The boards of the KIVI Department of the History of Technology and the Histechnica Association have the pleasure of inviting you to attend a lecture to be given by Mr A.J. Barnard, entitled:

"One hundred years and their watches"

Programme:

10.30:00: Building open; reception with coffee

11:00: Information on the study tour to Turin and Bologna in April 2020 by Mr Ton Boele (study tour commissioner)

11.10:00: Lecture by Mr A.J. Barnard (lecturer in watchmaking at the Schoonhoven Craft School).

11:50 a.m.: Break

12:15: Continuation of lecture / concluding discussion

12:45: End of the meeting

Registration is required to attend this lecture. The registration deadline closes on Saturday, 5 October 2019.

How to register:

- KIVI members should register via the KIVI website (red button)

- Interested parties who are not KIVI members are also welcome and can register there. Please note that there are costs involved. Further information can be found on the KIVI website.

Summary of lecture

On the occasion of the 100th anniversary in 2019 of the Watchmaking course at Vakschool Schoonhoven, the idea arose in late 2017 to do something with that anniversary. With the advancement of time and technology in those last 100 years, watches have also changed. Actually, this period from 1919 to 2019 more or less coincided with the birth and use of the wristwatch. Before those years, until around 1937, mainly pocket watches dominated alongside some travel clocks as the only portable timekeepers.

Until around 1945, people trained as 'watchmakers' because that was the emphasis until then. Today's apprentices are fascinated by these branded mechanical watches with complicated movements; again, this is in contrast to the apprentices of the past, who had far fewer of these options because they were now less common.

In this lecture, we look back at what might be common for the average Dutchman. In doing so, we have tried to paint a picture of the watches that might end up on the workbench of a Dutch watchmaker between 1919 and 2019. Which ones were only briefly in vogue, such as LED watches. (LED= Light Emitting Diode, this is the name for the digital quartz watches with red numbers)

The great interest in watches in general in the last 20 years, leads many enthusiasts to delve into detailed sub-areas in watch history. This results in high prices for vintage watches, either in terms of brands or special technical developments. Efforts have been made to provide the widest possible alert to describe as accurately as possible the dating of models commonly found in the Netherlands. Improvements are welcome.

Information about the speaker, Mr Arjan Barnard

Arie Johannes Barnard (Arjan) was born on 23 April 1956 in Hardenberg. After secondary school, he studied to become a watchmaker at the Schoonhoven Trade School and also obtained the jewellers' diploma. From 1983, he worked in the jewellery business founded by his father in 1953. Since 2013, also part-time teacher of Watchmaking at the Vakschool Schoonhoven. Last year, Arjan guest lectured on factory chimneys; now a completely different subject.

Upcoming activities:

- tuesday 12 November 2019 ("outdoor day" in Haarlem), 10.30 am to about 3.30 pm: Visit to Teylers Museum and Hodshon House (Hollandsche Maatschappij der Wetenschappen) with lectures on 1) history Teylers Museum, 2) Prof Lorentz's Haarlem years and 3) Dr Sam Goudsmit, Dutch-American nuclear physicist and his hunt for Hitler's atomic bomb.

Guided tour and talks provided by Teylers Science Curator and Frank W. van den Berg, president of KIVI-GdT.

- saturday 14 December 2019: Lecture "The development of 100 years of information technology within Centric". Lecture by ir. R. van Vliet, Centric, Enterprise Services & Innovation.

- 19 - 25 April 2020: Study trip to Turin and Bologna.

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