Here at Dorian Clair Antique Clock Repair on Sanchez Street, the unmistakable, rhythmic sound echoes from nearly every nook and cranny of the shop, where hundreds of clocks from all over the world — ...

I still repair antique clocks. I regret to say that I’ve been fixing most of these clocks for several years, for they were brought in during the two years that I was sick, perhaps with “Long Covid®” ...

If a ticking clock is the heartbeat of a home, a little arrhythmia is not uncommon. Old clocks can be fussy, especially when moved from their longstanding positions or relocated to a different type of ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- Every day, like clockwork, antique clock repair technician Dorian Clair arrives at his shop of 30 years and gets ready for a day's work in San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood.

There’s a new clock repairman in town. Horologist Thomas Vernachio began operating Williamsburg Antique Clock Service and Repair earlier this year from a workshop in his home. Vernachio first became ...

Dorian Clair and Max Nesbet regularly soak up views of San Francisco that almost no one else has access to. As the keepers of some of the Bay Area’s most exceptional timepieces, they’re granted the ...

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 ...

Are you one of the many people who either inherited an old clock or found one you love for its artistry and craftsmanship, but it doesn’t work, and you have no idea what to do with it? Such was my ...

“There’s not many of us around anymore,” LaBounty said. “The modern generation is less and less interested in restoring something. They throw it away and get something new.” Clock repairers share a ...

Ralph Pokluda, 67, works on repairing a clock in the workshop at Chappell Jordan Clock Galleries on June 28, 2018. Hurricane Harvey. In the neighborhoods it flooded, residents tell of how eerily quiet ...