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Ball Watch Museum Tour, May 15-17!
May 15: Reception at B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore, MDMay
16-17: BALL Watch Museum Tour, Little Treasury Jewelers, Gambrills, MD
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On display will be the historical collection of BALL railroad watches owned by BALL Watch USA, as well as items from the collections of the B&O Railroad Museum and that of the National Watch and Clock Museum. |
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Brief remarks by Mr. Jeffrey P. Hess, President of Ball Watch Company USA, including a special surprise announcement! |
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Attendees will receive a free copy of the book The Railroad Time Keepers by Shawn M. Herne. Mr. Herne will be available at the event to autograph his book. |
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The event will be covered in person by Gary George Girdvainis the Editor in Chief of International Watch Magazine. A feature article on the BALL Museum Tour and the Museum will appear in the July issue. |
| Drawing for a
LIFETIME subscription to International
Watch Magazine, plus free trial subscriptions to the
magazine. |
| Please pre-register with the B&O Railroad Museum for this event, $10 for Museum members, $15 nonmembers: | If you are a Little Treasury Customer, please register through us directly: |
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| Display of the BALL Watch USA collection of historic BALL watches, including examples from the personal collection of Webb C. Ball. |
| In-detail history of the fabulous BALL Watch presented by Jeffrey Hess and Marc Ofte of Ball Watch USA. |
| Over 50 models of modern BALL watches will be on display, including 15 that have never been shown in our store before. |
| Drawing for a LIFETIME subscription to International Watch Magazine, plus free trial subscriptions to the magazine. One LIFETIME subscription drawing each day of the show. |
| Meet Gary George Girdvainis, Editor-in-Chief of International Watch Magazine. |
| BALL "goodies" available to attendees (while supplies last). |
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this show Little Treasury will offer one-year interest free financing on the
purchase of any BALL Watch. |
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Little Treasury is proud to announce that it is going to host
the BALL WATCH MUSEUM TOUR featuring many historical documents and timepieces
from Webb Ball’s personal collections. Ball Watch Company revolutionized
portable timekeeping with manufacturing techniques and accuracy protocols still
in use today. Many of Switzerland’s best known and most prestigious watch
manufacturers came to study with Webb Ball, as their own research was incapable
of matching the consistency and accuracy of Ball’s watches. To many an
academic
in the art of horology, BALL is the most significant watch brand in the history
of modern timepieces. Webb Ball was instrumental in the development of the
railroad protocols for timekeeping (those protocols led to the saving of
thousands of lives, as before instituting these new regulations trains were
crashing quite regularly due to variances in measurements of time). Ball’s
impact on American society was so profound, the word “Ball” came to be used
as a high compliment to a professional, as in, “That fellow over there, he’s
really 'on the Ball'.” 
Few brands of any product type have changed the
language, much less have those linguistic contributions last for over 100 years,
but “on the Ball” is still in use today, and is still a testimony for
exceptional performance.
B&O
RR Museum Roundhouse
