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In the mail today, I received the DVD movie HUGO. Our Chapter and newsletter reaches out to so many interesting people and places.īelow are two links with detailed information. This is exciting stuff, especially if you have seen the movie 'HUGO'. I will follow up and see what it will take to have a program brought here. Its an amazing story that is well documented.Īndy has given a program on the automaton to the NAWCC in Minneapolis. This was followed with contact from the Franklin for him to restore the automaton. He related the story of his work with the award winning book ' The Invention of Hugo Cabret' and eventually the movie 'HUGO'. Charlie Penniman at the Franklin give him my name as a contact. Ron had asked some questions about the Maillardets automation that is now at The Franklin Institute Museum in Philadelphia. He was looking for a contact to Ron Weiss who was associated with our chapter Field Suitcase Workshops. Well I was very excited to receive a phone call from Andy Baron. This inquiry may have been directed to you instead of Ron Weiss? Please let me know. Subject: Fw: Andrew Baron: My Time With Hugo and the Automaton It is the best of all Horological Newsletters on the Internet, filled with stories, photos and descriptive material. You can also request it emailed to you via Internet, monthly. Should you care to read our wonderful monthly Newsletter, GOOGLE and type in CHRONO TIMES.

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In the two links below in the email sent me by Mike Schmidt, they will take you to one of the best stories ever involving clocks, plus its involvement with the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia.for even further information to the movie “Hugo.” Please type into GOOGLE.the movie “Hugo.”īelow: A copy of the email sent me by Mike Schmidt, President of NAWCC Chapter 190 of Ventura, CA. As far as I know, we have only one Wristwatch Company making high-grade, expensive wristwatches in the Lancaster, PA area called RGM.

We no longer have any watch or clock factories in the USA, should you buy a clock today, certainly, it will be an import. Our computers, our DVRs, our TVs and a host of other desk implements will also deliver time practically equal to our best atomic clocks. Practically any electronic gadget you can hold in your hand will give you the time of day. However, with the event of natural evolution across the years in our world of electronics, we, today, have roughly 17,000 NAWCC members. In prior years our NAWCC membership totaled between 38,000 to 40,000 dues paying members. We are the leading Horological Museum in all America. I understand we have the largest Horological Library in the world and our Horological collection of clocks and watches and related implements has grown to over 12,000 pieces. We as NAWCC members and tourists, visit the Museum today to the tune of approximately 12,000 visitors yearly. I also recall we acquired our own building later on, and it evolved into our magnificent NAWCC Museum in Columbia, PA.

That eventually became the National Association of Watch and Collectors Museum. I do not remember the history at this moment, of the Horologic material in its removal from the Franklin Institute and delivery to the Strickler home. Strickler had his own Horological Museum in Columbia, PA. The Franklin Institute was the first repository of our collection of Horological material. Sending an email to Mike, relating the email not meant for me however, it took me back to when I first joined the NAWCC in 1964. Subject: Fw: Andrew Baron and My Time With Hugo and the Automaton Mike wanted to know if the email may have been misdirected to Ron Weiss, instead of to me. Yesterday, I received an email from Mike Schmidt, President of our NAWCC Chapter 190 of Ventura, CA. As members of the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, we never know where our surnames will lead us.