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Besides the meetings of the working groups there is a multiday annual meeting often including visits to museums, restoration workshops or private collections. Once a year the organization also organizes an international study tour, traveling to a foreign locals to study historic horological
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Editions on CD-ROM: In an effort to preserve and distribute rare historic horological publications the society has an active program of scanning historic periodicals and other publications on horology and making them available to the public and its members on
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Today the association is national in scope, and is loosely organised into working groups, both local groups (in Berlin, Dresden, Franconia, Frankfurt, Furtwangen, Hamburg, Cologne, Mannheim, Munich and Stuttgart) and special interest groups
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artefacts. The organization also maintains a comprehensive library with books, periodicals, auction catalogues and trade manuals related to horology.
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Newsletter: The organization publishes a quarterly newsletter for its members describing the activities of DGC and its working groups.
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started publishing its own yearbook with articles on historic timekeepers and collecting horological artefacts and sundials.
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Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Knowledge (XXG) article at ]; see its history for attribution.
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The administrative office and the library of the DGC are located in the historic former Gewerbemuseum in
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The association was founded in the post World War II years (as an unofficial successor to the
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Its main sister organizations in other countries pursuing similar goals are:
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Starting in 2000 the two yearbooks were combined into a redesigned
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Association Française des Amateurs d'Horlogerie Ancienne
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HORA Associazione Italiana Cultori di Orologeria Antica
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