Archive

Reports on past chapter meetings and presentations, newest first.

• 2015 Clock-Related Wood Repairs by Jerry Konicek

  Master woodworker Jerry Konicek on repairing stripped screw holes and broken hinges in clock cases with a mortise and a fitted plug.

• 2013 Tom Kochmann on Lathe Work

  Three small lathes, the essential graver operations, rebushing a mainspring barrel and making an arbor for a diamond wheel.

• January 2007 ‘Watch World’ Excerpts from the Elgin Company Newsletter

  Paul Shibata shares 1920s cartoons from the Elgin Watch Company’s in-house newsletter.

• January 2005 Before My Clock Stops, What Can/Should I Do With My Collection? (Estate Planning)

  Robert Moore on planning for the future of a collection and the different ways to value it.

• November 2004 Repairing Music Boxes

  Don Day on basic repairs for cylinder and disc music boxes.

• September 2004 Specialized and Antique Horology Tools

  Ron Bechler fills two mart tables with watchmaking tools and catalogs from his collection.

• July 2004 American Watch Making – 1809 to the Civil War

  Larry Bernard traces early American watch production from Luther Goddard and the Pitkin brothers to Waltham.

• May 2004 Four Generations of Watch Case Making… A Profile of Martin Matthews

  A video profile of Martin Matthews making a pocket watch case entirely by hand.

• March 2004 Clockwork Automatons, Old and New

  Don Day and Walter Loeliger on the history of automata, with five examples from Germany and France.

• January 2004 The History of Chelsea Clocks

  Ron Bechler on the Chelsea Clock Company, with a display of clocks and company ephemera.

• September 2003 The San Francisco Historical Clock Tower and Related Items

  Dorian Clair on restoring the tower clock of San Francisco’s Ferry Building.

• May 2003 Gremlins in Watch Repair

  Seth Finkelstein on the less obvious problems that turn up in watch repair.