Wall clocks, mantel clocks, ship’s clocks, grandfather clocks and clocks that cuckoo, chime and play Disney tunes fill the small shop of Owen & Son in Cypress. Valuable antique clocks mix with ...
Before we all pulled our iPhones out of our back pocket to check the time, time was held by clocks, and some were the pinnacle of opulence. When it comes to antique clocks, there’s a world of rare and ...
Charles King describes himself as a tinkerer. As a kid, he tinkered with cars, small engines or just about anything that had a moving part. Then he joined the Navy and he got to tinker with really big ...
Collecting vintage clocks or watches isn't about marking time. At least not time as you or I normally think of -- minutes and hours measured by a watch's tick or a grandfather clock's chime. You don't ...
I still repair antique clocks. I regret to say that I’ve been fixing most of these clocks for several years, for they were brought in during the two years that I was sick, perhaps with “Long Covid®” ...
A native of Southeast Louisiana, Kade Seversen is a self-described "serial entrepreneur" with ambitious plans.
I have an 18th-century French mantel clock. It runs quite well, but its chimes are not properly synchronized with the time, so I hear things like nine chimes at 7:30 and one chime at noon. How do I ...
In 1920, my parents received a mantel clock as a wedding gift from my mother’s sister and my father’s brother who had been married, just the previous year. This timekeeper became a precious memento of ...