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 ...

Well, I seem to have fallen off the wagon once more, this time because I had to restring the chains in a cuckoo clock. It should not have been a challenge, for I’ve done it on a regular basis for the ...

MERTON, Wis. -- If it were easy anyone could do it, but only a few still do. They’re Wisconsin’s remaining horologists. Horology is the ancient art or science of making – or fixing – timepieces.