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January 13, 2021
Black and Jewish watchmakers are underrepresented in the modern watchmaking industry a reality the Horological Society of New York (HSNY) is making moves to rectify.
Both scholarships award individuals up to $5,000 annually.
The scholarships were designed to financially assist individual students, yes, but also to “encourage a stronger and more diverse industry [inclusive of] a broad range of backgrounds and experiences, and in turn, advance the art and science of horology,” HSNY said in a statement.
Benjamin Banneker (1731–1806) was a brilliant Black author, surveyor, landowner, farmer, mathematician, astronomer, and horologist. He built one of the first wooden mechanical clocks in North America in 1753; it was modeled after an imported pocket watch, and it ran for 50 years before it was destroyed in a fire.