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®” ...
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 — ...
If a ticking clock is the heartbeat of a home, a little arrhythmia is not uncommon. Old clocks can be fussy, especially when moved from their longstanding positions or relocated to a different type of ...
“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 ...
The Avery-Bennett gallery clock at Old North Church & Historic Site withstood the American Revolution and Civil War, and marked the passage of time through the desegregation of congregations and a ...
Ralph Pokluda, 67, works on repairing a clock in the workshop at Chappell Jordan Clock Galleries on June 28, 2018. Hurricane Harvey. In the neighborhoods it flooded, residents tell of how eerily quiet ...