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 ...

More than 350 New Years have been rung in by a grandfather clock. The first one was made about 1650 in England, and by 1720 the clocks were being made in the American Colonies. The clocks have a face, ...

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, ...

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

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Bill Galinsky has likely heard the call of the American cowbird more times than an ornithologist. The European cuckoo, too — Galinsky hears that bird all day, every day. Whether it’s ...

Welcome to Epkes Clock Repair! Epkes Clock Repair in Eldridge, IA repairs all makes of clocks including grandfather clocks, grandmother clocks, and cuckoo clocks. With over 60 years of German Trained ...

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 ...

James "Jim" Fiorentino worked for more than 40 years in the garage door business, but he didn't pursue his true longing until after he retired in 1990. "He never wanted to be in the garage door ...