Jacqueline Dugas has been winding the Huntington Library's 18th century clocks since 1989. It turns out this week she's handing over the keys and retiring.

Harrison, born in 1693 in Lincolnshire, proposed a clock design that would solve the problem of determining longitude at sea. His proposal was vindicated last Thursday, 300 years after he first ...

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Only 17 American clock makers made tower clocks during the 18th century, only six to eight of those survive, and only three of Eberman’s are still around.

On Nov. 14, the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum in Colonial Williamsburg will open Keeping Time: Tall Case Clocks, an exhibit showcasing timepieces from the 18th and 19th centuries.

King Charles III will send two historic items, including an 18th century bracket clock, for restoration during a special episode of the BBC television show “The Repair Shop.” The monarch’s ...

A rare 18th century antique clock stolen from a museum has been returned - after more than 20 years. Two men made off with the Thomas Hunter Jr Bracket clock from Brighton's Preston Manor in ...

The Martin Burgess Clock B is based on John Harrison's (left) 18th century design. Its trial was at the Royal Observatory to see if the claim - that it would neither lose nor gain a second - was true.

A rare 18th century antique clock stolen from a museum has been returned - after more than 20 years. Two men made off with the Thomas Hunter Jr Bracket clock from Brighton's Preston Manor in ...

An 18th-century clock attributed to André-Charles Boulle, the furniture maker to the court of Louis XIV of France, and part of the Wallace Collection.