STURBRIDGE — Sturbridge is seemingly synonymous with history, from its first settlers in 1644 to the opening in 1946 of Old Sturbridge Village, which welcomes visitors to experience life in a rural ...

Christensen, and his employee Wesley Niemczak, both hold previous certifications. Niemczak even has a master clockmakers ...

Polished faces gleam from every corner of the room, yet the only sound inside this Elgin shop is a soft ticking. Keith Krantz, owner of the American Black Forest Clock Company, says he used to keep ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. The Piekarskis are the owners, proprietors, and restorers in residence of ...

If you walked into Mary Foreman’s clock shop at the top of the hour, you would hear something she called “heavenly”: Dozens of chimes, bells and alarms would ring, from the chirps of the tiny cuckoo ...

Genius ideas in cuckoo technology: take the bright yellow, beady-eyed cuckoo bird popping his head in and out every hour on the hour. Replace with the blood-smeared visage of a homicidal Jack ...

There are few better ways of asserting your independent spirit as a hardware hacker than by creating your own special timepiece. Even more so if the timepiece is a watch, particularly in this era of ...