"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 ...
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 ...
Since he was 14, the 51-year-old Huntington Township native has tinkered, restored, repaired and even built clocks. “I can make a clock, but have only been asked to do it twice in my life,” said ...
And grandfather clocks, prized by some, but they tend to scare children, for many kid’s cartoons and stories seem to feature ...
Rob Deal doesn't take any time at all when asked to name his biggest challenge as a fixer of grandfather clocks. "When someone who isn't experienced gets in and messes with it," he says. Indeed, ...
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 ...
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 ...