Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

COSTA MESA – It’s precisely 1 p.m. at Buck’s Clock Shoppe in Costa Mesa, and dozens of grandfather, cuckoo and pendulum clocks are singing their familiar songs. For 80-year-old Robert “Buck” Emenger, ...

Polished faces gleam from every corner of the room, yet the only sound inside this Elgin shop is a soft ticking. Keith Krantz, owner of the American Black Forest Clock Company, says he used to keep ...

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. - The grandfather clocks, mantle clocks and treasured cuckoo clocks we remember in our grandma's house are hot items in the antique market. But the tradesmen who repair those old ...

GALION - A dozen clocks ticked and tocked around Steve Shroyer as he opened the glass door of an American time-and-strike. "Different kinds of clocks need to be adjusted certain ways," he said, slowly ...

HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and previously ...

Ask Bob Tuerk for the time and he has about 3,000 ways he can tell you. And not one of them is a smart phone. "There's lots of clocks in here," Tuerk, 82, said of his 3,000 timepieces, including the ...