Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1631, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is the oldest surviving horological institute in the ...

EUGENE, Ore. — Tick. Tock. Times 2,000. That’s the sound you hear upon entering The Clockmaker’s Gallery — the sound of about 2,000 clocks ticking and tocking, binging and bonging. It’s enough to make ...

A visitor to the Clockmakers' Museum in the Guildhall Library in the City of London could be forgiven for fixating on the oldest surviving self-winding watch, formerly carried by Czar Nicholas I, or ...

The 1925 banjo-shaped clock had not worked for eight years when the owner brought it to Don Christo. Now, tick follows tock and the clock's pendulum lazily swings in time. In an age when people think ...

PHILADELPHIA -- In a dusty, sunlit workshop, James S. Shott carves time out of tiger maple and cherry wood. For a month, he chisels, scrapes, sands and polishes. Then he mounts a brass-and-steel ...

Next month, May 3, economist Deirdre McCloskey will speak at AEI about her new book “Bourgeois Equality” (on sale April 21). It’s the final volume of a trilogy — also “Bourgeois Dignity” and ...

Gary R. Sullivan has passionately pursued the world of antiques since the age of 10 and now is a nationally recognized authority on early American clocks with over 45 years of experience in the ...

Charles Christensen has been repairing timepieces of all kinds at his Clockmaker’s Gallery since 1979. The shop services a wide variety of clocks, from rare, centuries-old pieces to modern ones.