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Show Taysom completes Watch Course - y r a ... zi . 4 tremendous need for properly trained professionals to serve all the members of the public who buy electronic watches," he said. The new all-quartz timekeeping course for jewelers and watchmakers is conducted at locations throughout the country and involves intensive classroom instruction on various models of stepper motor quartz watches with dials and training on solid-state watches with digital readouts. Taysom attended the course at Salt Lake City. Vernal J. Taysom of Gem Jewelers in Cedar City lias completed a professional course in quarts-based timekeeping conducted by Bulova. Watch Company. The intensive program is designed for the watch technician who handles quarts-based wrist watches that use a tiny bar of quartz crystal that keeps time by vibrating 32,768 times a second. "These are the finest type of quartz watches," Taysom said, "that offer the consumer con-sumer an in-use accuracy to within 60 seconds a year." Basically, there are two types of quartz watches: the quartz analog watch with a dial with hands; and the solid-state watch with digital readout." Taysom said that "last year, the great majority of solid-state digital watches were being sold by personnel who did not even know how to set a digital watch correctly, and who did not know how to change batteries. bat-teries. Therefore there is a VERNAL J. TAYSOM |