James Nye has the assistant chaplain at school to thank for his career. For any boys not interested in rugby at Ardingly College in West Sussex in the 1970s, Reverend Waters offered lessons in basic ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1631, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is the oldest surviving horological institute in the ...

Horologists rejoice: we've got more details about the fate of London's Clockmakers' Museum collection. After being closed since 2014, the Clockmakers' Museum collection, the oldest clock and watch ...

Next month, May 3, economist Deirdre McCloskey will speak at AEI about her new book “Bourgeois Equality” (on sale April 21). It’s the final volume of a trilogy — also “Bourgeois Dignity” and ...

“It was destined to be the mother of machines.” The “it” Daniel Boorstin talks about in his 1983 book The Discoverers is the clock. Boorstin, who served as the director of the National Museum of ...

Mohammad Ayaz Khan, a clock repairer, prefers to be called a craftsman. His workshop in Churiwalan in the walled city is a charming little museum of antique clocks -- mantel, wall, table-top and, ...

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 ...

Charles Christensen has been repairing timepieces of all kinds at his Clockmaker’s Gallery since 1979. The shop services a wide variety of clocks, from rare, centuries-old pieces to modern ones.