Ask Bob Tuerk for the time and he has about 3,000 ways he can tell you. And not one of them is a smart phone. "There's lots of clocks in here," Tuerk, 82, said of his 3,000 timepieces, including the ...

TUSCALOOSA | Timing is everything to Kenneth Moore. It's how he makes his living in a job in which he works with baffles and bushings to get the pings and bongs just right. Moore is a clock repairman.

PARKERSBURG, W.Va. – Roger Mackey can make time stand still. Mackey has been collecting and repairing clocks for nearly 48 years. A workshop filled to the brim with clocks of all types and sizes is ...

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 ...