antique grandfather clocks

January 19, 2011

Howard Miller Floor Clock Collection

The terms Floor Clocks is essentially synonymous with grandfather clocks and grandmother clocks.  Longcase clocks, as they are also known, have a free standing case, with […]
January 13, 2011

Grandfather Clock Care

In the last 24 hours, this writer has talked with 2 different customers who were grandfather clock shopping, looking at new grandfather clocks.  They both had […]
December 2, 2010

Grandfather Clock Showroom

How many grandfather clocks do you display in your showroom?  Will I see the complete line of Howard Miller grandfather clocks and Ridgeway grandfather clocks when […]
November 9, 2010

Grandfather Clocks History

Nowadays, grandfather clocks and accurate timekeeping are taken for granted by many.  So are electricity, plumbing, travel by Air and Rail, land-line telephones, heating, running water, […]
October 21, 2010

Like Clockwork Grandfather Clocks

As an admirer of precision grandfather clocks, including astro-regulators, I was struck that on the day after the world’s newest longest tunnel, beneath the Swiss Alps, […]
October 9, 2010

Largest Grandfather Clock Company in the World

Do you know who the largest maker of grandfather clocks is in the world?  It is Howard Miller Clocks, based in Zeeland, Michigan.  Howard Miller has […]
September 28, 2010

Grandfather Clocks for Sale

Every day we are asked if we have any special grandfather clocks for sale. Our answer to this clocks question is almost always that we aim […]
September 10, 2010

Howard Miller Floor Clocks

Floor Clocks are more or less synonymous with grandfather clocks.  Howard Miller Clocks, for many years, as have other major clockmakers, preferred the term floor clocks […]
September 3, 2010

Grandfather Clock Kept as Oval Office Redesigned

According to a recent article in The New York Times, President Obama’s Oval Office, from which he addressed the nation on Tuesday night about the important […]
August 1, 2010

Howard Miller Thomas Tompion Mantle Clock

Thomas Tompion, an exceptionally well regarded clocksmith and watchsmith  and contributor to the field of horology, he was a British clocks and watch maker who lived […]