{"id":2703,"date":"2020-12-27T11:34:06","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T11:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2021-02-12T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T14:43:51","slug":"january-meeting-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"2021 January Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>7th January 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A talk by Graham Morse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The restoration of three watches by\n&#8216;Messrs: Leroux, Roskell, Mudge &amp; Dutton&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Grahan-Morse-Jan-2021-730x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2713\" width=\"196\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Grahan-Morse-Jan-2021-730x1024.jpg 730w, https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Grahan-Morse-Jan-2021-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Grahan-Morse-Jan-2021-768x1078.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Grahan-Morse-Jan-2021.jpg 1982w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">The South London Branch is delighted to\nwelcome back<strong> Graham\nMorse, <\/strong>from the Wessex branch who many of you\nwill remember gave us a fantastic talk in February 2020. For those of you who\nhave not attended the speaker\u2019s previous talk hear is a brief resume of his\ninvolvement in horology in his own words.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBefore retiring from Xerox in 2013, I had been fascinated by\nhorology since I bought, on a whim at a local auction some 30 years before, a\nFrench black marble mantel clock. After repairing it, and in the process being\npersuaded by a local clockmaker to join the BHI Wessex Branch, I progressed\nfrom these clocks, via a brief foray into wristwatches, to the world of English\nwatches from the 18th and early 19th centuries. I think much of the attraction\nof this field for me lies in the largely handmade nature of these pieces and the\ncomplexity of the trade, comprising such a multiplicity of crafts, which\nproduced them. The nature of their manufacture frequently gives rise to the\nnecessity to make replacement parts from the raw materials, something I\nsometimes find challenging but always most rewarding.<br>\n<br>\nMy involvement with the Wessex Branch has deepened, from initially taking over\nthe maintenance and running of our auction database software and its general\nadministration, to now having been Chairman since Andrew James stood down in 2017,\nI&#8217;m also a member of the Antiquarian Horological Society, the Dorset Clocks\nSociety and the NAWCC.<br>\n<br>\nThe Zoom presentation deals in some detail with the repair and restoration of\nthree pocket watches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1&nbsp;&nbsp; A Quarter Repeater signed\nfor John Leroux, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2&nbsp; &nbsp;A Rack Lever signed for Robert Roskell, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3&nbsp;&nbsp; A Cylinder signed for Thomas\nMudge &amp; William Dutton<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WatchPaperBlank1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2712\" width=\"150\" height=\"155\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WatchPaperBlank1.jpg 414w, https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WatchPaperBlank1-290x300.jpg 290w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Meeting held on line via Zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7th January 2021 A talk by Graham Morse The restoration of three watches by &#8216;Messrs: Leroux, Roskell, Mudge &amp; Dutton&#8217;. The South London Branch is delighted to welcome back Graham &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/?p=2703\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2021 January Meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meetings-2020-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2739,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slbbhi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}