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December 2012

December 2012 Meeting. The President advised that after discussions in the USA it was decided to try and form a new Chapter for those interested in carriage clocks. This would be mainly an online forum with no membership fees initially The next watch group meeting was to be held at Steven McMahons on the 16th Dec 2012. All the ladies who had helped prepare the meeting afternoon teas throughout the year were called to the front and thanked for their work .They were given a gift with a big round of applause by the members. Doug Minty gave a presentation on his trip to the Minneapolis Symposium and advised that by co incidence while in USA he had found an identical movement (an Ingram Indian that had all the same patent dates) to that fitted to the Australian OKABUR (Kookaburra) clock he showed previously.
October 2012

Roger Little presented a talk on Horological Tools. Roger is passionate about the history of clock and watchmaking and the early tools used. There are many very attractive pieces of machinery used to make and shape wheels. These early machines were almost invariably hand cranked with a wheel or a bow.
August 2012

At Show and Tell, an Australian clock had the name OKABUR, Kangaroo clock Co, Haberfield, Sydney, enclosed in a rather plain Queensland Maple case. What on earth could this name refer to?
Museum of Contemporary Art

The invitation came via our website and was promoted by the Museum of Contemporary Art on their website and on local radio.
June 2012

Some highlights from the presentation, and some damaged clock cases for discussion and assistance. One of our members completed his first clock - a very impressive skeleton movement.
April 2012

The main presentation was on collecting small clocks, and revealed some very interesting examples to look out for. There are advantages in having a special interest as you can learn a lot in what may be an under researched field, and become an expert.
February 2012

The main presentation by Doug Minty was about collecting watches. If you think you know about clocks, watches are a much more complex field, especially the arena of watches with complications over and above time and date functions. Doug's presentation included what to collect that interests you and more importantly to fit your budget.

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