I refer to him as the second-best clock repairer in New England".
"He's very good," said George Bruno, 86, a fellow clock repairer from Torrington.
In 1964, he moved to New York, and in 1973, opened a clock repair shop on West 12th Street.
"Gardening, clock repair, hunting, fishing, raising fish and birds and fixing internal combustion engines, including lawn mowers and automobiles".
About Time, a company in Higganum, Conn., specializing in the clock repair and restoration, recently replaced the faces and installed computerized works.
The city's clock master, Marvin Schneider, the subject of "The Hand Behind the Hands" (March 8), has brought his skills to bear on getting the clock repaired; the north face, at least, is keeping good time.
During a chance encounter at the local clock repair shop, Lorna strikes up an unlikely friendship with ageing hippy Oskar Vatersname (Werner Herzog), who inveigles his way into their home under the vague pretext of teaching her conversational German.
He sent copies of the manuscript, in which he had intertwined the deathbed memories of a New England clock repairer with episodes about the dying man's father, to a handful of agents and editors in New York.
There is a moment in Paul Harding's striking first novel Tinkers, the winner of the 2010 Pulitzer prize, in which George Crosby, a dying clock repairer, imagines that to his great-grandchildren he would be "no more than the smoky arrangement of a set of rumours".
A man arrived in the pine district one morning, found an empty storefront, painted a sign in the window with colored soap ("sherman's clock repair. fast and easy. opening soon"), then locked the door and shuffled away and never returned.
