Alex Denno, the owner of Palatine's Tick Tock Clock Repairs, is fond of a saying that is a truism in his industry. "You have to put time in to fix time," said Denno, in his second year as company ...

With clocks relentlessly ticking and chimes melodically ringing, the Tick Tock Shop is not a quiet place. But that symphony — from desk clocks and wall clocks and cuckoo clocks and more — is lost on ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps ...

It’s Friday, which means I have to wind up the clock on the wall. It’s my wife’s clock. She brought it from Poland, where it had originally been her paternal grandmother’s who lived with them when my ...

For 75 years now, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has been moving the minute hand on a quarter of a clock face. According to the Bulletin: "The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s ...

In 1714, Benjamin Franklin was only 8 years-old, it was still 62 years before the colonies would declare independence from Great Britain and Johann Sebastian Bach would’ve been 30 years-old and still ...