LaChapelle became a certified master clockmaker with the American Watchmakers-Clockmakers Institute in 1982. “I picked Naperville (25 years ago) because there was a void of repair shops in this ...

Father and son are both certified master clockmakers who earned their certificates in Europe. Buck Emenger also has a degree in mechanical engineering from Xavier University in Cincinnati.

“Jim and I are both certified master clockmakers, and there are less than 100 people in the United States with those credentials,” he said. “To the best of our knowledge, there are only six ...

As a master clockmaker, he frequently finds himself working on family heirlooms, clocks that have been in the same family for four or five generations and that are hundreds of years old.

Most clockmakers today do not actually make clocks, although a master clockmaker must demonstrate that sort of knowledge and skill. Rather, they repair and rebuild the movements — the inner ...

Bay St. Louis clockmaker Terry Downs enjoys mending broken clocks. When you walk into Terry's shop, you're surrounded by the steady sound of tick tock mixed with a variety of chimes and bells ...