Two pieces are missing from the plate in the Alone in the Dark clock: one is found in a drawer in Elisabetta Pelosi's room, and the other must be retrieved from a well in the kitchen garden.

Traditionally, clock repairers signed the insides of the pieces they worked on. Some pieces are so old, North says, there’s long lists of names to which he can proudly add his own.

But endurance alone isn’t enough for Patek Philippe. This calibre maintains a razor-sharp precision rate of ±1 second per 24 ...

The giant clock weighs over 11 tons and has more than 1,000 pieces. Hard to imagine what it took to build such a thing in 1859. Big Ben itself — the bell — weighs even more than the clock at ...

Classical Clocks: Top 5 Musical Time Pieces The sun seems to be coming up earlier now, thanks to the end of Daylight Saving Time. In celebration of the seasonal switching of the clock, hear how a ...

Death is very present in this piece.” And death looms large for one Italian set designer, who used clocks in three productions in the past year. “Clocks speak about time, ...