Every second of every minute of every hour of every day, the dozens of antique clocks in Peter Rioux’s Winterport shop tick and chime the time away. The endless cacophony is enough to drive a person ...

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 ...

The steady tick of a clock usually feels simple and dependable. Something swings or vibrates in a controlled rhythm and marks ...

The tick-tick sound comes from the movement of gears and parts inside the clock. In mechanical clocks, a part called the ...

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.

It’s not just your imagination — as winter approaches, and the days grow shorter, our bodies are undergoing their own changes. The reason? Shifting circadian rhythms thanks to decreased exposure to ...