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 ...

This is the weekend when clocks move ahead, causing angst, lost sleep and health issues for many. Over the last decade, at ...

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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Saturday marks 52 years since Bob Kolbe opened his clock shop in central Sioux Falls. Now, Kolbe is taking offers from people interested in buying him out. After more than a ...

Depending on which way you look, the clock at Greensburg’s courthouse square might have the right time. Or it might not. The four-sided clock is slated for repairs as the original timepiece appears to ...

Well, I seem to have fallen off the wagon once more, this time because I had to restring the chains in a cuckoo clock. It should not have been a challenge, for I’ve done it on a regular basis for the ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. — When most people need to know the time, they look at their phones, their computers or the dashboards of their cars. Fewer and fewer seek that information from the old mahogany clock ...

MERTON, Wis. -- If it were easy anyone could do it, but only a few still do. They’re Wisconsin’s remaining horologists. Horology is the ancient art or science of making – or fixing – timepieces.