What started as a hobby became a full-blown business for Harold MacVittie more than a decade ago. His Chapin clock shop is still ticking.

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 ...

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 ...