Hugh Hunt is a Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and is Keeper of the Trinity College Clock. London is soon going to lose one of its most familiar sounds when the world-famous Big Ben falls silent ...

Traditional mechanical clockmaking is an art that despite being almost the archetype of precision engineering skill, appears rarely in our world of hardware hackers. That’s because making a clock ...

The escapement mechanism has been widely used for centuries in mechanical clocks. It is the mechanism by which a clock controls the release of stored energy, allowing it to advance in small, precise ...

The daughter of a talented clockmaker says she is “blown away” by the restoration of his finest work. Ron Woodford was a cabinet maker by trade but his passion was making giant wooden clocks, working ...

In 2017, the 157-year-old clock will grind to a halt for a £29 million facelift. But what will that mean – and how has the world’s most famous clock kept accurate time for so long? For more than 150 ...

The familiar tick-tock of wall clocks originates from the escapement mechanism, which controls gear movement in precise steps. While our brains perceive two distinct sounds, clocks actually produce ...