The classic design of a mechanical clock generally consists of a display, a way to store energy, a way to release that energy at regular intervals, and a mechanism to transmit it where it needs to ...

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 ...

“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 ...