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 ...

GILLETTE, Wyo. — When most people need to know the time, they look at their phones, their computers or the dashboards of their cars. Fewer and fewer seek that information from the old mahogany clock ...

Well, I seem to have fallen off the wagon once more, this time because I had to restring the chains in a cuckoo clock. It should not have been a challenge, for I’ve done it on a regular basis for the ...