The clock in the tower of the Historic Washington County Courthouse is moving slowly these days, showing its age as is much ...
The complicated 18th-century pendulum clock was in a blackened state of disrepair and deemed unfixable by Sotheby’s auction house. Known as the Pendule Sympathique, it was a showcase of the legendary ...
Peter Lilienthal sees potential where others see none left. “I hate to see good things go in the garbage,” he said. Now 68 and the proprietor of Good as Old Antiques Repair & Art Gallery in Sheffield, ...
Mechanical Watch Supply owner and clock repairman Rory Demesy of Minnesota screws in a piece of the E. Howard & Co. clock at the Benton County Courthouse in Vinton, Iowa on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.
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 ...