Jack Kurdzionak will be the instructor leading eight students through the steps of disassembling a wristwatch and reassembling it again. This workshop will take place at the meeting room at the Comfort Inn, 71 Hall St., Concord NH, the lodging venue for the Regional. The cost of this workshop is $800 and includes all materials, lunch, and a reassembled watch to take home. In order to obtain materials, students must register before the Ides of March, March 15th. An initial deposit if $100 is required to secure your place, and this can be done by clicking below to purchasing a ticket.
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Jack began repairing watches in the early 1970s. In 1987 he and his wife Terry opened The Watchmaker, a proverbial “mom and pop” shop with a few dozen watches for sale and a lot of watches to repair in Stoneham. Over the years, the operation grew, and the shop moved to larger quarters down the street which his son, David, now operates. In 2012, Jack and Terry opened Eckcells Watch Material (partsforwatches.com) in Campton, NH which specializes in the sale of watchmaker tools and supplies.
For the past twenty-five years, Jack, a nationally recognized speaker, has given presentations on varied topics including watch lubricants, Atmos clocks, watch material distribution, repair techniques, and shop management. Jack firmly believes that a professional watchmaker needs continually learn and keep abreast of the industry. To that end he has studied watchmaking here in the USA, the UK, and Switzerland while traveling more than forty times to Europe for education and business.
Jack has just come from leading a group of MIT students through the watchmaking process, so in addition to being an expert watchmaker, he can add "professor" to his curriculum vitae!
Jack has served as president, director, secretary, and treasurer of both the MWCA and AWCI and is a Fellow of AWCI. For the past three years Jack has been a serving as the AWCI treasurer."
Presenting the program with Jack will be Master Watchmaker Steve Boynton. Steve currently works at The Watchmaker in Stoneham, MA and previously was Chief of Clock Maintenance at Chelsea Clock. Steve has been working as a watchmaker/clockmaker for about 30 years. He is an AWCI certified CW21 watchmaker and is certified to service Oris, Cartier, Baume and Mercier, Mont Blanc, and several other watch brands. He holds a certification to repair Atmos clocks. His experience includes ten years as the lead clockmaker for the Chelsea Clock Company, and he has been employed by The Watchmaker in Stoneham, MA for 30 years, both part time and full time. For the past 15 years Steve has been the lead watchmaker for The Watchmaker.