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HOROLOGICAL TIMES JUNE 2007 HoRoLOGICAL~· TIMES CoNTENTs VOLUME 31, NUMBER 6, JUNE 2007 Official Publication of the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute FEATURES EDITORIAL & EXECUTIVE OFFICES JCK Show Sponsors 6 American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute Physics of the Hairspring and Escapement, Part 1 (AWCI) 8 701 Enterprise Drive By Dr. Matthew Clark Harrison, OH 45030 Hand Made, Hand Finished, By Curtis D. Thomson Toll Free 1-866-FOR-AWCI (367-2924) 14 or (513) 367-9800 Certification-What It's all About!, By Jerry Faier 18 Fax: (513) 367-1414 The Professional Horologist, By Vincent Schrader E-mail: [email protected] 22 Website: www.awci.com The Board of Examiners: Who are they? And what do they do? Office Hours: Standards and Practices of Monday-Friday 8:00AM to 5:00 PM (EST) 26 Closed National Holidays 21st Century Watchmakers and Clockmakers Managing Editor & Advertising Manager DEPARTMENTS Donna K. Baas President's Message, By Dennis Warner 2 Associate Editor & Design Associate Katherine J. Ortt Executive Director's Message, By James E. Lubic 3 On the Web 3 Executive Director/Education & Technical Director James E. Lubic, CMW21 Questions & Answers, By David A. Christianson 4 Assistant Executive Director New Members 17 Lucy Fuleki From the Workshop, By Jack Kurdzionak 46 Finance Director Bulletin Board Thomas J. Pack, CPA 57 Clock Instructor Industry News 58 Laurie Penman Classified Advertising 59 Watchmaking Instructor/Certification Coordinator Advertisers' Index 64 Manuel Yazijian, CMW21 AWCI Staff Directory 64 Education Coordinator Nancy L. Wellmann Membership Coordinator EDUCATION Sharon McManus AWCI Academy of Watchmaking Classes 21 Receptionist/Secretary Heather Weaver AWCI 21st Century Certification Exam Schedule 21 IT Director AWCI Education, Academy of Watchmaking Classes 34 Jim Meyer AWCI Correspondence Course in Clock Repair 56 HOROLOGICAL TIMES ADVISORY COMMITTEE SPECIAL INTEREST Ron Iverson, CMC: Chairman Workshop Floor Plans 40 Karel Ebenstreit, CMW Jeffrey Hess Watchmaker's Tool Kit and Basic Workshop Equipment 42 Chip Lim, CMW, CMC, CMEW AWCI Convention & Educational Symposium 45 E-mail: [email protected] AWCI Business and Pricing Survey 49 Affiliate Chapters 50 Repriltilg and reproduction is prohbited without written permission from the American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute. Copyright Industry Advisory Board 52 @!2JJJ7 by the American Watcimakers-Giockmakers Institute. REC Schools 54 HOROLOGICAL TIMES (ISSNO 145-9546) is published monthly and copyrighted by the American Watchmakers-Giockmakers Institute, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH 45030-1696. Slbscrip­ tion price for the public is $98.00 per year ($6.50 per copy). Members subscription is $45.00 which is irduded with amJal dues of $98.00. Periodicals postage paid at Harrison, OH 45030 and COVER additional entries. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to HOROLOGICAL TIMES, 701 Enterprise Drive, Harrison, OH This month's cover features the AWCI JCK Show Booth During the first week of June 2007, AWCI will be staging one of its largest publicity campaigns in recent years. The event will be in Las Vegas during the JCK Jewelry and Watch Show. This is where new jewelry and watch lines are displayed for retail jewelers. AWCI will be there with a booth in a prime location to inform visitors of our programs and goals that could be of benefit to them. Many jewelers may not know about us, so we want them to meet us and become aware of our efforts to be of assistance to them. They will see a modem watch service shop that can easily be set up in their own stores. After visiting with our BOARD OF DIRECTORS group, they will know the following: 1. Where to find experienced and certified employees. OFFICERS Dennis J. Warner, CW21: President 2 . The suggested square footage needed to operate a shop successfully. dwarner@ awci.com 3. Shop layouts and floor plans. Mark Butterworth: 1st Vice President 4. Needed tools and equipment and where to purchase them. mbutterworth@ awci.com 5. What AWCI can offer their existing watchmaker in the way of ongoing Gene Bertram, CC: 2nd Vice President gbertram@ awci.com education. Matt Henning, CW: Secretary [email protected] Chairman of the Trade Fair Booth, Henry Kessler, has asked me to request a Jack Kurdzionak, CW21: Treasurer letter of testimonial from my employer about the benefits of having a certified jkurdzionak@ awci.com watchmaker on the premises. The letter reads as follows: DIRECTORS Mark Baker, CMW Russell Korman Fine Jewelry and Watches- Austin, TX [email protected] We began our jewelry business in Austin, Texas in 1973. During the late 1980s, as Glenn D. Gardner, CMW our business grew, we expanded our inventory of Swiss watches. Over the past 20 [email protected] years we have become central Texas' largest Swiss watch ret~ler. After experiencing Roland (Ron) Iverson, CMC riverson@ awci.com many ups and downs with "contract" watchmakers, in 1999 we elected to employ James Sadilek Dennis Warner as our frrst full-time "Russell Korman Watchmaker." jsadilek@ awci.com James K. Zimmerman, CMW, CMC, CMEW Dennis graduated from a fine watchmaking school and kept his training current jzimmerman@ awci.com by attending classes offered by the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Insti­ Wes Cutter, CC: Affiliate Chapter Director tute. He also availed himself of training offered by several prestigious watch wcutter@ awci .com companies. Elbert Lewis, CMW: REC Director elewis@ awci.com Jack Kurdzionak, CW21: lAB Director When Dennis learned that AWCI was offering a nationally recognized certifica­ jkurdzionak@ awci.com tion for watchmakers, he took the examination, and was awarded the coveted IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT title of "Certified Watchmaker 21" of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Jim Door Institute. [email protected] FELLOW This certification is recognized and endorsed by the industry and the public world­ American Watchmakers-Ciockmakers Institute wide. It has enabled us to triple our watch repair income in only eight years, and Robert F. Bishop J.M. Huckabee James H. Broughton Gerald G. Jaeger to attract additional high-quality Swiss watch brands including Breitling, Omega, Fred S. Burckhardt *Benjamin Matz Ebel, Tag Heuer, Tissot, Corum, Baume Mercier and others. Alice B. Carpenter Robert A. Nelson David A. Christianson *Hamilton E. Pease Our investment in an AWCI Certified Watchmaker, and our relationship with George Daniels Archie B. Perkins Wes Door Antoine Simonin various Swiss watch companies, has enabled us to become the leading Swiss *Henry B. Fried William 0. Smith, Jr. watch retail store in central Texas. We are proud to be involved with such an *Josephine F. Hagans M~ton C. Stevens outstanding organization as AWCI. *Orville R. Hagans *Marvin E. Whitney Ewell D. Hartman *Deceased Hank Korman, VP *Harold J. Herman Russell Korman Fine Jewelry and Watches 2 Horological Times June 2007 Executive On the Director's Message By James E. Lubic, CMW21 Web AWCI2007 This month's issue is a special issue of the Horological Times. As you can see from Annual Meeting the cover, AWCI will have a booth at the JCK Show in Las Vegas, June pt through ~ & Educational the 5th. We will be located in the Hall of Time, booth number 33085. If you go to the show be sure to come by our booth and say hello. Symposium ~ This month's issue serves a dual purpose. The first is to provide you, our members, .- l _. ,:, ..r. ' . .u . - .; 1,.<· ;.·,!. ~~ " . ·. ·~ ~..; ~~ . .-- ~ -.,.,.. ·. with up-to-date technical information, industry news, and the latest items available \ - .... -......~ ... - ~ - . - ' -....-, - ~ • \\. ~ ~ ..... .. ..,-r-,- . <~ · from our advertisers, and remind you of all the benefits available to you as an AWCI member. Don't be shy when it comes to inquiring about any of these many benefits. ' . ~ '·~·n<~~ · . That's the purpose of a trade association-give you the information you need to be -ldl-.r, ..., '"',·'"" ' ,. successful in your profession, and use the numbers in our association to leverage pricing in every day needs that save you money and make your bottom line look Register online to attend http://www.awci.com/artic/es/ better every year. Annua/Meeting2007.php The second purpose of this issue is to be AWCI's marketing material at the JCK Show. Attendees of this year's show who visit our booth will be given a copy of this HT which will have answers to many of their questions. Most of the attendees will be retail jewelers, and their questions will range from "Where can I find a watchmaker?" to questions about shop size, necessary tools, and "How much should a certified watchmaker make?" And of course how to become certified and what it means to This forum assists AWCI members your business to have a certified watchmaker on staff, including how your watch­ in finding watch and clock parts and tools. Check it out at: maker can become certified. These are just a few of the questions that we look for­ http://www. watch-clockmakers. org/ ward to answering during the show. But most of all we want the watch retailers and msgbrd/index.php the professional watchmaker to be aware of AWCI and how membership is a plus to their business. I recently received a phone call from a member in Washington State informing me of contact he recently had with a couple of individuals over the phone wanting to pur­ chase his exhausted watch cells.