Clock Care Resources
Ten practical guides written from the bench — maintenance schedules, troubleshooting, moving, chimes and antique identification.
How Often Should a Mechanical Clock Be Serviced?
A practical service schedule for grandfather, mantel, wall and cuckoo clocks, and the warning signs that mean you should not wait.
Read the guide →Why Your Clock Stopped Running — 9 Common Causes
The nine reasons clocks stop, in the order we actually find them, plus the three checks you can safely do yourself.
Read the guide →How to Set and Correct a Clock's Chime
Getting Westminster, Whittington and St Michael chimes back in sequence — and what to do when the hour strike is wrong.
Read the guide →How to Move a Grandfather Clock Without Damaging It
The preparation sequence professional movers follow, and the two mistakes that cause most post-move repairs.
Read the guide →The Right Way to Wind a Mechanical Clock
Key-wound, cable-driven and chain-driven clocks each have their own rules. Getting this right prevents most avoidable damage.
Read the guide →How to Identify an Antique Clock and Its Maker
Where to look for maker's marks, how to read movement stampings, and how to date a clock from its case and hardware.
Read the guide →Pendulum Basics: Beat, Level and Accurate Timekeeping
What 'in beat' means, how to level a clock, and how to regulate a pendulum so the clock keeps time to the minute.
Read the guide →Colorado's Dry Air and Altitude: What It Does to Clocks
Low humidity, big temperature swings and mile-high altitude all change how a clock behaves. Here is what to expect and what to do.
Read the guide →Mechanical vs Quartz Clocks: What Is Worth Repairing?
An honest comparison of accuracy, lifespan, repair cost and long-term value for both movement types.
Read the guide →What a Full Clock Overhaul Actually Includes
A step-by-step look inside the overhaul process, why it takes weeks, and how to tell a genuine overhaul from a spray-and-oil job.
Read the guide →Written for clock owners, not clockmakers
These guides exist because the same questions come up every week on the phone. Everything here is safe for an owner to read and act on. Where a job genuinely needs a professional — anything involving mainsprings, pivots or a movement coming out of a case — we say so rather than encouraging a repair that usually ends badly.