Keeping time and the instruments that keep our time have long held fascination for scientists and design enthusiasts. Since the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei discovered that pendulums could ...

The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. A fixture of stately homes and period drama movies, the ...

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, ...

Christensen, and his employee Wesley Niemczak, both hold previous certifications. Niemczak even has a master clockmakers ...

COSTA MESA – It’s precisely 1 p.m. at Buck’s Clock Shoppe in Costa Mesa, and dozens of grandfather, cuckoo and pendulum clocks are singing their familiar songs. For 80-year-old Robert “Buck” Emenger, ...

STEVENSVILLE, Mont. — For many of us, our cell phones sprung ahead for Daylight saving time automatically. If you have an old-fashioned mechanical clock you had to adjust the hour by hand. Digital ...

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 ...

Most of us probably assume that grandfather clocks got their name because we most often see them in our grandparents’ houses. Clever though that assumption may be, it’s not the true origin. In reality ...