Time has run out for a clock business that’s been part of the Naperville community for more than 25 years. Elgin Clock Repair closed Saturday and has moved all repairs to its South Elgin headquarters.

Jim Lachapelle is a member of an exclusive club, one that has only 17 members in the United States. To become one of the country's few certified master clockmakers, you don't need a secret handshake ...

Once a week, master clockmaker Andre Viger climbs three flights of stairs to wind his favourite clock: 120 turns for the clocks, and 90 turns on the other side for the bell mechanism. It's one of 23 ...

COSTA MESA – It’s precisely 1 p.m. at Buck’s Clock Shoppe in Costa Mesa, and dozens of grandfather, cuckoo and pendulum clocks are singing their familiar songs. For 80-year-old Robert “Buck” Emenger, ...

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 ...

TAOS — He’s been a lumberjack and a bouncer, a surveyor’s assistant and a mechanic; he’s worked as a roughneck, machinist, welder and metal fabricator. But master clockmaker Johnny MacArthur’s life’s ...

Echo Memories charts the career of a master clockmaker whose company provided the imposing timepiece that provided the finishing ornament to South Park. Cometh the hour, cometh the man. Time was ...

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