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WHITE, CMW21 atchmakers and clock- it will be there until someone wakes up and realiz- Wmakers are a solitary es that they need us. Meanwhile, let’s continue to do group for the most part. We good work and educate ourselves to be the very best spend a good amount of our we can be. I have only missed a few jobs because of day or night working by our- parts, thanks to my network of people. You can say selves, with little interaction the sky is falling or do something to improve your lot with other people. That six in life—it is up to you. Fred T. White [email protected] square inches that so much of Throughout history our industry has had its ups our time is spent working in can become very lonely. and downs. In the 1960s the quartz watch came on That is why it is good to take a break and call a fellow the scene, and many a good watchmaker left the busi- craftsperson, because he or she will under- ness, never to return. Watchmakers heard stand what you are experiencing. We have a When there would not be a need for a repair for lot of time to think, and sometimes “stink- a door years. (There were three watchmakers in ing thinking” creeps into our lives. We must closes, a the small town of 5,000 people where I do everything we can to keep our minds on lived at the time, and today there isn’t one the positive things that are going on in our window left.) I too left because you could not charge lives and around us. That is why I keep a opens. enough to make a living at the bench. My book of motivational quotes close by. second career gave me a good education in I find it very therapeutic to take a timepiece that sales and sales management and working with people. has not run for years, or that the customer has been When a door closes, a window opens; seize the op- told cannot be repaired, give it a good servicing, make portunity. As horologists, we have gone through the the necessary repairs, put the balance in place—and it “good ole’ days” when parts were readily available. comes to life. That is my reward. There was a time when the brands begged us to buy Why do we look at our situation and say the sky genuine parts because the generic parts were so well- is falling? How many times have you missed a repair made and sometimes cheaper than the genuine. The job because of parts? Did you take the job in and at- downside was there was a flood of watchmakers in tempt to find parts, or did you just turn the customer the marketplace, and it was difficult to make a living. away? Who knows how much business you may have I knew one watchmaker who worked 12 to 14 hours missed by that one act? Many times I am reminded a day to support his family. So, were the “good ole’ of the children’s story of the boy who cried wolf so days” the best? In many ways they were, but some often when there wasn’t a wolf that when there was things were not as good as today. We can always find one, no one listened to him. Do we cry wolf, or do something to complain about, or we can look for the we try to find a solution to our problem? We can good. For many years there was a plaque that hung on moan and groan about the parts situation and get our the wall in my office. It simply said: “The sun always blood pressure up, but the problem is still there; and shines after the rain.” So look for the sunshine. 4 March 2017 a message from the JORDAN P. FICKLIN, CW21 executive director efore I sat down to write Throughout the years, watchmakers and clockmak- Bthis month’s message, I ers have demonstrated their ingenuity and resourceful- looked through some older ness (while complaining the whole time).