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 ...

There’s a new clock repairman in town. Horologist Thomas Vernachio began operating Williamsburg Antique Clock Service and Repair earlier this year from a workshop in his home. Vernachio first became ...

A life-long tinkering habit, a broken clock and a set of DVDs led Harold MacVittie to a busy post-retirement job with his own shop in the heart of downtown Chapin. "People don't realize how many ...