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 ...

To a veteran horologist, "time is still a man-made invention." In his Pennsylvania workshop, he fixes its flaws. Horologist Theron "Jeff" Jeffery has been fixing clocks at his Ye Old Clock Shoppe in ...

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, ...

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 ...

Clock and watch repairman Michael Sater shows a mariner's chronometer from the 1920s or 1930s on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, in Maryville. Sater recently relocated from Bloomington, Ind., and runs his ...

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 ...

“We bought the business from the original owners, Rainer and Marita Frew, in 2004 after they built and established it in 1988,” Mr Rich said. “We come from a primary producers’ background as graziers, ...