A Michigan clock company that has helped people keep time for 99 years says it’s going out of business due to tariffs and other economic conditions. Howard Miller Co., ...

Timekeeping has always been one of humankind’s greatest fascinations. From observing the sun’s shadow to engineering atomic precision, the evolution of timekeeping devices spans centuries of ...

June 22 marks the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich, the home of the historic Prime Meridian that is ...

Whether it is the pendulum on a grandfather clock or the vibration of an atom on an atomic clock, the faster it moves, the more accurate a clock can be, as long as it can continue unabated. The ...

When looking for the best grandfather clock, it’s important to consider the type of movement and chimes. There are two main types of movements: quartz and mechanical.

The developed prototype is equipped with a mechanical gravitational potential system, using gears, a pendulum, and counterweights to perform daily solar tracking (east–west), similar to the mechanism ...

While better known in Europe than America, the Swiss firm made fancy clocks and watches for the likes of J.P. Morgan and the Royal Navy.

See These Ornately Decorated 18th-Century Clocks Before Time Runs Out An exhibition in London is highlighting a collection of Baroque timepieces designed by the renowned Parisian craftsman André ...

Then it’s a matter of calibrating how many cycles correspond to a second (two pendulum swings for a Grandfather clock, say), a power source to drive the clock’s movement, and some housing to ...

Home The Finer Things Art and Antiques The genius inventors who created the world's most important clocks Early clocks had variable hours, but even in the golden age of British horology, when Thomas ...

The resulting atomic clocks that set official international times today are astonishingly robust, losing only about one second every 100 million years.