Dean Armentrout’s problem clocks keep him awake at night. Some run fast. Some run slow, and some don’t run at all. Repairs often mean cleaning and oiling the mechanism; balky escapements, missing ...
Q: My husband and I purchased a beautiful Howard Miller pendulum wall clock in 1994. It worked well until a few months ago, when it began adding two chimes, one at five minutes before the hour and one ...
As a rule, Donald Saff doesn’t collect clocks he can’t see inside of. It’s the harmonic entanglement of gears—and the skill needed to craft them—that first lured him to horology, the study of ...