Clockmaker, watchmaker, and horological expert Jim Flood races the clock to explain the history of timekeeping.
ABOUT JIM FLOOD:
Jim first learned clock repair as a young man in the 1970s at the St. Paul Minnesota
Vocational school, igniting a lifelong passion for horology. After graduating from
Minnesota State University with a degree in business administration. Jim enrolled in the St. Paul school of watchmaking. Jim furthered his education by graduating from the Watchmakers of Switzerland Training and Education Program (WOSTEP) in Neuchatel, Switzerland. As a scholar of horology, his interests are as a researcher of 17th and 18th-century British clocks and Early American clocks.
While Jim spent more than three decades in commerce, focused on sales of Enterprise Resource Planning Software, he never left his true passion for timepieces and the greater knowledge of the field of horology. He continued working on collectible watches and clocks during his business career.
In his practice of timepiece restoration, he has repaired and restored nearly 5,000
mechanical clocks and 8,000 watches. Jim has the distinction of being both a certified
watchmaker and certified clockmaker from the American Watch and Clock Institute
(AWCI).
Jim is a Freeman of London’s Worshipful Company of Clockmakers and has
memberships in the British Horological Institute (BHI); American Watch and Clock
Institute (AWCI); National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC and the Antiquarian Horological Society (AHS).
Find out more about Jim and his business at www.allabouttimeshop.com (http://www.allabouttimeshop.com).
We also discuss the book
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4806.Longitude)
by
Dava Sobel (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/3277.Dava_Sobel)
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