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} } Keith Scobie-Youngs Lectures on Restoring Big Ben! 🇬🇧 The Conservation of the Great Clock of Westminster – Big Ben Keith Scobie-Youngs, Co-Founder, The Cumbria Clock Company (Cumbria, England) Monday, June 9, 2025 In 2017, the Great Clock of Westminster—better known as Big Ben—was fully dismantled and removed from the iconic Elizabeth Tower for the first time since its installation in 1859. This unprecedented conservation project, completed in 2022, presented a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to examine, restore, and future-proof the world’s most famous public timepiece. At the June 2025 lecture of the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), Keith Scobie-Youngs, co-founder of The Cumbria Clock Company, will share behind-the-scenes of the entire five-year restoration process, from the meticulous disassembly and transportation of the 5.5-ton movement to the intricate conservation techniques employed by his specialist team. Every stage of the project was guided by a deep respect for the clock’s original craftsmanship and a commitment to ensuring its reliable operation for another 160 years and beyond. Join Scobie-Youngs, lead conservator on the project, as he shares the challenges, discoveries, and triumphs of restoring this remarkable Victorian masterpiece to its full glory. Doors open at 5:30 PM ET, lecture to begin at 6 PM ET. RSVP is required. The lecture video will be available to members immediately, and to the general public following a two-month delay. RSVP Previous Lecture: John Harrison and a Clock for All Seasons: The Creation of the Gridiron Pendulum Eddie Landzberg, Horologist (New York, New York) May 5, 2025 VIEW THE LECTURE Video recordings of lectures are available immediately to HSNY members, and to the general public with a two-month delay. LEARN MORE Welcoming New HSNY Members  HSNY would like to welcome the following new members. It is only with our members' support that we are able to continue flourishing as America's oldest watchmaking guild and advancing the art and science of horology every day.  GOLD Paulo Passoni, NY Utsav Jalan, NY SILVER Cameron Jenkins, NY Charles Flippen II, CA Hugh Babowal, NY Jacob Freed, CA BRONZE Alexis Smits, Belgium Anthony Boskovich, MA Anthony Palassis, Australia Benjamin Hammond, NY Christian Lawrence, NY Christopher Wright, NY David Simpson, NY Gabriel Newman, NY Gabriel Oppenheim, NY Gregory Gerard Allison, NY Louis Muglia, NC Matthew Rubas, ME Matthew Wang, OR Nathan Bonheimer, NY Phillip Dade, UT Robert Ardan, PA Robert Vergara, NY Vivek Narayan, NY * Upgraded Membership Level BECOME A MEMBER GIFT A MEMBERSHIP Reading Time at HSNY: The Bound and the Beautiful This post is part of a series, Reading Time at HSNY, written by our librarians. Today’s post was written by Head Librarian Miranda Marraccini.  When visitors come to our library at the Horological Society of New York (HSNY), we encourage them to pull books off the shelf that catch their eye. Sometimes, what draws people in is obvious: a big-name watch brand in the title, the sparkle of a diamond-set bezel on the cover, a book that looks ancient. Other times it’s something quirkier. One of the best-thumbed books in our collection is the straightforwardly named “Problems in Time and Space.” Why, you might ask, would visitors pick out this dry-sounding textbook from 1909? It’s because the book has a Star of David on the binding, so many people assume it must be about connections between Judaism and horology–a subject that we do indeed have a few books about (for instance, “Understanding the Jewish Calendar” and “The Watchmakers.”) But “Problems in Time and Space” uses the Star of David only as a hexagram, a simple astronomical symbol, just like a five-pointed star. It doesn’t actually discuss Judaism at all. Images 1 and 2 show the spine and cover of the book, apparently a magnet for bookshelf browsers.  The book covers topics including astronomical measurement, the magnetism of the Earth, and the historical development of the calendar. Images 3 and 4 are two illustrations from the book, one showing the path of Earth’s axis as it is affected by precession and nutation, and one demonstrating the hours of daylight and dark at the solstices and equinoxes. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL POST... On The Horological Horizon...    NEW YORK CITY COURSES Horology 101 — June 10 Horology 102 — June 12 Horology 101 — June 17 Horology 101 to 103 — June 21 WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — June 24 Horology 104 — June 26 Horology 101 to 103 — June 28 WEEKEND CLASS   Horology 101 — July 8 Horology 101 to 103 — July 12 WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — July 15 Horology 102 — July 17 Horology 101 to 103 — July 19 WEEKEND CLASS Horology 101 — July 22 Horology 104 — July 31 TRAVELING EDUCATION Horology 101-103 in SILICON VALLEY [June 20 - 22]  Horology 101-103 in LAS VEGAS [September 13 - 14]  Click here to register for classes! Join the waitlist here!  GIFT A CLASS Come shop with us! HSNY has started selling a small number of used books on time and timekeeping to the dedicated connoisseur of horology. Do you have 19 copies of Britten’s Old Clocks and Watches and need one more to round out your collection? Have aliens abducted your rare and elusive copy of Die deutsche Räderuhr and beamed it aboard their mothership? Has your dog eaten your vital copy of Modern Watch Repairing and Adjusting on the very weekend that you need to service your boss’s vintage Rolex? Don’t be caught unprepared! Come visit HSNY’s library to find these bibliographic gems and more. Our offerings are constantly changing so stop by our library anytime and see what’s new. The Clockmakers’ Museum, housed at the Science Museum in South Kensington is launching its next annual programme of  temporary displays, which will showcase extraordinary objects from public and private horological collections. The second of these, titled Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy: A Champion of British Craftsmanship, will open to the public on the 13th of November 2024. The display has been created to tell the story of the last of the great Vulliamy family of Royal clockmakers based at 68 Pall Mall, London, from 1753. Benjamin Lewis  Vulliamy was a five-times Master of the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and a champion of British craftmanship. He was also one of the driving forces behind the formation of the Clockmakers’ Museum. Learn more HERE. DONATE TO HSNY HSNY thanks our sponsors for their generous support Copyright © 2025 Horological Society of New York, All rights reserved. unsubscribe from this list    update subscription preferences 

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