[time-nuts] Mechanical Precision Clocks

[Tom Van Baak]

Hi Adrian,

FYI -- Bill's also a long-time member of time-nuts. And he's also one of the reasons there is a time-nuts group. In the mid 90's I met Bill (and also Corby) through classified ads in Nuts & Volts magazine. Long story, but it was then that I learned it was "ok" to be interested in both vintage mechanical / pendulum clocks and also modern quartz / atomic clocks. His pendulum clocks are world-class masterpieces and his home atomic time lab was the inspiration for mine.

>From my perspective most historical, horological, mechanical watch & clock people are shy (or even dismissive) of anything electronic. Similarly, most electronic timekeeping people are ignorant (or even dismissive) of the wonderful world of precision mechanical timekeeping. So there's only a small subset of people who bridge that gap. Bill is one of them. If you're interested in modern mechanical timekeeping, please subscribe to HSN (Horological Science Newsletter) via http://www.hsn161.com

If you have any questions for Bill, I'm sure he'd be happy to answer them.

/tvb


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "rfnuts" <rfnuts at arcor.de>
To: <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 4:23 PM
Subject: [time-nuts] Mechanical Precision Clocks


> Bill Scolnik's Clocks:
> http://www.precisionclocks.com/index.html
> 
> The (non mechanical) standards lab:
> http://www.precisionclocks.com/wpimages/wpe1967732_06.png
> 
> Adrian