“There’s not many of us around anymore,” LaBounty said. “The modern generation is less and less interested in restoring something. They throw it away and get something new.” Clock repairers share a ...

The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to release that energy at regular intervals, and a mechanism to transmit it where it needs to ...

My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar in the ...

Business name: Hickory Dickory Dock-tor Clock Repair. Location: North of Holland Patent on Route 274. Phone: 339-8061. E-mail: clockdoc@dreamscape.com. Open: By appointment. Owners: Jeff and Louise ...

As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...

Hugh Hunt is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and is Keeper of the Trinity College Clock. London is soon going to lose one of its most familiar sounds when the world-famous Big Ben falls silent ...

Are you one of the many people who either inherited an old clock or found one you love for its artistry and craftsmanship, but it doesn’t work, and you have no idea what to do with it? Such was my ...