A great holiday gift for the watch lover in your life might be a membership to America’s oldest watchmaking guild, the Horological Society of New York.
The Horological Society of New York (HSNY), announced that it has established two new scholarships for minority watchmaking students. America’s first watchmaking guild announces the Benjamin Banneker Scholarship for Black Watchmaking Students, as well as the Oscar Waldan Scholarship for Jewish Watchmaking Students.
“Benjamin Banneker: Surveyor-Inventor-Astronomer” mural by Maxime Seelbinder, located at the Recorder of Deeds building, built in 1943. 515 D Street, NW, Washington, DC
Oscar Waldan, founder of Waldan Watches, and the name behind the new HSNY watchmaking scholarship for Jewish students.
Oscar Waldan was a Polish-born Jewish watchmaker who learned the basics of watchmaking during his imprisonment in the Buchenwald Concentration Camp during World War II, where he befriended a watchmaker in the camp who took him on as his apprentice and subsequently, that skill saved his life. Today, his son Andrew Waldan operates Waldan Watches, a company his father founded here in America in 1979.
