Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . After completing 9 months of consecutive clock repair courses, Kenneth E. DeHaven, MD, received his diploma from ...

When retired founder Jim Michaels returned to the School of Horology in 2008, it was supposed to be as a substitute teacher for two weeks. But Michaels, who had kept following industry trends despite ...

In a small office off 30th Street in Boulder, an orchestra of ticks, tocks and chimes quietly accompanies David Phillips’ patient precision. For the most part, the symphony is silent to the clock ...

In today’s throwaway culture, you may not have a prayer of finding a repairman to fix your mantle clock that suddenly stopped working, especially close to a holiday. But on a side street in Pottstown, ...

“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 ...