7th November 2024
Gordon Hoare
‘The Idiosyncrasies of working on Chronometers’.
Some of you attending the South London branch open day, on Saturday the 5th of October, may have stopped to talk to Gordon with his terrific display of fine chronometers in the Garland Hall of Soper Hall. Gordon has been fascinated with horology for over 60 years, being a longstanding member of the Sussex branch of the BHI and attends the AHS meetings at West Dean.
He has been lucky to have the support of expert chronometer craftsmen. When starting on chronometers he was given support by Robin Thatcher and later when suffering Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, cleaning one of his chronometer balances, the jewels fell out when the shellac failed. Roger Stephenson came to the rescue and expertly tutored him putting the jewels back into their rightful places. Gordon wishes to share some of the idiosyncrasies and problems he has experienced while working on and maintaining his collection of chronometers and will bring along some examples for us to admire.
Gordon is 7th Dan Kyoshi, Black belt, Senior Instructor of the Horsham DKW Wadoryu Karate club, which he helped to set up. He is also interested in electrical horology and inexpensive watches.
Duncan Greig
Doors open at 19:30, Starting 20.00 hours.
The meeting will be held at The White Hart Barn in Godstone.
THE WHITE HART BARN (Godstone Village Hall)
GODSTONE
SURREY RH9 8DU
7.30pm for 8.00pm Start