Maybe you have been inside a shop like Lothar Trittmacher's before. It is the kind where the owner keeps handwritten ledgers, posts customer letters on the wall and answers the phone himself. "We do ...

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 ...