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 ...

Q: I enjoy your column in the newspaper, and was wondering what you could tell me about the clock shown in the following two pictures? I have been told it has been in my family for over 200 years, but ...

HINGHAM — The hands of 87-year-old Astrid Donnellan are as steady as a surgeon as she painstakingly works on restoring the dial of an 1825 antique clock. Clocks are on everyone’s minds this weekend as ...

Peter Lilienthal sees potential where others see none left. “I hate to see good things go in the garbage,” he said. Now 68 and the proprietor of Good as Old Antiques Repair & Art Gallery in Sheffield, ...

A $30,000 restoration is underway for an antique street clock in Alamosa which was nearly junked decades ago. Velhagen Brothers Jewelry, which is no longer in business, installed the ornate cast-iron ...

In this project, I restore a vintage-style Victoria Station clock, bringing it back to its original charm. The process includes careful cleaning, repairing worn parts, refinishing surfaces, and ...

Noon in Skip’s Clock Shop in Randolph sounds a lot like the introduction to Pink Floyd’s 1972 song “Time.” Before the hour strikes, the windowless workshop is quiet except for the steady ticking of ...

Local leaders raised the funds, but mysteriously, there was no record of what the battered timepiece looked like when it was installed more than 100 years ago. By John Freeman Gill On a busy strip of ...