If the workings of a mechanical timepiece give you a thrill, prepare to be blown away by this over-the-top astronomical clock. The horological masterpiece, which was designed by [Mark Frank] as his ...

You don’t need a travel clock. We get it. It’s 2020. Your iPhone knows what time it is. Blah blah blah. We’ve heard it all before. Are you wearing a watch? Great — you’re sufficiently old-school. Keep ...

A cheap digital watch can keep far better time than even the most complicated of Swiss watches. But there’s still something undeniably appealing about watching all those gears, springs, and cogs ...

A Japanese college student built a mechanical wooden clock that writes out the time every minute. The clock keeps ticking with the help of four weights and has no electrical parts. Kango Suzuki posted ...

Atlanta-based Lathem Time Corporation had a good year in 1938. That’s when federal law began requiring employers to keep track of the comings and goings of workers eligible for overtime. Lathem ...

My grandparents’ tiny house on Long Island was full of clocks. A grandfather clock stood stoically next to the seltzer cabinet, and a pendulum wall clock kept watch above the crystal candy jar in the ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...