November 1997
Abstract
Volume 139 no.11
The main feature this month, supported by a cover picture from the 'Eco-drive' range, is a brief history
of The Citizen Watch Company of Japan, which is now the world's biggest producer of finished watches.
Recent Trade Fairs in Vicenza, Italy, where IWC launched a completely new range of chronographs, and London,
are reported. There is also mention of an English Quaker clockmaker identified with a style of US tall
case clocks. In a possibly unique article Mike Harding confesses to a highly original way of 'matting
a dial, W D Brown describes a computer program for mainspring calculations and Dennis Harris looks at
Françoise Borgel, an early maker of screwed watch cases. Archie Perkins continues his series on jewelling,
John Robey provides useful tables of screw threads and C B Jones outlines an audacious design for a monumental
Millennium Clock designed to run for a thousand years on a single wind!
Table of Contents
Feature
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377-379 Citizen: Much more than Time, Timothy Treffry
Articles
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370-371 Confession of a Restorer, Mike Harding
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371-372 Program for Mainspring Calculations, W D Brown
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373-375 Francois Borgel Watch Case Maker 1856-1912, Dennis Harris
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380-383 Replacing Jewels in Antique Watches, 3, Archie B Perkins
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384-385 A 1000-year Clock for the Millenium, Charles Brandram Jones
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386-388 Screw Threads, John Robey
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