Clocks Chimes

January 17, 2009

Grandfather Clocks Family Feud

Grandfather clocks sound so stately and yet essentially innocuous.  It is amazing how many times we hear from our customers that when a loved one from […]
January 8, 2009

Mechanical Grandfather Clocks – To Wind or to Allow to Wind Down

The vast majority of high-end mechanical grandfather clocks, whether they have cable driven movements or the chain driven movement type, have 8 day movements.  This means […]
November 24, 2008

Time for Mechanical Atomic Grandfather Clocks by Best Makers

Some atomic time grandfather clocks by what we would consider to be medium to low quality makers have begun to appear in the marketplace.  All have […]
October 28, 2008

When Only a Grandfather Clock Will Do

There are those spaces in all of our homes that call out for something very specific; something very particular that is the only thing that will […]
October 26, 2008

The Grandfather Clock of My Dreams

I have had a recurring dream for many years now; in the dream I am on a swing that keeps going higher and higher until I […]
October 23, 2008

Grandfather Clock for Baby, Part II

As I shared in the last post, the time during which I gave birth to my first daughter was a time filled with excitement and trepidation […]
October 23, 2008

Grandfather Clock for Baby, Part I

When I was expecting my first daughter I was like most new parents-to-be in that I was running around like crazy putting things in place for […]
October 17, 2008

Remembering Grandfather Clocks, Part II

In the last post I related my story of my close friend who – along with her sister – was charged with cleaning out her parents’ […]
October 13, 2008

Finding a Grandfather Clock that I Remember, Part I

I have a real affinity for grandfather clocks. They were in the homes of most of my relatives when I was growing up in Europe; even […]
September 18, 2008

The Love for a Grandfather Clock

Did you ever love an inanimate object so much that it may as well be human? A stuffed animal when you were a child, perhaps? A […]