Westclox clocks, with their glow-in-the-dark faces, were once hand painted with radium, at the Radium Dial Co. and its successor, Luminous Processes, in Ottawa, Ill.

Astrid Donnellan, a master craftsperson, who at the age of 87 restores antique clock dials on about 150 clocks a year. She outlined the numbers on a face plate before painting them in oil paint as ...

Exaequo’s new timepiece is a revival of a 1990s model inspired by a Dalí painting of misshapen clocks. By Penelope Colston In 1998 the Swiss watch brand Exaequo Genève went out of business ...

Winchester Cathedral’s famous tower clock has been given a facelift after several decades of weather damage had made numerals on the dial barely visible. To avoid the high cost of erecting ...

The 5ft 6in steel dial, presented to the Mayor of Weymouth, Cllr Caroline Nickinson, by Tim Spooner and the Friends of Greenhill Gardens (FOGG), will replace the summer floral display in the centre of ...

The restoration journey includes sandblasting, powder painting, and creating a new dial with laser precision. The clock’s intricate mechanism is thoroughly cleaned using an ultrasonic bath ...

Daylight saving time started on March 10, 2024 this year and ends on November 3, 2024. As always, it promises to temporarily throw your sleep out of alignment as the clocks dial back an hour.

The massive 47mm x 22.2mm Cosmos is a horological showpiece, with four pillars visually balanced on the dial: two side-by-side globes at 3 and 9 o’clock, a tourbillon at 6 o’clock and a ...

The subjects of the present paper were all occupationally exposed for varying periods to Ra and MsTh while painting self-luminous compounds on watch and clock dials in the 1920's.

In “Dial of Destiny,” it’s clear that the nostalgic love for old Hollywood that defined and shaped the original film has been supplanted by an equally powerful nostalgia for the series itself.

London’s iconic Big Ben clock has stopped ticking for a second time in a week, just months after its multi-million dollar makeover. Hands on all four dials of the Great Clock on the Elizabeth ...