My 25-year-old cuckoo clock hung on the dining room wall silent for over two years. Finally, this month, I decided to see if I could repair the clock to produce the comforting, hourly cuckoo whistle ...
HOLLAND — If you think there’s something cuckoo in Holland these days, there is. Former electrical engineer Dan Winebrenner is opening Holland Clock Co., a store specializing in new and previously ...
I was going through some things in storage and my eye caught a box with tissue paper cradling something very dear to me — my Swiss chalet-style cuckoo clock. The tiny music box inside stopped cooing ...
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 ...
ST. PETER — Steve Hultengren said he probably has his mom to thank for his interest in clocks, which led to a career spanning more than four decades. It wasn't that she encouraged him as a youngster ...
My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar in the ...
“Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, ...
Once hundreds of clocks are hung in a new exhibition space, “it’s going to be like stepping into the Black Forest.” By Sandra Jordan Reporting from Waterford, Ireland “How often do you get the chance ...
"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 ...