The history of clockmaking has always been a race against time. Each advance in the manufacture of these machines that keep track of the hours, minutes, and seconds in a day has been measured in terms of the accuracy of those standard units of time. Naturally, the design of clocks is also of interest to horologists, from the space allowed for swinging pendulums to the fonts used on clock faces. But if a clock doesn’t keep good time, it’s just...Continue Reading