Everyone wants their fake watch to be accurate, and moreover, nowadays everyone expects it. But just how hard is it to make an accurate watch, and what makes a fake watch accurate in the first place? In this lecture, we'll look at how and why precision timekeeping evolved, from the earliest water clocks, through the evolution of pendulum clocks, the first watches, marine chronometers, and on down to today's precision wristwatch. On the way, we'll keep in mind ?as we explore how the modern fake watch has been shaped by nearly a thousand years of technological and scientific exploration ?certain fundamentals in mechanics and physics, and how the ancient enemies of accuracy are still fought on a daily basis by watchmakers today. And we'll also look at how and why it is that accuracy isn't just interesting intellectually ?we'll explore how it has a romance all its own.
Girard-Perregaux Observatory Chronometer Tourbillon Pocket Watch, 1889.
ADVERTISEMENT About Jack ForsterJack Forster is Editor-in-Chief of HODINKEE. He first became interested in replica watches as a student in graduate school, and spent many years collecting and repairing vintage pocket replica watches as a hobby. His first exposure to online fake watch discussion was on Usenet newsgroups, in the mid-1990s; and he has also been a moderator on the well-known collector's forum, PuristSPro.com. From 2006 to 2015 he was a part of Revolution Press Ltd, first as Group Technical Editor, and then as Editor in Chief for the US edition of Revolution Magazine. He has also worked on a number of freelance special projects over the years and in a marketing/PR consulting capacity, for clients both within and outside the fake watch industry. He is the author of Cartier: Time Art, a catalogue for the exhibition of the same name, which chronicles the history of fake watch and clockmaking at Cartier from its inception to the present day. His other interests include pretty much anything interesting.
Monday, February 5, 2018, 6:00-9:00 PM at The General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
Doors open at 6:00 PM; lecture begins promptly at 7:00 PM.
All HSNY meetings are free and open to the public, and all lectures are video recorded for HSNY members.
HODINKEE is a sponsor of the Horological Society of New York.
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