Watch and Clock Club

By Bruce Shawkey

Found this article in a 1960s issue of Europa Star magazine:

Keen on Old Watches and Clocks ? 

If so, you can become a member of the "Friends of Antique Watches and Clocks" which was recently founded by a German watch manufacturer, Mr. Philipp Weber, under the auspices of the German Chronometrical Society. An International Committee was set up consisting of: Prof. Dr. Hans von Bertele, Vienna (Austria) Dr. E. Gschwind, Basle (Switzerland) Director Gretzsche, Dresden (East Germany) and Mr. H. Alan Lloyd, Oxford (England) 

The Association intends to publish a Bulletin, open a library, organize lectures and visits to exhibitions of antique horology. Plans are being made to set up an archives department so that information and photographs may be available to all members and a reference file will be started listing all ancient clocks and watches belonging to members. In cooperation with museums and other institutions, the group will undertake research directed more particularly towards the technical aspects of early watches and clocks.

Contacts with foreign collectors will be sought, more especially in Switzerland, France, Great Britain and America in order to arrange exchanges of lecturers, publications and information. The final achievement of the "Friends of Antique Watches and Clocks" will be the publication of a volume containing a thousand illustrations of antique horological exhibits with descriptions in the principal languages. The first international meeting took place on June 30, 1960 in Stuttgart, just before the Annual General Assembly of the German Chronometrical Society and the first number of the Bulletin was issued on this occasion. 

ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP FEES $53.75 for individual members, ($57.50) for institutes, schools, libraries, etc. Applications for membership may be sent to: Mr. Philip Weber, Arctos Watch and Clock Factory, Pfalzerstr. 1, Pforzheim (West Germany).