This listing of member profiles does not constitute any sort of recommendation by the Officers or the Directors of Maine Chapter 89, nor is it a recommendation by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors.

Members of Chapter 89 whom you should know:

Jim Bryant
P. O. Box 128,
Route 133 North,
Wayne, Maine 04284
Telephone (207) 685-4720

His interests cover Clocks, Carillons, Bells, Organs, Players, Street Organs, PigeonTimers, any Musical Clock Work, and the repair of all these items.

Jim is also an expert in the repair and maintenance of tower clocks, and has worked on many of the 100 tower clocks known to exist in the State of Maine.

Jim is known as the "HURDY GURDY MAN" and shows up at Chapter meetings as an organ grinder, complete with his street organ, and puts on quite a show, costume and all.  He works with two orange-furred monkeys whom he rescued from the last remaining bit of Antarctic rain-forest.

In the fall of 2001, Jim appeared on Lou McNally’s “Made in Maine”.  The video is available upon request.

Jim is also one of our Plank owners (a member of the Chapter since its establishment).

At our January 2002 Chapter meeting in West Bath, Jim brought along a magnificent Pillar & Scroll reproduction he’d made.

www.jamesleaclocks.com

James Lea Clockmaker
2 West St. PO Box 25
Rockport Maine 04856
(207) 236-3632
NAWCC #12482  AWI #30820 BHI # 19609

I bought my first clock (a Sessions Tambour  which I still have) for $5 at an auction in 1958. It was not running so I took it apart on the kitchen table and when I put it back together, IT RAN! I was hooked.

I've been working on my own clocks ever since and building Period American Furniture for a living for 26 years. I went into full time building and repairing clocks in 1996. I joined the NAWCC  ( Number 12482 ) in 1964 and was elected President of the Maumee Valley Chapter 38 for a term of three years in 1965.

We moved to Maine in 1971 and haven't had a bad day since.

Most recently, one of Jim's clocks was featured in the November 2002 issue of "This Old House" magazine.