, MO Canada Smith, Jana-Huntington Beach, CA Sponsor: Richard Trombla 11-Giadstone, Vecmanis, Maris-Edmonton, Alberta MO Colorado Scism, Bert-Saint Charles, MO* International Berry, Robert W.-Lakewood, CO* Grindon, Geoff-Dhahran, Saudi Arabia Montana Florida Dennis, Lester-Bozeman, MT *AWl welcomes back these individuals who Smith, Adam-Orlando, FL have chosen to reinstate their membership. New York Indiana Fitch, Gerald J.-Binghamton, NY Goodrum, Frank-Greenwood, IN Landry, E. J.-Rochester, NY CLOCK MOVEMENTS WANTED .,.Clock repair .,., Restoration The AWl-ELM Charitable Trust is seeking donations .,.,Clockmaking of the following clock movements for use in AWl clock education progams: .,., Laurie Penman ... .•• and MORE! Every month at a special price for AWl members of $74 (normal American Count Wheel price $79). Just fill in the form below and send it to us at: Splat Publishing Mantel Clock Movements Ltd, 28 Gillespie Crescent, Edinburgh EHIO 4HU, UK. Tel: +44 131 228 6388. Fax: +44 131 229 5550. E-mail: [email protected] Ansonia Ingraham Waterbury Title ...... First~~~~-~~~~~~~-;;;:;.;:~=~=-~-~==~;;-~~~~~-===~~~~: Sessions New Haven Seth Thomas I Address ...... ! I Gilbert I o oo-o.o oo>.o.oooooo ooo o o oooooOooooooooO .. O oooo0 0 .. 0 ..0 0·00 0 10 ° 00 °". 00·0 00 .. 0 000·0 ·0 0 .. 0o o .. O. ... u ...... ooo<0 000'"0000<0 0 .. 00 &.0.ooo< ._.. .. ,oo oa o o o"'o'"+O ' l ...... Zipcode ...... Country ...... ! Donations to the AWl-ELM Trust are tax deductible. I Cardholder's name (as it appears on the card) ...... ! Please send donations to: Card N• ...... Expiry dale ...... l' AWl-ELM Charitable Trust I Slgn.uure ...... Today 's date .. •...... ~--- , _ , , , , ! 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030 ______.______... For more information call1-866-367-2924, ext. 310 Visit our \\ebsite at: \\\\w.clocksmagazine.com June 2002 • Horological Times 51 ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT SERVICE ATMOS Classified We are Factory Authorized Service for: Service & Repair- Original Parts Only • VIBROGRAF & PORTESCAP 2-year warranty on labor • TICK-0-PRINT & L&R Clockmaster, Inc. Advertising We service all makes of ultrasonics. all makes of watch rate recorders. and rel ated equipment. 25 years experience. 2537 So. 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June 2002 Horological Times 55 Advertisers' Index Borel & Co., Jules ...... 5 Gaber & Company ...... 7 Samson Technology Corporation ...... 45 (816) 421-6110 (412) 322-8499 (954) 916-9322 Butterworth Clocks, Inc ...... 31 GRS Tools ...... 33 Smith Supply House ...... 15 (800) 258-5418 (800) 835-3519 (213) 622-1687 Cas-Ker Co ...... inside back cover Guenther's ...... 13 Twin City Supply ...... 37 (513) 674-7700 (213) 892-8033 (952) 545-2725 Chronos/WCR ...... 41 S. LaRose, Inc ...... 37 U.S. Watch Parts & Tools ...... 13 (336) 621-1936 (800) 213-5048 Clocks ...... 51 011 01 31 228 6638 Livesay's, Inc ...... 25 Vibrograf U.S.A. Corp ...... 17 (813) 229-2715 (516) 437-8700 Esslinger & Co ...... inside front cover (651) 452-7180 Maxell Corp ...... back cover Witschi Electronics USA Ltd ...... 11 (201) 794-5900 (800) 882-7977 ETA ...... 9 011 (032) 655 71 11 McCaw Co., William S...... 3 Zantech ...... 35 (419) 243-3720 (800) 441-7569 Fast-Fix Jewelry Repair ...... 19 (800) 359-0407 Newall Mfg ...... 35 Zeiss Surgical, Inc ...... 21 (800) 621-6296 (914) 681-7359 Ferrell & Company ...... 29 (213) 627-6031 Primrose Supplies, Inc ...... 27 (801) 485-3908 Frei & Borel ...... 27 (510) 832-0355 AWl Employee Directory James E. Lubic, CMW Nancy L. Wellmann Laurie Penman Executive Director Education Coordinator Clock Instructor Education & Technical Director 1-866-367-2924 ext. 303 1-866-367-2924 ext. 318 1-866-367-2924 ext. 31 0 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Sharon McManus Steve Jones Lucy Fuleki Membership Coordinator Audiovisual Manager Assistant Executive Director 1-866-367-2924 ext. 302 1-866-367-2924 ext. 308 1-866-367-2924 ext. 304 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mary Huff Thomas J. Pack Shipping Coordinator Finance Director 1-866-367-2924 ext. 305 American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute 1-866-367-2924 ext. 311 [email protected] 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030 [email protected] Phone: Toll Free 1-866-367-2924 or (513) 367-9800 Fax: (513) 367-1414 Melanie Frye E-mail: [email protected] Donna K. Baas Reception ist!Secretary Web Site: www.awi-net.org Managing Editor/Advertising Manager 1-866-367-2924 ext. 301 Office Hours: Mon-Fri 8:00AM to 5:00 PM (EST) 1-866-367-2924 ext. 307 [email protected] Closed National Holidays [email protected] 56 Horological Times • June 2002 You get more with a Cas-Ker Crystal Assortment FREE UV Lamp & Glue! $43.90 Value FREE on request with purchase of any of our $49.95 or more crystal assortments. UV Lamp 130.900 $39.95 UV Glue 120.221 $3.95 Regular Mineral Glass Thick Mineral Glass Crystal Assortment Crystal Assortments • 100 flat round, l.OOmm thick. • One each of 29 flat round crystals. Domed Mineral Glass • Most popular sizes: 14.0- 31.0 • Sizes: 18.0- 32.0mm in 1/2 sizes. Crystal Assortment 900.029 1.50mm Thick • One each of 24 domed crystals. 900.100 Regular Asst...... $65.95 900.016 2.00mm Thick • Sizes: 18.0- 31.0mm in 1/2 sizes. Regular & Thin Refills 900.017 2.50mm Thick 900.024 DomedAsst...... $49.95 900.019 3.00mm Thick Mineral Glass Refills ...... $1. 25 each Refills ...... $3.00ea 3 @ $2.50 Thick Crystal Assts ...... $49.95 ea 50 Refills Total ...... l.OO each Refills ...... $3.00 100 Refills Total ...... 75 each • Regular "CK" l.OOmm thick 12.0 - All crystals are in individual paper envelopes 35.0mm in 0.1 increments marked with size and SKU Our crystal e Thin "TCK" 0.80mm thick 12.0 - assortment container holds up to 200 crystals. 32.0mm in 0.1 increments Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back. Free Sapphire Crystals! Receive 2 Free Sapphire Crystals with Our Plastic Crystal Assortment for Rolex - Purchase our 901.012 Assortment and we'll send you one each 206C and 295C Generic Sapphire Crystals for Rolex absolutely free, $54.90 value. Generic Crystal Assortment for Rolex Includes 12 Replacement Plastic Crystals to fit Rolex. 1-Tropic 12 1-Cyclops 116 1-Cyclops 114 2-Cyclops 117 3-Cyclops 118 1-Cyclops 129 2-Cyclops 135 1-Cyclops 145 901.012 Crystal Asst ...... $72.00 Generic Plastic Crystals most sizes available ..... $7.50ea $18.00/3 of one number Cas-Ker Co. is independent of and is not affiliated with or sponsored by Rolex Watch U.S.A. Inc. The Rolex warranty does not apply to non-genuine replacement items supplied by Cas-Ker Co. CALL 1-800-487-0408 Cas·~&[f(o. FAX 1-800-487-5848 2550 CIVIC CENTER DR PO BOX 31167 LOCAL PHONE 513/674-7700 FAX 513/674-0600 CINCINNATI OH 45231-0167 Shop our web site: www.casker.com THOSE WHO PUT THEIR NAME ON THE OUTSIDE, PREFER 0 U R NAME ON THE INS I 0 E. .,_0 0 0 0UALITV. INNOVATION. LONGEVITY. maxell THE WORLD LEADER IN MICRO BATIERY TECHNOLOGY