Nigel Barnes, a fifth-generation horologist, acknowledges that it is a “tall order” to learn to fix a clock in two days. But some manage it, he said. Nigel Barnes working with Seán Martin, who had ...

CAMDEN — Although the city’s 19th-century clock tower is a downtown landmark, it has struggled for nearly a year to do one of the main things it’s meant to do. It couldn’t keep time. A few downtown ...

More than 130 years after its installation atop the Cambridge City Hall, a mechanical tower clock — wound by hand each week — continues to chime. Crimson photographers followed David W. Graf, the ...