It’s obvious that [Matthew] cares a great deal for vintage electric clocks. He is especially fond of the bedside alarm variety, which in our experience cast a warm orange glow on the numbers and ...
"If it ticks, we can fix!" says expert repairman John Batrice, owner of The Clock Doc.At The Clock Doc, timepiece repair is their only business, not a sideline. John offers expert repair service for ...
If you're old enough to remember the '60s and '70s, you have some memory of car clocks that actually worked. Seems they worked when these vintage cars were new, but as the years passed, the ticking ...
Mark Purdy's life as a clockmaker isn't so much about telling time as it is about telling stories. From a Hopkins storefront bursting with wheels, gears, chimes and springs, Purdy repairs rare clocks ...
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 ...
Dennis Stoner spends his days reviving time. Stoner, 59, runs Stoner's Clock Repair out of the basement of his Blackman Township home, repairing various styles of spring- and weight-driven clocks.
In a digital age, traditional grandfather clocks may seem like a thing of the past. But for clock repair shop owners, business is still moving forward - and time is of the essence. “Clock making is in ...
Rob Deal doesn't take any time at all when asked to name his biggest challenge as a fixer of grandfather clocks. "When someone who isn't experienced gets in and messes with it," he says. Indeed, ...
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 ...
"If it ticks, we can fix!" says expert repairman John Batrice, owner of The Clock Doc. At The Clock Doc, timepiece repair is their only business, not a sideline. John offers expert repair service for ...