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Y & W safety chains; 12 foldover clasps (1 each A $50.00 5, 6, 7, 8,10, & 15mm in Y & W); Value!! SEIKO TYPE SAFETY and a plastic compartment box. CHAINS First quality with hooks and eyes in gold or rhodium finish. $5.95 I dozen $40per100 National WATS: 800-328-0205 In Minnesota: 800-392-0334 FAX: (612) 452-4298 Toll-Free FAX: 800-548-9304 VOLUME 17, NUMBER 2 FEBRUARY 1993 Henry Fried's TM HOROLOGICAL 1993 Tour Itinerary 11 Official Publication of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute Wes Door 2 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE Batteries in Henry B. Fried 4 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS Possibly an Agassiz Watch? Quartz Clocks Fred S. Burckhardt 10 ROCK QUARRY Hobbies for Horologists 25 Archie B. Perkins 12 TECHNICALLY WATCHES Antique Watch Restoration PartLXXXVI J.M. Huckabee 18 AS A CLOCKMAKER TURNS Adapting Tools of Alien Origin to the Watchmakers Lathe Marshall F. Richmond 22 PICKLE BARREL Jewelry Crafting and Repair Basic Tools, Part VIII David J. Carlson 25 BATTERY TESTING FOR QUARTZ CLOCKS Wes Door 30 SHOPTALK Telephone Calls and AWi Directory Ads Gerhard Hutter 32 BOOK REVIEW Lathe Course's Chronographen Armbanduhren Automatic Armbanduhren Aus Der Schweiz 34 34 THEAWI LATHE PROGRAM DEPARTMENTS 39 WATCHES INSIDE & OUT ETA's Use of the Lithium Battery Bulletin Board/16 AskHuck/28 HOROLOGICAL TIMES (ISSN0145-9546) is published monthly and copyrighted by the American Material Search Network/29 Watchmakers Institute, 3700 Harrison Avenue, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211, for$45.00 per year ($4.50 per copy New Products/43 in the United States and $50.00 per year, $5.50 per copy outside the U.S.) Second class postage paid at Classified Ads/44 Cincinnati, Ohio. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to HOROLOGICAL TIMES, P.O. Box 11011, Cincinnati, Ohio 45211. Dates to Remember/48 Advertisers' lndex/48 OFFICE HOURS: Monday through Friday 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (Eastern Standard Time). Closed on all national holidays. PHONE (513) 661-3838, AWi HOTLINE: (513) 661-4636 (24-hour recording), FAX (513) 661-3131. OHOROLOGICAL~'" * FELLOWS * OF THE AMERICAN WATCHMAKERS INSTITUTE u DCJ [JQJ) James H. Broughton Harold J. Herman George Danlele Gerald G. Jaeger EXECUTIVE AND EDrrORIAL OFFICES Henry B. Fried Robert A. Nelson Josephine F. Hagans • Hamllton E. Pease AWi Central • Orvllle R. Hagans Miiton C. Stevens P.O. Box 11011 Ewell D. Hartman Marvin E. Whitney 3700 Harrison Avenue Cincinnati, OH 45211 *D~eed Telephone: (513) 661-3838 Fax: (513) 661-3131 Milton C. Stevens: Editor Regina Stenger: Associate Editor Donna Baas: Production Director President's Message Harold J. Hennen: Senior Technical Editor It is unfortunate that at AWi and in the Horological Margie M. Brater: Circulation Manager Times, we cannot be all things to all people at all times. Nancy Wellmann: Business Manager Mary Sansalone: Seminar Coordinator Case in point: In the "Readers Write" column, Decem­ ber 1992, we allowed a very negative letter to be TECHNICAL EDITORS published. The writer's lack of good taste even caused Robert F. Bishop J.M. Huckabee him to use a four-letter word. I believe we (AWi) made James H. Broughton John P. Kenyon a mistake, not by publishing his letter but by reprinting Fred S. Burckhardt John A. Nagle this four letter word of his. We could have left a blank David A. Christianson Archie B. Perkins space or four dashes and we could have guessed that a Charles Cleves Robert D. Porter foul word was used. It is apparent that the writerofthat Joe Crooks Marshall F. Richmond article does not have a broad enough vocabulary of Wes Door Marvin E. Whitney Henry B. Fried acceptable adjectives, or just lacks respect for our members. AWi OFFICERS Indeed, I am a little embarrassed that I live in an adjacent state to him. I am not Wes Door, CMW: President suggesting that we build a great wall between our states, as I do know many watchmakers Joseph L. Cerullo, CMW, CMC: First Vice President and clockmakers in Oregon. We certainly would not want to discredit any of the fine Henry Frystak, CMW: Second Vice President craftsmen in that state because of the negative attitude of one person. Fred S. Burckhe.rdt: Secretary I would like to say that we should just consider the source and forget it, but that Gerald G. Jaeger, CMW, CMEW, FAWI: Treasurer would not be a nice thing to say. So I won't say it. Now, what I cannot forget is his remarks about Fred Burckhardt, referring to AWi DIRECTORS Fred's October article. Fred's tongue-in-cheek humorous articles have been accepted by William Biederman, CMW Robert F. Bishop, CMEW most all members (maybe all members but one). We accept Fred's and his exceptional Buddy Carpenter, CMC, CMEW ability to make us laugh. Many of us read his articles.first; we need a good laugh or two Charles Cleves and Fred has this unusual ability to lighten our day just a little. Ewell D. Hartman, CMW, FAWI Fred can be very serious and most members probably do not even know the good Gerhard Hutter, CMW sales articles, manuals, etc. that he has written. Also, many may not know of all of his Benjamin Matz, CMW exceptional abilities as he chooses not to put letters after his name to indicate these, as many John A. Nagle of us have done. With all the lectures, seminars, and workshops that Fred has done, it is Robert A. Nelson, CMW, CMEW, FAWl difficult to see how anyone could find fault with his articles or his abilities. He is a very Marshall F. Richmond, CMW good horologist and gemologist who enjoys making us laugh, and he does it without using James E. Williams, CC any profanity. In fact, probably the best four-letter word we have in our AWi organization Joseph L. Cerullo, CMW, CMC: Affiliate Chapter is FRED. Director We at AWi are always looking for those with the ability, willingness, and desire Tony Knorr: Research & Education Council Director to write monthly articles for our Horological Times. Most of our writers are not Alice B. Carpenter, CMW, CMEW: Immediate Psst professional writers. They write in their own way about subjects they know about, and this President seems to please most of our members. We need good, clean language articles written in a positive manner. These articles do not have to please anyone. Ifwe please just 5999 of our Milton C. Stevens, FAWI: Executive Secretary 6000 members, this is close enough. David LaFleche: General Manager I need to close now so I can re-read some of Fred's articles. James Lubic: Technical & Educational Services Manager Henry B. Fried, CMW, CMC, FAWI: Technical Director Reprinting and reproduction Is prohibited with· out written permission from the American Watch­ makers-Clockmaker• Institute. Copyrlght@1993 by the American Watchmakera-Clockmakera In· ON THE FRONT: This month's front atHute. cover is by Harold Bertha of Pearl River, New York. 2 Horological Times/February 1993 -----150th Anniversary Atmos Clock----- TIMELESS BEAUT\', RUNS ON AIR Back about 1984, to mark their 1501h anniversary, the Swiss company that makes the Atmos clock created a limited edition of individually numbered replicas of the origi­ nal Atmos. Hand blown glass dome, every piece of brass is 24kt gold plated, jeweled bearings, and with the newest technical improve­ ments incorporated in its design. This beauty is a full 131/2 inches high and no photo­ graph could do ii justice. Only 750 were set aside for North America. A temperature change of only 1 degree Fahrenheit lets the Almos store enough energy for forty-eight hours. Each revolu­ tion of the cylindrical torsion pendulum takes a full 60 seconds. This slow opera­ tion, fine precision construction, and smooth running bearings means that the energy ii lakes to light one 15 wall bulb would be enough lo keep 60 million Atmos mecha­ nisms in motion. In 1984 this 150th Anniversary Almos sold for $2,950-while the standard model Atmos was only $1, 100. Today the standard Almos is worth about $1,600. If all things were equal ii should mean that the limited edi­ tion, if still available, should be worth al least $4,300-bul, the company has been out of stock for several years. I have a limited number of these beauties, in their original factory sealed cartons, just as they were received from the Swiss fac­ tory in 1984. I understand they should be worth as least $6,000 each by now. Bui, al + Limited Edition this lime you can be the proud owner of one of these beautiful pieces of clock his­ + Individually Numbered Below 375 tory for just fractions of its actual worth­ ils original 1984 price of only $2,950 + Original Factory Sealed Cartons each (shipping included).