The NAWCC annual educational symposium is named in honor of the late Ward Francillon. The following tribute explains why.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
10 A.M. - 5 P.M. Visitor Center, Pick Up Registration Packets
10 A.M. - 3 P.M. House Museum. Small-group one-hour general introductory tours -
maximum 10 participants, advance reservations required.
Other tours of grounds and gardens available.
5:00 Visitor Center, opening reception, with complimentary light refreshments
(cash bar for wine and beer)
6:00 Welcome by Bob Frishman, Symposium Chairman,
Introduction of James Arthur Lecture
6:15 Thomas Allen, James Arthur Lecture, “A Republic in Time”
7:00 Conclusion of evening events
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
8:00 Visitor Center open, morning coffee
8:45 Tom Savage, Introductory Remarks
9:00 Joshua Lane & Ann Wagner, Highlights of Winterthur’s Horological Collections
9:30 Charles Hummel, Dominy Family and Clockshop
10:00 Frank L. Hohmann III & Donald Fennimore, Clockmakers Claggett and Wady
10:45 Morning break (no refreshments)
11:00 Mark Anderson and Stephanie Auffret, Conservation of a Peter Stretch Clock
11:30 Lisa Minardi, Pennsylvania clock cases
12.00 Elisabeth Mallin, Clocks of Germantown, Pennsylvania
12:30 Visitor Center lunch, voucher in registration packet
1:30 Richard Ketchen, Simon Willard Tall-Clock Movement Details close-up video
2:15 Jeffrey Lock, Rittenhouse Engraved Dials, close-up engraving video
& Ron Hoppes, Movement of Winterthur’s Rittenhouse clock
3:15 Afternoon Break (no refreshments)
3:35 Gary Sullivan, Clockmaking in Rhode Island
4:15 Philip Zimmerman, Delaware Clocks and Clockmakers
5:00 End of Day’s Presentations
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
8:00 Visitor Center open, morning coffee
8:45 Bob Frishman, Introduction of day’s program
9:00 David Wood, Diamond-head Banjo Clocks
9:45 Robert Cheney, Boston Clockmakers
10:30 Morning break
10:45 Philip Poniz, Pocket Watches at Winterthur, How They Were Made
11:45 Visitor Center Lunch, voucher in registration packet
1:15 Jonathan Snellenburg, French George Washington clocks
2:00 Philip Morris, Eli Terry and Wooden Movement Clocks
2:45 Afternoon break
3:00 Richard Newman, Watch Papers in the Winterthur Archives
3:30 Bob Frishman, Riggs Company Records in the Winterthur Archives
4:00 End of Day’s Presentations
6:00 Visitor Center. Cocktail Reception. Complimentary light refreshments
7:00 Visitor Center. Banquet, Buffet Seated Dinner
8:30 Morrison Heckscher, Keynote, Clocks of Winterthur & the Metropolitan Museum
9:30 End of Program
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2016
10:00 A.M. - 3:00 P.M. House Museum. Small-group one-hour general tours -
10 participants maximum, advance reservations required.
12-4 P.M. Visit to NAWCC Museum in Columbia, PA (60 miles from Winterthur)
Registrants and NAWCC Members Admitted Free
October 6-8, 2016
Winterthur Museum
National Association of Watch & Clock Collectors
Clocks at Winterthur