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 ...

Nathan Bower wasn’t setting out to revive a dying art form when, straight out of high school, he accepted a three-year apprenticeship as a watch and clock repairman at the Traverse City jeweler ...