Think of him as Grandfather Time. David Lindow is one of the last manufacturers in the country of grandfather clocks. As he practices a venerable craft dating back to the 17th century, the clock may ...

Normally operating rooms are quiet. In the Clockmaker’s Gallery however, Charles Christensen’s fine motor skills work in parallel with a cacophony of chimes from hundreds of timepieces in his shop.

EUGENE, Ore. — Tick. Tock. Times 2,000. That’s the sound you hear upon entering The Clockmaker’s Gallery — the sound of about 2,000 clocks ticking and tocking, binging and bonging. It’s enough to make ...

The 1925 banjo-shaped clock had not worked for eight years when the owner brought it to Don Christo. Now, tick follows tock and the clock's pendulum lazily swings in time. In an age when people think ...

PHILADELPHIA -- In a dusty, sunlit workshop, James S. Shott carves time out of tiger maple and cherry wood. For a month, he chisels, scrapes, sands and polishes. Then he mounts a brass-and-steel ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1631, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is the oldest surviving horological institute in the ...

James Nye has the assistant chaplain at school to thank for his career. For any boys not interested in rugby at Ardingly College in West Sussex in the 1970s, Reverend Waters offered lessons in basic ...

Charles Christensen has been repairing timepieces of all kinds at his Clockmaker’s Gallery since 1979. The shop services a wide variety of clocks, from rare, centuries-old pieces to modern ones.