Early hand-painted clock dials are usually pricey. Often, they’re damaged or worn by age. Still, collectors of any type of antiques appreciate the value and the beauty of these gems because, let’s ...

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 ...