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 ...

The HP 115BR is not one of the most well-known products from Hewlett-Packard. And yet, it was remarkably important nonetheless. This hardware once synced time around the world. Now, for our 2025 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Saturday marks 52 years since Bob Kolbe opened his clock shop in central Sioux Falls. Now, Kolbe is taking offers from people interested in buying him out. After more than a ...

Well, I seem to have fallen off the wagon once more, this time because I had to restring the chains in a cuckoo clock. It should not have been a challenge, for I’ve done it on a regular basis for the ...

Bart Hoyle heats up a gear to repair broken teeth as he works on a 150-year-old clock mechanism June 14 in his workshop in Pekin, Ill. "My goal is to preserve the past and peoples' memories of it, he ...

MERTON, Wis. -- If it were easy anyone could do it, but only a few still do. They’re Wisconsin’s remaining horologists. Horology is the ancient art or science of making – or fixing – timepieces.