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Jaeger 18 CLOCKS INSIDE AND OUT Repairing the Jaeger-Lecoultre Atmos Clock, Caliber 540, Part 4 Henry B. Fried 24 BOOK REVIEW Frieda V. Marshall This Old Clock Horological Tour Forgotten Angel 44 Marshall F. Richmond 26 PICKLE BARREL Jewelry Crafting and Repair Diamond and Stone Setting, Part II Charles Cleves 30 OLD WATCHES Current Prices DEPARTMENTS Arnold Van Tiem 38 SCHOLASTICALLY SPEAKING AskHuck/22 1992 REC Annual Meetings Bulletin Board/32 Material Search Network/33 New Members/42 . Association News/47 HOROLOGICAL TIMES (ISSN0145-9546) is published monthly and copyrighted by the American New Products/48 Watchmakers Institute, 3700 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211, for$40.00 per year ($4.50 per copy in the United States and $50.00 per year, $5.50 per copy outside the U.S.) Second class postage paid at News in the Trade/50 Cincinnati, Ohio. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to HOROLOGICAL TIMES, P.O. Box 11011, Classified Ads/52 Cincinnati, Ohio 45211. Dates to Remember/56 OFFICE HOURS: Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time). Closed on Advertisers' lndex/56 all national holldays. PHONE (513) 661-3838, AWi HOTLINE: (513) 661-4636 (24-hour recording), FAX (513) 661-3131. OHOROLOGICALN"" * FELLOWS * OF THE AMERICAN WATCHMAKERS INSTITUTE James H. Broughton Harold J. Herman u Dr=JC3~ George Daniela Gerald G. Jaeger EXECUTIVE AND EDITORIAL OFFICES Henry B. Fried Robert A. Nelson Josephine F. Hagans *Hamilton E. Pease AWi Central • Orville R. Hagans Milton C. Stevens P.O. Box 11011 Ewell D. Hartman Marvin E. Whitney 3700 Harrison Avenue *Deceased Cincinnati, OH 45211 Telephone: (513) 661-3838 Fax: (513) 661-3131 Milton C. Stevens: Editor President's Message Regina Stenger: Associate Editor Donna Baas: Production Director As your new President it is my duty and Harold J. Herman: Senior Technical Editor pleasure to write this column during this fiscal year. Following Alice Carpenter is not an easy Margie M. Brater: Circulation Manager Nancy Wellmann: Business Manager task, but here goes ... Mary Sansalone: Seminar Coordinator During our Board meeting at the "changing of the guards," I was thinking how TECHNICAL EDITORS: different our A WI system of election is com­ pared to national politics. There are several Robert F. Bishop J.M. Huckabee notable differences. We do not start by putting James H. Broughton John P. Kenyon down the present administration by saying Fred S. Burckhardt John A. Nagle David A. Christianson Archie B. Perkins how bad the people are and what a poor job they did, etc. Instead, it's quite the Charles Cleves Robert D. Porter contrary. We recognize the fact that the last A WI administration did a fine job. Joe Crooks Marshall F. Richmond We hope to continue this policy to the best ofour ability and somehow measure Wes Door Marvin E. Whitney up to this fine job done by the last set of officers and board members. I believe Henry B. Fried we need to keep the status quo, but we also need to add new ideas as they are presented to us in order to advance our mutual goals. AWi OFFICERS: As President, it is also necessary to respond to situations as they Wes Door, CMW: President develop and react to them in a manner that will be for the betterment of our Joseph L. Cerullo, CMW, CMC: First Vice President members and our industry. Henry Frystak, CMW: Second Vice President It is the job of the Board of Directors to responsibly run our Fred S. Burckhardt: Secretary organization with a lot of common sense and with full adherence to the A WI Gerald G. Jaeger, CMW, CMEW, FAWI: Treasurer Constitution and Bylaws. It is very important to follow our Constitution. It is true that it is very difficult to change any item in our Constitution. The AW/ DIRECTORS: expression "it takes a constitutional amendment" sounds like it would be William Biederman, CMW impossible to make any policy changes. This is not exactly true since changes Robert F. Bishop, CMEW can be made in our Constitution by following proper procedures. Buddy Carpenter, CMC, CMEW The Board of Directors have been elected by the complete A WI Ewell D. Hartman, CMW, FAWI membership, and this means all of us. We are like one big, happy family, and Gerhard Hutter, CMW Robert L. Macomber, CMC the good news is we have received quite a few new family members this past Benjamin Matz, CMW year.Yes, last year's membership has increased by 89. This may not seem like John A. Nagle a lot, but with our average members' ages in the late 50s and many retiring, this Robert A. Nelson, CMW, CMEW, FAWI is not bad. Marshall F. Richmond, CMW Again, let me thank you for the confidence you have placed in me. I pledge to do my o/St to live up to it. I will need a lot of help from our Past Joseph L. Cerullo, CMW, CMC: Affiliate Chapter Director Tony Knorr: Research & Education Council Director President, other, fellow Board members, and, of course, the entireAWI Central Alice B. Carpenter, CMW, CMEW: Immediate staff. In fact, we do need\to help each other and this takes time. So let's take Past President time and make time for each other. Milton C. Stevens, FAWI: Executive Secretary David LaFleche: General Manager James Lubic: Technical & Educational Services Manager Henry B. Fried, CMW, CMC, FAWI: Technical Director Reprinting and reproduction is prohibited without written ON THE FRONT: Garden Rose by Dale LaDue permission from the American Watchmakers Institute. of Rochester, NY. Copyright ©1992 by the American Watchmakers Institute. 2 Horological Times/August 1992 to take part in an effort to revitalize Cleveland's down­ town theater district. As a "Playhouse Square Volunteer", Pat frequently devotes more than 60 hours a month during the busy season working as a tour greeter, usher and planner of special events. She was recently honored for her efforts with The Mayor's Award For Volunteerism. Pat has been with Eveready® PAT MADDEN Pat Madden's special area of for 17 years. When she isn't CT Room Operator "/don't know what your seivice contributes much to at work or doing duty at EvereatfY' Watch Batteries destiny will be, but one Quality and Specifications thing I know, the only ones her personal happiness. Three Playhouse Square, she likes Cleveland, Ohio among you who will be years ago her love of the to travel. She has been to really happy are those who theater, coupled with a desire Europe three times, Australia have sought and found how to serve- to be active and make new once and to countless places ALeEIIT SCHWEITLER friends, led her to volunteer in the U.S. Pat Madden's second floor These tests measure the workplace has an interesting electrical discharge of a bat­ history. Before it became tery and are designed to test the property of Eveready® it longevity under various use was a showroom for new situations. They are ordered Hupmobile automobiles and evaluated by Eveready® (circa 1930). Todayits engineers. It is the responsi­ ornate columns and moldings bility of Pat and her counter­ are home to row upon row of parts to set up the tests then "computer controlled test cab­ carefully monitor the infor­ inets" which hold thousands mation from each test on a of miniature batteries of every regular schedule. 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