Refine Search

  •  
  •  
New times for watchmakers

...their way out. Many watchmakers left the industry and...With the shortage of watchmakers, we're literally...The average age of a watchmaker in this country is...a more experienced watchmaker, where they can continue...director of the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/112401/bus_1124010061.shtml
Business
This was Brainerd - Jan. 30

...Adv.) Customer Notice! It's official . . . we've changed our name to E. L. Menk, Jeweler. Since I started The Watchmaker's just four years ago it has been a time of growth and change, and we're not just a repair shop anymore. Edwin L. Menk...

http://brainerddispatch.com/news/was-brainerd/2013-01-29/was-brainerd-jan-30
This Was Brainerd
This was Brainerd

March 12 20 years ago (1980) Ed Menk, owner of the Watchmaker's Jewelry Store in Brainerd was recently elected president of the Minnesota Watchmaker's Association at the recent convention in the Twin Cities. He is married, the father of...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/031100/new_0311000102.shtml
News
This was Brainerd

20 years ago (1982) Coupon specials Downtown Brainerd: Von's Catalog Showroom, The Watchmaker's, Opal Ann's Closet, Port of Anchor, TG&Y, Ehlers, Frances Shoppe, Brekken's, Gambles, Iron Owl, Mezner's Young...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/110702/new_1107020003.shtml
News
This was Brainerd

...Highway 371 North and Design Drive. 30 years ago (1974) Edwin Menk of Redwood Falls has joined Bud's Jewelry here as a watchmaker. He attended South Dakota State University. 40 years ago (1964) The Republican National Committee announced that Ronald...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/070904/new_0709040008.shtml
News
Way we track time changing with the times

...9 billion on watches in 2006, that figure was down 17 percent when compared with five years earlier. In response, some watchmakers have begun to add more functions to their time pieces, with models that have everything from heart rate monitors to GPS...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/021707/lif_20070217033.shtml
Features
You could hear the engines coming

...hot cinders. Big pocket watches dangled on gold chains from the bibs. Thompson said the watches were inspected monthly by watchmakers. And checking the pocket watch was a constant ritual. Now, Thompson said, driving trains is like sitting in an office...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/051899/cel_0518990041.shtml
Features
Not everybody escaped the Y2K bug

...Apple, Microsoft, ETrade and the New York Times had bizarre dates on their Web sites. So did famous timekeepers such as watchmaker Swatch and the ultra-precise U.S. Naval Observatory, which on Jan. 2 declared there were ''59,958,168,524 seconds...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/012200/tec_0122000068.shtml
Tech
Names and faces

...It's a pain in the neck." NSync to help Sept. 11 orphans LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Pop group NSync has teamed up with a Swiss watchmaker to raise money for children orphaned by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the group announced...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/120301/wha_1203010009.shtml
What
Next-generation robot has the hands of an astronaut

...dexterity by degrees of freedom. While Robonaut has 12 degrees in its hand; humans have 22, Lovchik says. The one-time watchmaker dissected several human hands at area medical schools to learned how to translate the mechanics of flesh and blood into a...

http://brainerddispatch.com/stories/072600/nei_0726000008.shtml
Neighbors

CONTACT US

  • Switchboard 218-829-4705
  • Report News 218-855-5860
  • Advertising 218-855-5835
  • Classifieds 218-855-5898
  • Circulation 218-855-5897
  • Vox Pop 218-855-5888
  • View the Staff Directory
  • or Send feedback

ADVERTISING

SUBSCRIBER SERVICES

SOCIAL NETWORKING