TUSCALOOSA | Timing is everything to Kenneth Moore. It's how he makes his living in a job in which he works with baffles and bushings to get the pings and bongs just right. Moore is a clock repairman.

It’s obvious that [Matthew] cares a great deal for vintage electric clocks. He is especially fond of the bedside alarm variety, which in our experience cast a warm orange glow on the numbers and ...

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 ...

I fix antique clocks. Everyone seems to think they are valuable, but that was 50 years ago. Notwithstanding the fact that old clocks are available in bulk at auctions, they are still loved, especially ...

“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 ...