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Chapter 59 photo albumTake a look at what goes on at our monthly meetings! To look farther back in time, visit our watch and clock club archive.April 2008: Show & Tell featured the letter "R," and china- or porcelain-cased clocks. First up is a member's porcelain-cased clock - he thinks it's hideous, but it's a family heirloom so he's stuck with it! Next you can see a detail of the case decoration. The red hand-painted wood-cased Swiss bracket clock is new, but was destroyed in shipping (the only piece that survived was the bracket - the shelf-like object just right of center). It was returned to the factory and rebuilt. One member shared his Rockford pocket watches - you can see a couple 16-sizes and a lady's size. In the background, there's a repeating carriage clock, which you can see up close in the last photo.      Back to the top of this page March 2008: It was Chapter 59's 39th Anniversary. Our historian, Verlyn Kuhlmann, presented a display of Chapter 59 memorabilia, including two books written by Chapter 59 members. Show & Tell featured the letter "Q." In the second photo, you see some ways of keeping time by radio, including a time and weather radio, a clock/display connected to the stock market, and a clock that picks up a radio signal sent from Ft. Collins, CO which is in turn sync'd to an atomic clock at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (formerly the National Bureau of Standards) lab in Boulder, CO. The little object in the foreground is an early quartz crystal oscillator. Next up is a lovely quarter-strike clock movement. Last is Chapter 59's original NAWCC charter as the La Mesa Clock Club.     Back to the top of this page February 2008: Show & Tell was so spectacular, it replaced the program as the evening's entertainment. It featured the letter "P." First, you see some of the show and tell items, including a Patti clock, some lovely pocket watches, and some pilot's watches including two huge Russian models that trace their ancestry to the Hampden Watch Company. Next, we have a closer look at that lovely Patti clock. Th third photo shows part of Bruce Wegmann's vast collection of Pulsar LED wristwatches. The fourth photo shows two rare solid gold Pulsar Time Computer LED calculator wristwatch/calculators. For one glorious year, Time Computer outsold Rolex as the #1 luxury watch, but things went downhill pretty quickly - the fad lasted only a few years. The last photo shows a box of exceedingly rare Omega LED watches, based on the Time Computer module.      Back to the top of this page January 2008: New Chapter 59 officers are installed. From left to right: Mark Weaver, Mark Edgar, Bill Lassen, and Alvin Ruppert  Back to the top of this page November 2007: Show & Tell featured the letter "N." First, you see an unrestored Ulysse Nardin marine chronometer of the type that preceded the Hamilton models on U.S. warships. Next, we have a New York Springfield 18-size keywind/keyset pocket watch. This company preceded Hampden. There's also a "NASA chronometer" given away to kids as part of an after-school science enrichment program. The last photo shows a member's project clock, purchased at a recent auction.    Back to the top of this page Look back in time by visiting our watch and clock club image archive |