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Massachusetts
Watchmakers/Clockmakers
Association, Inc.
Inquiries to:
Chris Carey, President
Phone: 617-244-3779
E-mail: chriscarey@masswca.com
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Next Meeting
- 6:30 PM, Tuesday, March 22, 2005 -
China Moon Restaurant
170 Main Street (Massachusetts Route 28)
Stoneham, MA, 02180
Phone: 781-438-0732
FUTURE MEETINGS:
May 24, 2005
June 28, 2005
Regular meetings will be held on the Fourth Tuesday. The Newsletter will usually be mailed out one week before the regular meeting – material to be printed in the Newsletter MUST be in the hands of the Editor on the Monday three weeks prior to the regular meeting date!
Meetings Past
- Tuesday, November 23, 2004 -
Program: Jim Moss
Alternate Cleaning Techniques to Use instead of Ammoniated Cleaning Solutions
 Jim gave a very interesting and entertaining presentation. Even this recorder (Ron Price) who knows nothing about clock repair, enjoyed Jim's talk.
Jim is a Professional Associate of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC). He has been in full-time private practice as a horological restorer since 1969 and as a Professional Associate Conservator since 1993. He is a Director of New England Conservators Association. He is a member of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute (AWCI), NAWCC, British Horological Institute (BHI), and the United Kingdom Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (UKIC). He was a co-founder of NAWCC Chapter 87. He lectured for many years on the technical aspects of clock repair and restoration for NAWCC Chapters 8 and 87. He has designed and built over thirty sundials of varying designs. He holds an ASEE from Wentworth Institute of Technology and served as a consultant to the Arthur D. Little Corp. on micro-mechanical mechanisms for the U.S. Navy.
The above was extracted from the following website: http://www.antiqueclockconservation.com/scc.htm
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- Tuesday, September 28, 2004 -
Change in Program: Gerrit Nijssen
Updated presentation of the O'Hara Dial Company
China Moon Restaurant
Stoneham, MA, 02180
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AWCI Annual Meeting, August 4 - 8, 2004
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Jim Lubic, Executive Director, presiding over the annual meeting of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute.
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- Tuesday, June 22, 2004 -
Program: Joe Brown
The Repair of French Clocks
China Moon Restaurant
Stoneham, MA, 02180
 About Our Speaker:
Joe is Past President of NAWCC Chapter 8, and he serves on the Boards at the Charles River Museum of Industry as well as at the Willard House Museum. He is also a Fellow at the NAWCC (National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors).
Joe gave a thorough slide presentation on repairing French clocks, including a 21-page illustrated handout. It was like taking a professional training course for free. Joe is very generous in sharing his knowledge.
You won't believe how the serious Joe started his presentation, though. He got our attention with some old advertising cartoons. Fortunately the webmaster was at the ready with his trusty camera. See sample cartoon.
New officers for the 2004 - 2005 year being sworn in by Attorney Mark Bibeau; left to right: John Rogers, Bob Richards, Wayne Lannon, Larry Chelmow, Dave Kurdzionak and Frank Menez.
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
China Moon Restaurant
Stoneham, MA
Program: Richard L. Ketchen
Custom-made horological shop tools
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| Mark Bibeau (left) discussing Richard Ketchen's masterpiece custom made clock. |
About Our Speaker:
Brief autobiography
I have been involved in the clock repair business for the last 35 years, the last 14 years as a full time professional. I have a background as an experimental machinist and a mechanical engineer. I restore clocks and antique scientific instruments for The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard, The Fogg Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection in New York, as well as for private collections and individual collectors. I have built about 10 clock movements from scratch including three jeweled, precision regulators with compensating pendulums. I also make a lot of tools.
Custom-made horological shop tools
Having been frustrated by the lack of original tools available for my repair work, and then becoming more frustrated by the uselessness or poor quality of some of the tools I was eventually able to acquire, I have been forced to develop new tools or modify old ones to get the job done properly. My lecture will focus on about a dozen of these tools. Some are very simple and easily made while others are somewhat more complicated. All of them have proven quite useful.
-- Richard Ketchen
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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
China Moon Restaurant
Stoneham, MA
Program: Paul M. Carroll
of Central Signal Corporation
Security issues for collectors, home repair businesses, and shop owners.
About Our Speaker:
Paul Carroll served with the US Air Force as a radio and radar engineering technician before entering the civilian electronics field. He worked for Transitron, Durrell, Alarmatronics, and Sentinel Alarm Company before starting Central Signal Corporation in 1977, a business specializing in the leasing of low cost alarm systems to the commercial market.
Paul established the Massachusetts Security Contractors Association in 1978, and later the New England Alarm Association Council, serving as president of both. He has also held offices with the New Hampshire Alarm Association, the National Burglar and Fire Alarm Association, and the National Fire Prevention Association. In addition he is active in numerous civic and fraternal organizations.
At our meeting, Paul discussed issues of security, merchandise valuation, insurance, alarm systems, and security protocol that are relevant to the watch and clock hobbyist + collector, to the at-home repair business, and to the retail jewelry store or commercial watch/clock repair shop.
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