Zoom Meetings 2022

Third Wednesday Webinar, July 20, 2022, "The World of Watch Microbrands"

Jordan P. Ficklin, CW21 discusses the world of watch microbrands and what it means to be a microbrand owner/watchmaker including offering some insight into the design process.

Jordan is co-owner and watchmaker of the Cincinnati Watch Company. He graduated from the Lititz Watch Technicum in 2006 with a WOSTEP diploma in watchmaking and micromechanics and he is an American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute certified watchmaker of the 21st century. Jordan was the Executive Director of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute from 2013-2020 where he oversaw the launch of their 38-foot mobile classroom and the development of their in-person and online Build a Watch courses for watch collectors. He is the author of Electrical Test Values for Quartz

Watches and a regular contributor to Horological Times and Professional Watches.

https://vimeo.com/731934198



Wednesday Evening, Jun 16, 2022 "A Preview of Horology's Great Collectors

The 2022 NAWCC Ward Francillon Time Symposium"

Since the invention of mechanical timekeeping, passionate collectors have recognized the value of horology and built fine collections privately held in museums or have been dispersed but are documented. These collectors deserve our attention, study, and everlasting gratitude. This program will preview the NAWCC 2022 Ward Francillon Time Symposium to be held in New York, October 21-22. For additional details about the Symposium go to  https://www.greathorology.com/

Bob Frishman, founder of Bell-Time Clocks in 1992, has repaired more than 7000 clocks and has sold 1700 vintage timepieces. He writes and lectures about the history, culture, and technology of horology - the science of timekeeping. His affiliations include:  Silver Star Fellow, National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors; Chairman, NAWCC Time Symposium Committee; Liveryman, Worshipful Company of Clockmakers (London); Member, Antiquarian Horological Society (London); Life Member, Willard House & Clock Museum; Proprietor No.28, Boston Athenaeum; Shareholder No.8, Library Company of Philadelphia; Exhibit Curator, Horological Society of New York; Member, Ross Society, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Wednesday Evening, May 18, 2022. "50 Years of Collecting Excellence at the Willard House and Clock Museum"

The Willard House and Clock Museum is a 52- acre, New England treasure for clock enthusiasts. Today, over 90 Willard clocks are exhibited in the birthplace and original workshop of the Willard clockmakers, along with family portraits, furnishings, clocks. Works by all three generations of Willard clockmakers, including the famed brothers, Benjamin, Simon, Aaron and Ephraim are displayed along with exceptional examples of their trade. As the museum is celebrating the 50^th- Anniversary, this talk highlights the family treasures and timekeepers unearthed during the past 50 years along with old Yankee stories of the hunt from a witness just out of college, our speaker. 

Robert C. Cheney, Grafton, Massachusetts is a third-generation clockmaker, dealer and nationally recognized authority on early clocks, watches and scientific instruments. He has served as a consulting conservator and curator for over fifty museums including Old Sturbridge Village, Worcester Art Museum, American Antiquarian Society, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Consulting has also brought him to the United States Capitol and Supreme Court, the US Department of State and the oval office of the White House.

https://vimeo.com/711454059



Wednesday Evening, February 16, 2022. "Aaron Willard, Jr. and the Ship Captain's Wife"

Learn information about the life of Boston, MA clockmaker Aaron Willard, Jr. (1783-1864) and his connections and experiences with little-known voyages and the man who undertook them. The story involves embargos and blockades, the historic maritime trade in China, the British seizures of American ships as prizes during the first decade of the nineteenth century, and the effects of the War of 1812 on international business. Mary Jane Dapkus will explain why Aaron Willard, Sr. (1757-1844) passed control of his clock making business to his oldest son, Aaron, around 1823 and how a mysterious widow whom Aaron Willard, Jr. eventually married is at the center of all these matters.

Mary Jane Dapkus had the pleasure of putting herself through college (a multi-decade process), earning two advanced degrees, pursuing a variety of careers, and serving briefly as curator of the American Clock & Watch Museum. Now she enjoys researching early clockmakers and their connections with history. A frequent contributor to the NAWCC's Watch & Clock Bulletin and other publications, her work has formed the basis for several exhibits. Together with the late Dr. Snowden Taylor, she is co-author of the book Antebellum Shelf Clock Making in Farmington and Unionville Villages, Connecticut (NAWCC 2019), and author of a second book, Joseph Ives & the Looking Glass Clock, now available for purchase. She was the Willard House Museum's 2015 Robinson Lecturer, the feature presenter at the 2019 NAWCC Eastern States Regional, a presenter at Horology 1776, and has presented on Chapter 8's Third Wednesday webinars on many occasions. A Fellow of both the NAWCC and the American Clock & Watch Museum, she delights in serving as contributing editor of the ACWM's Timepiece Journal. 

https://vimeo.com/678483379

Wednesday Evening, January 19, 2022. "Horological Report from Bob Frishman"

Bob has been busy with a full plate of horology projects during the past months. Rather than focus on just one for our January webinar, we will enjoy a quick fast-paced illustrated report on four. “Horology in Photography” was a talk Bob gave to the Daguerreian Society, telling those avid collectors of vintage photography about the many connections between photography and timekeeping, right from the first days of Daguerre and Fox Talbot. “Horology 1776” was the 2021 NAWCC symposium that Bob created and organized. More than a hundred attendees gathered in Philadelphia in October to hear eighteen (!) presentations about timekeeping around the time of the American Revolution. Bob will provide some highlights including the special surprise guest at the closing banquet. “Horology at Skinner” will summarize Bob’s recent published article about the auction sale of David Newsom’s amazing collection of watches and clocks. David was a low-key but extremely generous donor for horological causes, and he deserves more recognition after his unexpected passing early in 2020. And finally, “Horology in Art” remains an active decades-long passion of Bob’s. He recently installed at the Horological Society of New York an exhibit of more than sixty important artworks which include a clock or watch in the image. Bob will discuss some stars of this show, and he hopes that Chapter members will make in-person visits to the unique exhibit now on display in mid-town Manhattan.

https://vimeo.com/668039146