"If it ticks, we can fix!" says expert repairman John Batrice, owner of The Clock Doc. At The Clock Doc, timepiece repair is their only business, not a sideline. John offers expert repair service for ...

The kid grew up learning the trade from his grandfather. So when Vince Degani died at 86 a few years ago, his grandson, Greg, was ready to step into his grandfather’s shoes. Carry on the work Vince ...

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 ...

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 ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY — Time stood still as horologist Chuck London fiddled with the skeleton of an old, broken mantel clock. The glow from the gold timekeeper reflected off London's spectacles as he worked ...

Terry Kasper calls himself the Clock Doctor, and Lane Westrick calls himself the Watch Doctor. Together, they spent about 10 years working on timepieces from a shared storefront at 801 E. Midland St.

The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the escapement mechanism controls this sound.

Clocks with hands that turn are all well and good for the common folk, but hacker types prefer something different. [Sjm4306] is one such person, and developed this analog dial clock with parts we’d ...