I still repair antique clocks. I regret to say that I’ve been fixing most of these clocks for several years, for they were brought in during the two years that I was sick, perhaps with “Long Covid®” ...
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 ...
Here at Dorian Clair Antique Clock Repair on Sanchez Street, the unmistakable, rhythmic sound echoes from nearly every nook and cranny of the shop, where hundreds of clocks from all over the world — ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...