HoROLOGICAL TIMES January 2004 American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute Master Crown ASSORTMENT Smaller Size Crowns for Quartz Watches SALE (Reg. Price $719) Assortment of 144 crowns. Includes two each of 72 types • Waterproof • Dustproof • Bracelet(Regular) -Diameters from 2.5mm to 4.0mm -Tap 10, 11, 12 -Yellow & White Screw Down Crown Pusher Crowns for ASSORTMENT Pocket Watches ~EsSlinger & C~o. Pusher-Type Crown Assorbnent #83.038 AIITap-10 Refills Available 8 Pes. An easy way to replace those hard to find threaded crowns. Each crown includes a friction case tube. Includes antique, square, and Includes eight crowns: 1 each 4.0mm, 4.5mm, 5.3mm modern styles. All are yellow, and 6.0mm in yellow and white. tap 10. 8-pieces total. Refills available. Pocket Watch Crown C tters Crown Kit Used to enlarge the opening on watch Plastic compartment box crowns. Set includes 3 contains 12 different sizes sizes: 2mm, 4mm, & 6mm. of popular type crowns. In yellow or white; refills available. #83.206 (Yellow) ..... ........ ................ .. ... .. .$1 9.95 #83.209 (White) .......... .... ......... .... ... ....... .$1 7. 95 ~ c ~~11 noer & Go national phone orders: fax orders (24 hrs): ~nl ~ .u ItS . 1-800-328-0205 1-800-548-9304 1165 Medallion Drive • Saint Paul, MN 55120 local phone orders: local fax: 80 Years Young-And Growing 651-452-7180 651-452-4298 VOLUME 28 HoROLOGICAL ~ NUMBER1 CONTENTS JANUARY 2004 TIMES An Official Publication of the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute FEATURE ARTICLES EDITORIAL & EXECUTIVE OFFICES The Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultrathin, By John Davis 12 AWl, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030 Phone: Toll Free 1-866-367-2924 or (513) 367-9800 Alarms of American Mantel Clocks, Part 2, By David J. LaBounty 20 Fax: (513) 367-1414 Disaster Planning, By Linda Chrysler E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: www.awi-net.org 24 Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (EST) Closed National Holidays COLUMNS Donna K. Baas: Managing Editor, Advertising Manager Katherine J. Ortt: Associate Editor, Layout/Design Associate Rock Quarry, By Fred S. Burckhardt 18 James E. Lubic, CMW: Executive Director & As A Clockmaker Turns, By J. M. Huckabee 28 Education & Technical Director Lucy Fuleki: Assistant Executive Director The Clockmaker and His Lathe, Part 6 Thomas J. Pack, CPA: Finance Director Laurie Penman: Clock Instructor Nancy L. Wellmann: Education Coordinator DEPARTMENTS Sharon McManus: Membership Coordinator Mary Huff: Shipping Coordinator President's Message, By Jack Kurdzionak 2 Heather Kyde: Receptionist/Secretary Executive Director's Message, By James E. Lubic Steve Jones: Audiovisual Manager 2 Gary Richards: AWl-ELM Trust Development Director Questions & Answers, By David A Christianson 4 HOROLOGICAL TIMES ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ask Huck, By J. M. Huckabee 6 James Sadilek: Chairman Lloyd Lehn, CC Letters to the Editor 8 Chip Lim, CMW, CMC, CMEW Robert D. Porter, CMW Bulletin Board 19 AWl OFFICERS AWl New Members 23 Jack Kurdzionak, CW: President Jim Door: First Vice President AWl Material Search/Movement Bank 27 Alice B. Carpenter, CMW, CMEW: Secretary From the Workshop, By Jack Kurdzionak 32 Mark Butterworth: Treasurer Affiliate Chapter Report, By Glenn D. Gardener 34 AWl DIRECTORS Henry Frystak, CMW Member Benefit Spotlight, By Lucy Fuleki 36 Roland (Ron) Iverson, CMC Robert D. Porter, CMW AWl-ELM Trust Update, By Gary Richards 42 James Sadilek Dennis Warner Classified Advertising 44 Manuel Jean Yazijian Advertisers' Index James K. Zimme rman, CMW , CMC, CMEW 48 Glenn D. Gardner, CMW: Affiliate Chapter Director AWl Employee Directory 48 Joseph Juaire: Research & Education Council Director Tony Riggio, CMW: Industry Advisory Board Director EDUCATION IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Robert D. Porter, CMW AWl Home Study Course in Clock Repair 16 FELLOW - American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute AWl Evening Classes in Clock and Watch Repair 22 Robert F. Bishop ·Harold J. Herman James H. Broughton J.M. Huckabee AWl Bench Courses 41 Fred S. Burckhardt Gerald G. Jaeger David A. Christianson Benjamin Matz George Daniels Robert A. Nelson SPECIAL INTEREST Wes Door ·Hamilton E. Pease ·Henry B. Fried Archie B. Perkins AWl Health & Benefit Solution Program 17 Josephine F. Hagans William 0. Smith, Jr. ·Orville R. Hagans Milton C. Stevens AWl Directors' E-mail Address Directory 19 Ewell D. Hartman ·Marvin E. Whitney AWl Members Achieve Certification 35 'Deceased Motions from the Certification & Education Committees 38 Reprinting and reproduction is prohibited without written pennisslon from the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers lnstnute. Copyright ©2004 by the Ameri­ can Watchmakers-Ciockmakers lns!Hute. COVER This month's cover features the Jaeger-LeCoultre Master Ultrathin President's Message Jack Kurdzionak, CW On behalf of the Board of Directors, the management, and staff of the Institute, our wishes to all of our members for a happy and prosperous New Year. This first message of the year consists of three announce­ ments. First, AWl's annual meeting and convention will be held at the Sheraton hotel in South Portland, Maine next August. Next, our second vice president, Frank Poye, has resigned his position as an officer and director. Third, Jim Lubic and our legal counsel, Scott Gilligan, have resolved a possible trademark dispute concerning our certifications. I will explain each of these announcements. Last year, Jim Lubic suggested that we consider moving the annual meeting every other year to a new location thus bringing the meeting to a different segment of our membership to encourage greater attendance from this broader base. We studied a number of potential locations in the Northeast before choosing Portland as the best location. The Sheraton hotel is two miles from the Portland Jetport, four miles from the Amtrak station, and on an exit for 1-95. The hotel management has made every effort to meet our requirement and has offered us a package that is comparable in price to what we have paid in the Cincinnati area. Portland is within one-day's drive of major population centers in the northeast, is Maine's largest city (pop. 65,000), within a two-hour drive from Boston, and one hour from New Hampshire's White Mountains with its tax free shopping. Portland's historic seaport is minutes away from the hotel and Maine's famous seafood is everywhere. The hotel is across the street from Maine's largest shopping mall and twenty minutes away from LL Bean's flagship store in Freeport. We have several talented clock and watch makers from New England who are going to participate in our educational programs with all new presentations. Plan now to attend this August 5-8 meeting. We hope that you will arrive early or stay late to combine a vacation with this meeting. Remember, this meeting is not just for members, but their spouses, guests, and friends. Please make your arrangements early. Maine is the place to be in August with its mild weather and closeness to just about everything you wish for a vacation destination. Watch the pages of HT for more details. We welcome to our Board of Directors, the runner up in last years's election, Ron Iverson, who has agreed to replace Frank Poye as director. According to our parliamentarian, we are not required to fill Frank's position as second VP. It will remain vacant until the annual election of officers. A few months ago, we learned that a few people were improperly using AWI' s trademark of Certified Watchmaker without ever having taken and passed our examination for that certification. They claimed they were certified by virtue of being graduates of a private school. Our legal counsel communicated with the school and has received documentation that the school recognizes our right to the trademark and will not issue any certificate that violates our trademark. AWI will take appropriate steps to prevent the unauthorized use of our trademarks. Only Certified AWl members are entitled to use our trademarked Certification titles and AWl will protect its member's rights to those trademarks. Executive Director's Message James E. Lubic, CMW Have a healthy and prosperous New Year. This month I'm going to encourage everyone to take care of their health. As we all know, without our health we have nothing. I don't want to preach nor do I want to get too personal, but we all need to take care of our health. As we get older we all put off having tests that we don't think are necessary because "that couldn't happen to me." Well I'm here to tell you that it can, because it happened to me. Luckily, like many of you, I have a wife who can be a little ah ... shall I say pushy sometimes. Well thank goodness I do. Not quite 5 years ago I turned 40 years old. I had some "minor" health issues that my wife encouraged (nagged) me to take care of. Finally I went to the doctor for a complete physical. The next thing I knew I was seeing one specialist and then another, and before I knew it I had my first colonoscopy. I'm here to tell you almost 5 years later and about 6 colonoscopy's later, and just now recovering from having the right side of my colon removed, that I'm dam glad that my wife loves me, and that the medical profession has the technology to do what they can do. I can honestly say that if I hadn't had that first test almost 5 years ago that I most likely would not be here today. The test really isn't that bad, especially when you think of the alternative. If nothing is found then you (and your wife) are worry free. If they do find something then it is usually soon enough that the cure isn't too bad either.