The following organizations and libraries are helpful to non-professionals and professionals and function at national or international levels. They can assist in locating regional groups. As noted, some have lending libraries or research facilities.

• American Watch-Clockmakers Institute
  (AWI)
  3700 Harrison Ave.
  Cincinnati, Ohio, 45211 USA
  Phone: (513)661-3838
  Dues: $45.00 per year

  Services: Primarily professional. Research, business and technical assistance, repair courses, materials search, etc. Museum. Research and lending library, videos. Publications: Horological Times (12 issues/year. included in membership). Books. [If you have a serious interest in the craft or trade you should join AWI. AWI and NAWCC complement each other. -Ron]

• The Antiquarian Horological Society (UK)
  Ticehurst
  East Sussex TN5 7AL
  tel 0580200155

  [produces a very good magazine quarterly essential reading for anyone interested in antiquarian horology. Ian White <white@STC.NATO.INT>]

• British Horological Institute. (BHI)
  Upton Hall
  Upton
  Newark. NG23 5TE.
  England, UK

  Library: the library maintained there is *the* most comprehensive horological library anywhere in the world, containing practically every book on the subject (and related issues) that has ever been written, in any language. [Tony Gray (tony@GOODWIN.DEMON.CO.UK)]

• Clockmakers Company
  Guildhall, London ( near St Paul's Cathedral)

  [Has a fantastic historical library together with a superb collection of watches and clocks ( view of this is free and essential pilgrimage for anyone interested in antiquarian horology) The AHS also have their library housed as part of the Guildhall library Ian White <white@STC.NATO.INT>]

• National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, Inc.
  (NAWCC)
  514 Poplar Street Columbia, PA 17512 USA
  Phone: (717)684-8261

  Dues: $40.00 per year (effective 1/1/95), $50.00 foreign) Services: International in scope. All phases of horology. Courses, research and lending library, videos. Sponsors regional chapters and marts. Museum (excellent). Publications: Bulletin; Mart (incl. in membership, each 6 issues/year). Scholarly texts. [You MUST belong. Just the Bulletin is worth the cost of membership. Over 30,000 active members. -Ron]

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