Date: May 8, 2026

Time: 9:20 AM – 2:30 PM (UK Time)

Online Only

The NAWCC Ward Francillon Time Symposium is an annual educational event where experts share the latest in horological research.

Held each year since 1980, the symposium was renamed in 2003 to honor Ward Francillon, a longtime member who served the NAWCC in many roles and strongly supported horological education.

Join us online for a full day of presentations and discussion focused on horological scholarship and ongoing research in the field.

9:20 AM – Jenny Bulstrode: Pirates and Watches? Watch Workshops in the British Caribbean

10:00 AM – Kristin Leith: Counting the Seconds: Isaak Pluvier and Early Seconds Watch Technology During the 17th Century

11:10 AM – Dale Sardeson: The Grand Tour: Around the World in a Small Horological Collection

11:50 AM – Jane Desborough: What and How “…the clocke tolde him…”: Clock and Watch Dials as Communicators of Information in the Early Modern Period

12:30 PM – Break for Lunch

1:30 PM – 2026 James Arthur Lecturer Keith Scobie-Youngs: Forged in Fire

Viewers are welcome to join the webinar at any time.

Individual lectures will be posted at a later date on the NAWCC Museum YouTube Channel.