OROLOGICALT" TIMES October 2007 PATEK PHIUPPE GENEV£ :: "" .., ... ~ .. ,, ,.. .. American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute >- 1!1 0 .J 0 z J: u 1&1 w 1- >- ~ ~ ~ • 1&1 w <( lLI m~ 0 z c 0 ~ u 1- w en ~ :::J 1- Ul Ill ~ 11. I :::J ~ :J z 0 <( ~ 0 1&1 I 0 c z w c( 3 w n:: >< 1&1 w r::t: w I .J I lJ.. 1- c [J) w 1- w cc .J 0 z I :I z n:: 1- 1- 0 c.. 0 E ~ HoRoLoGICALT}t TIMES CoNTENTS VOLUME 31, NUMBER 10, OCTOBER 2007 Official Publication of the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute FEATURES EDITORIAL & EXECUTIVE OFFICES The Patek Philippe Ref. 3919, By John Davis 6 American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Jaeger-LeCoultre Gyrotourbillon, Part 2, By Ron DeCorte 18 (AWCI) 701 Enterprise Drive Timing Manipulations, Part 2 22 Harrison, OH 45030 A Black Forest Two Trumpeter Car Clock, By David J. Carlson 32 Toll Free 1-866-FOR-AWCI (367-2924) or (513) 367-9800 Why I Attend the AWCI Convention, By Michael Gainey 34 Fax: (513) 367-1414 E-mail: [email protected] AWCI 2007 Convention and Educational Symposium, By Lucy Fuleki 38 Website: www.awci.com Office Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00AM to 5:00 PM (EST) COLUMNS Closed National Holidays Springs, Part 4, By Laurie Penman 14 Managing Editor & Advertising Manager Donna K. Baas DEPARTMENTS Associate Editor & Design Associate President's Message, By Dennis Warner 2 Katherine J. Ortt Executive Director's Message, By James E. Lubic 3 Executive Director/Education & Technical Director On the Web 3 James E. Lubic, CMW21 Questions & Answers, By David A. Christianson 4 Assistant Executive Director Bulletin Board 21 Lucy Fuleki Finance Director New Members 27 Thomas J. Pack, CPA From the Workshop, By Jack Kurdzionak 28 Clock Instructor Affiliate Chapter Report, By Dan Spath 44 Laurie Penman Classified Advertising 51 Watchmaking Instructor/Certification Coordinator Manuel Yazijian, CMW21 Advertisers' Index 56 Education Coordinator AWCI Staff Directory 56 Nancy L. Wellmann Membership Coordinator Sharon McManus EDUCATION ReceptionisVfechnical Support AWCI Academy of Watchmaking Classes 37 Heather Weaver AWCI 21 51 Century Certification Exam Schedule 37 IT Director AWCI Correspondence Course in Clock Repair 50 Jim Meyer SPECIAL INTEREST HOROLOGICAL TIMES ADVISORY COMMmEE Seeking Candidates for the AWCI Board of Directors 13 Ron Iverson, CMC: Chairman Karel Ebenstreit, CMW Hermie Movements Needed 17 Jeffrey Hess AWCI Directors' E-mail Address Directory 21 Chip Lim, CMW, CMC, CMEW E-mail: [email protected] AWCI Business and Pricing Survey 30 AWCI Parts Forum 31 Reprinting and reproduction is prohibited without written permission North Carolina Watchmakers & Clockmakers Auction 44 from the American Watmmakers-Ciockmakers Institute. Copyright @f2JJ07 by the American Watchmakers.Ciockmakers Institute. AWCI Recognizes Long-Time Members 46 HOROLOGICAL TIMES (ISSNO 145-9546) is published monthly and copyrighted by the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030-1696. Subscrip­ ijon price for the public is $125.00 per year ($8.50 per copy). Members subscription is $60.00 which is included with annual dues of $125.00. Periodicals postage paid at Harrison, OH 45030 and COVER additional entries. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to This month's cover features the HOROLOGICAL TIMES, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH Patek Philippe Ref. 3919 This is the time of year when the kids are back in school, vacations are almost over, and watchmakers are gazing at a box full of wet watches. Clockmakers are looking at their backlog of repairs and wondering if they will ever get caught up. It is just as busy with the operations at AWCI. The Board has made and adopted their plan of action for the year; the committees have their marching orders; and the staff is ready to carry out the wishes of all. AWCI is now pursuing an investment program through the Perpetuation Fund BOARD OF DIRECTORS Committee. Your votes changed our Constitutional restrictions concerning in­ OFFICERS vestments. That opened doors for a better, yet safe, return on our money. Prior to Dennis J. Warner, CW21: President the annual meeting, the Committee met with six different investment agencies [email protected] that were vying for the opportunity to represent our interests. Six firms were James Sadilek: 1st Vice President reduced to three by the end of the day. After reviewing their proposals, the Com­ jsadilek@ awci.com mittee selected the company, "Johnson Investment Counsel." The membership Tamara Houk, CW21 : 2nd Vice President [email protected] will continually be kept informed of the investment status. At this time the Com­ Matt Henning, CW: Secretary mittee is working with the Johnson Group to formulate an Investment and a mhenning@ awci.com Spending Plan. Jack Kurdzionak, CW21: Treasurer jkurdzionak@ awci.com The Education Committee has continued to work to move the CW21 program DIRECTORS forward. Tests were administered in Seattle in early September and other tests Glenn D. Gardner, CMW will be given in October in Okmulgee, Oklahoma. The 2008 schedules can be ggardner@ awci.com found in the Horological Times on page 37. Roland (Ron) Iverson, CMC riverson@ awci.com The Certified Clockmaker pre-pilot exams are complete and are being analyzed Lloyd Lehn, CC [email protected] by Jerry Faier and his committee. The Pilot Exams will be ready by the time you Doug Stuart are reading this. Please contact AWCI for more details. I thank Jerry and his dstuart@ awci .com committee for all their work in the development and administering of these James K. Zimmerman, CMW, CMC, CMEW projects. jzimmerman@ awci.com Dan Spath, CMW: Affiliate Chapter Director When you can, please visit the AWlmatters website. A committee composed of [email protected] Doug Stuart, Lloyd Lehn, and Ernest Tope has worked to improve the site. Im­ Elbert Lewis, CMW: REC Director elewis@ awci.com portant technical information as well as good discussions can be found there for Tamara Houk, CW21 : lAB Director the watchmaker and clockmaker. [email protected] It is not too early to be thinking about running for the Board of Directors of IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT Jim Door AWCI. The committee has applications for nominees that can be obtained from jdoor@ awci .com AWCI. E-mail awci@ awci.com, or calll-866-367-2924. Three persons are seated FELLOW each year to replace those whose terms have ended. American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Robert F. Bishop *Harold J. Herman Your Board of Directors has approved the committees of AWCI for 2007-08. To James H. Broughton J.M. Huckabee Fred S. Burckhardt Gerald G. Jaeger obtain a copy you may request it from AWCI or download a copy from the web­ Alice B. Carpenter *Benjamin Matz site: www.awci.com. David A. Christianson Robert A. Nelson George Daniels *Hamilton E. Pease Wes Door Archie B. Perkins The Board of AWCI encourages all members to become involved in your organi­ *Henry B. Fried Antoine Simonin zation. You may call or e-mail any person on the Board at any time. If he or she *Josephine F. Hagans William 0 . Smith, Jr. does not have an answer for you immediately, you can expect to receive an an­ *Orville R. Hagans Milton C. Stevens Ewell D. Hartman *Marvin E. Whitney swer very soon in a follow-up call or e-mail. •oeceased 2 Horological Times October 2007 -· Executive - On the - ' Director's -IY1~S$ ~ge .. - · By James E. Lubic, CMW21 Web - - -- - --: AWCI Certification The month of October starts the Institute's annual dues billing cycle. As I type this ~ Exam Schedule we have 3,317 members. Of those 355 are life members, leaving 2,962 in all the other categories. You and the other 2,961 AWCI members will be receiving their dues invoice for their 2008 AWCI membership very soon if you haven't already. The first thing you will notice is the membership dues for the upcoming year are $125. The second thing you will notice is there is a lot of benefit and value to being a member of AWCI. If you haven't taken the time to take advantage of any or all of the member benefits that AWCI offers, we encourage you to do so. We thank you for membership and look forward to serving your membership needs long into the future. AWCI Certification information is We have two 21 '1 Century Certification policy changes to announce: available online: www. awci. com/services/ 1. Effective immediately, a $100 non-refundable deposit/fee will be required with certification.php each certification and course application. Of course, you may choose to pay the full fee when applying, but if not, the application deposit/fee will be charged. That de­ posit will be applied to the exam or course fee when full payment is due. Full pay­ ment must be made 30 days prior to the exam or course. If you cancel within the allotted time period, you will receive a refund minus the This forum assists AWCI members in finding watch and clock parts $100 application fee. The application deposit/fee is not transferable from one event and tools. Check it out at: date to another. The deposit/fee will be charged with each application made. www. watch-clockmakers. org/ msgbrd!index.php 2. As of January 1, 2008, those examinees who successfully earn CW21 will be given the chronograph watch that they worked on. We also will have the AWCI logo and CW21 printed on the dial before we return it to the examinee. Although the chronograph will most likely arrive in an unassembled condition, once assembled, it will be a fine watch which easily retails for the cost of the exam. The cost of the CW21 exam is $1,595.